, 1860-04-28
Cuba! CuI,ai

shall be pleased soon to Lear from you,
CUBA; Cuba! {and Porto Rico, if possible},
should be the countersigu of 5our Administra-
ton, and it will close in q blaze Of pIory.
Most truly your friend,
-Ha Litter to II: P+ssidtas, Juns %. 1s;7.
!, As the brig struck, md WIS overwhelmed by
the breakers: the poor miserable creatures On
board, probably 70 the numb=r Of I've hundred.
SET up norI 0; despair that could be heard
esen aoose TIC roaring Of the hungry sen. But
twas 100 DARK, by tha. time, to Sc. much, and
oeyohu human skill or power to MD the drown
ths;r ~1e.snes, 1e so tnat they must soon hare met
tnel1 aoom, 1or on the next morning the beach
on the inside Of the rocks was btTawn with
colpses and the frassments Of the wreck, No.
talng was found, however, to reveal tie name
Of the slarer, or any other information coacern-
ing him, sare that 10 The prscticed seamen she
Pfosed Ct Baltimore build.-HtraM Litter of
africa. "''' o'1'' y
iand, Franco and the United States about. that
they da not say to Spain, The Cuba slave
trade shail be stopped:" Some years aeo,
England alone put an end to the African slare
trade IN Brazil, W her earnest representations
10 mo EmpeF3r's government, and it only re-
quires an equally earnest request from England
Or France or the United Siases alone to Isabel
las government, to bring about the same result
IN Cuba, But ifa single application shou!d fail,
every body knows that the Joint protest Of the
Three governments Above named would result
IN its instant ex inction in Cuba, because these
three governments hare it in their power to
back up their words 10 Spain by actual force.
" 1io can read paragraph ike that abore
gwen from the Htratd's Loando correspondence,
and not feeI indignant at the conduct of the
gorernnaents OF England, France mud the Uni
ted States, IN allowing Cuba to exist single
day as market Tor African slate.: Its exist-
euce, OF course, stimulates the trade in human
flesh, md there will always te found iieuds
enough in human shape to run tue gua.lt!et, and
drown teu t1ousand helpless victims, II a shin
coa'd te b1ils large enough 10 carry SO manY,
rather tuaH be cauzht. " hold ,ha: the three
governments in question, arc morally responsi.
Bile fot the terrible destruction OF human life
recorded in this letter from the scene of horror.
because they hare fciled to break up tue demand
for slaTes IN Cuba, when it could be done by
hrnl; Wrltten and really meant dispatch from
the foreign Offices Of those governments to that
OF Spain. If instead Of coyeslng Cuba aud
seeking prete1ts 10 steal it from its lawfu! pos
SCISSORS. Ar. buchanan would insite Napoleon
and PalmeEston to join him in breaking up the
Cuban market for African BoznIs, he might vet
redeem himself and go ou: Of the Presidency
ain blaze Ct glory"
The existence Of the Cuban African Slave
market is disgrucn to all Christendo1n, and
more especially to France, England and the
| United States; asd until they shsn put IN end
to it, the cries Of the yictims-rhtther shin
wrecked by the traders in try ing to escape from
vengeance, OF dying by hundreds, cramnped up
under tue dungeon decks Of the middle rassace.
OF m'serably, perishiug after brcf i've years
WORKING to dealh in the sugar-felds Of Cuba-
Will 60 up to Heaven morning, noon, and night,
| as witness before our good God against the
inhumanity, cruelty, ayarice and seni.barba-
f1an'Sm Of tie governments that could rut ii
speedy end to these things, if the5 we're relliv-
what they pse!eud to be Christian govern
meuts.
| Why, If ever, there w2s Just cause for war be-.
tween Spain and the United States, Mr. EucLur-
| m could evoke it out Of tile persistence OF
spain IN sustaining and keeping up trade that
our laws and national policy baEc sti.u,atized
as piracy. Mr. Buchanan would suy 70 spain
that sue must put III end to the Cuban African
! Slave trade, Or, refusing, tie United States
would trcst her as p'zatcal nation, the whole
country would sustain him to man, and Con-
gse*s would speedily grant him the necessary
means TO make good his words. And wha. IS
more, it England or France should e;iucc a
disposition to interfere to prevent our Carrying
the President, heart and hard, in throwing
down the guuEtlct to those nations, and DARN :
them to pick it up. Eut there would he m
danger Of var with Spain. Let the United
States but speak the word enphaticallY and
meaniogly, and the Cuban African Slave Trade
would disappear like the m'sts Of the morning
under rlslng summers SUI.
administration in sb9aze Of glory,' Us Mr,
Walker suggests, not By stealing Cuba, but by
DR., iog up the sources Of revenue to Spain from
the horrible trade in human flesh, mud then she
would be too glad to sell the gera Of the Autila.s
to US asa iait psice.-+sa.t:aacre Patriot.