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Ahicanization of Cuba Neutrality Laws.
On the 1st inst, in the Senate, Mr. slidell, Of
Louisiana, offered the following resolution:
Resolced, That the Committee on Foreign
Relations be requested to inquire into the expe-
diency Of authorizing the President Of the Uni
ted States, during any future recess Of Con-
gress, to- suspend. BY proclamation, either
wholly erpartially, the operation of the act in
addition to an act for the punishment Of certain
crimes against the United States, approved the
10Th of April, 1918, and also an act supplement
tary thereto, approved the 10th Of March, 1898,
Should, in his opinion, the public interests re-
quire such total or partiatsuspensipn. such sus-
pension not to exceed period Of twelve months,
and the causes which shall have induced the
President to proclaim it to be communicated to
after. TX g85
Mr.. SlideH said: Some months since, Mr.
PRESIDENT, was as skeptical as any one on this
floor could be about the existence of any con-
certed plan to Africariize Cuba
Past experience has led me to be surprised at
nothing that England might attempt to prevent
the possession of this magnificent island by her
great commercial rival, a rival destined to be,
in a very few years. if, in fact, she be not al
ready, in that respect, her recognized superior
Still,-l could not bring myself to believe that
Spain, with all her pride and obstinacy, would
prefer the destruction of a fourishing colony,
peopled by her own sons, to the prospect Of its
transfer, at some future, perhaps distant day,
by honorable and peaceful negotiation, to
friendly nation, for price that would extricate
her finances from that gulf of seemingly hope
less bankruptcy in which they have been so long
plunged. If the Senate will indulge me, viii
state now,'as briefly as possible, the reasons
that have led me TO the full conviction of a we'll
understood purpose between Spain and England,
in which France is certainly confidant, and
probably participant, for the Authorization
of Cuba.
He then proceeded, at length, to show, by
quotations from diplomatic notes and other ma
pers, the deep interest Great Britain has dis
played for the emancipation of slaves in Cuba
The proposition for the tripartite convention
abnegating the possession of Cuba by either of
the parties having failed. it was to be expected
that the desire Of Great Britain to prevent Cuba
falling into the possession of her great success
fni rival would lead her to connive at if not aid
In, the Africanization of Cuba of the most deplo
rabie system of apprenticeship. He referred
to several declarations, made by Gen Canedo,
while Captain General of Cuba, to the effect
that the existence, the very name Of Cuba, de-
pended upon strict obedience to Spain and the
officers she sent thither.
Canedo's successor, General Pezuela, always
in favor of emancipation, one month after his
coming into office, by decree authorized unlini-
ted importation of apprenticed laborers from
Spain, India, Yucatan, and China This decree
allows these slaves to be imported in vessels,
four persons to the ton. The limits on Arneri-
can vessels is two passengers to five tons The
suffering from crowded enigrant vessels under
our laws ID we'll known; yet with us ship of a
thousand tons can transport four hundred per-
sons; these vessels in which apprentices are to
be brought to Cuba would transport upon one of
that size four thousand apprentices The proba-
pie suherlngs OF these apprentices on such ves-
sells, and the power over them exercised by their
masters, might expect to find some sympathy at
the hands of English 'plrilanthrophy
The establishment Of this apprenticeship was
shortly followed by indications in the Govern
1nent paper at Havana, as to the superiority Of
African labor in agricultural pursuits; and on
the 18th Of january last. the Captain General
issued circular to his subordinate officers to
report to him upon the expediency Of importing
African apprentices.
To cap the climax [says Mr. S. I of usurpation
and oppression, an order has been issued allow
ing all slaves to hire their time at eight dollars
per month. The Spanish law has always favor
ed the emancipation of the slave; and, to enable
him to acquire his liberty, tariff has been
placed on his labor according to his convertible
value, or the price paid for him -
Meanwhile the slave-trade is going on with
increased vigor. The vigilance of English eruis-
ers has been 80 much relaxed for some moaths.
as to justify the belief that the British Govern
ment is oonniving at the introduction of slaves
He then contended that Cuba was the only
point in this hemisphere to which the perfect un
derstanding mentioned by Lord Clarendon, as
existing between England and France, could
apply,
After referring to the war now pending in
Europe, and to the expected triumph of the al
lied powers, he said: -
1t is true that we. have just made one short
step in the right direetion--we have appropri-
ated three millions for half dozen steam -frip
ates. But England has now tifty or
sixty war steamers afoat, and France as many
more, ready, SO soon as their services may be
dispensed with in the Baltic and Black Seas, to
illustrate, on our shores the happy accord
which Lord Clarendon Travelled out of the record
SO extensively to state existed between the two
powers in both hemispheres.
desire no movement on the part of our citi-
zens, until the Cubans shall have put their own
shoulders to the wheel. They have been re-
preached for their pusillanimity but let it be
once understood that if, by their own efforts to
yihdicate their rights, they show themselves
worthy of our sympathies, the arm of the Fed
eral Government will not be interposed on be-
half of their oppressors. In less than six months
the hag of freedom, the lone star, would wave
over the whole island; the Moro may, perhaps,
hold ont somewhat longer. -
| think it unnecessary to make more than d
passing alluson to Il matter of recent occur
renee, and which has been the subject of com
from the President to the House of
Representa- tiyes mean the seizure of the
United States mail steamer Black Warrior at
Havana, and confscation of her cargo This is
but one, and the most outrageous. indeed, of a
long series of insults and vexations by which it
has been attempted to exclude our steamers
from Cuba. They serve to complete the proof /
have adduced of an understanding, probably
an alliance, eonsummated by treaty between
Spain, France and England. The Cuban au-
thorities would never have dared to take so
offensive a step, if they had not relied on the
support of those powers. l have no doubt that
the policy indicated by the President will be
pursued, and that full pecuniary