Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-04
THE POSITION OF STAIN
FROM THE NEW YORK ExpREss.


interesting showing the Spanish feeling towards
this country, the determination of the Spanish peo-
i pie to hold to Cuba at all hazards, the reasons
for this colonial attachment, the new views Of the
/ Spanish Government in regard to the slave
trade, &c.
i MADRID, OCTOBER ], 1854.
The kingdom of Spain possesses innumerabe seapors
upon the Atlantic ocean, the Mediterranean sea- and the
Indian Within four hundred miles of these seas
every year the following amount of inward and outward
foreign maritime commerce is compelled to pass:
Belonging to Great Britain. zoo, 900 900
do France.......................... SOC, 0O0, 600
Do United States of America...... 400, ,000, 600
Whenever any sufficient aggression is committed against
the national rights Of Spain she possesses the right
declare Six months after that she could put
to not less than thousand armed vessels of every
size and description Every year such vessels could cap
ure not less than third Of the of the ma
| tons above named. s"
As illustration of the constant zeal Of the Spanish
Government to continue ut peace her refusal to
make of with the United States the outrages
committed on two separate occasions under the flag
that Confederation from her seaport of New Orleans by
the two invading expeditions Of Lopez against the Island
of Cuba, in the years 1850 and 1851, causing damage
OF three millions of dollars to the treasury of that island
and to its population, for which spoliaon indemnity
has yet been proposed the part of the Government Of
the United States 1t Is that whenever this mari
time Power compes with SPAIN its pecuniary gain
to Spain may be thus estimated concluding that such
demonstrations will continue for the next hundred
years, unless the aggressor shall first make ample and
satisfactory with the restoration Of every
inch OF soil thereby alienated from Spain. WI.
1t would be low figure to say that yearly the armed
of Spain ceud capture not less than hundred
million dollars worth Of property under the Federal flag
and that for one hundred years Ten thousand millions
property would be gained to the treasury Of Spain when
the sixteen maritime States would Withdraw from the
Confederation establish new union of such States with
the specific agricultural systems of cultivation Of
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indemnify and the restoration Of Cuba to Spain
As the wages class of the sixteen free States have for
many refused to pay direct tax to maintain the
Federal Union that institution has been supported by
upon the consumption of foreign merchandise first
imported into the seaports of the maritime States. Such
tax conscates from the wages Of the aborng
classes sixty million dollars per This is dsburs
ed to support the Federal army, navy, civil and dplo
matte corps 1t is certain that the aggression of this
Federal Government upon Spain, if producing q war;
would be followed by the capture annually the part
Spain of not less than fifty per cent of the articles i'm
ported into the United States of the basis the of
the Federal Treasury would thereby annually lose thirty
millions, which sum it would have supply and replace
by direct upon the wages class of the free States
already bitterly hostile to the propretors Of slaves in the
fifteen slave States, supporting the wages system of
compensation for the aborer Is it the actual assumed
slaves in the
represented in the Congress of the Federal Government
probaby not exceeding thirty of its ninety members from
said slave Sates who have exhibited their mania to bring
this eternal with Spain, by utering the insulting
challenge represented by the words the annexation of
Cuba ~ Who has heard any Spanish statesman, le
gisator planter follow this absurd programme, by
terng the duplicate sentiment of the annexation of Lou
siana Florida to Spain? But who tell whether
the reign of faction Of Young America may not
invite the protection of Spain to order and dsc
pline to their decomposng Who does not know
that she will continue to refuse such hankles proec
torate,
appears that in the year 1s4s the President of the
United States Mr. Polk directed his agent Madrid to
intimate to the Spanish Government that he would give
hundred millions for the transfer of the nationality of
Spain over the island Of Cuba to the Federal Govern
This may set down the value which this public
officer fixed upon that ancient and faithful colony of
Spain As Spain refused the said proposal it has been
business of the said agents of the propretors Of slaves
in the United States to get up pretext to take from
Spain this island by force Of stratagem stealth
busterism by exciting the subjects of Spain in Cuba
to rebellion Should their efforts succeed here is state
of the benefits that Spain will receive after that
event shall occur; considering also as the
stands that the Treasury Of Spain receives income
pecuniary benefit from her nationality over Cuba:
1st The armed vessels Of Spain could capture nearly
hundred millions Of the property upon the Of the
maritime classes OF the States, increasing the wealth of
Spain that yearly, without any cost of production
besides stimulating and improving her population in the
Of ipbuding, and congregapg for their under
the Spanish flag 100000 mariners to conduct them upon
the
3D. The treasury Of Spain would yearly receive from
said captures increase of cash funds Of less than
twenty millions. This sum would enable her to assume
potent position with the Powers of Europe who for the
last thirty years have made such constant efforts effect
the abolition of the millions Of slaves (yet held by their
proprieors upon the continent Of America without pro-
viding them one dollar of indemnity.
Sd. Within two years from the declaration of by
Spain against the Federal Power Confederation the
maritime States would withdraw from the Union because
of its destruction to the local interests Of their
and it is admitted by all practical citizens Of the United
States that the first result produced therefom would be
to compel the propreOrs Of the 600 negro slaves Of
the fifteen slave States to emancpate them, to receive
the punishment inflicted by them upon the proprieors Of
slaves in st. Domingo during the revolution in France,
commencing in 1895.
4h The free States for it is plain that the 900
slaves after their emancipation would devastate the
other fifteen States whether they remained separate
reunited under Constitution, without retaining in
it the punishment of Involuntary service without convc
ton of crime against the criminal laws the horrors of
even five years war with Spain, secretly or openly
backed by a the Governments Of Europe; at any rate,
all their marines and soldiers would compel the sixteen
free States restore the island Of Cuba Spain with
such other indemnity she might insist upon This is
the position of Spain at present AS the cultvaor OF
peace it only requisite for her to make it known to re-
ceve the immediate benefits resulting therefrom. The
first is to save and apply to better object the annual
thirteen millions taxes the Of Cuba than for
ssng busters from the United States any threat
ened invasion from the United States The cost of the
Spanish troops in Cuba for these objects alone not less
than ten millions year; and the Inhabitants
sany insuted by the ignorant in the public
press Of the United States that Spain stoo feeble to de-
fend her subjects in Cuba from the aggressions commit
ted upon them by parties dwelling In the United States,
assuming to be the hired agents Of the propretors of
! the 3, 200, 600 slaves in the United States.
The time has arrived for Spain to make this peace