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ial (of Spai that disposition which j= Saha fn An ers ‘andertaking.”” coucludes by that the Council of and the goa — ed ore heard informati rns itened = rit of bis States, and all agreeing as the to the ition Of the negro traffic, the treaty been celebrated with Great Britain; and that the epoch of the abolition having arrived, and the inte- reats of bis Americau States having been conciliated pe fey ganar ©: bis royal mind, ani the desires all the sovereigns, bs friends and allies, he had agreed upon the articles of the royal schedule. Tt therefore remsins proved A ms was not the firet nor the ouly ustion which up for aboli- bat tbat this was a general principle—even in hereelf—which «ust have sooner or later been establisted without politics having the slightest in- fluence or deve’openeit ia it. Let us now examine whether maligned Evgland is the sole cause of our present compromi-ed y sition or whether it is not rather the o!d wetre olis herself, which has never had the least skill or judgment in the duties of gov- t King Ferdinand took @ step . he desired iu good faith to n of those isiands, as the the want of hands which soeed on the cessation of the ssued the Royal Schedale of 10ta August, « the white culonization of Peerto Rico ; which decree was on the 21st of Octo ber, 1817, extende’ t» Cuba, where, in conformity thereto, there wa- crested an emigration society (Jwnta) assigning to itself for fands the six per cent for every negro ump rted from Africa, and under the active co-operstion of the Intendant Ramirea, the of Nuevitus, Mapzagillo aad Jagua were taived. This ciscreet and well judged systen, pursued with the warwth and perseverance with whioh it had bees c wmeuced, might have ia a few years ed the i-iand in the position of seeding no more slave hounds thau those which would have been introduced uy t) the year 1820. But our evil star eo willed that in (823, Don Francisco Dionisio Vives was pluced a~ U .ptain General, at the head of this goverpmént. He, ia the necesssity of defeating the consitutional system then in force, without a violeot gupture in the couutry—in view of the heat of poblic opinion for tbe conservation of liberal insti- tations, from which vot eve the army of the garri- son wasexempt—found uo other means to calm opi- nion than that of terri’ying it, leaning to the side of supporting the vezrves, placing his confideace on them, and giving them a ‘arger share of indalgence, so that by showing tras if liberated, they would be le of gelf-goverament, the whites should be unitei, and should iu their alarm undergo the yoke whieh fell anew on their necks, shortly before so erect. The good succ-ss of this measure established the cursed eystem of the Cuban government. So the was suddenly clo-ed to white immigration; its was shuuned, it being believed bgt to the eternal vasealuge to which the island was condemned; and, as it the treaty of 1817 was then regretted, it was acandalously evaded, and eniry and protection was {forded to slave piracy, as the only means of preserviug us in perpetual chains. ‘his is the explauative of the effrontery and impu- only means of 3))})!) should bave been «x trade in 1820 a dexoe with which, uetwithstanding the treaty, and | notwithstanding the f.r hundred thousand pounds | received, inuumerabie siavers have been fitted out in our porta, with tbe permission of the highest au- shorities of the island. Who is there that has not known, among us, the privateers, captains and crews of the slave verseis? Who has not seen these vessels fitted out. and des at ved from our ports, and arriv- ing at them with their curgoes of victims? Who bas not met these latter j:\-t dieembarked going through our public streets? Wo has not seen them ia the pox ag where they were deposited and sold, in the sul + fivally, who bas not heard recounted, without any , the tricks ;layed by the slave vessels on | the English ships avd privateers by the collusion of the owners with the authorities—protectors of so many iniquities end in’amies? And all this was done under pretence of rv ecting the agriculture and in- terests of the island, when. in reality, it had no other object than the policy of Vives, adopted and pursued by the supreme government. Tn vain was tue viice of some Cubans raised to denounce and restrain the danger which such coa- duct bore to the unhappy country. A general cry of indignation was rai-ed against them among the slave and they were denominated insurgents, , philanthropi-ts, or abolitionists; and Sey nee be considered fortunate if the iron hand of the government aid not fall on their heads with allthe weight of a fierce aud cruel despotism. Thus have the times run. Esglish zeal striving at the beginving with the ignoble Spanish bad faith. England has expended enormous amounts of peunds iterling im persecutiug the slave dealers, and has sacrificed excellent officers of her war navy, whilst Spain, chamefalty abdjuring the healthy principles waich she had procisimed before the civilized world, inuadated the plains of Caba with Atrican victims, for the tpose of srengthening there her barba- rous of her magistrates and shipowners. But the scandal has resohed its highes’ point, and Great Britain, | which could, by a blow, restrain such enormities, aud did not wish to do so, waiting till the island shoald be full of negroes, limited herself to making very serions reclamation+, wiivh resuited in the new con- vention of 1535, whica was nothiog but a hypo- critical means of escaping from the exigency, as | the trade has since coatinued to be protected a3 | scand: as ever. | Such faith, sach rashness and impadence on | the paré of a wi pation egaiast a powerful one, | with justice on its aide, impelled England to ini- | in tiate new and more serious constraints, carrying her solicitade so far as eve. to threaten ia L841 to gire | liberty to all the negroes woo had been imported | into island from the coast of Africa subsequent to the 30th of May, 1820, on the ground that their i being illegal, their condition of slavery was null. This vas a treimesdous blow, which | alarmed excessively the fohabitants of Caba, because had before their eyes their immediate and inevi- rom, and they excerienced at the time grave Tonaes in their afftir si t chase slaves, a thing which made them open their eyes aud th’nk for toe future but it was only trau- | sient; Peir heavy evelids closed agaia, and they surreidered thenixelres auew to the agreeable sleep @# an imprudent contidi which blinded them to their condition—precarious, aud full of impending — and she withdrew her demand by reason of the new = of the Cabinet at Madrid; and more thanall, the confidence which spe bad in General Don Geronimo Valdes, who then governed tho island, and to whom the slave dealers appealed ia their aboli ‘ionist rancor. 