The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-01

American Monthly aud which recalls matter
OF history too honorable to be forgotten, was
written by George W. Lawton.
The proposition to abolish slavery in the
Island of Cuba, now agtated not only IN the
Ever faithful Isle" but also at Madrid, brings
to mind our experience with the main question,
and incidentally, as connected Herewith, an af-
fair IN which SPAN and certain Of her slave
trade abettors were principally concerned.
1t is an historical matter and one in which
our government, to Its great credit, I'd net
content itself with declsratiops of abstract
principles and pre- epts, bat acted concretey,
as moral being, to right serious wrongs done
to unoffending Inegroes by Spanish officers. l
allude to the extradition OF ArgueIIes.
This Tease has not been unfrequenty cited,
and too often with diapproval, by eminent pub
licists, owing doubtless to grave misunder-
standing of all the facts involved, which are
here given.
To my lady reader the subject Of extradtion
may have repelling look but permit me to
assure her that it IS really very interesting, and
one to which an hour may be given without
waste, especially if within that time she may
have the benefit of world of labor devoted to
its illustration. Besides, every one travels or
intends to, and is wide awake over travellers
rights, and ready to sympathize with him when
wronged, as he Is sure to be before his journey
ends.
Horace Greeley gravely narrates from his
own experience in Paris how everybodJ's right
to talk TO him about the mulberry and siikworm
crop was Jon the pretence that he had become
the surety OF somebody who was to do some
thing that he failed to do, ruthessly bro ken in
upon by a Parlsian policeman who conducted
him TO the interior Of the Ct,chy aud locked all
those pquistive people out. Although Mr..
Greeley was permitted for some time to look
out at them and commune to bimself about
them and their Industrious ways, they could
not get within eaIshot of him. We will not,
however, stop and scuss bis adventures, as
they illustrate only the trouble traveller Is
often put to without evolving case for extra
dition, nor mar his story by re-tel'ing 1t, pre-
ferrng the curious should consult the original,
still, we presume, carefully preserved in the
keep beneath the tower where, in times past,
Mr.. Greeley held forth.
All pubfcsts ur'te in deca ng that no one
ought, as a rule, to be compelled to travel
against his will, and when he travels he carries
with him a natural right to enjoy himself after
the manner OF the country he is in, without
being arrested and imprisoned therefor and
be may see what 10 to be seen, and buy what is
for sale, aud eat without being poisoned, and
sleep without being robbed, and also remain
single or get married, as love incites, without
danger OF being unwillingly divorced and his
children put at large. But as sensible as these
propositions may seem to the reader, II may
not confidently be asserted they have always or
that they even now are accepted by oil peoples
seli-evident. Indeed, there are yet places on
this fair earth where the traveller cannot ap-
pear without being put into . bake-oven or
over roasting pit; and even If he avoids such
localities, there are others into which he may
stumble that put him promptly upon the de-
fence OF his portable property, or his personal
liberty, or his life even, as others beside the
brave Stanley may testify.
But few if any OF my readers purpose to en-
ulate Stanley, Livingstone. CT Cook, delighting
rather to take trip to Havana, London, or
the Continent, with the reasonable expectation
Of not getting beyond enlightened laws and
governments enforcing them, with opportuni-
ties to enjoy to the utmost all that lies in a
heart innocent OF offence to enjoy.
But there is an annoyance to which the
pleasure seeking traveller may be subjected
and which is the peculiar invention OF the latter
class Of governments, and that is, being sought
for by the far-reaching arm OF state as proper
object OF extradltlon; TO be seized and with
drawn from the allurements OF foreign land
and returned to the sober realities OF his own
cline, when, possibly, ii may be disclosed, he is
not fguratlve Mr.. Campbell, the well-tc do
cattle dealer, off on lark but a real McGregor :,
a cattle-stealer in limbo. II is that difference
that lwarrents the States interference; but to
the story OF Don Jose Augustin Arguelles, q
Spanish cavalier and traveller, IN which we. get
glimpse OF Spanish a1ministf alton, of slave
trade practices, and OF laws, treaties, and ma
tional comfy.
In November, 1868, Arguelles was an officer
in the royal Spanish army, and also Lieutenant
Governor OF the district OF Colon OF the Island
OF Cuba. He had ingIatated himself in the
favor of the authorities OF the Ever faithful
Isle" and was treated as one OF the most re-
liable of lieutenants.
Doubtless he enjoye welding the tbaton OF
power over his little sovereignty with all the
punctillo OF an oldtims Peninsulares or Gran
dee OF pure Catalonian descent. 1t appears,
too, he had an eve to such ventures for profits
as the situation afforded.
The district Of Colon slopes from the noun
tsins that form the ridge or backbone OF Cuba,
southerly to the sea, and lies west-of-soutb OF
Havana. The mouths OF rivers, creeks and
bays serate the coast, opposite which is a chain
Of insignificant islands aud reefs, including,
however, the considerable island, Los Pinos-
Between the mainland aud reefs is fair haven,
we'll sheltered, with many passages to the open
sea, more or less intricate, which rfford expe-
dtious exit to such light t-footed craft as do not
wish to be searched or answer too trouble