The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-07-30


- by The ARRIVAL yesterday of the schooner Pauline Capt
townsend. from Neuvtas the nth instant letters were
received from Cuban reyouonsls in Puerto Principe 10
lheif friends IN This city, giving some interesting partc
uafS OF The recent outbreak which have been furnished
% US by some Cuban gentlemen of respeelabiliy who
have also supplied with copy OF re declaration of
independence Issued BY the people Of Principe !
he oio'si accouol instruction at Puerto prn.
S-r, heretofore pubished related only 10 small Skin
pish on the 81 Of July. in which JOAQUIN de Aguero
Sanchez was taken prisoner, and few arms were cap
tured by The Spanish troops The negs By thls arrival
Is up to the l4h OF July from Puerto Principe, being
day later than the last accounts.
The pTonunciamento for Independence made on
the 4th OF July which day the first real Battle for lib
uoops previously 10 make prisoners Of any
oluIonisls came up with the guerilla party OF JOAQUIN
Agnero Aguero al the foot of The Cascarro mouutaus
and about four five miles from the village OF that
name The Cubans numbered 200 men and The Span.
ards 300 men, consisting OF 100 lancers and 200 iltsn
Try Alter a sharp engagement the SPanards Ned. eay-
ing their captain and twenty others killed. together with
eighteen wounded The CubaDs had only two or three
wounded, and killed The Spanish soldiers after
the action, went over 10 the Cuban side This battle in
spred very great confidence among the people, and i'm
mediaely the numbers OF the insurgents increased rap
Idly Al The last accounts they known 10 number
1000 men and more These were divided up into five
guerilla parties, OF 200 men each, under the command OF
Joaquin Aguero Aguero, Francisco Aguefo Estrada.
and Ubaldo Antonio Pima. These parties stationed
in the songholds in the vicinity of Cascao and prDc
PEI drilling and augmenling their numbers
After the battle of the 4h the Spanish troops hurried
back to Principe seventeen leagues from Cascarro When
the of the defeat reached Principe there great
excitement among the people, and nothing but the large
number of soldiers prevented general rising and
OF The troops The garrison is four thousand
strong, and notwithstanding this large NUMBER General
Lemery did net dare to withdraw single man 10 90 out
pursuit OF the Cubans for fear OF rising but awaited
the arrival Of reinorcements from Havana, whence he
had sent for two thousand men. 1.-THE last news from
Havana stated that these troops had sailed for Principe,
distant four hundred and fifty miles Thus while Gene
raj Lemery was confined at Principe, the Cubans were
gathering numbers and strength
AT the last accounts from Principe, OF the Cubans
had left the place 10 Join the gueras From the town
OF Bayama, a party OF two hundred men had gone mp
from Villa Clara one hundred; and numbers from Neu.
vas and all lbe towns in the vicinity of Principe As
fast the spread the people sent off parties III
mountains, SO that the number Of the insurgents will
have become very formidable before the Spanish troops
can De brought against them The Cubans however are
poorly armed, and labor under many advantages
| Aguero Sanchez was confined in prison at Principe
ne Is the son OF one Of the most influential in the
place. II is supposed he will be shot
The following is the pronuucanieno referred to-
Declaration OF deps ndsnos.
TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA
Manifest and Proclamation Of their Independence by Mt
L,beratiyg Society Of Puerto Printips-[La Sociedad
| July 4tb 1851
Human evots against the idea that the socia
and political condition OF people be lndetnel y
prolonged IN which man, stripped OF all rights and guar
antees with no security OF person or propery-no en-.
Ioyment IN the present, hope In the utureves only
by the will and under the conditions imposed by ihI
pleasure OF his tyranis where vile caiumny, prls
oner's denunciaon despots suspicion, word caugh
up by surprise IN The sanctuary OF home or from The ylo
lated privacy OF letter, furnishes ample grounds to
tearing man from his HEARTH and casting him forth tc
die oil desiiiuton despair foreign soil, IL he
capes being subjected TO the insulting iorms OF barba
arbitrary tribunal, where his prosecutors them
selves the judges who condemn him, and where instead
OF their proving his offence, he required to prove hi:
innocence.
situation SO violent as this Cuba has now been lo
many years enduring; and far from any promise OF rem
edy appearing, every day adds proof that the policy
OF the mother coantry and the ierocity OF her ruler:
Will grant neither truce till she reduced 10 the
condition OF an immense prison, where every Cuban will
be watched by guard, and will have TO pay that guard
for watching him. In vain have this people exhibited
mldness, prudence, and submission aud loyalty
which have been proverbia when the lniquity oil the
government, has not been able find any os,ensible
grounds for persecution, IT has had 10 cowardy
and 10 tempt It's victims into olence.
Thus various individuals OF Malanzas enifapped
INTO an ambuscade OF the sodery by tie petex OF SELL
ing them some arms under circumstances which made
them believe those necessary for sefdeence against
threatened attacks from the Pennsulars, naives OF
Span or sold Spaniards, thus designated dis,in.
guishet from the Creoes native Cubans Thus have
sergeants and officers, been 10 nnge among
the country people, and pass themselves oil enemies OF
the government for the purpose OF bersyng them into
avowas OF their sentiments TO the ruin OF many persons
informed agans-o the disgrace Of military honor on
the part OF those who len, themselves 10 80 vianous
service.
If the sons of Cuba, moved by the dread of greater
evils have ever determined TO employ legitimate means
OF imposing law some restraint upon the
brdled OF their rulers these latter have Away
found the way disio such acts into attempts at rebel
lion.
For having dared TO give utterance to principles and
opinions which other nations constitute the ounda-
ton Of their moral progress and glory, the Cubans most
distinguished for their virtues and talents have found
themselves wanderers and exies. For the offence OF
having exhibited their opposition TO the unlawful and
perous slave trade, from which the ayarice OF General
0Donne promised itself rich harvest OF lucre the
latter sa,iaed his resentment with the monstrous
geance OF involving them charge OF conspiracy with
the free colored people and the slaves OF the estates
endeavoring the last outrage that any immoral gov.
eminent could offer to law, TO reason, or 10 nature, 10
prove the object OF that conspiracy IN which they i'm.
plcaIed whites OF the most eminent virtue, knowledge,
and patriotism, 10 have been other than " the de-
strucllon OF their race" All the laws OF sociey
and nature tramped uner foot, all and condi-
tons confounded together the island of Cuba present.
ed TO the civilized world a spectacle worthy of the
rejocings Of hell. The wrelcbed slaves saw their
flesh torn from them under the lash, and bespat,ered
with blood the faces OF their eXecutoners, who did
not eyactng from their toruTers denunclatlons
against their accompces Others shot in plaloons
without form Of trial, and without even coming 10 under
stand the petext under which they massacred The
free colored people after having been first aceraed by
the LASH then hurried to the sca1od, and those only
escaped with life who had gold enough 10 appease the
fury of their executoners. And, nevertheless when
the government or its followers have come to fear some.
thing oil the Cubans the FIRST threat has been that OF
ing the colored people against them for their exermna-
ton We abstain, from very shame, from repeating the
senseess petences 10 which they bad terrfy
the tmid Wretches how have they been able to i'm.
agne that the victims OF their fury with whom the whites
OF Cuba have shared in common the horrors of misery
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