1 Notwithstanding the repetition of symptoms so ve and alarming, Spain continned undeterred in glowing policy; aud the sluve trade again flour- ished, mockiag the +torm which had passed over the Cuban horizon. Negroes on negroes have oon- tinued to be introduced py her coasts; but at did not wish for that time to destroy as, — their cries aud tears have reached heaven, | it appears that the decree hat gone forth for the immediate denovament of the great drama— qhich doubtless must be horrible; and bloody— asa warning punis and the coretousness of nen. upon us such an evi? We again repeat, the polio; pstablished by Genera! Vives, and adopted and fool- | tshly by the Spanish goverament in Cuba, which now abandons us in se desperate a situation. Phat with which Eoyland can be upbraided is that | years the | infraction of the treaty of 1827, when she might | that she has been enduriog for tuirty-three have compélied its fulfiiment as soon a3 she wished, by virtue of ber right, suppor ed by her | casket Why has she not done 1% with the right aod power in her hands? Because she had other views—those of waiting till the present moment. Inhabitants of Cuba, et aa the catastrophe, and God alone, in is prepared for can save uf, although the whole faalt of the crime has mot been ours. Let us hear, however, that which ‘the Corporation, Consulate and Royal Patriotis So- ciety of Havana said, in their magniticent representa- tien tothe constituent Congress of Spain, in rd to the memorable sessions of 26th March and “2d April, 1811—in which was discussed the subject of tae cessation of the slave trade and the gradual enfran ohisement of our slaves—written by our wise citi- zon, Don Francisco de Arango, and signed by the mos} influential of onr city. It say: ‘We must not weary of repeating that the negroes came, and are here through our own fault, but not through our fault alone, but throush that of those who opened and facilitated ‘this road by the arms of the law and even of religion, which—ae it was rald, au! as is till eaid in many books written by respectable authors—was much inter ented in resouing those souls from #teraal perdition. * * God does not permit ux to profane our woral sanctity in covering ourselves with the impious veil with whieh anbosnded Oovetowmness might be iden. Ged doe not permit ua, wo ay, to defend, ax a of piety, the vio lence of dragging homen ereat nd dragging them in chal, from countrics 40 remo But then we are not the authors, nor even the slightest instrament, of » violence, sinee we have through it eurrounded oursel on all sides with grave inconveniences; and, having the power to choose the least we have shuaned extremes an! at the same time endeavored to avoid the dangers of ser- did interest as well as there of want of entiasiasm. Further, they add, to defend themselves from the charge of blindness, or attachment to self-inter- est, whi be attributed to them— ugh fruitless clamors which we sinee the year 1799, rerved to pre- of this delicate sybject; and, above all, it served as a powerful consideration—to which the frean interost of profit cannot blind us—that our patsty th end compromised in so many ways in this were bt and the treaty of Te17 aid’not cat, ont wae it boat « f. Don Joee Antonio S1co, in the time of his healthy oud ideas, said, in his immortal “ Par tict vetween the Island of Cuba and some English Colo- (the Gaglish coloates) Gnd of La Puvta, where the cholera broke out in | 1833, and beneath the Castillo del Principe? And, | Generals. and without any other codes of laws than | the aggrieved nation, and appease the dna gpesion sme ition, and of satis‘ying the covetousmess | every one feared to pur- | hwent tothe ‘perfidy of nations | And whe has Lek | awakening our | understending and in giving strength to our deeds, | itself in such need of white iabur as Cuba; but yet is white colonization in the latter encouraged? it is spoken of sometimes, and sometimes it is written about—assooia- tions are formed, information is obtained, new taxce are im pored—the government uses them in a different sense ; whilst not a single colonist treads that shore, tho firlds of Cuba are seen fnuadated with African slaves. 1 will not ineulpate the Cuban that purchases them. plantation needs hands ; and since he caunot find others to employ, shall he sacritice his possessions ? Should that | sacrifice be required from the head of a family? Whom 1 do aecuse and criminate is the government—the govera- | meat, which being ble, and being bound ia duty to ox- tinguish the iafamous African contraband, tolerates it, consents to it, and authorizes it, in violadon of treaties, in contempt of the laws, and vo the scandal of public and private morality. Well again we ask, is it the Englich policy alone | | which has placed usin such peril? No, we repeat; since apart trom the toleration which that powerful pation bas evinced in thirty-thres years of endurance atd enormous expenses, in c moerll'ng the fufilment of the treaty, the political sys:em created by General Vives, and porsued by the Spanish govera nent, which now delivers us up, is the primary cause of the desperate position in which we find ourselves. Anotber new political system, as base as that, has hastened the denouement of the slave question. lude to that which was establi-hed by Captain Gene- ral Don Miguel Tecon. Tis officer, more Craton imprudent snd barbarous than the ether, introduce rvative priucip'e of the colonial con ii- | inction of every shadow of liberty and right, the most marked division between the penia- | sulars and the crevles, and she fallest and most mon- | estrous cectralizatrou of military strength, retpvested with the complete power to oppress and eradicate | the progressive ideas uf the age. The Spanish goy- | ernment, which bas the least understanding of all | governments, and much less as to America. since it | does not know even ber geogravby,always blindly ac: cepts whatever measures are indicated by tne Captaia | | Generals of those dorminioas; and so in adoptiag | | precipitately the Taconian system, as it adopted that | | of Vives, it lowered Cuba from being an integral part of the morarcby by the laws of the Ludies, to the | acolony; and wailst the Ba- | y islands, o” inach less impor | joy the benefits of the constita- | tiona! system which reigns in the eae mort | ebsolute military power prevails ia Cuba and keeps | her in a state of siege. Our deputies, sammoned to the Conzress of 1336, | were d.iven from it in the most uoheard of maaner, and as a consolation we were offered special laws, which we are still waiting for atthe end of seventcen ears. {Che military peste which se maay | Subans have shed their blood for the glory of their | vation, has been closed to ali classes of them, with the exception of some grades in the insignificant mi- litia of the country. All tie locrative employ ments and posts are prohibited to them, as well ¢ sclesiastic as political and civil, and in the exchequer. The | press—that remedy, or, when less, the counsellor of | the people—is enslaved under a rigid censorship; | education is a doleful abandonment; the tribanals of | justice are corrupt and venal; the springs of wealth | and material progress are choked up toa certaia | point by the protective system in favor of the reve- | nue, of the commerce, ard of the mercantile uavy of | | the peninsula, which condemns us to consume its | dear abd poisonous bread; in fine, the duties and contributions sre ever increasing,.and public mo- | rality is travelling with gigantic paces to ita most a- | mentable prostitution. Te fill the island with Africans, at all hazard, for | | the purpese of swallowing up the whites, ard to cp | | press the latter by dividing them, by degrading them | | to the condition of beasts, and by shutting out the | crecles from all influence through position and wealth— these are the two pcints of the policy by which they rule this colony, which it is desiréd to | show to the world as the model of a happy and en- i viable people onder the paternal sway of the Captain | degracing coadition leanie aud the © iance than Cuba, e his cecreee and military commissions. Nevertheless, ' | whil:t Spain was living despised, believing that she | | bad found in her wisdom the inestimable potitical se- | | cret of maintaining forever enchained the chiloren of | America, s0 as to impoverish them at their own ex- | pense, without the slightest opportunity of complaia- | ing, or the world becom! cognizant of ber tyranny | and robberies, these (the Cubaus) have escaped the vigilance of their Arg uses, avd, passing to the neigh. | | boring continent, they have been received under the | Protection of their natural brothers, the North | Americans. There, breathing liberty under the | | tent segis of the American eagle, they have made use | | of the pi and_pedlished to the