The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-01-17


We publish in another column imporan. letter
nom Cuba. The New York Times. from which We
,oDv l. youches for as proceeding from 10 say and
highy iaisigss pts"sr !" and as letter written to
private friend. and not 10 the press Tor publication
We have been not a little abused Tor the pains we
have taken 10 sound seasonable alarm on this s1bec
British diplomacy. both sides OF the ocean, has come
forward anxiously to deny the charge Of eompey In
The new Spanish policy OF which we gave warning no
ice Many Of papers refused TO believe IN The
reality of The danger Will they still sleep on IN deter
mined increduly after the public demonstrations now
already pu, forth by the government and government
press ut Havana
We refer them 10 the recent DEGREES oil the new Cap
sa.Gsneral Pezuela; TO the general understanding al
Havana of the true intent and object oil those decrees'
u.ci.v tho one establishing the policy OF free i'm
., Is .norsptice laborers, 10 be mixed up with the
,s an the estates of Cuba and to the commentary on
,ho. DEGREES which is made by the intelligent Cuban
n.n,sr whose letter we quote If they still persist in
h; ,ys ask their attention to the candid admission
. ,bs New York Times which paper. after giving an &C
s,, of The perpexed state OF public opinion which has
~;.,.a among us on this question, between the conflict
-, charges and denias. finally concludes in the follow
lag terms; =. .,,,, os,.,
~, nnion among Ibis fully susfas"s inc charge Moss
ho,, b,er auaouning change 81 ssf" ~ forthcoming
4, tad straight towards the eventual rssnf Of If
~,r;ng Cuba That the Cubans are violently alarmed
we do not wonder Every shp-load more o. africans iano
"A an their island increases their aahRel-oihRs ho
.rsy ~ the end which they their country tending
49, .,i,a inn odination, and ultimate ascendency
and hey sec that apprentices eemen, halt slaves
re- far more formidable elements of disturbance and dan
r 10 the white ascendency in the island than the same
number Introduced as slaves outright
Ano,her significant confirmation OF this the true
.eanpg and tendency OF the new Spanish policy in Gu
sa il 10 be found in this further extract from the Times.
;mbodving one from that b.tterss of anC Cuba papers,
n, Express seven the New York Express. (says the
Tsmen one Of the papers which had joined in the out
c,v against the humbug' OF the Africanzation project
.ory publishes few days ago. the following from its
Havana correspondent;
"h appears to sefeydsnt. and believe il will also
Ia viewed in similar light by any who viii be at
,bs mains to peruse the rules that they designed
solely with reference the introduction OF free Africans
ino this island Experience indeed has proved that they
are the only of aboers whose iabos can De success
fv used in the cultivation of the cane It, however,
.l.o .ppears sefevdent to me that this introduction
If what are TO be called free aborers will be neither
more nor less than modified species Of slavery"
Now, whether English influence has or has not had
ANYTHING 10 do with the new policy-a policy tending
directly 10 make at least another Jamaica OF Cnba even
u mt another ST. Domingowe care very little. The
English finger may have been well gloved and adrotly
hid but for our part do believe that it was in the pie.
vheher Mr. Champion knows it OF not; and nifty letters
from Lord Howden TO MIR. Corbin, of Paris, will not
change that belief On this point, too the Times thus
g,ouus together the suspicious indications against the in
trisuing diplomacy OF England:
Through all this mist two or three authentic public
fact, meanwhile forth, and doomed doubtuly in the
aist.nca One was, that the English ministry in
pl.n.nt declaring thnt they determined not TO let
keep up any longer the farce OF protesting to the
fc. of England she opposing the slave trade
while al time actively connivng at IL In Ouba
and systematically violating her ueaues on me SUBJECT
"a thai they had taken 10 end to such
.t.e of things Another Lord John Russels curt and
.on6can, hint his letter Mr. Everett, that since the
United States would not unite with England and France
in trioartite pledge against any acquisition OF Cuba,
r..,o.d mould take the sst1set. Still
another was proclamation by President Roberts, Of
Lbera against the practice recently introduced on the
African coast, Of shipping negroes as apprentices, nomi
n.pv voluntary but in fact much sold by the chiefs
a. ,bo,gb they were slaves and this soon followed
NV The svowal by ministers in Parliament tunder In.
,.,,oc,,ion on the snbject) that contract had been
made with the sanction OF the government with a re-
,o,c,sble London firm, Hytbe Hodges, for the inn
,,o,ion of ten thousand such apprentices from the
African coast Demerara, but tina, The character OF
,bo Arm was that II would not be abused as
to convertit ihoh ysteH oi kidnapping
vsred only In form the save-rsde Then again. we
"a ~. publication of the instructions by which Lord
Hwden The British minister Madrid directed by
la ps,merston to urge the Spanish government the
c,n.,ion OF the slaves in Cuba the edectua
-. or heading of annexation Union. Then came
,h ..dden of General Pezueln. with enlarged
o~.,. "a ca ptan-genernI Of Cuba-Pezueiu, whom the
r,h.rs declared TO be known advocate OF the apprentice
.h,n .v.em and abolonist and soon after we heard
~ proceeding from the British consulate
:. Havana that Cuban savc-trsde might now be con-
sd . :, an end in earnest All these indications taken
,n.ho, Looked queer and a little portentous Something
.s.m.d certainly 10 be la the wind and II England had
nshios 10 do with H. least Appearances and pretty
nIcou, earances too, were strangely against her..
But II ia OF little consequence. we repeat, whether
British intrigue be be not a, the bottom OF H. Those
NAV d;.hel;eve il who choose and can. For our part
when we find i, now revealed that Spain is Practical,
.ao,sar the very change OF policy denounced 10 adj
v,n.. bv our informants course tending straight to-
w.,a. making Cuba a Jamaica Hayti, and when we
Than rad Lord Pameston's emphatic instructions IL
T ,,d Howden to urge emancipation Spain pre-
.-<;ys 4. An,srscsn asn we must be pardoncd ]
=. and il easier 10 doubt Lord Howden's subsequen
disclaimers than to believe him TO have been dsobeden
"a hs own instrucuons as well false the settled
.boli,ionis and aat-American policy OF his country
With the Times, we say;
au his own account of his negotiations with the Span
.b government las given Mr. Corbn and the American
,,s,s, was sincere and fill, he have Strangely failed
10 obev those instructions from Lord Psmerson CATER
wards laid before Psramenp which required him dc