The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-03
Cuba-Its AfrIcanizAtiOn Assuming n Dctinlt
Shape-What Says the Administration

Cuba-Its Afrsoanization Assuming Definite
shape-What Says the Administration
From the highly interesting and important
Spanish intelligence which we published yester-
day, it is manifest that the Authorization Of
Cuba has at length become the avowed and
settled policy Of the government of Queen
Isabella. We recur to the debate in the Certes
Of March 8, and to the following declaration
Of the Prime Minister, Senior Luzuriaga, which
received on the spot the unanimous approval
OF the Assembly.
We translate from the report of the Paris
Presse Speaking Of Luzuriaga, in the sfore-
said debate, it says" On this occasion the
minister made declaration which reflects the
highest honor upon him, as well IS upon the
cabinet whose sentiments he expresses. He
said that without invading the rights Of
established IpropeTfy-,cithout refusing to
compensate them by suitable indemnity--the
Spanish government Das finally decided to
put an end TO a 6drbarOus institution, which
all civilized nations condemned, and schich
M LuSuriaga did not fear to call pest
and shame to humanity"
This is Authorization in an official, distinct,
and emphatic shape. The Shareholders Of Cuba
are to be Unidentified according to the British
West India emancipation system, we presume,
which has reduced Jamaica comparatively to o
desert, and which probably contemplates no
thing more nor less than the ultimate organi-
cation of all the West India Islands into
cOnfederated free negro empire, under .
European balance of power" We suspect
that England, at least, looks to some such
ultimatum, and that the present government
Of Spain would prefer the transfer Of Cuba to
Soulouque for trife, to the cession of the
island to the United States for double its value
in ready money.
The Spanish government is finally decided"
upon its course Of action. 1t has discovered
that African slavery is "a barbarous institu-
tion;" that 'all civilized nations condemn IT."
an institution which the Spanish premier him
self does not hesitate to denounce as "a pest and
a shame to humanity" So we perceive that
since the expulsion Of the queen mother Chris
tina, great moral revolution has been worked
out in the government Of her daughter. The
pin money of Christina, as all the world knows
was derived for many years from her commits
sion per capita, upon African slaves success
fully landed in Cuba, in spite Of international
laws and Spanish treaties denouncing the traffic
as piracy. 1t is also known that the Spanish
authorities of the island shared in these pratt
cal profits, and that the Cortes at Madrid quiz
city connived at, If they were not directly i'm
plicated in the business.
Whence this sudden revolution in Spain,
which not only recoils upon the African slave
trade butupon the old-established and successful
institution of slavery in Cuba as "a pest and
shame to Humanity? We may charge it to the ma
chinations Of England and France, to the disaf-
fected creoles of Cuba, to the filibusters Of the
United States, to the mission of Mr.. Soule, and
to the conviction at Madrid that the Africaniza-
tion of Cuba will be an infallible safeguard
against the absorption of the island into the Ame-
rican Union, and the only infallible barrier,
henccforth and forever, to that consum nation.
The jealous vigilance of England, the mission of
Soule, tie Ostend Conference, and the general
fiibustering pretensions upon which this
Pierce administration set out upon its worse
than useless experiments in European diploma
cy, have, however, been the chief instrument
talities to the conversion of Spain to the Ameri.
can anti-elavery doctrines Of the British arts.
tocracy. We have thus had, since the return of
Mr.. Soule, two very significant declarations
from the Spanish Costes, or national Legisla-
tire, unanimously adopted, to wit
LIST. That the sale of Cuba would be the sale
Of the national honor.
I'd. That the supreme government has finally
decided upon the policy Of the abolition Of
slavery in the island.
The first Of these declarations closes the door
Q the acquisition Of Cube by diplomacy, The