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Especial correspondence Washington Chronicle
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Especial correspondence Washington Chronicle.]
KSesrox, JAMAICA, July 20, 1866.
II is hard for me TO guess whether the in
tellieence am now sending will be news to
Won in the United States. As my illustrious
neiphbor, the ex-Emperor of Hayti, often OBJ
serves, "These Americans regard our little
islands out here as mere bagatelles. Such
TRIES as revolution or change of sovereignty
among us, excites no attention. tnere. faus-
tin often saws sensible things, if he was some
what addicted to doing cruel and foolish
things when he was prince.
1t is of public notoriety that the negroes Of
Havti are in revolt against the liberal and
patriotic Geffard, but it may not be SO well
understood in the United States that the
great object of the insurgents is to put down
the whites who, to their mind, have, of late,
acquired too much influence. The blacks
distrust the guadroons fully as much as they
do the poor whites, and every few years they
have Il rising" if not full-fedged revolu-
ton, to drive the mixed bloods out of
power; but each effort has invariably termi-
mated in reducing the chances OF negro supre-
macy permanently still lower. The island of
St. Domingo is rapidly sliding out of negro
rule and we think here that it will some day
become the emerald gem of these seas.
the Cubans are troubled with negro conspira-
cies and plans of instruction, of which you
never hear in the North, because the press is
muzzled and the planters are not willing to
tell the extent of their fears. / mention these
facts, because | have seen parties both from
st. Domingo and Cuba, who have come over
to Jamaica to establish coffee and sugar plan
tations, on account of the increasing dread of
q war of races, which they fear will soon break
forth in Cuba, and lead to the determination
of the white race in all the Antilles.
There is a large sprinkling of Cubans COM
ing over lately. A fear that the az ever faith
full isle " is on the eve of terrible CONFUSION
is spreading abroad, and those enterprising
Yankees who have invested in Cuban slaves
and sugar plantations, had better look closely
into the condition of things. Only a month
back the police of Santiago de Cuba discov-
cred and enthusiastically, but with terri
bic severity-a negro conspiracy for the ex-
termination of the whites in the coffee hills,
five or six leagues back of that city. Four of
the ringleaders escaped in fishing boat, and
landed safely in Jamaica. The islands are
about one hundred miles apart, and such
escapes from Cuba to Jamaica are not I'M
usual No one notices these refugees, but /
have at different times had conversations with
several OF them IN their plantation Spanish
the only tongue they can use-and / CLEAN the
same story from all
The negroes of Cuba know that slavery has
been abolished in the United States, and that
their Dominican neighbors have driven the
Spanards out of this island, and they expect
to do the same thing for themselves. They
know, also, that the native born whites of
Cuba will encourage and lead the blacks in
the war against their Spanish masters as the
whites OF st. Domingo have done, for all are
lmbued with fierce common hatred of Spain.
hardly expect this warning to command
much attention, but cannot refrain from send
ing 1t from this near standpoint to those
Americans who have interests to guard in
Cuba
Cuba and the Cubans will as surely revol,
from Spain within the next two wears as the
Dominicans have expelled the best army
SPAN has ever had in these waters during the
two past yeaIs. 1t will be done in Cuba as !,
was done IN st. Domingo, by the cordial
union and combined efforts of the blacks and
native born whites. Spain need not lose real
power and wealth by the change. if she knows
now to convert unwilling colonists into prof.
table customers for her products and mann
iactures, but the change is inevitable and NOT
far off. ' .'''