The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-16

Dy VlCe-IOyh dutuOIltv tuht tuc BURY BOt up
'enemies Of the Spanish name" were all idle inven-
tions and calumnies, strewed among the people to
promote discomfort and disunion-to destroy the
general harmony among the ever faithful-that the
idea of law to permit the marriage OF negroes and
whites was utterly nonsenscal, and had no place in
the mind Of the noble marquis or his royal mistress,
&c. hand you herewith the law edict, or vice-roy
al permit, which was then laying upon the
table ofthe Captain General ready for transmission
to our most holy Roman Catholic father in
the church, which has been since combined in his
circular of the 10th ut and addressed to the various
curates throughout the land This gracious permits
sion is the only law of the land upon the subject,
which will be enforced as imperative mandate by
the priests Of the interior although it has no such
quality in its framework It makes alusion, under
past law to the necessity Of special license from the
Captain General for such marriages, which, for the
future, may be dispensed with for the cause as
signed, except IN the Of noble blood minors
If there had been any passed law the ceduia on the
royal order would have been cited; if il had been
law OF custom or regulation under the ancient adj
ministrations of Cuba, it had become abrogated by
the positive enactment Of the Cortes, without the APP
proval of which none of the old customs laws
to be esteemed legal or binding upon this commu.
nifty and law, CUSTOM or regulation for such enter
laces," never had the approval required. Many
rmonial bonds in Cuba-pretty well bleached sub
ects by thinning of the black bood-but the process
has obtained through ministry Of the church "whip
ping the devil round the" altar, by permitting par.
cutb W HOu tueir w ouu
in response az to the color Of the child, to give
white. Once chrstened white, though black as the
ace Of spades no one dare to make the declaration.
II Ia the christened white negroes that have been
married in Cuba to their own or to the natural
white, and none other OF these we have both noble
and plebeian
The following is translation of the document
To avoid the disagreeable questions that may
arise on the subject Of the ntermarriage of whites
and persons Of color between the civil and eccesias-
ticalauthortes the Captain General is resolved that
the real d,diencia pictorial shall have jurisdiction
without any further restrictions than those imposed
by law in the case Of minors, and where such mar.
riages are reserved for his ultimate decision when
some noble person Is to be united with another of
distinguished family. And am directed by his
exceliency to say that the license which it has hi
therto been customary TO obtain from the Captain
General for the marriage Of whites with colored per-
sons will not be necessary for the future; and hop
ing that no further difficulty will arise under the
supposed necessity Of an express license, commu-
cate to you now the order from his Exceency and
the Sc nor Archbishop, that you may take judicial
cogni zance thereof and have 1t duly proclaimed in
the church under your charge.
VELAYos, Secretario.
ball was given last Saturday evening to
Admiral Duquesne and the officers Of the French