Year: 1860

III persons coming from the North are credulous
enough to suppose that they will SEQ chains and
stripes and tracks of blood and it, taking letters
the best classs Of elaveholders seeing their way
of life, and hearing their dinner table anecdotes,
and the breakfasttablo talk of the ladies, they
find no outward sgus Of violence or corruption
they will probably, also, be creduluus enough to
suppose they have seen the whole of slavery.
They do not know that that large plantation, with
its smoking chimneys, about which they hear moth
ing, and which their host does not visit, has pas
sed to the creditors Of the late owner who is a
bankrupt, and is in charge of manager, who is
TO get all he can from it in the shortest time, and
to sell off the slaves as be can having no interest
moral or pecuniary, in their future. They do not
know that that other plantation, belongs to the
young man wLo spends balf his time in Havana s
an abode of centiousness and cruelty. Neither
do they know that the tall hounds chained at Che
kennel of the house they are visiting are Cuban
bloodhounds, trained to track and to seiAe They
DO not know that the barking last night was pur-
suit an4 oapt0's in which all the white men of
the t5a'o took pNCt and that for the week past,
the men of the pbutation have been Committee
of detective and 1rutective police They do not
know that the ~ lDoking man who was there yes
terday, and whom the ladies did not like, and all
treated with ill-disguisod aversion, is progessod
hunter of slaves. They have never seou or heard
of the Sierra del Cristal the mountain range at
the eastern end of Cuba inhabited by runuways,
where white men hardly dare to CO. Nor do they
know that those young ladies, when little children,
were taken to the city in the time of tho insurrec.
ton in the Vuella de Arriba. They have not
heard the story Of that downcast looking girl the
now incorrigibly malignant negro, and the lying
mayoral, In the cities they are amused by the
hashy dresses, Incidence and good humor of the
5aves and pleased with the respectfulness of their
manners, and hear anecdotes Of their attachment
to their masters, and how they SO dote upon slav
cry that nothing but bad advice can entice them
into freedom and are told, too, Of the worse con
dition of the free blacks. They have not visited
the slave jails or the whipping posts in the house
outside the walls, where low whites DO the fog
gng Of the city house servants, men and women,
at so many reals head.


But the refl3cting mind soon tires of the anec-
dotes Of injustice, cruelty and icentiousness on
the one hand, aad Of JUSTICE kindness and mutu.
al attachment on the other. You know that all CO.
exist, but in what proportion you can only con- jec
ture. You know what slavery must be, in its ef
feet 90 both the parties to it, You seek to grapple
with the problem ITSELF And, stating it fairly il
is this shall the industry of Cuba go on, or shall
the island be abandoned to a state Of nature II
the former, and if the whites cannot do the hard
labor in that climate. and the blacks can, will the
seven hundred thousand whites, who own all the
land and improvements, surrender them to the
blacks and leave the island or will they remain ?
If they must be expected to remain, what is to be
the relation Of the two races The blacks must
do the hard work, or it will not be done. Shall It
be the enforced lebor of slavery, or shall the eSpe-
riment of free labor be tried ? viii the govern
ment try the experiment, aud if So on what terms
and in what manner If something ia not done
by tho government slavery will continue, for a
successful insuriection of saves in Cuba is impos-
sitle, aud manumssons do not gain upon the
births and importatons. Richard H. Dana.