North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-02
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The Peninsulars (natlves of SPAIN perhaps, who
have come TO Cuba TO marry daughters who have
here their children their affections and their property
will they disregard the laws of nature to range them
selves on the side of government which Expresses
them as it Expresses us, and which VIII neher nam
them for the service be abe with all their help
to prevent the triumph of the independence OF Cuod
Are they intimately bound up with le a
pness and interest of Cuba as those blood nae - f
her soil, who will never be able to deny me iati
their fathers, and who, in rising up to-day agals. me
despotism of the government, woulu Mls . W f ,ha
upon their co-operation as the best guaranty OF lee
social organization, anu 'ie s'o'S r.
the Justice of their cause .,r e.
Hove.1bev moi fought in the Pennsular itself, Tor
their national independence for the sIPPoIt Oh 'he
same principles for which we' the sons OF Ou0d pro
cIn, and Which, being the same for men in all coun-
tries cannot be admitted in and rejected in anoth
er without doing treason to nature ana 10 'he '9' Vi
reason from which they spring
, No not cannot be that they should carry sub
issveness to the point of preferring their own rum
and The SHILLING of the blood of their and BROTH
ers to the triumph of the hottest cause ever embraced
nv mana cause which aims to promote their own
happiness, and to protect their rights and properties
The Peninsu}ars who adorn and enrich our SOIL, ana
to whom the title of labor gives as high right as
our its preservation. know very well that the
sons of Cuba regard them with personal affection
have never failed recognize the interest and reclp
roca wants which unite the two-nor have ever held
them responsible for the perverseness of the few and
for the iniqutes of government whose internal pol
icy alone has labored separate them, on the yrants
familiar maxim-to divide and conquer.
We, who proceed in good faith, and with the no.
BILE ambition of earning the applause of the world for
inc Justice of acs-we surely cannot aim at the
destruction of brothers, at the usurpatlon OF
their properties and far from nerllng that vic CAL
umny which the government Will endeavor to fasten
upon US, do hesitate to in the sight of
God and OF man, that nothing would better accord
with the wishes Of our hearts, with the glory and
happiness of our country than the cooperation OF the
Peninsulars in the sacred work of liberation. United
with them, could realize that idea OF entire lnde-
pendence which is pleasing to their own minds;
but if they present themselves in our way as enemies
we shall not be able for the security of their
persons and properties, nor, when adventurIng all Tor
the main object of the liberty of Cuba, shall we be
able to renounce any means of effecting 1t.
But if have all these TO expect that the
Peninsulars, who are in wise dependent on the
government, and who are SO bound up with the fate
of Cuba, will least remain neutral, it will not be
supposed that promise ourselves the same
conduct the part of the army, the individuals COM
posing which, without ties affections, know 9TH
! er law nor consideration than the will of their COM
mander. We pity the lot Of these unfortunate men,
subject TO a tyranny as hard own, who, torn
! from their homes in the flower of their youth have
been brought to Cuba to'oppress u.s. on condition of
themselves renouncing the dignity of men and all the
enoyments and hopes of life If they will appreci-
ate the difference between free and happy citizen
and dependent and hireing soldier, and choose to
accept the benefits of liberty and prosperity, which
we tender them, will admit them into our ranks
brethren. But they shall disregard the dictates
of reason and of their own interests, and allow them
selves 10 be controlled by the insdious representa-
tons of their yrants, as to regard as their duty
! TO oppose themselves TO the field of battle as
enemies, will then accept the combat alike with
hate and without fear, and always willing, when
ever they may lay down their arms, to welcome them
| to our embrace.
| To employ The language Of moderation and justice
TO seek for means of peace and conciliaton-to in
woke the sentiments Of love and Observation-Disclosures
cultivated and Christian people, which finds itself
forced to appeal the violent recourse of arms not
f1rf nfa or1o and tho
lives of fellow beings but TO the condition
and the rights of man, usurped from them by I'M
just and tyranncal power. But let not the express
sion of progress and wishes encourage in op
ponents the idea that we ignorant of
ces, diStrustful of strength. ALI the means
united, at the disposal of the Peninsulars in Cuba,
against could only make the struggle protlac
ted and disastrous but the issue in favor could
not be any the less sure and decisive.
In the ranks OF independence we have to count all
the Tree sons of Cuba, whatever may be the color of
their race-the brave nations Of South America, who
Inhablt soil: and who have already made trial of
the strength and conduct of our yrants-the sturdy
islanders of the Canaries. who love Cuba their
country, and who have already had Hernandez and
Monies de Geo. to seal with the proof of martyr
dom, the heroic decision of their comatrots for
cause.
The ranks of the government Id nd themselves
constantly thinned by desertion, by the climate, by
deah which from all quarters would spring among
them in thousand forms. Cut short of means to
pay and maintain their army, dependent recruits
from Spain fill up their vacancies without inch
of friendly ground which to plant their foot,
individual on whom to rely with security, in the
field would be for them of determination while,
IT they shut themselves within the defences of their
forresses, hunger and want would compel them
TO abandon hem if they not carried by force of
The example of the whole continent of Span
ish America, under circumstances favorable for
them, when they had Cuba for their arsenal the ben
eft of her Golfers, and native aid in those countries
themselves, ought TO them a lesson not to
undertake extermnating and fratricidal struggle,
which could not fail to be attended with the
worse results.
We on the other hand, besides our own resources,
have, in the neighborng States of the Union, and in
all the republics of America the encampments of
troops the depots of supplies, and the arsenas
OF our arms. All the of this vast New World,
whose bosom shelters the Island of Cuba, and who
have had, like us, shake off by force the yoke of
tyranny, will enthusiastically applaud resolve,
flag of liberty in ranks, and their trained and ex
perienced valor will aid in annihilatng, and
for always the last badge of ignominy that still dis
graces the free and Independent soil of America.
Ii we have hitherto hoped, with patience and re-
sIgnation, that justice and their interests would
change the minds of our tyrants if have trusted
to external efforts TO bring the mother country to
negotiation which should avoid the disasters OF war,
we resolved to prove by deeds that inaction and
that endurance have not been the result of impotence
and cowardice. Let the government undeceive itself
in regard to the power of its bayonets and the eff
cacy of all the it has invented Cypress and
watch US. In the face of its very authortes-in the
sight of the spies at our sde-on the day when
have resolved to demand back our rights, and by
force to break chains, nothing has prevented US
from combining the plan of revolution; and the