wondering world | | he iniquity of Spain and the wretched condition , | of the Cuban. ‘These mournful laments, in the | | midst of the freest people of the earth, have awaken- | | ed universal sympathy, aud the tyrant has trembled. ; Already he has heard several times the consecrated , | of liberty resound in the virgin fields of Cuba, | where silence and the calm of the hi y | distr Bory | ; ped ar eg | and fearful lest the ‘‘ manifest destiny” be couam- | reigned. Already he has, with terror, seen the up- | risipg aod struggling of the patriots who, though un- | | fortunate, have suffeled WIth Deruinm tha’ di ra of | | the first efforts which enslaved people ‘make £9 be: | come free. Already he has known that prisons, dan- { | geons, apd even the scaffold, does not terrify nor | intimidate them. and that they receive martyrdom as | a crown ef imperishable glory; and, already he has | been convinced that the cruel means which have | | been uged to extinguish the fire of the revolution ; kindles it into more lively flames, and thot now he | does not possess the heart of a single Cuban, what- | eyer be bis oge orsex. Viva liberty, and death to | the tyrants, is the constant echo that resounds at all | hours of the day and night in the breasts of all the natives of Cuba. But thas which mort alarms and ; erieves the tyrant, is the magical effect which the voice of the Cuvans and the cruelties which le bas exercised to destroy them, have caused all civilized nations, and principally in the powerful repnblic of the North, whose sovereign | people embraces the holy cause of the oppressed, aad are prepared undisgui-edly to aid us—iospiring the some noble and generous sentiments iu their govern- ment, which does not itself dissimulate its sympa- thies for Cuba Yes, Spain sees that the new Pre- ent of the modern Rome, will snatch her victia from her. To ward off or to postpone, at least, the | terrible moment of manifest destiny, distrusting her | weakness, which she vainly endeavors to conceal by | preparations of cotily and useless torces, and by ridi- | | culous boastings, sie humbly supplicates the pro- | tection and sheiter of the Joreign nations, tiat tae; may support and sustain her ip the eternal possession | of the unbappy remnants of her aacien$ and oppres- | sive domination in America, | England and France made an attempt to do what Spain can not—namely, to endeavor to prevent the | | consummation of anneXastion. But the dignified aud severe attiude of the government of Washington, | | caused them to desist from their purpoee. And as | England sees that event arriving, she has thougat it opportune to compel Spain to fulfil the treaty of 1517, and going st.Jl further, she threatens to leave | her to her own resources in the inevitable and ap- | | proaching strife with her colony—opealy protected | by the colossus of tee New World—so as to tris her between two forces, aud that she may decide for the Englieh requireme: | So it is that, nnder pretence of the energetic mea- | sures lately taken by the imperial government of Brozil to put an end at once and for ever to the com- | | merce of African slaves in its dominions—which have produced a hoppy result—varioua notes were | exchanged in 1851, between Lord Palmerston and | Senor Meraflores, Ministers of England and Spain. | ‘The first upbraided the latter, in a manner suffici- | ently harsh, and justifiable only by the cortinuous and scandaloos violations of the treaty of 1817, that | Spain alone contivued sustaining a commerce as dishonorable for the government as for the uation, | and among other things he said :— | The Spanish government will do weil to con’ if it continue in such a course of proceeding, th | people instead of locking with displeasure on the efforts which are mede (by the Awericans) to se varate Cuba from the Spanish 1» osed to re gard with pleasure t equence a? the conluct of ties, will varn out to bo the | an end to the porpetration of cr crown solemyly pledged itsalf, m hibit in every way and ots. 1 directed arrow, launched by the hand of lish diplomatist, reached the heart fof tue cabinet at Madrid, which, as always when fluding it- self in danger, knew no better than to humble iteef | | and confess its fault, But this has been mere a today the affair prevents greater dimen: sions. | The petition of the ladies of the island of Jamai- ca, atking for the abolition of slavery in the Spanish colonies, which was read by Lord Carlisle in tue | House of Lords, on the evening of the 30sh of Ma, | last, (exactly chirty-three years from the day in which | the traflle by the Spaniards should bave cewed,) | shows the conflict in which Spaia finds herself, and | | the imminent risk which Cuba rana. The question is very clear. In reply to the speech with which | Lord Carlisle accompanied the above-named petition, the Minister, Lord Clarendon, not ouly sapported bis views and confirmed the grievous and horrible deeds referred to, as regards the couduct of the Spanish overnment, but made mainfest the relations thas ad existed upon the subject between the two gor | ernments, With respect t Captain General Cacedo, | although he would not, he aid be a very ardent sup- | porter of his past conduct, yet he thought that his noble friend would not hesitate to attend to what he was now about to offer in his favor. He then read an officiel document, directed by the former minister of foreign affaire of Spain, to the Englwh ambasador, Lord Howden, in which he says:—“I believe it time to known that the Captain Gen- eral informs me that he is using his utmost exertions to put a stop to the traifle in slaves, and that, iu consequence of those exertions. the traders had become very mnch dispirited.” He also read another communication from the ambassa- dor, Lord Howden, in which he declates that “in con- | ) | ceived the in'elligence that the Captain-General lal- | | nated frem that council. | Africans on whom we lay the brand which they | eilect their object; but the moment they have those | berrassed this object “he had not hesitated to adopt ee “of Ils vwhich prohibits ihe persecution of iw ol at eo gates baving slaves resently » become the fixed property of -—he bad de'ermined follow such slaves wherever they mizht be found, and set them at liberty;” the Spanish Minister add- ing thas he hoped that this mode of proceedin; would be considered a1 an indication of the will of of Spain to fulfil the gs mare she had contract ed. Tbe , Lord Clarendon, thought that tais communication might possibly be considered 45 8 simple promise of sometaing which might or might nos be fulfilled, and added that be had ately re- kvew that some negroes had been landed oa the island, and that findisg them on the estate of the purchaser, he had there captured one huadred of tuem and given them their liberty. Therefore, be | thought that although they (the English) might be | lite disposed to place implicit confidence in this amendment, yet they shouid, by all means, admit that the Capiaic-Geceral appeared disposed to art more honorably with resect to the guverument of Evglend, and more io harmony with his owa houor. With regard to the emanc pads, he iuformed | them that tae Governor of Madrid bad decided upon settling this question,go long under discussion, and that they suould be liberated at the expiration of the Gifferené perioas accorded to them. In flue, itap- | eared from av official document which he—Lord | Jlarendon—bad received two or three days previous ly, that there was an increasing desire on the part of Spain to listen to the complaints of England, or,{in other words, if the expression be permitted, a desire to cousult the exigencies of ber own reputation; and | that. ax a proof of this, the Mivister of Foreign Al fairs had received from the Royal Council, a recom- mendation t the effect that the Ca stain General should be