New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-18
PIERCE, TIE LIBB RATOR.

To The title of would be ensl.ver Of Ksus",
which Mr.. Pierce has so sIpsnsivsly earned D. Is
low evidently seeking to add cOunserpart-shn
Of Liberator of Cuba. Mr.. S Iule, our Em'sssA-
dor to Spain, and bis famous brother diplomi"
Of Ostend having so signaly failed in that enter
prise. Mr.. Pierce seems to consider the adventure
AZ specially reserved for his own presidential
hands; and accordingly be appears TO have saseo
UPON hin self in person tie part Of Don Oak 'se'
having degraded Mr. SOule from the posi-
ton of leading kbight-errsrtt to that of mere Saa'
c,o P.nxa-s humble assistant who is to stand BY
and hold the bottle while he, Mr. Pierce, does
the 6gltps in person.
A. things look at the preaeDt moment, 1t ap-
pe,rs highly possible. that 50 far az the tide Of
Liberator Of Cusa goes, Mr.. Pierce may accom-
pli.h his object. He seems in very fair way to
earn that title-though perhaps in sepse little
different from that which be ard Mr.. Soule and
the southern sJDpashisers generally. anticipate.
Civil war has hitherto been tho terrible ,nsteu
nent which wise and mysterious Providence
has principally employed for the Liberation
throughout the American continent Of the
African RACES held in bondage. Tne great
movement of African emancipation was CON-
nenced in Massachusetts and Virginia smulss-
Ieous)y with the sgtation against the sovereign
pow sr Of the mother country. At that momeas
African Slavery Was the practice, if not tue law,
from ore extremity of the American cobtinsu. 10
the other. But the controversy with the m,thsr
country bsd not reached the arb,trament OF arms
when many persons In New England, sui, in
fact, throughout the North American Cooniss,
fret began to perceive tie inconsistency, as Bel
knsp expresses II, "of coneBsing for their own
Liberty and at the same time dsprisiog other
"pecple Of tbeiis." The result was. that pend.
irg the war New England and Psnnsyl ssois .sol
isbed Slavery, while the foundation Yves laid for
its tubsequen. abolition in New jersey ami New
York. The same result was very rear hsppen-
ing, though by touewhat different means, in the
Carolinas, Georgia aud Virginia 1t WAS stated
by George Mssor-snces.or Of the present Ma
sons who figure at Ootend sDd WsshiDgtsn-tha'
rothirg but the faulty Of the English 10 emitting
to proclaim the liberty Of the slaves, on the CON.
dittn of their supporting the royal authority,
tayed the Southern Colonies from total and per-
msnent suhjection; and, indeed, 1t Is remirAa
Bile fact that Virginia, Maryland, the Caroiaas
and Georgia sre the only countries 10 America in
which the institution of Slavery has ever sur
vived the breaking out of q civil war.
The French colony Of st. Domiogo was the
country in America, raxt after tie United States,
to become the scene Of civil struggles. The
Fren ch Nstionsl Assembl raised the free colored
people Of st. Domingo. among whom were many
persons Of property. and some persons Of educa-
tioa, to level with the whites; step at which
the whites Of the colony we're quite a. indignant
Is the whites Of South Carolina would be Of .
similar enactment. Under the influence Of Pa
rsisn doughfsces and alarmists, who threatened
tie NatioLsl Assembly with the loss Of the Island,
that body vacilla.ed, aud retraced its steps. The
cOnse Que ice was q civil war between the whites
and tie IIulattOer, Of which the slaves took id
vantage to sindcste their Observation-Disclosures con-
frned and made perpetual by the subsequent at.
.,ppts Of the English, at the invitation OF the
French p'aDters, who expected from th.ir hands
the rs establishmsDt of Slavery, to take adv.n.
tsge Of the disordered condition Of the Island to
gain possession of it.
ChiistCpbe and Dessalines having completely
route d such Of the battsons of LIE Clerc's great
invading army as the climate had spared. aud
forced the remains Of it to make good their es.
cape by surreDderirg as prisoners of war to 40
English feet-in few years, the Creoles of the
neghboripg Spanish continental colo MES began to
admire az to envy the liberty and indie pendence
TO which the negro State Of Hayti had obtained,
ard 10 seek to walk in the footsteps of that exam.
pie BY throwing off the yoke Of their mother coun-
try. Our southern slaveholdins Cuban ~ pathzers
do rot, perhaps, generally know that it wa. In
the negro States of st. Domingo, that the early
Spanish American fevoluionists aud Bolivar
among the rest, sought sympathy, assistance and
when their affairs went adversely, refuge. The
fevOlutionists thus sustained and united, the flag
Of rebellion AID national independence was raised
throughout the whole Of Sp, nish South 4merica:
and the conse quen 70, the natural and inevitable
consequence, Of the protrscted war thus CON-
menced, was the emancipation sooner or later,
of all the tlaves in all the Spanish American
colonies, at last, BY the recent action in Peru on
that subject, brought. we believe, to final and
complete conclusion.
What has hsppendt& other provinces Of Span.
ish America, will uloR the like circumstances.
inevitably happen in Cuba. The breaking out Of
var therein either By domestic innovation or
BY foreign invasion, will most assuredly be at
tended and followed by the emancipation Of the
saves. Mr. Pierce may succeed or may not in
Wrestling the Island from the Government Of
Spain; but let him attack IL in sufficient force.