The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-11

Are We ready 10 lace either OF these oOnse-
quences1 How are We to supply the resulting
deficit in revenue, or meet the increased de-
mand for gold or bonds to satisfy our ever in
creasiDg foreign debt
Bear in mind that the question here mooted
has nothing to do with protection. 1t is
purely question Of revenue-oi finance The
duties on iron, steel, salt, wool woollens. cot
ton and linen fabrics, hardware, etc. etc, are
incidentally protective, and are to be raised or
reduced as we shall consider protection right
or wrong. But duties of the other class rest
on different grounds, and are to be upheld or
diminished with almost exclusive reference to
the needs of the Treasury. We counsel those
who intend that the debt be honestly paid, not,
while wishing the end, to deprive the Govern
ment of the means.
The Cause of the Cuban SecessiOnists.
From the ". Y. Times
The address of General Dulce on taking
Office at Havana on January will be more
effective than the troops Of Lersundi have
hitherto been in putting down the rebellion in
the eastern half of Cuba, provided the Cubans
are reasonable race. He promises them all
the reforms they require; announces that the
freedom of the press, the right OF public meet
ing and representation in the Spanish Cortes
are granted and declares that Cuba shall
henceforth be a constitutional province of
Spain, rather than a mere dependency, with
out acknowledged rights or actual represen-
taton. In the conduct OF the rebellion in
Cuba these are the only conditions which have
been openly demanded by the Cubans; to all
appearance they have now gained what they
say they are fighting for, and ought to be
satisfied TO lay down their arms.
But the Cubans are not more reasonable
rebels than were our own five or six years ago.
The vital question there at this time, as it was
in the South then, hidden there as it was here
under much talk of liberty and independence,
is that of slavery. The Cuban rebels are
building on the same foundation as did the
Southern people, though the former have not
SO openly declared as the latter did that slavery
is to be the corner stone of the structure they
propose. 1t is the maintenance of slavery for
which the Cuban revolutionists are laboring
and fighting most zealOuSly, but most in
sanely Tor their persistence in the struggle
more than anything else, will precipitate
the sudden abolition OF slavery, which they
most fear. An effort has lately been made
by the Cubans to arouse the western half
OF the island 10 instruction, and in an ad-
dress of the Revolutionary Junta to their
western brethren this purpose Is revealed
| The language of the address torcibly re-
minds one of the Southern style OF official
proclamations aud newspaper editorials dur
! ing the war. Spain is pictured by the Junta
as the North was by the Rebel press of
lS62-63, as urging and plotting servile insur-
rection by ''class armaments," and is charged
with making ''soldiers even Of the criminals
of the jails, prisons, and workhouses." Spain
is announced as having declared ga war of
exterminatioD,n and to have resolved that
"Cuba shall be Africanzed rather than cease
to be Spanish" OF the intentions of the
Cubans themselves, it is said by the Junta
that they twill not accept slavery as neces
sary inheritance of the past, but instead of
abolshing the institution as means to sink
the island into barbarism, as is threatened by
@ Il 4 A,na soAso
look to abolition as means to ameliorate the
moral and material condition of the laborer,
and to place upon a basis more equitable, and
therefore more secure, the property and wealth
of the people,"
This plan of gradual emancipation Spain
will doubtless be glad to adopt, and We would
rather trust its execution to her than to the
Cuban Shareholders themselves. But Cuba's
claims to separate independence no admins
tration in Spain can allow, either as mea-
sure of justice or matter of necessity. The
loss of Cuba would Ievoutionize as well as
bankrupt Spain. Hence the promptitude
with which troops were lately despatched to
Cuba hence the prompt issue of General
Dulce's generous proclamation; and If these
measures do not avail, Spain will doubtless
finally resort to the abolition of slavery as
a means of quellng the rebellion. The sud
den liberation of the immense number OF
slaves of Cuba-largely in excess of the free
pOpulation-would, under the present un-
settled state of affairs, destroy all industrial
and social organizations. The parallel between
the South and Cuba would end with the pub
lication Of such proclamation of freedom in
Cuba. AS the relative numbers of the slaves
and planters there are just the reverse of what
they were in the South, the consequences Of
abolition in the two countries would be dia
metrically opposite, and instead Of the com
parative quiet which reigns in the South We
oh oh Nuit in C1ha tha
tion of the terrible scenes of conflict between
the races which occurred in Hayti when the
J French National Convention of 1871 mos
generously but most impractcally proclaimed
freedom there. The present system of labor
in Cuba, based though it undoubtedly is OF
the wrongs OF the black race, is its only source
of wealth, and this system cannot be suddenly
disturbed during time of war without the
= most disastrous results.