Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-05-06

October
1851 failed to present the arguments in favor Of emanci
patton which he was expressly instructed to urge upon
the Spanish Government. The habitual discipline OF
English dplomatists their strict and prompt obedience
to the instructions of their official chiefs are we'll known
and Lord Palmerston thorough martinez in the admin.
istration of the foreign Office was the last tolerate
any thing like contumacy or neglect Of his orders We
are bound then to believe that Lord Howden did say
M Mirafores what he was instructed to say and the
most favorable construction place upon the dis
crepancy is that the archives of his legation not being
hand to refresh his memory the fifth and sixth most
important subjects of his negotiations had escaped his
recollection.
Another and natural if less charitable solution
may be found in the supposition that Lord Howden,
knowing that his cabinet desirous from the threat
enng aspect Of the Russian question: to remove sspi
cions of the existence of convention between the three
Governments respecting Cuba, found it convenient to
profit by the opportunity presented by Mr. Cerbin TO
effect his object His letter, grave subject to
citizen Of the United States emnenty respectable but
occupying public position, is altogether anomalous,
and contrasts strongly with the habtual reserve Of Eng
sh diplomates. 1t widely circulated in Europe and
the United States and could not have failed to attract
the notice of Lord Clarendon and yet have ntma
on in any Of the London journals of its not being
proved by him. Silence in such case presumesnot only
but appreciation and commentary upon so gross
perversion of the truth in high quarter would be
superuous To say the least of it, it presents no very
favorable specimen of the fair dealing Of the English
Cabinet
There is one thing in Lord Palmersons letter which
fail to strike the most casual reader;
the reckessness of the assertion with the experience of
Jamaica and every other West Indian colony where the
experiment Of emancipation had been tried fresh and
full before him. that free labor costing less than slave
labor negro emancipation would promote the interests
white propretors free and contented peasantry being
safer neghbors for the wealthy classes than Ill
and resentful slaves
Let us now see how far the idea Of concerted plan
the emancipation of the slaves in Cuba is borne out by
the the authorities OF island It's matter
Of noorety that the Spanish officials there have repeat
0nH fhof no
rection of the Creole population, they would not only
emancpate the slaves but them against their mas
ters but until very lately nothing had been done to-
wards the reeration of this threat and utterance had
been given to it in any official form The Creoes Of
the white the great slave propretors and what
may be said to the contrary are with entire unan
nifty opposed to the Spanish domination, and DESIRE
either by revolution and subsequent annexation or by
purchase, to enter into our Confederacy.
On this point speak not from conjecture or re-
port but from personal observation and the most reliable
Of nformaon and the fact will hardly be ques
toned when cite witness the late Captain GENERA.
Cahedo who in circular addressed, the 18th Octo
ber 1853 to the subordinate officers in the island said:
Convinced is the Supreme Government that it can
the Peninsula Span of the aders and persuaded also
that the Creoes all its enemies at least that they are
Indifferent to tho triumph Of the holy of her Majesty
and that in the of time, their fortunes will be con
bued the purposes of tho revolutionary traitors you
will proceed" &c.
The threat Of seryle war is sufficiently clear in the
proclamation OF the same captain Ueneral
the command Of the island to his successor, Gen. Pezuea
on the Sd December last. He then says:
"Reman obeden to the Supreme Government and to the
officers it sends and never for forget that the
rery and the Of Cuba depend upon its contnu
ing to be Spanish possession"
Mr. Barrnger our late Minister to Spain, in his des-
patch Of the 18th Of December 1852 confirms this view
of the subject:
into the power of the United States becoming free nde
pendent State by revolution secret orders have been issued
to emancpae the slaves and place arms IN their hands ior
the maintenance of their rule and authority in the sand
and that the Of the recent increase OF the slave
trade in that island violation Of public treaties 1t s re-
eated motto in the public Of Spain that Cuba must
always be either Spanish African. What the future
bring forth is impossible to but this certainly the
prevalent feeling and determination in Spain IN to
the aspect Of affairs and the final destiny of the island of
Cuba"
General Pezuea was known in Spain to entertain mo-
ons favorable to the emancipation Of the slaves He
lost time in proclaming them in Cuba. lie entered
upon his office on the 4th Of December, and the 8h
article appeared in the official paper, the Dario de
Ia Marina in which the policy Of emancipation as ne
cessary concession European opinion very plainly
indicated Justly appreciate the value Of quotations
from this Journal it will be proper to show what the
relations Of the press in Cuba to the Government The
" rules for the censorship Of newspapers declare:
1t shall be the duty the to inform the civil
within the day Of the publication of the newspaper sub
ect his revision Of the publication of article which has
been inserted without his approval with alterations
Art IA All articles which treat OF political OF admins
ative matters shall be submitted to the without
rections nteneations The shall make such
dcatons he esteem opporune noting them at the
foot and shall sign every leaf Of the paper when he returns
to the editor" ,1
Under these regulations, which are stringently en-
forced the opinions and arguments enounced in the news
papers Of Havana oil approved by the Government
before publication. The Diario Of the 18th December
has article the necessity Of new organization Of
labor recommending the importation of apprentices
is much verbose for quotation and written in very
ambitious and oracular STYLE but it contains para
graph which cannot be misnterpreted:
It being understood that what have in view is to make
transition from labor that is entirely compulsory to the
which prevails in other countries necessary prudent and
just that shall concae far possible the exigencies
Of both extremes The system which establishes for
fixed period reciprocal servude and reciprocal master
ship is the only possible solution of delicate problem
On the oath December last decree was promulgated
authorizing for two years, the unlimited importation Of
apprentced aborers from Span Inda Yucatan and the
scrbing minute regulations for the system. But some
idea of their efficacy for the protection Of the victims Of
this new slave trade may be formed from the second
clause of the fifth article, which declares that not more
than four persons per ton, including the crew. shall De
shipped any vessel Our limit for passengers was two
to every FIVE ons and when the present regulation re-
qurng fourteen square feet Of deck for each passenger
was substituted it supposed to be fair equivalent
for the old allowance. If err my friend from New
emigration, will We all know that there is
vast deal Of suffering and great mortality board Of our
emgran ships, whose voyages are altogether made IN the
temperate What then, will be the horrid fate OF
these Cuban apprentices transported within the tropics
vessels allowed by law to carry ten times the proper
toned number of passengers to which ships are limit
ed? With us ship of thousand tons which probably