Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-14

SesS' ~ anu, anu nltnough i wspld willingly give
these gentlemen credit i5t the fsfSsi ion Of
doing their duty, yet frequently dave no
uouot tHat taetr secret 4ympathy with the
crime has caused them to be leniebt with
tho criminal. know of a recent case
where an officer sent a crew captured from
an American SLAYER to the United States in
a man n-of-war as ssdistTessed sennen.n i'm
order that they might escape punishment
most righteOusly due them in the "chain-
gang" Of fHavann. American vessels bound
from Havana or any offthe ports ofsCubn
are justly liable to grave suspicion. and
should be dealt with accordingly by these
officers, MS the island of Cuba has 10 trade
with Africa unless directly or Indirectly
connected with the slave trade; und vet
these vessels have bean permitted to clear
from Havana for that coast without let or
hindrance.
DtsPosITToN OF RRc1PruRED NEGROES.
Sixthly: The disposition Of the recap.
tured negroes ought at once to engApetbe
gravest consideration of our statesmen and
Philanthroptsts. GIyleFn personal obser-
walton leads me to assert that the present
disposition of these sphfortnnates, though
different and Characteristic of each govern
ment which has them at disposal, is still
liable to the serious collection thut the
condition of the negrois not improved; ON
tue contrary, It wOuldkbe better. so far as
he is, concernedi Il he Bad been permitted
to pursue his original destination.
Other nations have adopted a nolicv
which, in some shape or other, is intended
to make tile recaptured negro of use to the
public, as well as to himself Our own
government, however, With more humanity.
but perhaps tess wisdom, liberally provides
tor IlndinG him againSupoD what Is con-
suffered his native soil.S To those ae0uaipf-
ed with Africa, the utter difference in the
idnguage, customs aud religions OF the
VARIOUS tribes, incrs8sed frequently by
hereditary hostility need not be told
how sad Il tbs brosp 5of The boor sEfo
ever seeing his ehntl gain Ysiien landed
upop!the soil of. III foreign ana as
st3eg 10 lhs III lsksnl Il Ia
'tt0e' ne IS supported through the C0T6sfEaJ
ton Society, by the government; for six
months or year, but nt the expiration of
that term nehas no alternative but either
to die Of starvation or become au abiect
slave to some ndjUcent tribe.
In view of this fact, am not sure that
some system of apprenticeship to our
Southern planters, for term of fyears, un-
der strict accountability both for a hu-
mane exercise of their authority over the
negro and the payment of his wages,
would not be a better plan, more humane
and more economical. At any rate, moth
ing is more certain than that the negro.
once taken from Africa, neUer can get back
ngain to the point whence he came.
Finally, have thus far endeayored to
show you, sirs, how the slave trade is con-
Quoted and in what vessels, how Spain is
responsible for it and why she permits it,
how 1t could be effeetually checked aud
why It is not, and, incidentally, that the
present disposition of the rec0ptnrcd ne
gro Is imperfect in its result and unjust to
him. Now, before your patience is entire
ly worn out, ] wish to draw your attention
to one more point, and that is the
FUTURE DESTINY OF CUBA.
The institution of slavery in Cuba has
mono OF the ameliorating conditions OF our
own Southern country. The slave there
is not domestic, he ismerely IN animal,
with q master naturally cruel who exacts
from him Tie. greatest amount of labor in
the shortest time and with the least food.
During the crop season on a plantation
be is worked eighteen hours out of the
twenty-four, andswIth this system OF labor
1t has been ascertained that the average
life Ofn slave in Cuba.is about seven yearsl
He is not permitted, nor has he the timc or
opportunity to cultivate any of the feel
ings or affections natural to man--he is, in
fact, brutalized and rendered doubly saw
age by the almost entire absence of women
from the estates. Without, therefore. apy
TO the soil or his MASTER on the
contrary, with a strong sense of accumu-
lated wrongs only subdued by the lash.
how long will il he before that island must
become Africanized2 particularly when
We remember that there is an annual nd.
tn g11r,
ttpossible more savagel The eternal law of
Compensation must be eventually fulfilled,
and the master and tyrant of to-dayawiIl
surely become the slave or the victim of
to-morrow- But Spain has no Interest
in the future of Gubn, she knows that
some day 1t will pass from beneath
her scepter. She legislates, therefore, for
that colony only for the present-revenue
from it is what she wants, aud she exacts
that, and would draw blood If it could be
turned into gold. The real future of Gu
ba is bound up with the destiny of our
own country. Between il and the South
there is an antagonism arising ont of a
similarity of institutions and n similarity
of products. But the North wants her
crops and she wants Northern manutac-
lures and Northern products, and she
looks in that direction aud cIings to that
support more and more every day. Il is
therefore the right and the duty of our
government tosay whether the Afrieaniza-
ton Of the Island Of Cuba shall 20 on an
til lt ends In the blood and carnage, rapine
and deVastationi and finally in the barbar4
ism Of another st. Domingo; or whether
by checking the Importation of negroes,
she may shine yet forth from the warm
bosom Of her tropical sea asGnother bright
star In our country's dtadem, with all the
radiance of "Qaeen Of the Antilles
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