SLAVERY. 



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dition of physical well-being, and that a decrease 

 denotes a condition of physical suffering, the situa- 

 tion of the negro in Cuba must be vastly superior 

 to that of his own race in the free islands. That 

 his moral condition exhibits the same result we be- 

 lieve will be admitted by every impartial traveller 

 in the two countries. 



Another element has been introduced in the popu- 

 lation of Cuba, by the importation of several thou- 

 sands of Chinese, who are contracted to labor on the 

 sugar estates for a period of years, at prices far 

 below the usual value of labor in the island. The 

 class of persons contracted with is usually the 

 lowest of the low in the crowded sea-ports of China. 

 No females are brought, and they are thus forced to 

 amalgamate with the slave population, to whom they 

 bring neither honest principles nor good morals. No 

 one who for a moment contemplates the inevitable 

 consequences of this resort of English philanthropy 

 to remedy its social errors, can doubt its results ; 

 the amalgamation of unequal and dissonant races of 

 men in their most degraded condition, can only be 

 productive of the greatest moral and social evils to 

 the community upon which it is forced.] 



