The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-02-23
the POLITICAL PRISONERS or cuaa.

their new ally Mr. senator Wilson, Of Massachusetts
THE POLITICAL PRISONERS or cugA
The public mind OF the country has been recently din
ed BY other events from It's natural sympathy r H. !,
fering and the oppressed Of other nations but Auer,
hearts in spite Of the Of yran,s must always s
the down-troddcn wherever they may bc found Wee.
not look with indifference the numerous arrests ws
according to all reliable reports have taken place in a
island OF Cuba since the Th Of this month and 10 IA.
who have narrowly watched the course OF Spanish ~
heretofore the Boosting and insolen, tone Of the cpas
the organ OF The Spanish government in its issue Il 3
i7tb inst published in the city Of New York truly
voting
is there aught unnatural in the discomfort Of the p
Of Cuba, acknowledged to exist by General coacAa
his recsn, memoirs lie says that since the conquest Cu
has been governed BY The same principles the Racpr
provinces Of SPAIN and that Spanish institutions and law
have been trsnspanted there in their full fore and v,sl
IT, How, then, he aatter himself Al this late hoo
with aoqucscrnce the part Of tina population the Ia
potism Of military chief matter how honest eulgis
eued and noble He has accounted in that work for d,
rapid growth liberal views, aud moral alienation fes
Spain Of the population BY the easy openings and sr
conceded to foreign commerce. Without those opunu
and that freedom, certainly, and natural sequence
the remarks Of General Concha Cuba would not have s
quired its present development but in acquiring il .he ID
become inspired with the political aspirations lcmAuas
not only by more elevated and dgniGcd sentiment
selfrrspec, but by her improved aud material oou
ton When by means Of the exceptional dcspo,lc nh
in Cuba all the several sources Of growth and power
the Spanish pennsnla--such As produce, manaheum |
shipping --are made to rely exclusively on reducing Ia
natural advantages Of coil and trade to the Cuban m
Queer for their greater development through unjust s
lection, how can il be expected that the unequal dsr
ton Of political power whence the mischief arises oa
be acceptable to the dcspoiled Cuban proprietor Tn
injustice of this system calls for inconcevabe
of expense in the way of navy army, police and also
arbitrary government which must necessarily add A
disad and discomfort Of the country In bis
efforts to reconcile this state OF things with an earnest
sire to preserve Cuba to SPAIN General Concha h@ u
aided by much as by the writings Of Don J"
Antonio aco who has theoretically opposed annexaoa
the United States His voice will certainly not be rpaa
ated by Gen Concha on the subject Of inequality In d
rule Of Cuba In his reply to varquer Euerpo publi
in ls47 we read az follows:
with its own revenue to the objects Of public interest
in the same that the latter contributes with IL
for those Of the peninsula and since such not thu
must confess that there exists equality. That tb
equality what constitutes Cuba in the contioA Of cole
n.y. and Spain In that Of metropolis. To advocate ayH
else is to deceive with words.'
In the royal order Of la,h April l8a5 il ia asserted is
the enthusiastically the Anles-are the basis Of ~
port for Spanish navigation; and in official dosaua
published by the iniendent OF Havana, appointed ns
years ago by Espartero the following words can be ss
This constant increase Of spanish navigation Csa
combined with the decrease already psrcspthls oep
shipping, IL worthy Of notice. and we would not vsasw
much BY adding that, In few years, fag will not 0s
be the most important but almost the only floating
the Mexican Gulf notwithstanding the advsntagso poa
of the American Union, and the III dAgaissd hostility
which il has been received In their ports."
In the year ls46, and through the instrnmensslit
hostile foreign trade the increase Of Spsun
shipping for that year 67o veseels, i2sss tod
and 2,I36 searnen
The Board Of Trade Of Santander, in an address
court in 1880, after mentioning the uncommon dsvs'
inccs, accounts for it thus
and what ID the origin Of 40 much we'll bengf thn
protective duty granted to our -four the markets Of
and Porto Rico through its spnstion, We have srsaS
from the market foreign -four, and provide eonsunro
with that OF Spain"
emitting numbcress quotations from Official "u'V'la
which it would be easy adducc to prove this cons
and avowed purpose Of the Spanish administration 70 @
and raise the prosperity Of the European at the expns
the American provinces ofihe Spanish realm We wl w
ply recall the ludicrous contrast between that pora
the ministerial programme read to the cortes Inst most
which refers to the peninsula wherein the exquisite 70
tons in the machinery Of representative governmsn
carefully explained and that which refers TO the coa
SYSTEM, which " vague and brief appeal to the bro'h
love feeling
To us it seems wonderful that General conehs ass
he Is Of the progressive sentiment Of the Cuban ~o'
should be in the least surprised the discomfort pad
island whose inhabissnts by his confession d.
acquired great liberality OF views through their coa
with foreign cotries still wonderful that he aOa
have dreams Of Forcing back the current Of ibonsb
means Of p&trisrchal policy, iDsppcable 10 the W.
the present population Of tbs island Of Cuba
The Cronica mentions, yet but two names o. l@a4
conspirstors Don Ramon Pinto called ihs soul OF Y"
native Of Old Spain, ID . Of very high paris
exercised great influence heretofore among his couny"
and Gsnersl Concha, In appointing two eonsnif'st aA
recently assigned him the important posi- Of sscreay
political opinions liberal and capable AZ be - o. -
passing the vast subject Of colonial government and
mating the insnpcrable obstacles to iis functions
age and hemisphere, il il not mpossibe i Is esea pr
ble that be may have urged bis views with Genera -
chas friends or perhaps with General concha hImsfh
demning The system Of the latter productive q %
Such a man would, therefore, be natural Object =