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Who is to do it The colored race will cry

aloud if Spain conquers the whole island of

Hayti, as she is bound to‘do, and she will not

be. likely to recognize any free negroes

among her subjects so acquired.

[From the N. T. Times—Editorial.]

It is beyond question that the policy of

Spain, if she is permitted to perfect her pres

ent Intention, will undoubtedly be, first to in

troduce theapprentice system, between which

and perpetual servitude what little distinction

exists can easily be withdrawn, and eventually

to subdue the neighboring Republic of Hayti,

and transport its citizens to the sugar planta

tions of Cuba.

Tbe propagandise! of Slavery is engrafted

upon the colonizing policy of Spain, and with

all the force of a new birth—a regeneration as

a Power upon earth—she is determined to en

force It. Are we already so dead to the grand

principle of human liberty, so lost to a sense

of our own nationality, so absorbed in inter

necine feuds, as quietly to permit this foul

usurpation over the rights of freemen—and

that, too, within a cable’s length of our own

shore

Spain, even haughty and proud as she feels

of her new-born power, would not dare to take

such a step, did shenot realize that her true

strength lies lu the weakness and distractions

of our own councils. Oar dissensions have

been welcomed by her as. offering precisely

the opportunity she desires for resuming her

position as a. Power on the Western Conti

nent, One of the leading Madrid journals, a

few days since, thus noticed our secession

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Chicago daily tribune. (1861). Chicago, Ill., 1861-04-03. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84031490/1861-04-03/ed-1/?sp=2

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Chicago daily tribune, 1861-04-03.