New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-07
FMBARGOES IN CUBA.
DECREE OF REVOCATION ISSUED BY THE GOVERN
MENT AT MADRID.

DECREE OF REVOCATION ISSUED BY THE GOVERN
MENT AT MADRID.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 6-The following is the official
translation of the decree of July H. 1919, revokIng
embargoes in Cuba:
Preamble-Animated by the principles Of strict
legality, which form the interchangeable foundations Of
democratic teachings, and DESTROYS OF realizing In all
that pertains his department. the ampest Iatainable
right, the undersigned Minister has endeavOred with
jealous care since he entered upon his duties to give
paramount attention 20 the numerous and important
questions which in their relations TO the state Of nsur
recton that exists portion Of the territory OF cuba
may lead 20 excuses Of authority, 10 arbitrary
acts less grave and 70 the employment Of force
against the personality Of the inhabitants all OF which
are unfortunately frequent in the history Of all in
ernecine struggles Upon undertaking to study these
questions the fulment Of of the first duties of
his office the Minister OF the Colonies found and could
do less than seek TO reform state Of things in his
Judgment completely anomalous. namely, the exist
Of great accumulation of property wrested from
the hands OF the legitimate with other for
maty than a simple executive order and turned over
TO an administrative control exercised with great r
regularity in the OF the Government, to the
table depreciation Of the products Of these estates TO
the injury OF the families dependent thereon for sup
port and TO the detrment of the public wealth, whose
dlmnuton is the inevitable result Of want OF regular
ty and order and the absence or withdrawal Of ind
vidual interests the and management Of prop
erty.
Such q condition Of things besides being utterly at
variance with q political system whose fundamental
basis must be Justice, STERN yet consderae, re-
moved from the Of party spirit and foreign 70 all
motives of passion could lead TO other result than TO
embitter mutual resentments and by the sad
spectacle Of misery the keeny felt it has been
the more suddenly and Unexpectedly brought about
and tend 10 render protless great part
Of the rich soil Of the island and 70 introduce dis
urbanee and disorder into the systems Of production
thus interfering with its due development.
The Cuban insurgents, those in correspondence and
relation with them and those who or less openly
lend them protection and aid, thus contributing 70 pro-
long a cruel, bloody and destructive war, doubtless
energetic suppression and exemplary punishment
ana the to-day when the Government Of the Re-
public pledges all the citizens OF Spain, either side
Of the seas ecacious guarantees Of
for the rights Of ALL and offers the Of maintaining
their opinions and propagang then and causing their
ideas triumph in the only manner which ideas
triumph In social structure raised upon the solid foun
dalton OF reason, truth, and night. But even the
need Of such punishment can confer upon no
Government the power TO deprive those OF
its citizens who stray from the right path Of
their individual of support, and to enforce
their families the bitter necessity OF begging to-day the
bread that abOnded but yesterday their tables
the fruit Of their labor or their economy. Apart from
the foregoing considerations there cannot be found in
international law any precept or principle authorizing
stamp of cOnhscatOn; neither under any sound Judicial
theory 1t admissible 70 proceed in such manner,
yet can exceptional Of authorize under any
pretext the adoption Of preventive of such
transcendent Importance, and whose results, on the
other baud will inevitably be dramatically opposed to
the purpose that inspired them.
In consideration Of the facts thus forth, the
dersgned Minister presents for the approval OF the
Council the following draft Of a decree.
The Minister of the Colonies,
FRANCISCO sUSER CAPDEyILA
Madrid July H. 1873.
OFFICIAL DECREE.
In consideration of the representations set forth by
the Minister Of the Colonies the Government Of the
Republic DEGREES the following;
ARTICLE l. All embargoes put upon the property Of
insurgents and disoya persons in Cuba by executive
order In consequence the decree OF April 90 1862
declared removed from the date when this present de-
cree published In the Madrid Gazette shall reach the
capital of the Island Of Cuba.
AEq. H. All property dsembargOed by virtue OF the
provisions of the preceding article shall be forthwith
delivered up TO It's owners legal representatives,
without requiring from them any other justification or
formaty than such may be necessary 90 show the
right under which they claim its restoration or for
their personal identification.
ARR III In order that questions growing ont OF the
preceding provisions may be decided with greater
racy and dispatch, the Captain General Superior Civil
Governor OF the Island OF Cuba shall forthwith proceed
10 ORGANIZE under his ohairmsnAhin Rnard