New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-14
TRH SLAVE TRADE Is CrB1. as SEEN
BY n GfRyAH.

sud weeks ard MADE 1t ny particular bos'nes' 70 Oh
taie a taoIeugh knowledge Of tho situation of tee
~ p,Ws Bot uo~ here found shat had anti ips.ei
from tbo4e terrible oescnoaoDs ! I'D met sta 10
books ard re wspa,%rs published in the old world a.
well ss In the Northern Sa'ee- bad to coufe-s thai
bad come full Of pr-judce-ttst wtat hso hes'd
ard read poi the ruth iu approximate degree.
Ever, where 1 met with 6ne InacsioDs surrounded
by shadOwy parks Of magnificent trees, aGd 10
the rear nice l-tle village Of toue hubdreds
u white-wsshed, irendy looking houses, e.ca
vith small handsome garden, all standing 10 regqla
lin &c and nicely fenced ~here the slaves of the pro
piletois lived with their wives and chdren-s remind
er irdeed Of the old patrisrc al tunes Bat every
one who has visited the South knows all this by bis
experience. And 1t is OF my iIteatlon to peak
II. Slave system the United States, but to lead my
readers upon 81 other scene have but to a I'd tba
very soon my opinions about Slavery We're materially
q auged, especially thougbt IF the msSy thoa
sauds Of white free lsboers, suffering from wabtapc
a,vipg, in Amer cs as well a. il Europe And when
returned from my excursions the borders of the
NJ ssissippi my headquarters in New Orleans, and
there was told that the situation Of cylored people
the United States was far interior ~ ttat which tue
same class held in the Spanish colonies. and that
cordng to the Spanish laws, they al alnot the same
and even more rights than the white people. thought
u at he Issnd OF Cuoa must be 10 the begr,es very
paiadse. about five yeaIs have elapsed since 6
European gentleman Of high standing mentioned to
me- in New. Orleans that the best thing the Emperor
Soulouque could do would be to make bnseif su1e-
rail- Of Span-that to say, TO eIt ter into offensive
and defensive alliance with her, whereby be would not
slore foItiy bis position but also enable Span To OPP
pose s,rorg black army ~ the United States 10
of war-a strong black army joining her own mi l.
tsry force on he Island of Cuba, where, as he
| stated, no differences of color existed. year
after this corvena ion went 70 Havana, and there
found that If had ever been wrong in my opinions,
it was certainly the case regarding the condition OF the
| negroes in CUBA.
II should happen to give in the following letter
descriptions which may strike the minds of my readers
as snrpassng those descriptions in European snd
Northern books sD6 newspapers, and ~hlch make she
| hearts of readers trembe with EN- hJn-no ono must
tb that indulge in e1aggeration. On the costrary
my statements will be restrained as not to reach the
reality toe horrible truth in s uakedness. The fate
Of the slaves in Cuba is above all inss ation such
terrible one, tina: o human language has words ex
pr. Of their misery; 10 comparison with 1t the
sleeves every where in the United States i've in the
most desirable hsppiress
But before speak of the treatment Of the negroes in
Cuba, beg leave to make some remarks on the im-
port of and trsfic in Africans in that island.
The WY Of dong basness in ebony" 10 Cuba, is
double one. Either this rade is carried on by some
rich merchant or Specializing private capitalist, or
there are companies Of joint stockholders established
for this purpose. The former lives in Havana, where
d.. o, Ca, j. LA, Ma d. Pa, snd F.
NJ are we'll known for their riches smasssd In this
Infamous trade-tbe latter of them, also as great
mopopolist. These houses lof which j. Me- & Co.,
for instance are the principal owners of about fifty
saiD, have armed vessels, which they send to the
African coast, either their own or on joint account,
to embark there, they ironically cali it, "un
cargamepto do Portuguese Ia cargo of Portuguese
The house Of j. Ma Co. is possessed OF colony
on the African coast line of fortcations containing
! an armed garrison, the commander of which does q
regular business with the negro chieains, from
be buys the captives whom they make in thsr Constant
wars and rpested rszzias into the neghrorrg terri
res. This little fortress is large enough 20
hondreds Of slaves and vessel arrives from
Cuba she takes her cargo, previously kept in resi-
pess quick possible, and leaves tue coast without
any delay. Such a vessel is loaded with a. macy
hundreds che can bold, and the passage home is
series Of the most horrible pictures that bum.n fancy
Get sail for that purpose and return with their load of
human beings into the port Of Havana, and adse,
therefore, a. an eye witness, from my exper ence
during .everal years pat. The food AMI provisions
taken Cd board for such expeditions very poor and
short and although the vessels saw fitted out for this
trace did not bet ng to the poorest the entire provision
taken for those unfortunate creatures consisted Of
rice and sessgo erked beef, meat of wild oxen dred
- half
The spectacle exhibited before the eyes Of the visitor
on bosra of such vessel, her arrival is the most
horrible one can view. Onethrd, at least, Of all the
negroes die durpg the voyage aud the remainder that
arrive are so weakened and emacated that they can
neither stand nor wax. saw cargoes of negroes dis
charged at Havana who put On carts ike barrels
or bags Of -four, three four side by SIDE, and
lay upon tie other nothing bat hslioesd forms of skin
and bone.
Thus they were carried of to the several depots,
where they are fed or fsttened" for three or four
weeks, and thep at night ume taken into the iute-
nor of the island in order TO be distributed on the
several plantations.
| The Allied Poser-Eoglsnd, France aud the
United Ststss-whose attention vas directed toward
important events in the East of Europe, hal for
lorg time overlooked this traffic earned 90 by the
| Cubans. TIE matter grew wore and sor4e, and the
business ct last done publicly that two years
ago The London Times fit to severely attack the
p,esent Governor General of Cubs, Don jose de l.
Conchs and proved that he had made about one
million and half Of dollars in a very short ,ims by
closing bis eyes upon the import of uegroes Conehs
in IN. oistey ordered the said Hticle of The LosdOs
7,mts 10 be translated into the Spanish language,
and to be pub ished in the principal daily nex,p,p
| Of Havana, toe DiarTo de Ia Marina, 10 order TO
move in the first place that be cared very little