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humboldt's cijba. 



seems to be hopeless. Efforts have been made to 

 stimulate once more her industry, to raise her crushed 

 proprietary, and to give them once again opportunity 

 and hope. So far those efforts have not been success- 

 ful. In the recent advices we can perceive no 

 symptoms of amendment ; on the contrary, the 

 downward tendency of affairs continues, as if for the 

 unhappy Jamaicans there is a " lower deep" yet 

 yawning, which " threatening, opens to devour," and 

 from whose frightful vortex there seems to be no hope 

 of escape." 



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" Although the ruin of Jamaica has been more 

 rapid and irresistible than any of the other islands, 

 desolation rests upon the entire Archipelago, and 

 sooner or later will involve them all." 



This present desolation of the British Antilles is 

 the dark future which the inhabitants of Cuba are 

 called upon to avert from themselves, and from 

 their children, and which has impelled them to de- 

 clare to the Spanish government, that the attempt 

 to introduce there the social theories of European 

 philanthropy must produce a bloody revolution, for 

 no white man will be disposed to submit to so hard 

 a fate. This revolution may soon degenerate to a 

 war of races in Cuba, as Spain has declared her 



