The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-04-05

tiic Hdl!Nt AItlcdtc WIS estimated tlI-
one ffth Of all shipped from the coast ot
Africa died upon the rassase one tfth
more committed suicide within the firs,
year after they were landed on he island
one fifth more died the fr,, wear i'm the pro-
cess Of acclimatlon, because they were IN
accustomed TO toll, unaccu,tomcd to thai
mode Of living. Consequently. three FIFTH.
of the entire expectation from the coast Of
Africa were lost il ore year frcm the date
of their exportation. In regard 10 the re-
naming two fifths, however. after being ac-
clmatcd, they live as long a. creole ne rrocs.
Ii Will be seen that three ltths being des-
troyed the first year, IN order 10 e, an av-
erage of any length ot timc you must rate
a long life to the rest, un.e>, yyu shorten
the duration, perhaps 10 the lime the ~eua-
ter mentioned; but the lives # the creole
negroes are as long - those Of any other
people in the world.
Now, as 10 the white population they
are ignOran,, vicious, and priest-ridden -
Prior to the administrator Of General Ia
con, there was not crime on the calendar
which had not It's fixed value in the Island
Of Cuba had at one time the tariff ol
crime there, but at the present moment !
only recollect single item The price Of
assassination was two ounces Of gold, or
thirty -four dollars a head You could
have any man assassinated for thirty four
dollars before the administration OF Tacon
and was Informed by many old Cuban,
You could scarcely walk ont in the street, Of
liavanna IN the morning without finding
one or more dead bodies. the result of the
last night ; as-assinations and robbcries-
My own experience Is, that the gibbet was
common sight - the eibbct, with the hu.
man skull rafting in the wind, at the cor
ner Of four roads, or at some place where 4
crime had been committed and the murder
cr met his fate.
+ On the accession Of Tacon to Office, he
increased the army to twenty thousand men,
and did establish, az the honorable Senator
from Louisiana Mr. Benjamin. said an ab
solute military despoti,in, which exists there
to this day. But it was not ~ the Senator
said to prevent insUrrection, Il was 10 pre-
vent crime, and that only and if that miI-
tary despotism had Dot been established
and had not been ruled with an from hand
Cuba would be to day what it wa- hctor,
the administration q iacon. As SAID
before, the people aie ignoyar; and vicious
They will not labor, and they wlIl resort :,
any shifts of crime t. obtain subsistence =
Robbery is universal, from tn" hovernoi
General, who receives two ounces rf gold
per head for every slave landed ou the Is
land. Let slave trader land a single ne
gro without paying his two ounces of gold
that negro will be wrestcd from him within
three days Two ounces Of gold per heat
is the regular established bribe for every
slave landed on the Island cf Cuba, and il
is done as publicly as almost any Other
transaction there. ! went into the barra
coons at HAVANA, ard saw eleven hundred
slaves within three days from the time o
their landing there from the ccast Of Afri
ca They were landed within ten miles o
the Moro Castle, ard marched directly NJ
to Havana, and placed in the harracoons fo
sale pnb!ic!v. under the verv eye Of th'
Captain General Eycry body was taIkn.
about it, and the ship that brought then
over, 'ay aS quietly IN the harhor Of iIa
vana as anv merchant ship. # you ha,
seen, as | did, those eleven hundred miSer
able wretcbcs, You would not he surprise,
at the mortality among them. The laws Q
Spain are to-day a severe against the >laT,
trade IS those of the Dnitcd States never
thcleSS, slaves are continually imported Their
and It II done because the Captain Genera
is hrihed II Is q well known fact. thst cy
cry Captain General Of Cuba acquires a
immense fortune in two or three years. an,
It j. from the slave trade and that alone -
From the jud.e on the bench, from tn
priest in the pulpit, to the lowest tdcwait
er, bribery Is the rule, aud there are 70 oX
cep;ion- iou cannot remove the d"a
body of your friend from the Island Of On
, ba without bribing the priest, brib'n. th
captain ot the Partero, hribinr the iudcc
and bribbing the cu>tom-housa officer
through whose baud it passes. Enov
that, because have had to pay the brihe,
l. not this 2 beautiful population TO hrin
into the , mon aS 4 Sta.c-a beautiful poI
U.atIon to take rank with the Old States ,
| this Union But, sir, that : 40; all. Ih
Catholic religion rules supreme IN the l.
land Of Cuba; 10 other religion i to,era
. cd Even the rites Of Christian bum;
: are denied 20 q Protestant upon that islanc
, The people are supcrstiticu@ aud vicious
, and they ar hisots as well They are i,
vout Catholics The Catholic Church
, true 70 Spain; the Catholic Church is tru
e to de,potisin; and the people there to
< man, are true to the Church Ii the hcl
: orablc Senator from Louisiana has see
: hundreds, or if he has seen one hundre,
. Cuhaus WAC were painting for liberty, as
: asserts he has seen every one that that ]
+ land produced There are 4 few creo
. Cutaus, who have been educated IN Il
r United States, that are intelligent, that ca
Il nothing about their church, who are an,
| Jus to get their hanl> into the treasury
. They are anxious for positions whore th,
: can receive brides. True patriotism 30
not exist on the Island of Cuba Thl
f love the very chains that bind them. Th,
{ love their church they love this very m
/ itary daspotism Of which complaint i mad
= The men of whom Tie Senator from Lo
= lana e.eak-, are men the majority ct who