Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-06
A GREAT MAN-srEALER.

A GREAT MAN-STEALER. n
Ho,c Mil,ionaires Amass Their Wealth II,
Cuba.
New York Sum-
The most prominent Spaniard in Cuba Ia
died at Havana on May IS, and was buried t.
with almost regal honors. Reference is \
made to Don Julian de Zulueta, Marquis of i
Alava. He came to Cuba about fifty years :
ago, consigned to rich uncle, by trade a s
dealer in jerked beef and hides. The uncle 9
took fancy to the boy, and, dying in ls41, J
left him legacy of over million dollars in II
gold. Then ambition claimed young Zu-
lucia for its own. About that date sugar
planting was making prodigious strides in ]
the island, and Zulueta devoted himself, !
body and soul, to the lucrative business.
His first essay was the purchase from the old
Count Peualver his two sugar plantations, /;
the ssNarciso'' and ''San Nicolas The
gangs on these estates, when Zulueta bought
them, we're pretty we'll worn out; had, IN
fact, been driven to death, and Zulueta
bought them for song. He saw at once
| that, with their then force of laaorers the
estates could never be remunerative. The
value of slaves was rising, and he saw tina
his only hope was to recruit his slave gangs
by direct importations from Africa.
He went into the slave-tr trade as he did into |
everything, on a grand scale. For over |
twenty-five years this man was the bette nolr
of every poor British vice. consul on the is
land, who were supposed to be able, by con
scentiously reporting cases of infraction of
the treaty between Spain and Great Britain,
to suppress the traffic He worried the
British consul-general in Havana almost into
his grave. He monopolized the services
of one considerable British squadron
for years on the coast of Africa and of
another in Cuban waters, and he kept
the Madrid cabinet in perpetual hot water
with Downing street. He was pre-emlnent-
ly the slave trader of the century. He i'm
ported into the island from Africa during
( the twenty-five years in which he pursued
this brutal traffic certainly not less than
> $4,000 to 100000 slaves. Many people put
the figure much larger. His principal as
sociates in the business were Don Salvador
Sama, Don Jose Baro, and Don Fructuoso
$ Munoz, chief of police in Havana during the
y reign of Captain General Concha. His ac-
t completes were. of course, the several Cap
: tains- General of the island. and their local
j. representatives in the outlying districts.
e Zulueta and his partners owned, in the days
0 of sailing vessels, the fastest clippers that
# could be built or bought. subsequently
! they built in Glasgow the notorious ocean
:. steamship Fearless, which could steam "A
S knots an hour and show clean pair of heels
IS to any British cruiser. The vessel made
d two successful trips, landing on each oc-
d casion over 1000 African slaves. His vessels
l. were always commanded by the most ex-
d perienced and of course unprincipled cap
tains, among whom Eugenio Vinas, was the
1T most prominent and successful. So scan
1t dalously at one time did Zulueta carry OF
is this trade that, under severe pressure from
II the British foreign Office, the Madrid cabine
at was obliged to order his arrest in Havana
to He was sent to Spain; like Burriel neve
T. brought to trial. and very shortly thereafte
+. allowed to return to Cuba, where he went OF
le with his business.
IN Of course the trade was brutal and dis
ut honorable to his mother country, which b
T. professed to love so ardently; but it was yer,
he lucrative. He not only restocked the es
n tates he had bought from Count Pualve1
SO but he built up successfully and stocke
ne with his African victims the colossa
es sugar estates, "Espana" and "Alva,'' in til
as jurisdiction of Cardenas, and lately an enor
n nous one, the ''Zaza, in the jurisdiction O
be San Juan de los Remedies. Before he sa
a up the ''Espana'' and the saliva his enor
nous ventures III uuo SlaNe-tIduc HUI SO
of him into financial difficulties, from which
I'd however, in the consideration of share i
Oh his enterprises, he was extricated bt Do
IS Salvador Baro and the house of Regales Pan
of do q Co. Zulueta made money for all tn
successive captain-generals he had to de
tlare dividend. Three ounces ($51) fo
. each slave landed was the average capitatio
en- tax charged by the majority of these col
he MYERS at the breach of the treaty with Eng
land, but some of them. often agreeing t
~ take blind of $50, would exact 800 pc
ed head under penalty of seizure, confscatiol
is and prosecution. Of course, when Zuluei
is could run cargo in without this payment /
Dr. did so. He was created after the commence
in of the war for independence Marquis
rot Alava, nominally for the prominent pa
nd which he took in organizing the voluntet
ill regiment of this city, of one of which he WI
ed Colonel; really because he wanted to be
lr- Marquis and because the government did NJ
ia dare refuse him anything he asked for. b
II. was twice married, and leaves widow and
nat large family, besides fortune variously est
aul mated at from $15,0O0,000 to $20,0OO,OO
AS said, the funeral of this man, who
any moderately civilized society would ha,
been tabooed as pariah, was attended
nd all the leading men in the place-civil, mi
ka, tary, and naval officers of the governme1
Cd and by the creme de 1T creme of the CONNIE
sed cial society. But what shocked me most W
lite glance that happened to cast at the shi
ght ping in the harbor, whers, to their etern
tile disgrace, saw vessels of civilized nation
es. many of them mail steamers, with their n
1rk tional flags at half in honor of one
90. the greatest scoundrels of the age.
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