invested with more ample privileges, so as to be able witb efficacy to confront the evil—the first | recowmendation of such a nature that had ever ema- And the noble Lord con- cluded by saying that whatever may be the merit of this information, the English goverumens ought to confine itselt principslly to its own efforts ; aud that, consequently, he had given and wouid contiane ‘to give, through the chief of the admirality, instruc tions to the commandants of the station which were to be followed to the letter. Very well and oppor- tunely said: he who makes himself contemptible Ceserves to be so despised. ‘ Nobody will find fault with these leds state- ments, inasmuch as we ourselves have jist seen that without previous law, government order, or warning, and while, trusting in the endurance, or rather in the connivance of the Governor in the slave trade,they clear the estates of the slaveholders, taking away the slaves recently introduced, and imprisoning several persons, amoug whom, reatae to say, we find the wealtsy peninsular planter, D. Julian Zu- iueta. What kiad of government is this? There are no laws, no system, no guaranty of personal safety; each Captain Geveral has a new code, and the social ship, always floating between so variable and con- trary winds, drifts from rock to rock, from danger to danger, at the mercy of Providence, hoping in her | tribulation and anxiety thst the skilful hand of some expert pilot should get possession of the abaudoned | beim, and guide the prow to the region of the volar | star, whoee brilliancy, in the profound darkness of | the heavens, appears to be the finger of God, which H pes to each spot as the only refuge tuat remains | for us in the bvisterous times in which we run. | What nation ig ours that, with eo much aucacity, vio- | lates the most solemn international troaties, eucour- | raging and Lele § its subjects in the perpetration | f crime the most Gisgraseful, as though, trusting | inthe superierity of her power, she feared nothing; | and when accused snd threatened, humbles herself | to the lowest grade, rends and tramples on the laws | sbe has made, and to the end that she may please and the disdaiaful contempt with whic iy 80 | justly locked upon, takes the lead in she persecution | of the very orime which she herself has instigated | a8 the foundation of her colonial policy ? What coa- | duct so degrading? Who will not be ashamed to- | day of calling himself a Spaniard? I do not say | change this dishonorable patronimic for that of a | North American, woi:h is but another name fora | free and supreme man, but even for thatof the Turk, since we are witnesses of the noble and bold atti- tude which the Sultan takes in opposing with energy | ard honor the ineclent attempts of the modern | Atilla, the giant terrifier of Europe and Asia. | The haughty Spain, then, has cetermined, humbly ond at all hazards, to comply in the entire cessition of the trade, and in the liberating the emancipados, | and even the slaves, believing that England, so ap- peesed, would not withdraw her protection ; whilst the latter, at the same time, is occupied in redoubling her exertions to effect the Africanization of Cuba, ustful of each oft-repeated and ill promise, | mated. The deed is irremediable, and alceady are | we experiencing its reality. In the first place, and fi weet no more slaves shall enter ; and if they should, who will be the rash fool to purchase them ? But without our beiug propered for this measure, through fhe perfidy of the governuscat, what moans Temeia os us Ww replace the hands wa t---, —- «sw be able to keep up our large and small cultivation, abd to support our commerce and industry, the island being sluost destitute of white population? Will imeugration of these be protected? We do not ex- pect such a ing, ; and without either the one or the otber, what will be the future of our industry ¢ “The Chinese,” I will be unswered. But take care, lest in avciding cone danger, we fall iato another and a greater. Leaving out of view the detestable vices with which the children of the Celestial Empire are plagued, we ought to note that they are not sav: sire of us. They are civilized men, knowing how to read acd write, and who, although in the midst of deprecation, feel the noble pride of literature ; and | it is not possible they would suffer to be governed | and worked as we govern and work the slaves. | We have already seen several ¢xamples, not onl, of their prostitution of character, but of their | otic authority | resistance to the lash, and to the di of their leaders. and of the stoicism with which hea inflict or suffer death. It they do ‘his in such smi numbers, wher they know not the country nor its language, and are uot related to the hetero genous inbabitants. what will th not do, | go0d God! when they are counted by thou- | sends, and when, having formed relations with | our segroes, and having children by the slave | women, they become aware that they are children horn to perpetual slavery, and that they have no chance to emancipate them by the tritling reward of | their abor? Remember that the revolts of the slaves have uot until now been the effect of simole combi- | nations to liberate themselves, but of acts of despe- vation, in which they destroy creas that op- | poses their progress; but that soon become dis- concerted, and at the mersy of the white men, who pureue, capture and subdue them anew, because they | want the cultivated intelligence to form a plaa of | operation well con wived, to the ena that they might | who can enlighten and direct them, their outbreaks will become more frequent and formidable, God | knows to what extent, anc the ruin of the island will | be the result of the rash experiment of introducing | civilzed mea to labor, substituting them for the savage African, longer on this point. The ceszation of the slave t s not the greatest danger that threatens Caba: | another more terrible is that whica clouds her clear | sky. Crafty, active England, who never stands in | her own ligut when an opportanity is offered of gaining ber ends, convinced that Cuba must soon become a part of the North American Union, and | that nobody can prevent it, because it is the wish of the two people, and the ‘manifest destiny | of Young America,” hastens to obtain, befure the realization of this al important event, the liberty of all the slaves and emane pados,so as to silence the cries of ber Wetcrn islands, by balancing the cost of work in oil the Antilles, which could not be done after the inevitable annexation. And England, tak- ing advantage of the conflict in which Spain finds hbereelf with ber colonies and tho American sympa. thizers, just as of her weakne-s, humiliation, and infemy, is at the present moment devising with hor a new treaty, to emancipate a’! our slaves, subst‘tuting for slavery the system of appr » notwith- standing the sad result, which riment has bad in Jamaica and saestes in these seas, 5 ex; in the other colouies sho Such ia the crisis at which we hava arrived, in- | : of Cuba—such is the serious danger which | ne Which threstens na | Day by draws nigh, of saving | © es With Cuba, or perishing with her in a ca- tastrophe as frightfal a that of Saint Domingo. | Awe kelvea, Unhappy the idiot who does not foresee the dan- ger, ond waits util the waters of the overflowing river reach his couch; doubtless he will perish in the | uncontrolled waves. Awake! and lot us all prepare | in brotherly union until we hear the torreut roar ia | its agitated capitol; then it will be easy for us to | froatrate tbe plans of the cuuning leopard and of the degreded lion. Alrendy you seo that Spain—she who ironically is | called our mother—te disposed to coneede everything to the English, provided «be assist her to retain Caba | in her clatches, or to deliver ber into the hands of the negroes, rather than gee her independent or an- nexed to theUnited States. What then will become | of us, Sf remaining as careless as wo are, an Hogliah sqnadren should arrive with the decree of emancipa- tion, and the regulation of the system of apprentive- ship? No other remedy will remain for us than to obey quickly and blindly the paternal dispositions of the best of mother countries, supported by the can- nons of Great Britain, who will know how to fulfill their mission in a manner 60 quick and cautious that, ! awake! But let it be ia time to save onr- | ; } | | ree of peremptory instrustions lately sent to Coptain-General of Cuba, to. the effect that he shoul? lose no opportunity of putting stop to the | tre ir tlaves, we have received a comannication | from tho farctimury, asauring us trat he was exer- | cisivny ‘he most erergetic measures to Nf into effect 1s ioetrictions.’ Aud ferther, that foding the fu limeut of the rigorous Lotter of She law om: when our brothers “of the North are aware of it, it will be already too late for remedy, although there may be room i remain for vengeance, But what use of that, if the catastrophe shail al; have consumed us? The magic ory of liberty | old lion of Spain. | try be realized:—Cuba will be Spanish or African.’ But we will not become wearisome by speaking |- vo ag an electrio through onr pro) d the slaves will resolve to make ase of it. In Vala they wil told (hat thoy ought to await the fulfilment of the term of their apprenticeship. Who can restrain them? Who can prevent the consequent insubordination? No power To'the wosld. A con- stant strife will ensue, such as was the case in the English Antilles, between the old masters aud the new freemen; all will be disorder aud tumult, which will immedistely he followed by the decline of agricul- tural products, the impoverishment of commerce and induetry, the departure of capitalists, the emigration of tbe whites, which will render more dangerous and frightful the ution of those who remaia iu the island to bebold the horrors of what will then be one vast theatre. And we, the victims of snch a disaster, will we be compensated for the value of our slaves and for our raiced properties? It appears that justice would 89 dictate; but, laying aside the argumeot that this Tucd-ure would not remedy the evil, but would mere- ly be an alleviation of it, 1ask, and with wnat mo- ney are we to be indemnified? Will Euglaad loud vt least millions for the vaiue of the slaves? 1 doubt it. But in case it should be so, will they pay us, or will the money share the sume fate as the four hun- dred thousand pounds sterluwg which the same Eng- lish gave to colepensate the sufferers by the cessation of the trade, and which no sleve suip owuer ever saw? Willi they pay usin peper? It is more prob- able. But wha are the bouds of creditless Spain worth! If she do not pay her foreign creditors, who have the protection and faver of wei governments, bow willsbe pay her own subjects aud the Amerisan cts on Whom she looks down with the most in- solent contempt? Let us rememoer the rich families of the American continent, as well peninsulars as creoles, who lent their movey to sustain there the Castillien flag, how they lived ia a state of beggary and misery, with but vatueless boods in their fingers; then uf they realized at all, it was at a fright{ul deduction, so us to fill toe purses of the en- plexes of the crown. These are tacts which we all kLOW. Suppose that the: us cash and current money, will Ike for the fair value of our slaves? They will be appraised by the government ; and it is already kbown with bow much justice sue will proceed, Let us rememter what happered when Gen. Tacon at tempted the retorm of the plaza del vapor, and the Pasco Militar; valuing for a trifte tho-e houses, which, from their locality ani the rent they produced, were of high value, aud there was no remedy for the own- ers but to suffer and be silent. So,beyond a question, our properties will undergoa considerable fall, fol- lowed by a ruin similar to that which to-day prescuts itself tous in the island of Jamaica, whilst the taxes will remain the same—-and thanks if they do not in- crease. A govertinent without conscienve, without dignity, without restraint, is ca pable of anything. And what will be the remedy forgo many evils ? Let uggunite as brothers; thiak and you will find it; make up your minds, and the storm, which, with gi- gantic step is gathering over our bemisohere, threat- ening to bury us in ovr own ruins, will disappear. There is but one alternative, and alread, the first step taken towards reachivg it. What do I say? There is much progress made. The moral revolation is already accomplished; it only remaias to put it ia action, and to know how to bring it toa quick and happy termination. Several unfortunate but glorious attempts have been made, whish have made us ac- quainted with the mannerin which Kurepeaa soldiers fight below the tropics; and have taught us what are the rocks we ought to shun, and the advantages we ought to improve. Let us decide: what more do we wait for? The geveral opinion of ihe creoles and the islanders, and | of mapy illustrious and prudent peninsulars, annexation to the United States; aad this great and generous people has sympathized, even to enthu- siasm, with our sacred cause, and awaits with open arms to protect and shelter us. Their own govern- | ment has declared in the face of the whole world its interest for Cuba, and that it could not check the | sympethies and aid of that rovereiga people in favor of all the oppressed , who, in whatever quarter, raize the cry of liberty. upon us, has said, ani Saco repeated, “that in no arms can we fall with greater bonor and glory, than in these of the great American Union; that in them we will find peace and consolation, power and pro- tection, justice and literty; and that, leaning upon so solid a basis, we will shortly exhibit to the world the portentous spectacle of a people, who, from the low- est grade of dejection, has, with the velocity of light- ning, raised itself to the highest poin’ of greatness.” In reality, from being the miserable colonists of Spain, we wili be exalted to the citizenship of a na- | tion, wise, virtuous, great and respected; the white | pulation will increase, present wealth will double in value, elavery, modified in treatment, will remain quiet, and the English will not dare trouble us about it. The young American eagle is not the decrepit . Our rich commerce with the ports of the republic will be free, the same as 1s the ccastiog trade; our prcdactions will be seld with facility and at high prices, paying very jow freights to a numerous merchant fleet which will take them to all markets of the world; in exchanging their immense aud cheap products for ours, we sliall have all our wants supplied; we hell regulate for ourselves alone with respect to our ty will be extended PHP TH RA improvement, and sappeee, as New Orleans, the Ficridas, Texes, California, and New Maxico, have progressed under the wisest and most liberal institu- lions of the earth. And how shall we obtain such great blessings? Very easily : will and decision are what is wantiag. Let us place in a fund, to be recovered afterwards with interest, a smell part of ovr harvests, less per- haps than what we spend in fruitless shemefal laxu- ry, ond let us send i} with a committee of known and trustwortby persons to the great republic, and the resources will be sbundantly supplied to us, to facili- tate our giving a sure blow—as is necessary—to the end that the machinations of Spaia and England be frustrated, and that the terrible prediction of Alexis de Tocqueville be not fulfilled :—* The white race appears destined to perish in the Antilles, and the black race on the continent’’—nor that the parrici- dial and sacrilegious proposition of the mother