The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-10-12
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM OUR TUNIs CORRESPONDENT.
TuNrs. September Z, 1854.

TusIs September T. 1854.
The French Emperor and tie AJricanzotioa Of Cuba.
The mask cast aside The opinions which expressed
in last the disposition of Emperor Napoleon
intervene prevent the acquisition of Cuba by the United
States fully demonstrated by the following very decided
and clear extract the subject from his official pa.
pers the Journal des DbGi Of the 18th ult regret that
have the paper, TO furnish with the entire
ticle This extract find in Gaignani of the 18th ultmo II
procure the entire article, viii do and send You
translation. After this think those who have been in
dustrousy engaged in audng the allied powers and their
cause may pause a little Nothing but wiul and nten-
tonal blindness can Justify any American in refusing longer
to see that allied powers have the earnest desire Wit
ness the Attenuation of Cuba, notwithstanding the hypo-
denial of Lord Clarendon in the House of Lords i'm
edatey before the propagation The mad and senseless
jealousy the progress and rapidly growing greatness of the
United entertained the allied can be detected
cry hand by every who viii his and ears
this side of the water" We who know the mod"s ope
randi the publication of articles by the French press
ell friends home that nothing could appear in
any paper of that country important topic materially
adverse to the views of the government and that in an Off
cia Journal like Des Deba such article be consd
cred boldly rejecting the opinions entertained in the very
highest quarter.
From Gaignan's Messenger
There long article in the Deats the Cuba question
The writer is of opinion that the emancipation of the slave
popuaton can alone prevent the island from throwing
dependence the mother country In concluding he says
We know of only way of dissuading the white popu
lation of Cuba from their inclination to join the United
States amongst themselves several distinct
We cannotsay if this tendency exstswe hope does
but appears impossible that observation-disclosures Cuba
will not day other feel desire to be annexed to
their nearest neghbors Their interests urge them focby
in halfway. When in the Union they would form there
sovereign State they would govern and administer them
selves they would have in the federal government potec
tor whom would venture to brave and they would
be relieved from the tribute which they every
pay the Golfers of the peninsula For their products Of
every kind they would have immense market without hav
that the gtaons in SPAIN should they be prolonged can
fail to generate in the minds OF the inhabitants OF Cuba
thpUh mad
free from up the present time But how is that
current to be struggled against if nop developing at Cuba
by the free and initiative of the mother country
civil commercial and political franchises? Hitherto we
have spoken Of the blacks and of their enfanchiscmen
blacks will be pleasing the white population of Cuba to
the creole native population Europe The contrary a
have shown but little sympathy for the emancipation OF the
blacks 1t would therefore, be suppositon Of too hazard
prefer the maintenance of slavery But the Spanish gov
eminent cannot forget that all the other European govern
enfranchised the blacks in their colonies The
Spanish government remarkable formerly for the mild
Of its legislation respecting the blacks, and such ira
the emancipation of the blacks being accomplished every
where else. The Spanish government cannot without ex
way opened up by the other nations. Here the very
interest of its rule over Cuba commands it. The best
enehantment barrier between the island Of Cuba and
the American nvasionists is to set the blacks there
the American Union would be abandoned by the Amer
leans of the southern part of the United States for their
slave States which should augment the force
the paran of slavery in the councils of the federal gov
and in which they could sell Mt high prices the
troops of which of the southern States raise like
kind Of CATTLE just as they raise sheep and horned cattle
Lower Normandy and Poitou 1t because the cnfranchise
of the negroes of Cuba would be homage rendered to
principles at the same time the highest and the most sautar
that its effect would be immediate and decisive for the over
throw of the projects Of the American invaders very i'm
portant circumstance is that there every reason TO heef
that the liberation of the blacks at Cuba would be establish
ed without causing there the commoon and losses which
their emancipation has produced in other be-
the other cases. which before would serve as
guides and the experience gained would be turned to
and next because the white population s infinitely
there than in the other Antilles and because
that population Of the peculiar climate OF the
island by the effect Of its temperament does not feel
that repugnance for agricultural labor which everywhere else
the Antilles prevents the whites from cultivatng the land
large ground is there, the present state of
things cultivated by the whites But every is
that rendered the transition OF the blacks from slavery
liberty great difficulty in the English colonies the
mpossbility Of obtaining workmen independently Of the
black populations" M n 49,