The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-23
SLAVERY DEAD IN SPAIN
How Emancipation Was Achieved
in Porto Rico.
GENERAL GRANT DEMANDS EMANCIPATION
SPANS Grievances Against the
United States.
A Furious Assault on American
Policy.
General Butler Worse than Ca
ligula or Attila.
The Infamies of Lincoln Towards
the Indians.
General Grant as Great a Tyrant
as Louis XII.
ELOQUENT SPEECH OF CASTELAR,
A Rosy View Of Our Re-
public.
Grant Recalling the Triumphs
of Alexander
SLAVERY AN INTERNATIONAL QUESTION.
uow Great Movements Appear at the Same
Time in Different Countries.
SLAVERY AN INTERNATIONAL QUESTION.
How Great Movements Appear at the Same
Time in Different Countries.
AMERICAN KINDNESS TO SPAIN.
Spaniards Will Die in the Tropics for
Spanish Integrity.
MADRID, March 2S, 1878.

The passage Of the bill abolshing slavery in Porto
Rico is still the current theme of conversation The
struggle against the Pro- slavery League came to
an end by the frmness Of the government. The
measure could not have been passed without an
appeal to the fears OF the leaders OF the league who
dread nothing more than the constituent Cortes.
The duty of this body will be to enact form OF
government Tor Spain, and the conservatives
tremble at the ideas that may come to the empire
In the upheaval OF society in Spain. Any hesitation
about emancipating the thirty thousand negroes
In Porto Rico-a measure not originating with the
Republic, but to which Amadeus was committed
would have been followed, as surely the new
Cortes met by the most radical measures in regard
TO Cuba Another incident that led to this result
was the unremitting pressure put upon the Repub-
Tic by the United States. General Grants instruc-
tons to insist upon emancipation were sedulously
followed by the Minister Resident. Mr.. CASTELAR,
Is correct In saying that this was not
done in an offensive manner. But the
argument advanced by General Sickles was
that Spain owed something to the United States,
ana especially to President Grant, for the unquali
ned and prompt recognition Of the Republic, and
unless Republic destroyed slavery 1t was mock
cry. Although the measure may seem easy enough
to those who see Spain from over the seas, 1t was
really most embarrassing The reactionists, OF
whose manGuvres wrote you fully, were resolved
to defeat the bill, to destroy the government
They would have passed the bill under Amadeus.
they were pledged to its passage. But the argu-
gument was this: the Republic committed to
emancipation does not pass the BILL 1t will be DIS
credited among it's own followers, and without its
following, which in itself Is composed OF the
most suspicious elements, easily moved to anger
and apt to suspect all classes, the government
would fall With Its fall would come strifes and
civil connexions justying the interference OF the
military. From this interference would result the
success of the reaction and the return of one OF
the princes.
THE NFAMIEs OF THE UNITED STATES.
have spoken to you about the luminosity enter
tanned towards America by parties in Spain.
select from the debate singular speech OF Garcia
Ruiz, who is the only member OF the Unitarian
republican party in the Cortes Garcia Ruiz was
In favor OF an amendment which would have taken
all life out Of the bill, and In the Of his dis
cussion he summed up the case against the United
States in truly Spanish fashion. translate for you
from the ODfciat Gazette a condensation OF his
views, as delivered In the open Certes:-
SPEECH OF GARCIA RUIZ.
Senior Garcia RUIZ, in opening his speech, thanked
God that IN his Old age he had seen the Republic
proclaimed in SpaIn He had laDored Tor the Re-
public since 1910 under circumstances OF heroic
valor, and had voted against every monarch since
then. He desired a republic that would be for the
welfare OF all Spaniards Any other kind OF repub-
lie would be misfortune. More than all, he was
an enemy OF slavery, and he had cursed IL thirty
years ago. But England had done all she could 10
English Minister in Madrid Of the same stamp
as the present American Minister, and who like
him, worked In every way to deprive Spain of Cuba.
BY virtue OF the shameful treaty made with Eng
land in 1867 guardshp was kept at Havana,
which served as guard to the ilibusters OF that
time. An English Consul attempted to excite
mutny among the slaves ana was arrested There
their names were forgotten, and now we had men
honored as emancpators, like Alcocer, who was
Mexican priest, opposed to the monarchy and
In favor OF the Inqusition. He was In favor OF
abolition, but not Immediately. He had no senti-
mentality on the subject Inc Times o. maGe &c m
and Porto Rico slaves were generally well treated,
and he only wished the poor at home were as ortu-
the iniquity of ages. and that cannot be changed
In day. He cursed the hour when Las Casas
take 1000 negroes ar TO st. Domingo, and stI mere
cursed the hour when, twenty-five years earlier
Columbus submitted thousands to slavery and in
troduced IT into Cuba IN its worst form. We had
social sore, which we must cure without per-
,manent injury TO the sufferer.
SUPPOSE PORTO RICO SHOULD col
The speaker did not think that enough care had
been taken to provide for the widows and orphans
OF slaves or to prepare the great mass who would
become citizens to be worthy OF the rights con.
ceded TO them. As TO Porto Rico, was there not
danger OF Its being los, 70 spain Had there not
TO Spain ?" Who has not heard OF the questions
asked by the United States as TO these colonies
We are asked to make a loan OF 81, 600 to free
slavery in Porto Rico. Suppose we lose the island
who will pay that loan AS TO the slaves paying
fer their ewn freedom, IL reminded him OF the
priest who collected aims to ransom the poor
prisoners wbo according to Don Quix0te, were in
Agiers. Let us subscribe money 10 the same end
out OF our charity and not by law. For while
freedom is beautiful patriotism 10 even mere beau
tiful, and Spaniards must not forget Spain In
emanclpating the negroes. We should pass
gradual law Tor Porto Rico, and then declare that
nothing will be done in Caba while insurgents
CRY "Death to Spain.D
HOW AMERICA NsULTED SPAIN.
There were some people, continued Senior Ruiz,
very much satisfied with The ceremony OF February
49, when General Sickes recognized the Spanish
Republic But he could not see that the General
offered anything officially TO SPAN, while he de.
liberal reforms in Cuba. He regarded such de-
mand as an insult aud could not pardon 1t to the