coaa- Barbarous! No; Cuba will be American, powerful and happy, in spite ot her oppressors. Inhabitants of Cuba! awake, awake, while yet the bour is at hand! A little longer it will be too late. A Puanven, REVOLUTIONARY MANIFESTOES IN CUBA, The Slave Trade and the Projected System of Apprenticeship. FILLIBUSTERO PREPARATIONS. &e, &e, se, Tho newepapers which we received from Havano on Saturday, were as devoid of interest and news as they invariably are. It would seem from them that nothing had occurred of late to disturb the serenity of mind of the Spanish officials and the confidence of the peninsalars. We have, however, received copies of fillibustero manifestoes recently circulated in Ha- vana, which would seem to import that the revolu: tion may atany moment break out and annihilate forever the government, and the French, British and Spanish views as to the Africanization of the island. | ‘The following is the translation of the letter cover- ing these documents :—~ TO THE BDITON OF THE NEW YORK HERALD, ( Translation.) Havana, Oct. 15, 1853. Your journal being occupied with lively interest in the affairs of Cuba, I take the liberty of directing your attention to the enclosed mauifestoes tothe peo- ple of Cuba and to the Spanish residents, which have recently appeared here, notwithstanding the watoh- fulnese of the govérnment, who are endeavoring to @acover the origin or source from whence they sprung. The mos} remarkable of them is the onc deted the 10th of Octoder, belag the Saint day of Queen of Spain. It was circulated even in the the palace, where a ball war being givea 2 bt in ber hozor. We ake the following extracte from the mantfes- toes atove referred to, That of the 10th, is addrcesed “The moment of the revoluyjon of Cuba ts precipi tated with inconceivable rapidity, and with a forat- davle magnttnde of power. We Cabans have both things in view, and we avail ourselves of the time that remains tous to manifest publicly, explicitly and categorically, to all the paningalar residents in the ietand, what our relations are—placiag them ba- fore them in t 16 clearest, frankest aod sincerest man- ner—tha! they are not, nor will be, in any way op- poeed to the march of civilization, fureiga to the spi rit of the age, or repugnant to justi ze and good sense, and étill Jess foreign to the dictates of reason, or the rights of the Cubaa people and of hamanity. Ia this view it should be and is understood in the most posi- tive and formal manner, by al the Spaniards resi- dext here, of every class, state and condition, that their persons and goods will be sacred and inviolable ; that we desire liberty for them and for ourselves; that in every sense they will be jadged and considered a8 if they had been born in Cuba; that neither will have any privilege or right from having been born in Ca- ba or in Spain; that we thus declare, in the most authentic manner, that{ our animadversion and hostilities are solely and exclusively directed against the Spanish government, and in no way against the Spaniards, whether re-ident in the d or in the pennisula. i “Spanish Peninenlare—The per'od of the re volution draws nigh, and the government ‘5 = id that Cabs will be rather Atrican thea Cubs in intell'gence of there things, in ng you tab the government of Spain has signe; ie lay for the emancipation of siayes, the suggestion of England, at whow mercy it now stands. You may take whatever part Jon Choose; but we desire that you may bover to may, with truth aud reason, » glares you For what do we wait, since the | virtuous Varelz, who to-day looks down from heaven | fs for | the intolerance, the odiousness, the injustice, the ignorance of the Cubans obliged us to be their ene- mies, to take an active part against them and their cause, forcing us to be the enemies of the liberty, the happiness, the prosperity snd progress of iatelli- gence, of humanity, aud of the people; compellisg us, inetead of enjoying all these gifts of civilization, t» form lakes of blood of us both; precipitating each otber into ignorance, ruin, desolation, poverty, and misery. Spanish Peninsilars—Oor desires rev iuteu- tions are before you, and the revolotion is inevitable. Notbing more rewaius for us to say to you. Havens, Oct. 10, 1853. 3 CUBANOS.” ‘The other document referred to by our correspon- dent is headed if P MANIFESTO TO THE PROPLE OF CUBA. “ Cuba is thresteved with sn immediate catastrophe * * * Spain bus at length yielded to Kv gland the compkte emancipation of slavery iu Ciba. The treaty Las been signed avd sealed in the begiania, of August last; aud a3 soon as the Russ» Carkis! question is ended. we will have on our coasts the British squadron ¢f the Dardanelles, which, with its | eighteen Lundred months of bronze, will come to teach us ttis truth, and at the sume time to aid in the fuifilmest of the abolitionist law afver its promul- ation. Who will resist such expreemirelguager Phere ave any among ve who, by means of ther hallucination, imogive thet they ree in everything and for everything the protection of the United States, which resists European iutervevtion ia A ner- ican offuirs, aud m the interest which the Southern States have 10 preserve slavery in Cuda; and others, full of candor and innocence, canuot coaseive that the mo'ber country ever onters into pacts of such a nature,” The manifesto goes on to state that the American public, though anxious to protect them, could not lect her ships of war in time to compete with the raval powers of Great Britain, and tvat the only hope for Cuba lies in revolution. 1s concludes :— “To-day is the anchor of our salvation ; let one cry reround on all sides—the cry of liberty! ~and' let over the ruins of this despotic and tyrannical govera- ment another republic arise, which will fix ouce and frsever the security of property. Compatriots, avan- don the illusions wbich cheat you with blindsess ; listen not to those who are pledged to your misfortune and ruin; there is no time to be lost; the haud of time shows the term of events, which is advancing with terrible rapidity. Our ivaction will be our dent. Havana, Oct. 3, Los Parrtoras.” The following letter is from one of our Cuban cor- espondents :— re col Havana, Ost. 15, 1853. The Proposed Apprenticeship System, §'c. A steamer comes upon us without any advices and leaves without giving us opportunity of di- gesting the much that is exz0sed upon the surface of our present social condition. 1 have ascertained very extensive preparations of slevers in all parts of the island, for the purpose cf bringing negroes, beyond all’ previcus estimate or calculation, and I am satisfied, from my observation, that the beautiful policy of England is to be adopted as a matter of self defence, and that England and France, with their combined flects, are to protect ! “Cuban integrity” and Cuban negroes. