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Show I A POWER THAT HAS IIKLPEI)! SPAIN IX CI' II A. There are Ii;r.i:e shippin-j, importing ! undsuear refining interests at Port-j land, Boston, New York, Pultiniore. and probably New Orleans, which have , for years been larirK owners of Cuban j and Porto llico plantation? and slave1 property. Much of this is indirect by lease and morigatro. It is probable that some of those interested are known as Republicans, and have themselves them-selves favored emancipation by our own South. The ?e interests have been skillfully used here. They are American, Ameri-can, and have been able iu a variety of ways to reach Mr. Fish. They were : Spanish enough, on the pocket side, to suit Senor Roberts' view, and their; money has boon freely spent to aid his ! policy. It is out of i lie pockets of these American slaveholders that ?uch inducements as au cx-congressman, who resigned to escape a 'charge of peddling cadetsbips, was paid to work up the Cuban boud case, which general Butler handled and failed to make anything of. L wa their bank accounts ac-counts from which the funds retaining an ex-consul-general were drawn. A congressional investigation, could it be fairly managed, might unearth some curious things. Evening Mail. |