The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-20
Horrible Treatment Of Native Afri-
cans by the Slave Traders.
Orders of the Spanish Government Dis
regarded by the Captain-General.
NEGROES RE-ENsLAvED BY DULCE



HAVANA, March 15-The Captain.G General
Domingo Dulce, Mr. Stewards dear and particl
lar friend, sends his resignation home to Madrid
by today's steamer. He did the same thing six
months ago, but his more emphatic request now
made to be relieved Is attributed, and with
reason believe, to sharp reprimand recently
received by him from the Spanish Govern
ment in regard to his treatment of the "emane
pados."
decree issued by the Captain-General, on the I'd
instant, ordering all "emancipados" to be de.
livered to the Government, within fifteen days.
Immense conste1 on followed this decree,
CONSERVATION SO found and general that on
the 10th General WoAce followed up his first de-
cree by second, which completely annuled it,
and which would pretty Certainly have secured
his recall by Senor Canoyas del Castillo, had he
not taken care to follow it up as above stated by
a second resignation of his post
Is How imperatlvely some decisive action is
demanded in this matter of the ''emancipadoso
you may Judge from the following facts, which
need no elaborate commentary.
On the 10th instant, the day Of Dulce's second
decree remanding the "em9 1cipados' out OF the
reach OF the Government, there came steaming
into this port, where she is now lying at anchor,
her Most Catholic Maitsty's ship-of-war NeptUBO
commanded by Captain Herrera, the son of the
Admiral on this station. She brought with her
three hundred and seventyive bozales, which is
the name here given to native Africans. These
poor creatures, tor the most part very young,
had been captured by Captain Herrera off Cape
San Antonio, in a condition which beggars all
description. That officer, most humane and
high-spirlted sailor, could not give any adequate
expression to his indignation at the barbarous
treatment inflicted upon the poor Wretches.
When ne captured them, he counted more
than eighty dead bodies lying uuburied prey
to the ravenous and obscene birds of the Cape
On his way to Havana the captain came up with
and captured the schooner Mdthilde having on
board one hundred more 6ozaLes, purportlng TO
be lawfully slaves, and the lawful property of
MnrfN wi NOR foD1iIi iorIr
known as "Pancho Marty" and for many years
notorious as one of the most cynical slave deal
ers of the island. The MathiLde had papers
signed by the Lieutenan-Governor OF Pinar del
Rio Senior Menduna the intimate friend and
partner of certain Colonel Arguelles whose
name, think, Mr.. Seward and Captain-G eneral
Dulce have heard before mentioned, and are
l1Eey, if they live long enough, TO hear good
deal more OF before they die.
As Senor Mendulna played false to Arguelles,
in the affair of the quarrel between Dulce and
that personase, he is still Lieutenant-Governor
OF Pinar del Rio, and had he been in Havana
could doubtless have dined with the great
American 'friend of humanity" on the occa-
sion of the banquet recently offered to him in
honor of his polite kidnapping OF General Dulce'S
fugitive foe Captain Herrera regarded these
papers of Senor Menduina as mere subterfuges,
aud selZed the negroes III the name of the
Crown Of Spain, intending to restore them to
liberty But no sooner had the Neptune arrived
than, by an express order of Captan-General
Dulce, these negroes, thus liberated by Spanish
naval officer, were handed over TO "Pancho
Marty,r whose latest adventure was a partner
ship with one Andrews, Just sentenced to trans
portation by the British Government for kid
mapping Indians in Yucatan and selling them
here.
Whether acts of this sort can be put an end
to-, otherwise than by abolishtng slavery itself,
is much doubted !. III here and in Spain. But
there is no doubt that General Dulce might have
done much TO ameliorate the condition Of the
negroes here, had he honestly attempted to
carry out the Royal Decree OF October last re-
quiring all "emancipadosn to be given up to the
Government and sent to Fernando Po.
These "emancpados" had previously been
hired OUT to planters and the inhabitants gene.
rally, ard the planters, 1t seems petitloned
General Dulce not TO enforce the Royal Decree,
at least, until after the sugar crop had been
gathered. Dulce's old enemy, Navasenes whom
he sent to Spain in disgrace, however, has re.
Gently demanded before the Spanish Parliament
to know why the Royal Decree had not been
carried out, and what right Captain
General had to disobey the commands of the
Queen. The consequence has been sharp re-
primand to Dulce, who on the I'd instant issued
decree ordering all ''emancipados" TO be deli
vered to the Government wiGnin fifteen days
This excited fresh CONSERVATION throughout the
island; and finding thai 1t would be impossible
to exact the tuldlment OF this, another decree
as have said, was issued on the 10th, com
pletely annulling the former. The Royal De
cree sent here by Senor Canovas del Castillo was
a wise and humane one, and tended to strike a.
the roots OF the criminal abuses which multiply
prodigiously in the Island OF Cuba.
There are families now living in Madrid il
luxury and splendor by means of ''emancipa
dosn gwen them by Government officers-fre
auently one hundred to one person; these arr
bound for seven years (something as the Freed
mems Bureau with us are binding them for five)
and receive three dollars per month, or, rather
the Government receives this sum tor them
TAey are hired out at seventeen dollars pc
month, so that any favorite OF Captain-G enera
who obtains one hundred can live in Madrid a
the court with an income of seventeen hundre'
dollars monthly-without once thinking of tn
poor creatures who sweat and sigh in the field
of fire of Cuba. The greater portion OF the Gov
ernment employees get them as perquisites, an
are extremely liberal of them to their friend
and fayorites.
II is to be hoped that with the advent c
Dulces successor, whoever he may be, Cub
will begin to see the end of a state of things s
scandalous and so full OF peril to all her best il
terests.--M r. World.