Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-08-01

while Gen. Lemery Principe, Cubans gath
advces by the Cherokee that troops had sailed from
Havana for Principe, which is $50 miles distant
At the last accounts from Principe many of the Cuhans
had left the place to join the gueras From the of
Bayamo party of 200 had gone ups from Villa Cara
100 and numbers from Neuvita ali the vicinity of Pn
the mountains, that the numbers of the insurgents will
have become formidable before the Spanish troops
be against them but the Cubans poorly armed
and labor under many disadvantages.
Aguero Sanches was confined in prison at Principe He
the of Of the most influential men in the place 1t
is supposed he will be shot.
Annexed is the declaration of Independence which
printed in the mountains:
To the Inhabitants of the Island of Cuba.
Manisto and Procanat,On Of their 1depend"ce by the
k5erating Society Of Puerto Pr1"ctpe LA sOeiadad
Human revolts against the idea that the social
political condition of people be indefinitely proor
in which ansrpped of all rights and guarantees with
security of persons property enjoyment in the present.
conditions imposed by the pleasure of his yrants where
vile caumny, prisoners denunciaton depots suspicion
word caught by surprise in the sanctuary of home,
from the violated privacy letter. furnishes ample grounds
for tearing from his hearth and casting him forth
ing subjected the insulting forms Of barbarous
bitrary tribunal where his prosecutors themselves the
judges who condemn him. and where prov
ing his offence he is required prove innocence
! situation violent this, Cuba has been for many
years enduring and far from any promise remedy appear
ing every day adds proof that the policy mother
country, and the erocy of her rulers will grant
till she is reduced the condition of an i'm
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 mildness prudence
and submission and loyalty which have proven
bal
When the inquy of the government been able to
find ostensibe grounds for persecution it has had
to cowardy arts and to tempt its victims into
offence Thus various individuals of Matanzas
enrapped into ambuscade the sodery by the preext
of selling them arms under which
them believe those arms were necessary for sefdeenee,
against threatened attacks from the Peninsulas Thus
have sergeants and officers been mnge among
the country people and pass themselves off as enemies of
he hatra into
avowa of their sentiments to the ruin of many
the part of those who have lent themselves villain
Gus service.
If the of Cuba, moved by the dread greater evils
have determined to employ Legitimate of mpos
ing law restraint, upon the unbrded
of their rulers these latter have always found the way
distort such acts into attempts at rebellion
For having dared to give utteranee ia principles and opn
ions which, to other nations constitute the foundation
ed for their virtues and talents have
derer and exes For the offence having exhibited their
H ayae of Gne
rich harvest of ucre the latter satated his
of conspiracy with the free coored people
eates endeavoring the last outrage that immor-
al government could offer to law to reason nature
the object of that conspiracy in which they implicated
of the most eminent virtue knowledge and patriot
to have been other than the destruction Of their
All the laws of society and nature rampledund
and conditions togeher-the island of Gu
ba then presented to the civilized world spectacle worthy
torn from them under the lash and bespaered with blood
faces of their executones not cease exacting
from their tortures denuncatons against aecompees 9th
shot in patoons without form of trial. without
coming to understand the petext under which they
The free coored people, after having been first acerated
by the LASH then hurried to the caod only
their executoner And nevertheless when the
meDt its followers has fear rising of the
Cubans threat has been that of aming the color
ed people against them for their exterminatiop We alb
shame from repeating the snsess petences
to which they have had recourse terry the timid
WretcheS!
victims of their fury, with whom the whites
shared in the horrors of misery and persecution
will turn against their friends the call of the very
yant who has torn them in pieees If the free colored
ple who know their interest well the whites take any
part the movement of Cuba, it certainly win
injury of the mother who shelters them BOSOM
those other OF hers who have made them feel the
difference of their and condition. and who far from
punderng them hi have taken pride in being their defenders
The world would refuse to believe the history of the ho
crimes which have been Respstated Cuba and would
it, it is nconeeivabe that there could long
to endure them But there few able penetrate
to the truth of particular facts through all the
by the to obscure and dstor them,
Publicly ard with arms in bis hands did Gen Taeon des
poll Cuba of the Constitution of SPAIN proclaimed by
the the monarchy and sent to be to in Gu
p ba. as the fundamental law of the whole kingdom.
Publicly and by Legislative act was Cuba declared to b
by nature and the laws of nations the least advanced
5. in civilization
granted the Captain Generals of Cuba, who refuse
10 these whom they condemn right of trial. and tn
Puc and permanent in the Island of Cuba those
martial which the laws permit only extraordinary
R. war, for offences against the State.
Publicly has the Spanish hurled against Cuba tn
oconvertng the Island into ruin and beratn
slaves and Enchanting against her the hordes barba
rian Africans.
Public the ipeduents and difficulties imposed upo
every individual restrain him from moving place
place. and from exercising any branch of ndustry-no on
being safe from and ne deficiency of au
- thorty or license, at every step he take.
Public the which have wasted away the sub
stance of the Island and the projects whic
threaten to abolish ali the products Gifts ches-nohing
ing left for its people but the tolls to produce them.
Pablo the petty exactions and punderngs
turn inflicted in the unblushing manner in addition
to the general imposition by the suslen mandarin
D thority in their respective localities.
Finally. te government has publicly and officially decar
edand the journals in its pay have labored sustain
declaration with foul commentaryssthat the inhabitant
of Cuba have organ right of action pur
of directing humble prayer to the feet of the
reign The fact that the corporation of Puerto Principe
the authorization of the Governor who presided ore
it. addressed to the Queen memorial to the effect that th
royal court (audencel shall not be suppressed that rc
rise to the removal of the members o. the corporation
from Office and to the unhearof arbtrariness of that
earaon which to increase the outrage added that th
not bound in its proceedings consult
o opinions and interest of the country.
OGtragcs great and frequent. and
strong suffice not merely to justify, but to sanc in tn
of the whole world