New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-10-05

positions presented for. adoption and sep
arate without agreeing upon any practica
mode Of giving freedom to the slave. \
Havana correspondent of the New Yorl
Herald. writing of such a conference O.
slave owners. says:
| Ih e result Of the frs: meeting was wa,
| OF ords. the exhibition Of much oppose
ton and ill-teelDg BY a number 30 any
mea sure whatever tending either to the i'm
ICED late or gradual abolition Of slavery
and was further marked by the declaration
! OF Its presiding officer. Don Julian de Zu.
| lucia. Sc long considered the champion o:
| slavery. tia: TO: the pas: eight years be
! had struggled with his time and money
! against The efforts of the abolitionists. but
that ne believed tie time had now arrived
! for definite se:tlemen: OF the issue by the
immediate emancipation Q: al! slaves.
Ihe correspondent continues:
This declaration. and speeches from
others IL the same strain. and the reading
OF proposed plan !or the emancipation Of
slaves. produced such STORM that the
meeting adjourned:
at an adjourned meeting it is stated:
The slave owners from the Cincn Villas.
stubborn IL their own ideas. rudely repealed
the course and projects OF ZulueIa and
Othef wealthy slave owners OF this city.
ANA General EiQue!me-whc seems TO be
a: prestn: converted into I. leader of
pro-slav.ry !nt.rests-and lis adherents
shouted: forth :heir defiance to The govern.
meNt 10 C!spossesS them OF their property.
This corresponden: thinks there will be
great opposition to emancipation, ard
also communicates the repo-: that the
government Of Spain has assented to her
Shareholders petition tina. no reform shall
be granted il Cuba SO long as single in.
haitian: shall continue in insurrection
Thus the government viii secure almost
an indefinite prolongation Of slavery, and
It would seem the policy Of the slave
owner 70 stake ard keep alive the revolu-
ton. since tie perpstua!ion Of slavery in
one par: 0: the island is TO be dependent
on tie continuance CT the revolution in
the other. The main difficulty abou.
the liberation of the slaves by de-
cree 6: The government consists
in :he difficulty 0: paying for
them. and also in obtaining revenues
from any other source than the products
OF slave labor. At fifteen hundred dollars |
a head. the nearly half a million slaves |
on the island would be worth six or seven
hundred millions in gold. ANY disturb
ance Of the labor system would afsec: the
revenue now collected from Cuba. est.
mated q: more than twen:y-six million
dollars. How could Spain. whose securi.
les are quoted very low and who is now
loans in France and elsewhere,
obtain such an enormous sum as would
indemnify the slave owner: How could
he dispense with any part Of the revenue
derived :con, Cuba. now almos: her
ole Deepen dence Tor the maintenance Of
he civil government:
From this reasoning we can no: give.
uli creaence 20 the abolition promises Of
pain. We 10 nc: believe Ler sincere.
he sacrifice 20 be made and the resources |
o DE co Il ManGed are too great for her
b:lity. az they are. We are sorry to
hink. TOO patriotic tor her purposes.
he civiliz eG world does not look closely:
be FIRE edom Q: the enslaved Africans in
De Spanish possessions will slip through
leir fingers. and Cuba withou. reform |
III ontinUe 20 be Cuba, the sole Amer.
al Ma,ke. and field 70, human clatteis.