The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-01-08
Prom the Washington States.
France In Cuba and st. Domingo.

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The policy Of the French Emperor; howe
yer veiled under diplomatic disclaimers and
adroit evasiops no longer admits Of doubt IN
Cuba and ST. Domingo. 1t is his settled
plan to buiid up rival empire Of production
on southern limits, which shall at once
almcnt the commerce and maritime power
Of France. and draw I" q ,call Of ire around
the siavehoding States of the Union. This
very expression was used by one high in his
councils in November, 1857, as an argument
why the Cubans should dismiss the idea Of
annexation, and rely on the mediation Of
France for the obtainance Of an independent
status and, as a consequence of this STATUS
the certainty Of a cheap and legal labor-sup-
ply under European guarantees.
THIs PROMISE DISSOLVED THE CUBAN JuNTA.
A few notorious and unquestonaoie iac's
will convince every rejecting mind chat Ma
poleon the Third has sincerely adopted TINS
program. Ii is wei known that he Is !
pledged to Spain not to permit Cuba to be |
Am.ricanized and that in the late confer /
suces At Madrid England was forced to unite /
in this pledge. Ii is believed that q part Of
Sir William Gore Ouseiey's business here
was to persuade this Government to make a
demonstration On Cuba. in the vain hope OF /
thruS,ing upon the United States war with
Trance, which England dared not provoke or
accept T. herself
The United States, however, were not to
be inveigled int this false position. and will
probably demand that England should face
her own share of tn responsibility. Mean
while the Cuban Junta, composed AS it was
of the most eminent men of the island, who
had held on undismayed through eigh. years
of danger ard sacrifice, all at once seal up
their records and formally Close their revo
lutionary labors The leading members
proceed to London. Madrid and Paris, and
after protracted conferences and important
interviews with some Of NapoleonS minis
tiers ihey unanimously ret0uHce the tdea Of
annexation.
L csc able and long suffering patriots did
not renounce a hose to which they had
long devoted life and fortune without grave
and-to them at least conclusive reasons.
These reasons have hitherto been confined I"
the members Of the Revolutionary Junta,
and perhaps three or four OF their American
friends.
There are in Cuba not far from $4,000
African negroes under regis er as the wards
Of England, and entitled to all the freedom
enioyed by the white Inhabitants whenever
the British Government thinks proper TO en-
force the rights Of guardianship which she
has over them by convention with Spain. -
There is, besides, a trained military force OF
d 900 to t, 900 blacks, prepared to serve IN
case of a collision Of races, AS the nucleus oil
A.rlcanzation and in addition TO these Pc
cuiar and distinct elements for European
mischief making, there is larger proportion
Of semi-etlucatei mixed b!oods in Cuba than
can be found in any State of the InIon.-
This class is of course, Intensely European
in its preiudlces, and is. in every way, quite
as capable Of leading active measures under
European direction as the unarmed, oppres
sed Cubans are OF resisting them.
Placed between two fres-European die
tation in front, and negro insurrectio2 in the
rear--Cuba canno' act by or for herself, ano
on this Spain relies. On the certainty thai
the Cubans will not rashy invite upon their
f,mil;es the terrible doom of St. Domingo,
the crown Of Spain rejects the idea of dis.
memherment. By the vOlit.on OF her own
infiexhle pride sustained by the iuexorabls
will or Napoleon. who in turn compcls Eng
land to uuderwrite his policy, Spain says
Cuba must be African, II not Spanish
L, the CuhsnS Napoleon has sai'l and is
nov saving, 'R. prudent and patient. Ont
of The Union you not only ctain your negro
apprentices, but Won may aGi to them 10 any
extent. Nv flag shall cover n ample supp,
OF Iahorers at !. COO irarcS. $500 head Il
open trau>its a. well a. TO cultivate the Ter
tie wastes uf tropical America This CHEAP
syStrIn of labor will enable you 10 underSet
yolr neighnJrS in our markets, while III,
interchange will foster French manufacture:
an,l shipping. AMI this community OF int
rest must necessarily secure the sympathy
and protection OF France. These argu
mcnts and the dread of sectional lnteT,tr
euee together with the promise OF Frenc'
mediation for an independent yet we'll pro
tectcd status, las deprived the leading Gu
bans Of even the fish for annexation. W
say this on the authority Of the best maine
among the revolutionary leaders.
While Cuba is being filled up with pre-
penetrating army of free blacks, we ca
that the neighboring Republic of Dominica
sentenced to death by the French Elnper or
The prosecuted remnant Of whites have hei
their own eastern section Of the ISian
asain<, terrible odds for fourteen years; bu
France declares they must now pass unde
the yoke of the llaytien negroes. Her jour
nal, say that an lin ependent State wit
American tendencies cannot be tolerated i
the midst OF European colonies, and the ia
If destruction has therefore gone FORTH
February and March are the months aP
pointed for the final subjacalion Of the un
fortunate DomlnicanS, and after that perIo'
no white man will be allowed to ho'd rea
estate on the island. So much for the pro
cess of Authorization III the Antilles by tn
re-ope8ing Of the slave trade.