Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-17
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ing shelter, supplies, and points OF attack, to
the greatest maritime nation in the world, in
time of war. We watched the process Of eman-
cipation, from its beginning, in apprenticeship,
to its contamination, in absolute enfranchise-
ment with the resulting process Of the import
alton Of free laborers or apprentices from
its eyes wide open, but never o word was spoken
abont the Authorization Of Jamaica, or the
right and duty Of the United States to inter-
pose and prevent 30 diabolical policy on the
part Of England
France, in is4s, under the impulse Of her
new creed Of Liberty fraternity, Equality,
suddenly announced the emancipation Of her
slaves in Guadalupe and Martinique, also be-
longing to this fearful West India group, and
invested them with the rights Of citizenship.
The organ whatever may have been its
agony did not explode, and clamor for armed
interference by our Government to prevent or
punish this act of France, 80 inconsistent with
"some Of the great national interests Of this
country
Spain, under the influence Of the necessi-
ties and ideas that actnated those two great
Powers, urged, too, by their counsels, and
impeled by the instinct Of selfpreservation,
contemplates similar policy, though more
gradual and guarded. She proposes to prepare
the way for ultimate emancipation; in other
words, for the adoption Of the system Of Free
Labor in Cuba, by emancipating the Africans
imported into that island for many years past,
in violation of Law and Treaty stipulations,
and who are no more slaves in the eye of the
Law, than the editors of the Times and the
organsn by allowing them to remain in the
colony as free laborers; by totally preventing
the ingress of any more African slaves; by sub
shutting for the supply Of labor thus cut off,
the Importation, under certain restrictions, Of
contract laborers from China, and other parts
of Asia; and by placing all these free laborers
under code Of regulations intended at once to
protect their rights and secure their services on
the plantations This is the whole scheme, and
whatever opinions we may entertain in regard
to its details, the object at which it aims-the
ultimate substitution Of free labor for slave la-
Dor in Cuba--is one which three-fourths of the
People Of this country must approve, and the
other fourth cannot oppose, without being
guilty Of impairment interference with the do
nestle affairs Of another nation.
This is the sum and substance Of the policy
which the Slavery propagandists, the iilibus-
teros, and the Cuban planters, are constantly
incorporating, as a scheme to Africanze
Cuba, the Slavery propagandists, because it
bids fair to battle their conspiracy to. add to
the strength Of the Slave Power by the annex
alton Of Cuba as Slave State; the Flibusters,
because it interposes most serious obstacle to
their plotting for !" an extension Of the area
of freedom" by forays on the territory of a
friendly nation; the Cubans planters, be-
cause, if successful, they must look to them
selves, and not to this country, for their re-
demption from political expressions All these
classes are busy in disappearing the new
policy, as they call it, in filing the ears of
the People of the United States with false i'm
pressions concerning the schemes of Spain,
working insidiously upon their antipathies to
England, their prejudice of race, their jealousy
of maritime superiority, their lust Of territorial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thus far they have failed and We can
hardly believe it probable that they can sue
coed in driving the United States into war
against Spain, to prevent the adoption by that
nation Of the policy Of Emancipation-a poll
cy pursued by France and England without
word OF protest from our Government. The
American People are not yet fools enough to
be tricked into mean dastardly war, to ena-
BILE the Planters of Cuba to uphold Slavery,
and retain in bondage Africans kidnapped and
imported into Cuba in violation Of Treaty obi.
cations.