The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-15

don is in this island az comfortable and thriving as
it 10 degraded on the main land, will hardly bear
with patience the change from government where,
II they are oppressed, II is in common with the
Whites TO regime IN which every white Will be at
liberty to insult or to III use them. These contingent
cies might be well worth the consideration OF the
S0utherners, even though the annexation could be
peaceably effected; but should Spain fight for her
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forcible annexation may be attempted in one or
two ways; either the Creoes may revolt and, throw.
ing of the Spanish yoke, with or without the aid Of
flibusteIiDg sympathizers, ask for admission into
the Union, and invading the island, drive the Spa
niards out Of it. First, viii the Creoes rebeli and
IL they do win they succeed2 All those who merely
consider me weakness g Of the mother country and
swer these questions in the affirmative. The
loss Of her vast territories in the mainland
has not Taught Spain how to rule; will not her
cast ss ser there Is ea poecs Justice Rs" IN
the reason why the colonsts cannot profit by
the less0nhey are slave holders and therefore dare
not free Themselves. England endeavors to keep her
colonies loyal by brbes Of constitutions by presents
Of protection, and even in some casea by gifts or
loans Of money. Spain wrings annually from Cuba
q large revenue; her corrupt ministers reward an
adhe!ent, or quiet rival by sending him out to rule
ing himself by selling or breaking law, while pre-
serving order by destroying all freedom Of speech or
of the press and yet these oppressed coonsta dare
take Advantage OF the weakness OF t0er OppToS.
sors, because, being themselves oppressors, they
fear an alliance between their masters and their
slaves. There are now many thousand Spanish
troops in the Island the elite of the Spanish army well
to repel flibustering forays, il unaded by general
nsurlection, but quite powerless to put down such
usurrection, If il at all be compared to what took
place in either Mexico or South America. Lopez ex-
aware Of their discomfort but the creolcs
merely talked about rising, because they
knew that their slaves would rise with them.
The whip Of the STAKEHOLDER ID the rod by which the
vceroy Of Qusen Isabella rules him; wherever there
is bGracon, Spain has fort; she knows where her
real power rests, and II need be will put down the
masters by help Of the slaves, as ruthlessy as did
Austria the GaHcian landlords by means Of their
serfs. It hardly needs the mulatt0 regiments which
are being raised to remind the Cuban patriot that
war Of independence may become servile war,
and that there has been revolution in Hayti ALSO
the occasion Of which was the quarres among the
whites But If rebellion be improbable what viii be
the result Of invasion Judging from the Mexican
war, the Spanish troops would be no match for the
Americans though 1t must be remembered that an Is
land both less accessible to attack and more capable
better disciplined and more accustomed to war than
was the Mexican. Doubtless, part Of the islanders
would help the invaders, but not all Of them; for
the blacks, at least, would be loyal. A regular
army, twenty thousand strong, backed by two
hundred thousand armed negroes or mulat-
tos, would not be easy to expel; and the
Spaniards, il driven out would ut least leave
a1egacy OF immediate unconditional emancipation.
The Southern "chivalry" may laugh at this reyenge
may say that having once freed Cuba they will find
it easy TO reenaave her; but let them read the re-
cords Of the Haytian war, how wild Africans, who
knew not what q cannon was until they saw their
fellows fall yet rushed recklessy upon the gunners
believing that il they died they returned to Africa.
Depend upon il, If the slaves be thus emancipated
en- masse Il will be beyond the resources Of blood.
hounds, or rifles or revovers to enslave them again
They will die first; and even to exterminate them
will be hard work. The army which took so long
time to hunt down few thousand Seminoles may
succeed in task similar to that in which forty thou
sand Of NapOleons best troops failed but will the
North support the South in the efort2 Will not 80
costly and dsgraceful war give the free party an
which VIZ re Or sac
tion?"
quer her, they viii find her emancipated or de-
solated; II they purchase her, they win buy
q colored population more insubordinate than
any they have now. and even these dangers
do not realize themselves an economical result, as
Mr.. Robertson well explains, may follow, by which
the aboitonists would after all be the real gamers.
Were Cuba once peacefully possessed BY enteprsing
Americans the cultivation Of her soil, and with it
the demand for slaves would be greatly increased,
while one great source OF supply the African slave
trade, would be stopped At the same time, the in
suar population would decrease rather than increase,
source therefore, would be the slavebreeding States
of Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland; and the
inducement to them to sell would probably be so great
as to drain away their stock, until they became free
would be to the South. Meantime, however, the
slave party still desires annexation it disregards or
despses its dangers or rather it loses sight Of them,
in fear of what may happen If 1t does not annex. Here
we have the true meaning OF Lone Star Lodges
and Oftend Conferences. The Americans try to
make the Cuban whites initiate them in casting off
their allegiance to the mother country because they
fear that Spain will initiate us in compelling emar
That the spaniards will adopt on abolition policy
from any motive except that of the merest expe-
diency, we certainly do not anticipate. There is
ihe creoIes, but we believe that the African slave
trade with all its atrocities has been chiefly carried
on by the former; and certainly many Of the Off
Gals, both high and low, have connived at it, spite
Of laws and treaties, in most unblushing manner.
That modern Catherine de Medicis, Queen Christina
was known to be herself large slave trader and
though her influence may be for time destroyed,
yet the cause Of abolition can hardly gain by the
appointment Of O'Donnell- VIGOROUSLY one of
the most slave trading of the recent viceroys.
The planters Of the States need not fear infec-
ton from the philanthropy Of the Spaniards: we
Icy, Mr. Ballou, ardenty sympathizing with the
creoles, enumerafes long list oil their grievances
heavy taxes exclusion from Office censorship of the
press deprivation OF all political rights, absurd and
uOA1OuH interference Win CUIIefct anu eQuCuLlOD,
but it is evident that he considers that no one Of these
grievances s, or ought to be, 80 much resented by
the Cubans as the measures lately taken for the anne
Iteration Of the condition Of the negroes. In May Of
last year, the then Captain-eneral Pezuela issued
proclamation stating: at is time for the planter
to substitute for the rapid hut delusive advantages
derived from the sale Of human flesh, safer profits
more in harmony with civilization, religion and
morals" and that 1.-The time had come to make the
life Of the slave sweeter than that of the white man
who labofs under another name ia Europe" Such
even the Spaniards,r still more the acts
which appeared intended to realize them.
viz. =" The order for the registration Of
slaves introduced into the island in violation
Of the treaty OF 1917 the decree freeing Con paper)
more than 900 emoncipados In the space Of fort
night that of May rs, enrolling and arming negroes
and mulattos = the institution Of free schools
for the instruction Of the blacks; and finally,
the legalizaion of the ntermariages OF blacks and
whtes.'s The raising Of mnlatto regiments, we
observe by recent newspapers. has been persevered
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