New-York tribune., 1872-10-17
SPANISH POLITICS.
rrr1r1oN roR rnE 1MMEpIArE ABOLTION on

SLAVERY.
lFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT oFThB TRIBUNE
MADRID, Sept. A.-I send to-day tralisla-
tion of the petition of the AntislaNey oocie'S Vi
Madrid for the abolition or Slavery In the Spash uo
IONS II ia unusually tcrse cOgent and direct IL IN
dulres in none of the habtual rhetoric and poetry SO
dear to the Spanish orators but c0nnnes ltsei u uuo
nabe statements Of facts and trrefutable nferenceS
1t is signed by Of the strongest names in span put
there is no reason TO hope that any practical action VIII
resut from It, 1t will be rejected on account or the
state of things existing in Cuba" The Government
secs plainly enough that any interference with Slavery
at present would the Peninsuars OF Cuba 10 mu
tiny Nothing be done in the way OF REFORM uht
spanards are ready to accept the first great essential
reform the independence Of the Island That some OF
them already prepared to face THIS eVentuanS'"
powerful article in the Discussion OF to-day clearly IN
djcates This able republican organ gives up the hght
in Cuba and declares for peace. The following Is inc
petition of the Anti-Slayery Society:
To the Senate: The undersigned, President Vice,Pres,
ident members Secretaries OF the Executive Board
of the Spanish Abolition Society respectfully come DC
fore the senate, and show as tollows .,orrod %
First: That the denitiye law of Abolition referred 10
by the preparatory law Of July 4, 1870 and which mas
been sOemnly and repeatedly promised Dy , no h
nets, has not been promulgated. . .,.,
Second That the preparatory law OF 1870, n0twlth-
standing urgent character has remained in suspense
so far as principal articles are CONCERNED until the
appearance OF the regulations published in the Gaeea de
Tlrd That the regulations referred to not only ig-
Il
Captan-General Of Cuba concerning the fufllment of
the th article of the preparatory law but also from
new series of explanatory" regulations necessary be
sides useessy multiplying administrative agencies.
consequence of their manumssiOn by the Cuban insur
ge g rcs oY the law of s7C the State may not hold in
sCrvtude the slaves which 1t now possesses through con
FSG That the failure to execute the preparatory law
followed upon the promise Of many Cuban Shareholders
TO bring before the Government project OF abolition as
appeared by official kilograms OF July and 10, 1901
| without the fudlIment hitherto of such promise
Sr: That The O1fciGt Gazette Of Porto Rico IS con-
stanty publishing notices OF manumission freely ac
corded by TO their slaves and that the number
these has been reduced from 4S36l In 1868 TO 3O a
| the present time.
Seventh That the Cuban instruction has cansed the
dispersion death of twO-trds of the slave population
| in 1862 amounted to about 10000 seuls.
kighth That, according 10 official declarations, the
Cuban insrectiOn Is mainly supported by slaves ana
Consideiing Tirst That Slavery is outrage upon
human nature and stigma upon the only nation in the
civilized world which continues to uphold IL according
10 the eOquent and manly declaration of the Superior
| Revolutionary Committee Of Madrid ON the 10TH ot
Second That the existence OF Slavery totally in
comprehensive in the DoninOns of nation when, IKE
Of 1862 and recognized the existence OF the inherent
| and inalienable rights of man."
! Third Taat as often as our Antilles have been
suited the subject just so often have those araWay
slavery as is proved by the Commissioners OF 1906
bills presented and sustained by the deputies OF the
island OF Porto in all the Congresses to which they
Fourth: That the question Of Slavery being
of the rights OF the ministers and author
zed representatives Of the great free nations have pro-
against 10 and against the OF the Spanish
Government, and thaGNt the present time great move
of public opinion against attitude spreading
n foreign lands whose result should foresee while
| protesting agalns. National shame
Fidh That the i'll success of the preparatory law
need not should not surprise those who nave studied
the history OF the emancipation OF labor, wherein 1t is
/ seen that such halfway measures have invariably
failed, and that the legislators have been obliged to
radical steDs the case in jamaica st.
Thomas and the French cOUnlos, and as 10 to-day the
case in Brazil
iuueture will highly polite measure terminate
The insurrecOn in CUBA it's pOstpOnement would be
a fresh motive Of resistance III the Island Of Santo
Domingo in 1898 and 1904.
The Senate therefore prayed to consider and adopt
dentiye law for the immediate abolition of Slavery in
Cuba and Porto Rico.
Madrid Sept. u, 1872
Fernando dc Castro, Francisco Pi Margall, Joaquin
NJ SanrOnia, Gabriel Rodriguez, Rafael NJ. de Laura,
Emilio CASTELAR,, Manuel Ruiz de (lueYedO Francisco
Gner, EstanslaO Figueras F. Dlaz QInterO, Jose Fer
naDdez Gonzalez Luis Padial, Manuel RegldOr Rafael
Cervera Eduardo ChaO, Bernardo Garcia Luis Vdart.
Nicolas SalmerOn, Felix de Bona, Francisco Degado
Jugo Julio VizcarrondO Ricardo Lopez Yazquez, r. F
cundO CntrOn.
Art the Preparatory Law Of 1870 referred to 10 the above petit
ton, reads as follows
Art All whatever belonging 70 the State de-
Also who OF emancipation be under
protect Of tie State shall at enter tue full noTment Of
the rights Of freedmen