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reliance upon the blacks, and other European powers 

 have instigated and sustained her in this declaration. 

 Such a war would arouse the sympathies of the 

 people of the United States in favor of the whites in 

 Cuba, to a pitch of popuiar excitement that has 

 never been witnessed, and no laws of neutrality or 

 considerations of policy, could prevent their imme- 

 diate and direct interference and assistance. The 

 result would be the utter annihilation of the black 

 race in Cuba, which might lead to a war of exter- 

 mination against them in all the larger Antilles. 

 "Who can contemplate such a result without shud- 

 dering ? What philanthropy can advocate a policy 

 which must attain such terrible results ! 



]STo public indications at present exist of a dispo- 

 sition on the part of the powers of western Europe, 

 to abandon their attempts to extend over Cuba, the 

 theories which have ruined Jamaica and her sister 

 colonies. Rather do they urge Spain to establish 

 them as the surest means of preventing the advance 

 of the American confederacy in that direction. 

 Thus is the social ruin of a neighboring island, one 

 of the contingents in the conflict between the Amer. 

 ican and European policies, between republicanism 

 and monarchism ; and in the natural course of events 

 Cuba may yet become the Crimea, and Havana the 

 Sebastopol, of the New World. 



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