The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-09-11
NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER H. 1855

composed the majority by the voluntary withdra val
beers which constituted tho body at that time
Your Junta has stated the facts; il remains with
you to declare the verdict II 70 have Obtained sanct
and concurrene in the plan which considered mo It
practicable for the liberation Of Cuba to eiecte
military chief designated long in advance by public
opinion, and by the competent vote Of heroic and H.
htsd Lopez as the most sui able by his ante eden
and personal endowments well the conservative int
rests he represented and to have entrusted him with the
powers and means at It's disposal IL to have sustained
this Plan and this against premature impatience
and projects which public sentiment and failures
had already condemned In Cuba II II have sacrdce it's
repose and very often its personal feelings reetab
iish unity and the necessary harmony among all the ee
ments 90 idered to The triumph Of oar
cause 70 have incucaed ny the press by DIS by
every possible MEANS the true principles of evlu-
tien they professed by the immense majority of
you, without fatal exaggeratious violent and is-
bic exclusions; ii all this and much more that your
Jun'a has done to fulfil worhy the mission conhied to
H. must be imputed 10 It as ult, because unforeseen
events deplcrable dscords and than all the inx-
pcable deserton Of the elected chief have frustrated
pan 1t Admits to judgment and hopes that its de-
sies and intentions will At least be saved from your
censLIe.
There have been errors, there have been faults there
have been decoptions and misfortunes but ali is not
and you should hx yonr attention the immense al
vance of the Cuban revolution; fer tears and sacrifices
are the ament Of revolutions An occasion lost large
consumed without resnlts-can this perchance de-
eide the fate of Cuba? Her vitality and her desine
endure the loss Of time and of and perhaps mystic
Iions Providence has chosen thus to direct in better
path the future of our mother-land.
Let seek instructions for the future ia the failures
OF me past Inc Jun'a absfains from presenting new
plans for II considers this TO be your llsve province
1t easy to frame them here far from the and the
interests they must necessarily affect but il be
ntealed from your penetration how urgent IL il to
emerge from the field in which we have reapoi
many and such painful receptions. II indvi-
duas alone with their passions and errors that gave
the death blow to our former hopes. The Junta has
cd in another writing that principles also
countable for misfortunes The flag of Cuba has
been Insufficient to win the liberty to which aspire
while planted on The especial ground of the interests OF
the American PEOPLE. Tho Cuban revolution, msunder
stood and viGed by the European powers account Of
this connection, must not persist in it; while tue
other hand, Indifference hostility has been all the
turn we have received for offerings to the great
public
new world Of principles and alliances more vast
more uitful and more active presents itself and ii
longs to you to make the election.
To you also II pertains, and to you alone to decide
what best be done with regard to your represen A.
ton abroad in the way and form permitted BY the ex
cepional condition Of country, and most adapted
serve its true interests.
bitter and reiterated experience has demon stratc
what grave dangers must ari.e from the OF
unity and concert in the labors of your delegates Per-
haps the and duties of Junta not been
sufficiently defined. Between the simple nanda Dry OF
your orders, those who compose it have ever
considered it, and initiative and dicatoria power
others have supposed it, there rogns difference wide
enough TO explain of itself the origin Of former Disagree
ments and the part they bore in the wreck of
1t is important that these doubts and msnterprea-
items shall be settled at aud forever that all of
longs to us 10 perform in the complicated web Of
voluton. In this way, and no other we obtain the
concert and uniformity which we much need to en-
sure tri, mph finally
The Junta awaits your verdict the past, and your
resolution for the future instantly accepting the hrs
whatever it may be- and praying that the second may
accom- ish the liberty and independence Of country
NLw YORK, Aug. rs, 1855. THE CUBAN JUNTA.