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet;” and so in fragrance, hefure high heaven, Cuban apprentice- ship will be a2 offensive as Caban slavery, if not more 80. Let thse who doub: look at the miserable emancipados, and count the fragments that have heen found alive to enjoy the benefits of the freedom guaranteed by the treaty, and they will be conviaced asto the future, uader the modified slavery pro- posed, which is to be under the control of Spanish faith and Spavish honor. This will be destructive to the present property holders of Cuba; it will be th:owing thousands into | the bonds ofservituce and chaics where there is now one human beirg. Itis intended as a blow at the institutions of tie United States. It has been co- vertly in agitation for thirteen years, and it will very, speeaily beceme a fixed part of British policy, unless there is an armed chjection sufficient to pre- vent it. Let the question of the East have a mo- ment’s repose, and we shall have the Frouch and British fleets here, not to enforce the present treaty, oy to suppress illicit treflic, but to sustain the secret convention to legalize slavery under a new name. The slavers now abroad will doa good business apy way; they ge out to return with either slave or Spprenice cargoes, a8 may suit the politcial finding when they come off the.coast. How this question is to touch the interests of the United States they must look to. The Southern planters will feel the consequences very soon, and may thank a very learned gentleman of the South- west, who legisiates for farm and sixty negroes, ior a good portion of the sentiment which has been evolved in tals qanestion, = cause ts subject Ge inl furrnmable heasieg and to meet i Sritish hilanthropy. Coolies are valued ie yf be i) each. Negro apprentices wilt be worth $200; for who will measure and protect the period cf their aes i ‘ icd save the poor negro from Exglish benevolence combined with Spanish cliristiantzstion, The sudden departure will not permit me to add more, but I put aboard files of papers, which will give you the permitted news and orders not to speak, not to think, the things that pertain to brains of ixfinity, and have no existence in the land of “our encinies,”’ which is the court language for the people and the government of the United States, sanctioned by the censor of the public press, anthor- ized by tho Political Secretary and approved, per- sonally and officially, by General Canedo. As ever, I remain your faithfal Opsernven, Onyx Ohio Correspondence. Co.umsvs, Ohio, Oct. 20, \< The “Martha Washington” Trials—Great Excite- ment—Two Hundred Lawyers and Four Hun- dred Witnesses—Constitutional Questions—Gov- ernment Jurisdiction in the States and on ihe Ri- vers—The Railvoads—Long Trains—Inmense Station House, §c., §c. T arrived in this city last evening, attracted by the trials progressing in the notorious “Martha Wash- ington" case. It was alleged that the captain, clerk | and several others, conspired, early in 1852, to burn the Martha Washington, for the purpose of defraud- ing the underwriters, who had insured suppositious shipments of goods. The parties were arrested and brought before the United States District Court Inst year, which is now having the second investiga- tion, Judge McLean presiding. The case is far more exciting than any other of the kind ever brought before an American court. Many of the parties were mon of fair, and even high stand- | ing before the community, some of them beiag ea- gaged in extensive and profitable business. All the persons indicted have appeared on their bail, except | Jobn G. Nicholson, whoabsconded. The city is fallof lawyers and witnesses. There are ot least two hundred lawyers in attendance, merely for the purpose of wit- nessing the investigation. There are avout four hun- dred witnesses in all. Everyoody at ell familiar, by acquaintance, association or business, with the par- ties, has been subpernaed, the government having de- termined to push the proseention with vigor ia every eink. “ Hon. Henry Stanbury, late Atiorney-General of Ohio, is employed by the government for tue pro- secution, and tre derence embraces Jadge Walker, bad Cincinnati, Hon. Thomas Ewing and several others. The defence made yesterday 2 motion, which will to-day, to quash the indictment for want ion in a United States Court, The in- Q der an act of Congress in 26, Ce mof underwriters on the high reas. ce claims that to extend this statute over tho rivers and interior navigation of the United oilt be meons:itational, as it would clearly infring the rights ot the States, to which alone the rivers belong. I did not hear the argument, ond do not, consequently, exactly know the polnts; but from all that Ieoald gather from Judge McLean and the T have uo idea that the defence will be able ty quash. The examination will oceupy several weeks. I took a plance at the great new erecting. Itisan immenge by than the Cspitol in Washington, bat by no means so comely in its ge neral appearance, Itis simply a vast pile of fine Dine cliff limestone, in the massive Gree clen style, wth small wiadows, or rather, elmoat ort-holea, the whole structure beiag at least twenty feet too low for effect. 1t has no portisos, but simpy pays on each of the four ides, filled by several jarge and perfectly plain and short columns. Tt cannot cost less than $2,200,000, bat 13 arclitecta- raliy a failure. The railroads in this State, especially those accommodating the throrgh Southern and Western travel, are carrying an unusnally large pumber ee Dercatere There are three daily traias from Cleveland to Cincinnati, come of them haying at times as high as fourteen to sixteen cars. Yet, with the great rach of business, these roads have no accidents, On the road from Cinctanati, but three persons have been killed in nine years, while the Cleveland rood from the east bas had no accidents, This shows that theee roads must be very ably managed. Short roads are branching from aud crossing them in all directions, At Clevoland, the Cincinnati, Pit(eburg and Lake roads have all Shore bined and built the depot in tho United States, bait the ee 00 wide. Paasen, take the cars at Erie, om, yntil they arrive in 0! GS State hoase now ng, larger in area izcinnatl, Pa., ond never “yacter, Protecting Reporters for the Pross. cyt New York Sunday Atlas. The New Your Heap of Saturday did one good thing; and for that, ib ought to ave oredi It seems that, the other day, the bar and bench of the Supreme Court, to the total neglect of the publio ipterest and the legal righta of ap , went into a my of Ge late Mr. Justi who died two months and been the benob these last five ge ai ae ‘e Awong others who lionized themselves whilst they rated o! the dead lion, was Mr. Hiram Ketchum, lawyer who is somewhat known to the world asa man of talent and reputation. The what he said was reported -by one of the gestiemen attached to the Hexatp, and who, in discharging his duty, was as brief as possible. Ne Ketcham the report, and at once de- nounced it because it did not give his entire re marks. All that the Hera.p repurted of the speech of Mr. Ketchum, was embraced iu the followiag paragraph: Biram Ketohum next took the floor, and made a@ I speech. He spoke particularly of the admiration he (ketchum) felt for Danel Weoster, and seemed to think that the greatest act of Judge Joues’ life was his Marshdeld to attend the funeral of the great staton He dwelt particula:ly upon the pecuniary viroumstances of Judge Jones, and thought it fortunate that ho was poor. Faron Humboidt and Rothschild also formed ® principal to oic in Mr, Ketehum’a speech, ‘The foregoing was uot enough to satis'y Mr. Ketoh- um; snd, 10 his wrath, he addressed 4 note to the editor of the Hirasp, enclorivg a speech of two 0% fumes, which he informed that genilemin he muss ublish, or he would prosecute him for libel! A abel, indeed ! ‘The Henasp of yesterday published Mr. Ketchum’s note, and in reply to it, informed that gentleman that his speech would not be pubMShed, snd that ois threat of prose: ution for libel was cast back in his teeth with coutempt. The reporter for the HuxaLp was at the same time protected and justly lauded fur his ability. We do rot personally know Mr. Hiram Ketonum. He is, however, well knowa to the otcy; sad, from the report of others, we had learaed to esteem hia a wan of sound sense, discrimination, and unquestiona- bie legal ability. Indeed, we had learned to eatertain for bun an habitual respect. Sorry are we to say thas he has enacted, iv our opivion, a very silly partin this matter with the Hasap. He has betrayed an ar of arrogance, ® domiceeriug spirit, and a kind of supercilliousness which we are glad to ficd rebuked. We were many years reporter of the proceedings of the American Congress,and had infinite experienve in the difficulties aud vexations connected with the reporter's art. Every reporter finds it not only his duty, but his interest, to report accurately. is re- putation, and his ‘bread and butter’ depend on his success and bis character fer accuracy, And yet, how often are they lied down, and put im fault, by some unprinci pled and aspiring demagogues? And how? By the cowardice, insincerity, and paltriness of their cnc lovers: On the 3d of March, 1839, Daniel Webster made a speech in the Senate, at atime whea he was so excited that “he could not see a hole through a lad; der.” Its absurdity and tol y secured for it uaiversal ridicule and reprobation. 