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with his forbearanee and hs patience under aitiic- ton How shall he wage war against his cppees- sURs, if every weapon, even " all manner ot pointed knife, although t be Kitchen knife CT a pocket knife" and even "any stick or stan long or shcrt, of more than one imch in diameter" ps wreSted from him? How can he coPspiEe, If he must at every moment of his life be under the eye of spy, whether he eonvenes his friends to ball or to a concer,--to q marriage feast oF to hap- tismal ceremony,-io the celebration Of bis biFth- day or to the funeral of . mehabeT 0t hls family How can he enlist others in the same cause with hmsef If his every motion is noticed and reported to the authorities, by his very slaves, who are taught by rewards offered them, 10 watch hN con- duct at home. and by a swarm of spanish spies. under the names of Captains of PaFtdass Commis- saries, Pedaneos, &c., who live upon diiation and who follow him from one district to another, from his very house to that of friend next door 10 his ownl
 We defy any one tO produce the example of a people, in the helpless condition of the Cubans, who ever attempted to throw off the yoke without assistance from aboard. Our fathers commenced the struggle against Great BritaiD& with all the power and inf uence of the local Governments in their possession. They received assistance from abroad, in arms money and men, during the pros ecuion of the contest and even after that contest was terminated, fearing that Britain might again attempt 10 reconqucr her lost eolonies, they enter ed into treaty with France by which that power 
 against any future attempt Of England 10 reduce them to their former condition The population of Great Britain, at the time of the Revolution as about fifteen millions, that of the American Col onies three millions. The white population of Cuba IS little above half million, that oi Spain is about twelve tillions There IS no parallel between the two cases. The difficulties are as much greater in the of Cuba, as her grievances are ncomparable.
 Mr Clay is reported to have said 10 person in Havana, who was explaining to him the workings of that Government, that If the Americans under stood well the tyranncal character oi II, no power in the United States could stop expeditions from leaving our shores We think thus knowledge IS already through the land, and that our Govern ment leagued with the tyrants of Cuba and the few American monopolsts of her commerce, will struggle in vain, and in the end meet with noth- tug but disgrace and contempt, in ther nnholy ef- forts to smother the aspirations for freeuom ot the Cubans The names of pirates" "mafauders," <" and freebooters," will not damp the efforts Of men who know that they are battling in good cause. The Scoundrels who utter these acsuSa- tions, know in their souls that they lie. Let them save theu breath and their ink. There are many men devoted to the cause of Cuba who are young, ardent, full of hope and full of faith. Such men, when they have once convinced themselves that they are pursuing noble and praise worthy Ob- iect cannot be checked by abuse and yilifcation opposition but nerves them to greater efforts and to more undaunted perseverance. Our peo- pie are too unsophsticated to understand how Il can be just and moral for members of Congress to proclaim to the world, in a solemn legislative act, their sympathies for the Hungarians, whilst 1t IS immoral for them to entertain similar sympathes for a people who are our near nelghbors, and who groan under despotism compared to which the rule of Austria is mercy and justice indeed and they will laugh in scotn at that hollow, hypocllti- cal and unmanly morality-that contemplate travestie of the parable of the good Samaritan which would make them believe that they owe no other offices to their fellow-men in suffering, than barren protestatiors of sympathy and good will