New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-13

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Mr.. Thrasher, long q resident IL Cuba, and web
known for his intimate connection with the at.
tenpts made Of lste years 10 de.sch sat Island
from SPAN, has published letter In which he
avows his opinion that for the present sny sth,u,-
teriDg enterprises directed from this csntry
against Cuba must be utterly fuitess. The for
mer efforts of this Sort with which Mr.. TIssssr
wss so intimately connected were all based upon
q state of discomfort among the inhabitants Of
Cubs, from whom the pecunisry means to support
those operations, estimated by Mr. Thrasher a, fully
two milhoss of dollars, were entirely drawn.
That discoatent had been greatly stimulated BY
the refusal Of the COrtes to carry Out the provision
of the Constitution of 1875, BY which Cubs VA,
assured a repres .ntaion in that body, and the re-
lection. in 1887, of the three Deputies who had
been elected in Cuba under that provision. The
policy thus adopted by the mother country. OF
strictly retaining Cuba in the position OF Cclony
to be ruled with an exclusive eye 10 the interests Of
Spain, with little or no regard to the views or
wishes of the Cubsns, led to the project of q revo
luton, TO be Effected by the COZ Joint operation OF pa
triots at home and sympathlzers and lbusters from
abroad. A great impulse, according to Mr. rnrasher.
was given to this movement BY the acts Of Pezu
els, as Captain General, between December l853,
and May, l854-acts which were interpreted by
the Cubans as having in view and tending toward
a sweeping and speedy measure of emancipation.
Since that time the policy of the Spanish Gogers-
ment and the state of public feeling in Cuba have
both undergone great change. The feelings and
wishes Of the Cubans were SO far regarded that
Pezuela was snubbed, al intentions 10 emauci.
pate the slaves expressly disavowed, part Of the
public Offices were opened to the natives Of the
island, and measures were taken for allowing the
Cubans certain degree of influence at least in tho
way of opinion and advice in the administration Of
their own sffars. Even those who were in exile
from former opposition 10 the Government or i'm
plication 10 former revolutionary movements, have
been treated with great lenity, having been not
merely allowed to return home, but solicited to do
So and even when they have refused 10 return,
having had their property restored to them.
While the dissatisfaction of the Cubaus with the
mother country has thus been appeased, they have
ceased TO look to the United States with so much
confidence rs formerly. The Know Nothing party,
with its hostility TO Catholicism and to foreigners
the Republican party, with its opposition to tho
extension of Slavery and the admission of new
Slave States, are neither of them features in our
politics very encouraging to the Cubans whllo
they have found out that even the Democratic par
" cannot be relied upon for any decided aud posi-
tive support AT present, there is no disposition in
Cuba TO cooperate in any revolutionary movements
with fllibusterng force from the United States.
Indeed it is reasonable ~ suppose-a point, how
ever, to which Mr.. Thrssher does not reter-that
the operations of Walker in Nicaragua must have
led the Cubans to regard all such expeditions WITH
feelings of the greatest distrust.
new quarrel, however, according to Mr..
Thrssher, is breeding between the Spanish Govern
ment and the Cubans the subject Of the increase
of the African population. He pretendS that the
save-irade has all along been sustained against the
wishes of the Cubans, in which, We suspect, there
is just about as much color of truth as in the ots
repeated assertion that when the United St,'a
were colonies the slave-trade was forced upon them
by the mother country against their wishes. He
also represents the project now on foot to subst-
tute the importation Of apprentices from Africa in.
stead of slaves, as n substance an attempt 10 re-
legalize the ssve-trade, and as opposed by the
Cubans on that ground; whereas, in our opinion.
their opposition to it is entirely based on the appre-
henson that this apprenticeship system, once intro
duced on large scale into the island, must lead 10
great notifications in the slave system if not TO lis
total abolition. Cubans may doubtless now and
then express just as our cotton planter. sometimes
do, vague apprehensions about the increase of tho
African population; but with the present demand
for labor in Cuba, and with no other ground Of
complaint against the mother country, except an
increase in the number Of Africans whose labor
be svailed of by the planters we do not imagine that
any Lew revolutionary movements are very i'm
minent.