1t was reported by at least fifty reporters; and there was not a word of disore- pency among them. Mr. Webster found that the speech would daran bim, and be went to work to He it out of existence. He devied that ho uttered the language ascribed to him; and, finaily made the world belicvo, though fifty Senators avd at least two thovsasd spectators had lis‘ened to him, and bore witness to the accuracy of the reporters, that he had been falsely reported." We never knew but two pub- lichers in Wasbington who protected theic reporters —Gales avd Seaton, and Duff Green. When satisiled of the ability and integrity of their reporters, they suffered no member of Congress to lie them dowa. The Jate Ichabod Bartlett, Bsq., of Ports mouth, New Hompshire. ‘We gave» biographical sketch of this distinguished lawyer and statesman in the Haranp of yesterday. ‘The astern papers, since received, fart a few additional porticulers. Resreors To Hk Lave Mn. Barrierr.—At @ meeting of the Rockingham bar, at Portsmouta, on Wednesday, John Porter, reat president ot the bar, announced the death of the Hon. Ichabod Bartlett, and made some appropriate remarks in respect to hia character, and the Pues stations he had held. On motion of William Claggott, Esq , & committe, consisting of D. M. Obristie, G. Marston, end A. Ww. Haven, is., was appointed to draft resolutions on the occasion, and make such arrangements as may be deemed proper, and the President of the bar was requested to announce the event to the court. fhe Boston Chronicle says:—He has been an in- valid for several years. Mr. B. was gradua'e of Dartmouth College, in the class of 1811, and after the usual preparatory course, commenced the practice of the law—the coteraporary at the bar of Webster. Ma- son, Smith, Bell, and other ornaments of the profea- sion. He gossessca 9 remarkably strong and acute intellect, and asa pleader had few superiors, if in- éced he had ene. en Spee of dap Legistat é during times of hig! y excitement, a3 @ re) tativein Congress, and a member of the late Consti- tutional Convention in New Hampshire, he was al- wuyn the ready and able debater—using our language in bis extemporaneous efforts with a precision aud Leauty which have already excited the admiration of his listeners. No msn could be more sarcastic when occasion seemid to require it, as several of his speech- es in Congress testify; but still few public men could be mentioned who have presented in themselves a finer specimen of pclished demeanor and cout in debate than Mr. Bartleti. He was a strong personal triend of Mr. Webster, and it may be added a warm advocate of that statesman’s position during the lat- ter period of his life. Quite a number of Mr. Bart- lett’s speeches aad occasional addresses are ia print, and it is to be huped that some competent pet will give the publio a fitting meinorial of his life and ser- vices. The Portsmouth, (N. H.,) Gazette, a demooratio paper, hae the following notice of Mr. Bartlett: ~ The decease of this distinguished man, at his rooms in the Rockingham I use, on Tuesday mora- ing last, has cast a profound sensation of sadness over the commanity. For many years no person mong us has commanded more universal respact and admiration. The later years of his life were clouded by, failing health, which caused him to re- tire trom active labor, though it was only after revere struggles that his high and proud spirit ielded to the approach of disease and dissolation. ‘et all who have arrived at middie age remember him, the head of the bar, the idot of party, and the leader of the people, where party pol.tics were laid aside. They remember his eloquesce, unequalled among his contemporaries in the courts, his lesrniag everywhere respected, his sparkling wit, his gene- rons liberal heart. During his whole professional career the desire to secure his services in diffloalty and danger was universal, yet the poor found in him always a cendy advocate and most reliable counsel- lor, Agaiost fraud and injus:ice bis indignation was as quick as the ligirtning, and its stroke was ag termible. No man ever lived whose integrity was more _per- fect and unimpeachable. The nicest sense of per- sonal honor marked his whole life, attended hin at the bar, and was conspicuons even ia the heat of po- litical controversey. With the party to whom he was unfortunately allied for the last twenty years of his active life, he would have been more popular had he been less ingependent ahd more ready to tolerate the tortuous echemes of managing politicians. We say that he was unfortunately allied to the whig party, not because we meon bere to cast any re- proach upon the party, but becanse bis heart and hia sympathies were egg aud really with the de- mocracy. Too severe in his ideas of consistency and honcr? ever to abandon th political friends with whom he found himself united in 1528, there xu for many years a vivid feeling among the ma the democratic party through out the State that he was a man whom they would gladly welcoxe to their ranks, and whom they would delight to hbenor. Had his pride and weet, of personal preferment permitted him to pass into the ranks df the majority, he must have filled most important places in the State and the nation. His Congres- sional carcer is still spoken of with admiration ; : nd his fearless encounter with Henry Clay, when it the beight of his almost dictatorial power in the House of Representatives, will not be forgotten so long as New Hampshire is proud of her soos, Within the last two years Colonel Bartlett, asa mem her of our State Legislature, receiving the rospsct which was justly due to his long services, his patri- otism, and his high character, commanded an jafla- ence which was by no means limited to his own party; he might for most purposes be woll said to fave been the leader of the House. We speak thus freely of Mr, Bartlett, because his character may now be regarded as belonging to the history of the State, in which record his career must oscupy an important place. We cannot forget that we differed from him In principles, but wo see in that faet no reason why we should withhold the praise Which is due to his eminent abilities and exalted cha- In him this city has jost one of its moat yalued and bighly respected citizens, and the State one of its brightest ornaments, A little more than two ycara ago the State was called to mourn the decease of her most distiagaish- ed statesman and jurist—more recent have we been ofilicted by the sudden death of one of the most promising of her younger lawyers aud politi- cians—and now our hearts follow to the tomb her eloquent and upright advocate, When all the brightest #tara that barn aro benished from their spheros, i oak, when shail retire Such listeo to the coming years? The duel lately in contemplation between F. M. Rogera, the whig candidate for Governor of Mivsinippi, and Judge Ghokkon, haa been prevented by the intervention of friends, and tho difficulty between the partios sattslac~ torily adjusted. ’ A serioua collision between & wenger and freight train. om the Baltimore and Ohio ralitowt occurred on the “vth inst. near Hancock, Cormberland county, Vs. Some Gozen of the ngere were Keriadaly injured, but newe killed outright, (hough it yas fzared aoveral would die eg he iw jun,