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humboldt's cuba. 



intoxication, profligacy, are hovering, like birds of 

 prey, over your schools and chapels, threatening 

 them with destruction." 



Such was the contrast presented to the people of 

 Cuba, between the social condition of the inhabitants 

 of Jamaica and their own, when the new captain- 

 general, the Marquis de Pezuela, arrived at Havana, 

 prepared to carry out the measures which had been 

 pronounced satisfactory by the government of Great 

 Britain. Heedless of the disasters which the enforce- 

 ment of its vicious and mistaken theories had pro- 

 duced in its own colonies, that government had pros- 

 ecuted its aims with undiminished energy, as we 

 have shown in our remarks on the political relations 

 of Cuba, and Spain had given a reluctant consent to 

 introduce into the legislation of her colony, measures 

 which had been abhorrent to her, and which endan- 

 gered not only the connection of Cuba with the 

 crown, but also its social and political existence. A 

 slight effort was made to cover the true tendencies 

 of the new measures, by the manner of their intro- 

 duction ; in the words of Lord Ashton to Senor Fer- 



1 "The Jamaica movement for enforcing the slave-trade treaties 

 &c. Prepared at the request of the Kingston Committee. Printed 

 for gratuitous distribution. Charles Gilpin, London, 1852."-— Page 

 7 0, et seq. 



