Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-19
France in Cuba and St Doyninoo

The policy of the French Emperor, however yelled under diplomatic disclaimers and adroit evasons, no longer admits of doubt in Cuba and St. Domingo. Mt is his settled plan to build | up rival empire of production on our southern limits, which shall at once alment the com- merce and maratine power of France, and draw a aoaH of fire" around the slave holding States ot the Union. This very expression was used by one high in his councils in November. 1851. as an argument why the Cubans should dismiss the idea ot annexation, and rely on the medi- ation of France for the obtainance of an inde- pendent status and, as d consequence of this status, the certainty of a cheap and legal labor supply under European guarantees
 | HIS PROMISE DISSOLVED THE CUBAN JUyTA. 4 few notorious and uuquestionable facts will convince every retecting mind that Napoleon the Third has sincerely adopted this program. IL Is well known that he Is pledged to Spain not to permit Cuba 10 be Amercanized, and | that in the late conferences at Madrid, England was forced to unite ill this pledge Iuis be- lleved that part of Sir William Gore Ouse- ley's business here was to persuade this gov ernment to make demonstration on Cuba, in the vain hope of thrustng upon the United States war with France, which England dared not provoke or accept for herself.
 MT. Buchanan was not to be enveiglea into this false position, and he probably demanded that England should face her own share of the responsibility. Meanwhile the Cuban Junta. composed as 1t was of the most eminent men of the island, who had held on undismayed through eight years of danger and sacrifice all at once seal up their records and formally close their revolutionary labors. The leading members proceed to London, Madrid and Paris, and after protracted conferences and important interviews With some of Napoleons ministers, they unani- na0usty reaounce the idea of annexation
 These able and long-suffering patriots did not renounce hope to which they had so long de- voted life and fortune without grave and--to them at least--concusive reasons. These rea- sons have hitherto been confined to the mem- bers of the Revolutionary Junta, an1 perhaps three or four of their American friends
 There are in Cuba not far from 18OOOO Af- rican negroes under register as the wards of England, and entitled to all the freedom en- joyed by the white inhabitants whenever the British government thinks proper to enforce the rights of guardianship which she has over them by convention with Spain. There is, be- sides, trained military force of from 5000 to 6,OOO blacks, prepared to serve in case of col. liSon of races, as the nucleus of Africanization; and In addition to these peculiar and distinct elements for European mischief making, there
 
 bloodS in Cuba than can be found in any, State of the Union. This class, is, of course. intense iy European in its prejudices, and is, in every way, quite as capable of leading active mea- sures under European direction as the unarm- ed, oppressed Cubans are of resisting them.
 Placed between two fres-European dicta- ton Tn front and negro iSurrection in the rear. Cuba cannot act by or for herself and on this Spaln relies. On the certainty that the Cubans will not rashly invite upon their families the terrible doom of St. Domingo, the crown of Spain rejects the idea of dismemberment. Bv the voItion of her own infexible pride, sus tained by the memorable will of Napoleon. who in turn compels England to underwrte his po Hey, Spain says Cuba must be African. if not Spanish.
 To the Cubans Napoleon has said and is now saying, ' Be prudent and patient Out of the Umon you not only retain your negro appren- tces, but you may add to them to any extent My flag shall cover an ample supply of labor CTS at 1000 francs (S20O head) to open trans- Its as we'll as to cultivate the fertile wastes of tropical America. This cheap system of labor Will enable you to undersell your neighbors in our markets, while the interchange will fo ster French manufactures and shipping, and this | community of interest must necessarily secure lho syuipdeHy ana protection or Trance. '-- These arguments, and the dread of sectional interference, together with the promise of French mediation for an independent yet well- protected status, has deprived the leading Gu bans of even the wish for annexation. We say this on the authority of the best names among the revolutionary leaders.
 | While Cuba is being filled up with prepon- deratng army of free blacks, we hear that the neighboring republic of Dominica is sentenced to death by the French Emperor. The perse- cuted remnant of whites have held their own eastern section of the island against terrible odds for fourteen years; but France declares they must now pass under the yoke of the Haytien negroes. Her journals say that an "indepeudeLt State with American tendencies cannot be tolerated in the midst of European colonies," and the fiat of destruction has there 1 fore gone forth. February and March are the months appointed for the final subiugation of the unfortunate Domnicaus, and after that De- riol no white man will be allowed to hold real estate on the island. So much for the process of Atrlcanization in the Antilles by the re- I opening of the slave trade-States.