New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-10
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A very intelligent correspondent of tn
Picaytne reports the price Of slaves OF
the island of Cuba about half former rate
and adds, what is incredible. that tn
coolies number as much as half the slaves
The slave women and children are held a!
of little value, owing to the apprehendei
possibility of emancipation. 1t has beer
a matter of surprise with many why thu
United States has not employed its infu
ence to secure the the immediate liberia
ton Of these slaves, and the stoppage o.
the coolie slave trade.
| Our government seems to have strange
infatuation for the interests of Old Spain,
| and to be an easy victim of Spanish du.
plicity. 1t adheres tenaciously to ere
public with an established religion, or
ders of nobility, press worked at the will
of the government, the institution of hu-
man bondage, and employing the "known
rule of savage warfare" 1t virtually
protects slavery in Cuba by a neutrality
which has practically armed despotism
and subjected the votaries Of freedom to
unavenged massacre. If we are asked
whether we are in favor of armed interven-
ton in the affairs of Cuba? we answer
Not at all. But when we have seen the
effect of so-called neutrality to be the
perpetuation of slavery, the suppression
of religious freedom and the open butch
cry of natives and foreigners, we should
advise the government to relieve itself Of
such responsibility. Recognize the bel
ligerency of the Cuban patriots, and
guarantee the laws Of public war. All
will then have been done that is necessary
to exonerate ourselves from the charge of
maintaining evils which the American
people abhor. If the slave trade has been
transferred from the coast Of Africa to
that Of Asia; if black people are no longer
shipped as herds of cattle, but yellow
people take their place and succeed to
their miseries, why should not the nations
transfer their watchful fleets to the Bay of
Bengal and the Yellow Sea.
To our colored representatives in Con.
gress We would suggest conference with
the Department Of State upon this SUBJ
ject. They are more interested than 9TH
ers, for they will perceive an abatement
Of zeal in many who have achieved eman-
ciration at home. The care of this ques-
ton is devolved upon the colored men,
who, with intelligent representatives, are,
no doubt, expected to look to the future
If their race at home and abroad. We |
IAN not speaking on behalf of the col
ored thousands Of Louisiana, too strongly
IMPRESS upon Senator Pinchback and his
associates at Washington the importance
If asking some guarantee at the hands of
heir government against the continuance
# the coolie slave trade. Until every
ymptom of human bondage shall have
'een stamped out no condition of igno-
ance and poverty is safe. It was
philosophical remark of Senator
'inchback that the existence Of slave
y elsewhere was reflected back. upon
he relations of the emancipated here.
here will be guarantee required, also,
or the safety of the poor slave if eman-
lpated in Cuba. So long as he is prop
rty he will be protected from injury, as
roperty; whenever he shall become his
WI master, and massacre will cost
othing, the blood-thirsty Spaniards,
no have torn out the hearts, and cut in
uarters the heads of prisonres; who have
lot so many citizens of the United
tates, and huddled dead and dying into
quicklime grave, will make bqttue or
lid hunt for the emancipated negro,
I'd surfeit their vengeance for the decree
humanity, in the blood and torture of
e miserable and unoffending negro.
e may kneel and curse the day that ever
spired the thought and mockery of
1t may have taken from
m the sordid protection of interest, and |
t him helpless prey to those who
We no attribute Of mercy in their nature. l
lere may be terrible responsibility
on the friends of freedom in the United 4
ates. if the tender concern of humanity
'uld send fleets to prevent the trans
ration of slaves from the coast of a
RIGA it will still feel an anxiety that such Il
yes shall be free. To prevent this II
ndage our government has expended d
'usands, should it lose it's interest in u
'se Africans when they shall have run al
blockade and be re-enslaved in Cuba p
e principle of sympathy would seem n
same. After sending war vessel to c.
coast of Loango it would seem con- o.
aictory to dispatch the same vessel to al
lntain a neutrality that will put down I'll
ancipation and perpetuate bondage. o(
our statesmen ponder deeply this re- II
If they have put their al
i'd to the work of emancipation it must ~
her pause nor look back. 1t may at
erwise be suggested that home eman- I'll
alton was dictated by sectional hatred Ill
love of cheap labor, or that tho sue IL
of emancipation here was so ques- ~
able as to render it unwise to extend co
principle to Cuba Or to Brazil
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REPUBLICAN LIBERATORS FILIBUS- re,
TERS7 N.
'e daily regret the avididy with which SC,
statesmen imbibe the ideas of Europe on
its WinnS The man uhn rnoc "a |