The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-05-12

en- hundred slaves within three days from
, the time of their landing there from the
! coast of Africa. They we're landed within
, ten miles of the Moro Castle. and march
ed directly up to Havana, and placed in
} the barracoous for sale publicly, under
the very eye of the Captain General
Everybody was talking about it, and the
ship that brought them over, lay as qui-
etly in the harbor of Havana as any m err
chant ship. If you had seen, as did +,
those eleven hundred miserable wretches,
you would not be surprised at the mortal
ity among them. The laws of Spain arc
to-day as severe againstSthe slave trade
as those of the United States; neyerthe.
less, slaves are continually i'm ported there,
and it is done because tho Captain Gen.
eral 10 bribed. 1t is well known fact,
that every Captain General Of Cuba ac.
qures an immense fortune in two or three
years. and it il from the slave trade and
that alone. From the judge on the bench,
from the priestin the pulpit, to the lowest
tide. waiter, bribery is the rule, and there
are no exceptions. You cannot remove
the dead body of your friend from the ISL
and of Cuba without bribing the priest,
bribing the captain of the Partero, bri.
bing the judge, and bribing the custom.
house officer, through whose hand it pas
ses. | know that, because have had to
pay the bribcs.
Is not this beautiful population to
hr;pr fho TTn.oo Co.. So.,
tiful population to take rank with the old
States of this Unionl But, sir, this is
not all. The Catholic religion rules Su.
preme in the Island of Cuba; no other rs-
Iligion is tolerated. Even the rites of
Christian burial are denied upon that isl.
and. The people are superstitious and
vicious; and they are bigots as well They
are devout Catholics. The Catholic
Church is true to Spain; the Catholic
Church is true to despotism, and the peo.
pie there to N an, arc true to the Church.
If the honorable Senator from Louisiana
has seen hundreds. or if he has seen one
hundred Cubans who were painting for
liberty, as he asserts, he has seen every
one that that island produced. There
are few creole Cubans. who have been
educated in the United States, that are
intelligent, that care nothing about their
church, who are anxious to get their hands
into the Treasury. They are anxious
for plunder; they are anxious for positions
where they can receive bribes. True
patriotism does not exist on the Island
of Cuba. They love the very chains
that bind them. They love their church;
they love this very military despotism of
which complaint is made. The men of
whom the Senator from Louisiana speaks,
are men the majority Of whom have been
banished from the island Where was
the declaratian of independence which he
brought before US writtenl Who wrote
it'll Where was it adopted In my o.
pinion, it was adopted in some tavern in
New Orleans. The people of Cuba new
er adopted declaration of independence.
What was the fate of the gallant Critten-
den when he went to Cuba to help to res.
cue them from oppressionl What be-
came of that young man and the fifty as
sociates who were with him, when they
went there With arms in their hands pre-
! pared to shed their blood for the redemp-
ton of the Island of Cubal Where, then
we're the patriots who we're thirsting for
freedom IF there was one on the island
he kept himself pretty we'll out of sight;
and that gallant young man, ten minutes
before be suffered death, wrote a letter
to friend in the United States, saying /:
II did not come here to plunder; came
here in good faith to aid these people in
. acquiring their freedom; supposed they
, we're thirsting for liberty; but have been
{ deceived. My time has come" In a
postscript he added: 81 will die like a
, man."
/! Where were the liberty -thirsting Gu
r bans then, when as gallant soul as ev'
er lived on the face of this earth went to
bis last account because he sympathsed
( with gallant, suffering Cubansl I Sir
the galaDtry is not there. There is nc
such thing as love of liberty there :
: Do you want these people iu your Union
Are you prepared to pay $500. .0OO, ,00t
D w sum oCt Vi Auto WIS
! Union Dc. you propose to keep an ar
r my of twenty thousand men in climate
/, where they will be decimated every year
r to govern that island That is wha
Spain has so do, and thatis what you vii
have to do, If you mean to keep the peo
pie from cutting each others throats.-
!. You will have to keep up navy there t.
protect your possession, if you get it,
You must spend from fifteen to twent.
i million dollars a year to govern the isl
:. and; and 10 addition to that, you propose
d to place a perpetual annual tax of Sl2,
D 000, 900 upon the people of the Unite'
! States for the purchase. | ask Senator
d whether they consider that game tha
/. that will pay
e Suppose you get the island: what vii
y you do with i'll Your people cannot liv
y there. The Impression has gone abroat
: that in the interior of the Island OF Cab
r the clf,n ate is cool and healthy; but sucl
d is not the fact. Tropical diseases Away