New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-02-13
SPAIN AND CUBA.

There are now experimental monarchies
| based on bayonet elections. There are
Fourierite republics which promote the
| subjects of centuries directly from the
long clothes of infantile inexperience 10
| the cooked hat and regimentals of popular
sovereignty. These struggles compel the
United States, now one Of the oldest and
most settled governments in the civilized
world. 10 exercise great circumspectioH in
| giving the sanction of its recognition TO
governments De facto and 20 belligerents.
Apparently our government may be
| called on to recognize the belligeyency of
King Amadeus and the insurgents" of
Spain. General Allo is at the head Of ten
Thousand men, The instruction exists
in eight northern provinces. and is extend
| ing to the central provinces. King ANA
deus is reported to intend submitting bis
act Of abdication 90 the Congress. There
seems the same chronic disorder in the
Peninsula as in the provinceyof Cuba. It
is the irrepressible Conflict between the
many and the few. The correspondence
Of the New York Herald shows dissension
among the shareholders in Cuba. 1t q
public meeting held in Havana the latter
part Of January. certain SHAREHOLDERS are
represented as having protested against
il as inevitable. and brought forward a
proposal to substitute and supplement
their Labor system by an organized i'm
portation Of coolies from Asia and from
"Africa." This very slight modification of
slavery will deceive no one. The state
Inent on oath of an American engineer of
q vessel in the coolie trade between Asia
and Cuba shows that the horrors of the
middle passage have merely changed their
habitation from SLAYER to q coolie ship.
Civilization will not tolerate this evasion
OF punishment by the simple device Of
changing the. name Of the crime. The
Herald correspondent says:
Regarding the instruction the Journals
OF this city, IN their recent fortnightly re-
.,
indefinite continuance. The IO- de Cuba
has the following paragraph: 1.-The insur.
rection exists, but will never reach the pro.
portions necessary TO constitute a serious
danger Tor the integrity of the territory of
Cuba. 1t will never conquer because it
has no means and wants every clement of
triumph; but notwithstanding it possesses
no conditions to triumph, it has q surplus
to keep up the unsettled state of affairs and
tbes hi If ipb in tI,a viz SitnatiOD
which has been created
A letter written by an officer Of gun.
boat stationed on the south coast says:
mot long since january 23) there was
landing composed of 500 armed men and
several pieces of modern artillery at the
lake of Vertientes. as also other materiel.
The colonel who commanded the detach-
ment of zoo men stationed there had to
fight his retreat
The evidences. therefore, accumulate:
!. That Spain is so divided as TO require
most Of her own men and means to keep
down her domestic insurgents.
;. That the Cuban patriots show ca
pacity 70 endure indefinitely the conflict
Of the past four years.
3. That the promise of Spain to abol-
ish slavery has thus far only advanced to
the report Of bill in Congress for partial
emancipation.
1. That civilization demands immediate
and unconditional emancipation as the
price of further neutrality between the
combatants of Cuba.
). That unless our government shall
speedily recognize the belligerency of
these combatants. it may be held respon-
sible in damages to an amount for which
the Alabama award will afford q preee-
dent. but no adequate indemnity.