New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22
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want independence it is for the same object They
conceive that without clamps or letters TINS iefse
island may become very great for its size.
But by far the most important view OF the nDera'
ton of trade refers the emancipation of the blacks
Strange as it may but for an instant. 1t Ii CAL
cnlated that the increased product and price Of
single crop under the free reciprocity system would
richly compensate the planter for emancipation
This calculation is worth remembering. Taking, for
instance one sugar-mil and reckoning the worth OF
its product we have the following table: 10
5000 Of sugar of 100000 at reals the A., o
800 SossSeads Of moasscs at ss........ 1890
Total valuesof product. ta9,Oo
The same 5000 cases, with 100000 would bring oOo
500 hogsheads of moasses, with 81 500 gallons
cents per gallon. oi'''
Total value of product. ..s7l,ooo
difference between the two valuations $4,000
Thus would each one of the cases come to be wort
$40, where it was worth but $l4 net before The
$l22 900 represent capital than the value OF the
$50 hands necessary to produce their worth in sugar
and molasses. This great increase would permit the
payment of wages at the rate Of about SO per month
whereas to-day the price of the cheapest labor is
$40 rs per month. But even giving TO the
laborer SIS, or more than double his cost
at the present time, there would be enough
left out of the earnings of sugar and moasses to pay
for emancipation. AT 5000 head, an agenio OF 100
slaves would aggregate co., As we have SEEM the
total product Of the ngeno Tor plantation-mi would
be $171 500 out Of which, when taxes and expenses
would be paid, even at the triple rate of $4,000.
there would be round sum left to compensate for
manumission. and perhaps pay profit. so reason
tho advocates of the abolition of both customs and
slavery Their case would seem sufficient by suppos-
ing that upon the present mean cost OF slave labor
they intended to reap all the profits accrung from
freedom of trade peculiarly to the advantage OF their
crop Those profits combine all of which the slave s
cheated with what the planter may make out of new
found free market with prices just he wants them.
am not certain that the planter will have bis mar
ket just as he calls for 1t, but that the Immediate
profits Of reciprocity giving comparative freedom
to Cuban products would be great enough to be conf
pensatory is highly probable. Labor would have to
adjust itself principles and better wages after
the slave had paid his emancipation In profits, and
profits would become less disproportoBate. Cuban
commerce, if the plan in question means anything
proposes to pay for its emancipation by making
the slaves free. Who and what are to compensate
the slavei That pertinent question is unanswered;
but believe the planter must reach the point at lass
of apprasng human labor better giving it more than
misers price and brutes wages, or his house will
come down. 1t is the slavery which is put upon the
negro that is also put upon commerce.
Commercially, Cuba would like to obey her newt
able tendency and attach herself to the nearest aud
best market power. Her question it stands. both
in temper and fact, is probably more q commercial
question than the public up North have an idea Of
hope some unanimous feeling will be uttered at last
for the outright freedom of the slave but remember
also that Cuban thought is sealed and jailed by the
! so-called Liberal Government Of Spain. and that
Slavery IS one Of the unutterable subjects Cespedes
retail of abolition is not enough where wholesale
benefits are wanted but neither has CeSpedes insur-
rection become quite wholesale. We ought, perhaps,
to allow the Cubans the liberty of being we'll
up in the secrets of Providence with regard to the
timing of events as those friends of yours who SC
devoutly insist that Emancipation in the United
States-though delayed for years in presence of q
gigantic war-was timely and most oppOrtune act,
and that it would have spoiled the providence of 1t
TO have done it any sooner. Cubans have been in
the habit Of going 10 the United States, and have
learned some lessons thereby, which the results OF
war fatal the South may have served To emendate
About S3OO0OOOO0 would be necessary TO compensate
the planters, if they had right in the course OF reyo
| luton to demand it. But Cuba cannot, ought not
and will not pay any such sum. Let the planter
take it out in trade If they can. The question o
events is not what they shall be paid, but what they
| shall pay.
During the year 1868, 1850 vessels, Of 7s62S tun
ian increase of 100000 over the year 1867, entered
the port of Havana. Of these vessels, ia Were
American. CPS Spanish, $50 British The American
tunnage was more than double that of the Others
Havana retains in port from rs to 100 vessels of al
classes The greater part Of her imports at this time
come from Europe Her principal imports during
three weeks Of January were as follows:
| AMERICA. n EUROPE.
Goldfish drums 23sii Candles, boxes 3,1S
Flour, bbls. 6b5l Coal. tuns 1888
Jerked Beef quintas. 447s0 Goldfish, easks.---.. BOB
| Box Shocks Nos..... .527O6 Goldfish, boxes.-.. by
Potatoes bbs 2.7T0 Figs, boxes. $50
Corn, bags.-..s.--..-... l,14g flour, DOs-.-.. els
Coffee, bags. l,6l5OlYes, kess--. ls4S
Lard bbs. l,46O owes, o-.-...-.,.-zo'e
Lard kegs........ Loco Nermicelh- y,l
| Lumber LIS Rice L. India q, %
| ID. Rice Spanish, bags. l,70
This is not the best which America ought TO Dc