The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-16

runaway slaves, the Iess fssee are composed Of
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issms,tas;ssx s xii operate WIN ne e!ssS:
c6aparS and snSie anon aney are SAFE IN Inc Inc
plentiidl banana and the tropical fruits that grow
"a inc cun9 shem for any length OF time. They
are msters ~ theussaves' they have tasted free
sve an wants are few. their ambition at low
81 rSa rely On as @ prom
are c1ld and aimless warfare Tor years. II they
ar an blacks and deserters from the Spanish
<rgotiatfons, Tor they have an instructive and
@read appreciation OF Spanish treachery
'' NOT ALL SLAVES
and deserters nom the Spanish army. II Is reck-
Oned, on the contrary that two-thirds OF them are
good and true Ou0ans, who are Just as distrustIul
OF Spanish amnesty as the slaves. They are men
who nave lost all that made the pathway OF life
they now struggle on through WEAKNESS OF soul
and body Is all they deem worth having in exist.
ence.
THE WAY TO NET CUBA.
There are some Americans mere whOm have heard
lately arguing theory that as we cannot have this
Island except by fOrcibe occupation, way Is open
to US by which we can compel Cuba to ciamor for
admission into the Union. Suppose, they say, we
annex st. Domingo, which is now, under the Presi.
dency of Gonzales, more ANXIOUS than ever to get
under the Stars and Stripes. Well they continue,
81 d DSmngS can grow as good sugar ana tobacco
grown in the Western World came from her soil.
The men who planted the cane and gave TO Cuba
emigrants from st. Domingo, driven out OF tnat
island and dispersed over the West Indies to ia
Of the negroes. Thirty thousand planters ned
rom the Jury o. the oiScks slave labor ceased and
The finest coffee in the world was grown there,
and France took the Incredible revenue OF
the country was valuable Napoleon the Great
would hardly have sent neet OF 100 sail and an
army under the command of his brother-in-law.
General LeClcrcQ. TO try the task of
the territory. st. Domingo annexed and Ameri-
can SKIN and capital thrown pientliuly In there,
should no longer have
BALANCE OF TRADE
against us OF fifty millions in geld, almost
the annual production OF the California mines,
and drain OF gold so formidable as
payments. And ali this money goes to Enrich
Spaniards at home and abroad and to perpetuate
the odious system OF slavery. In return Tor our
liberality we have discriminating tariff against
almost to exclusion. We have nothing from
tunity is onered as In the case OF the Virginius,
the lives OF American citizens are deemed no more
precious than dirt, and they are shot down with
exultatiOn and without pang or pity. st.
sumner ever think Of thisD would undersell
slave, four cents pound in the markets
OF America. Slavery would soon decline in
ter would be that sooner than see their trade slip
away from them altogether, and they themselves
become paupers these money loving spaniards
would ask for admission into the American Union.
DRIVING THE THEORY HONE.
Further, say these American residents of Ha-
vana whose views have here condensed, st. Do
mingO has but q small population, and one that
has no prejudice against Americans, while in Cuba,
even among the Cubans who pretend to admire us
so much, there Is a rooted aversion to the
Yankee. The st. Domingo people would "cotson"
to us quickly, and would as quickly be absorbed:
as good by free labor within the Union as by
slave labor without 1t, is there not something
ton besides Is that st. Domingo would be field
Tor American products OF all kinds. Cuba cannot
do without our nour ana she takes 1t alter exact
ing duty equivalent to its home value. Almost
everything else she imports from Europe. And,
lastly, comes the reflection that there is no yellow
fever the curse OF CUBA In st. Domingo and there
is no limit to the prOductiveness OF the SOIL
These views may be worth pondering as the
power and human slavery together in cuba with.
out the shedding OF blood. And in truth, beau
tliul an island as this appears to be, it is not worth
the sacrifice OF the lie OF one simple American
citizen.
The mPaiCn I'm tho Eastern Depart
ment Inactive-Thc Rebels Relying
Upon n Fabian PoIicy--Cruel Use of
tho Machete-POor Look out for Prison.
ers OF War.
MANzANILLO Jan. f. 1874.
The writer must be excused il he tires your pa.
thence, like the Roman orator, with his ever recur.
ring theme OF '.Cartbage.n Our Carthage is the
Spanish mltarism, and, more than that, the Kind
OF lOrdy dominion or right over lives and property
that every Spaniard who lands on the shores Of
Cuba believes belongs to him. The changes Of gov.
eminent will be carried out in the mother country
by different parties, who will carry to the seats Of
the Cortes the doctrines OF their ideas, and this
island will always form the chorus to that con-
cert or 'dis-concert," OF those statesmen !;
but the echo Of their discussions will
reach US like the memory OF lost music, and will
clash against the harsh precepts of the journals
that advocate slavery and the ieudalism OF those
unconditional" observation-disclosures to the abol.
ton OF their traffic with their fellow beings and
the concession Of natural and civil rights to the
colonists OF the island.
CUT TO PIECES WITH THE MACHETE
Meanwhile prisoners OF war will always be
mdchetead0 (cut to pieces with the machetel. and
the horrible butchery OF the students will be repro.
duced at soch chance like the dreadful shooting OF
the virginius crew, obtained, indeed the cost Of
a terrible humiliation, but which still served to
satiate for while their thirst for blood, but cast
upon America the stain OF nourishing in her bosom
nest OF vpers, to the scandal OF the civilized
world. On this occasion the savage outbreak Of
the Spanish volunteers flung into the face OF the
people and government OF the United States their
criminal acts by miserably assassinating large
number OF her citizens; and when universal ven-
geance demanded the exemplary punishment Of
the crime, which affected the organization and
order OF all society, We see the Washington Cabinet
employ diplomatic means and MAKE use or inter-
national law to correct some bad men, who would
as soon shed the blood Of children, imagining them
guilty OF some crime, as shoot by the dozen the
VlrgInius expeditiOIsts, going back from the
tolerance and humanity OF modern times TO the
Iron Age OF Alarlc and Attila. To apply to this
sANGUINARY HORDE
the laws or civilization is q lamentabe error and
painful mistake. These are some examples Of
their moue OF repayng iavOrs
Through Spanish IL Ia known thQt tho
column OF the Vaimaseda battalion has been de-
feated by Vicente Garcia, who put at liberty and
sent to the camp of GuaimarO all the prisoners he
Governor OF this district, imprs0ns all suspected
persons, right and left and puts them TO work on
the public highways to mend the roads, barely
feeding them, so that they continually suffer
THE PANGS OF HUNGER,
and forcing them to sleep upon damp brick nOOrs
In reeHing gallery or ward, and when
ever any OF these unfortunate wretches has an
enemy among the spaniards his death IL certain;