The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-09-11
MANIFESTO OF THE CUBAN JUSTA.
Grand Expose Of Recent Failures, and Ar
ranEements.


slenee which considerations Of the highest Importance
have hitherto imposed ON the men Whom you nave
charged with the sacred mission of realizing the revolu
tionary idea.
great and painful disappointment has Knocked your
ardent hopes and baed your legitimate expectations.
Precious blood has she'd large great
means OF action have been sacrificed, and Cuba still in
bondage and tramped upon, has the right to inquire
have again overloaded her destiny and to
ask whether there yet remains to her the basis trust
Sor better days. Your just impotence shall now be
satisfied fulyas the duties Of your Junta win permit
far as the revelations Of the past shall endanger
the present nor create perils for the future
None OF you ignorant Of the nature and extent of
the plan You entrusted to for execution sad expc
sience had twice demonstrated the insuficiency Of
attempts which though they startled the world by their
sublime daring and heroic achievements left bloodhed
and mourning in their track and only augmented the
vigilance and discipline of oppressors Cuba now
seqaired better guarantees Of triumph though always
resoute to supply by her courage and constancy the
serious odds she must inevitably encounter in tho new
struggle in which she was preparing to launch herself
This projec'-the wish Of the vast majority-sanc
toned by your sufrages, and sustained by the mora
and material means you placed at disposaths holy
plan Il national redemption frustrated just as ii
touched upon the point Of effective execution The simple
statement Of the facts and the publication in due time of
she explanatory documents will sh how far
your Juna is responsible for this misfortune The cleo
tion Of military chief The concentration in his hands OF
all the elements and powers for action though sharply
criticised and keenly censured since the events we're
then founded solid reasons tbeoreic and prac .ica
and had the consent tacit Of all the patriots
who had in any contributed to the progress of
oar revolution In irrefragabe evidence of the general
sentiment we need but that the question of select
ing and empowering chief both the party nominated
and the powers conferred in the first instance sup
gested and afterwards approved and ratified by the very
revoluonsts Whose present vehement objections make
tAem worthy-in some charlottesville distinctive title
Of "men Of action.n
could not be otherwise these measures we've cal
suled to give to proceedings the stamp Of concert
and unity and to impress enterprise with that char
astcr of magnitude and importance which mado SO
alarming to oppresors To disregard these truths of
yesterday in the judgments of to-day would be grave
sin against the requirements Of reason and equity
Ina duty of the Junta thus became limited to com
Peting the collection of the large demand
cd BY the plan; to watch the fulflment by the
chief Of all the conditions Of the contract and to forward
every means in its power the prompt realization Of the
movement on which hung the deanies of country.
The Junta was occupied with these Objects and all
perhaps would have been accomplished ii certain events
destroy the accord which ought to reign in all our efforts
Truth Is the first duty of your Juna, and il win never
shrink hcm it on any occasion; least Of all when
involves side the historical connection Of the
eauaes which produced the disaster VIC so much lament
and on the other presents the facts which Cubans
must base the verdict they about to upon
the men whom they have entrusted with their conf
aeDee.
About the middle OF the past year Of 1854 the reyou
Non broke forth in which Spain is s inv olved Coinc
cent WIN TINS movement was the growing alarm produced
m Cuba BY the Of General Pezuea which pre-
saged violent solution to the social problem that Weighs
20 heavily the destnies Of the country The occasion
seemed most favorable for the realization Of enter
psie This idea fortified not only by the compca-
ons likely to arise in Europe om the Eastern war then
commenced, but the attitude assumed by the American
government in its relations with spain--an attitude
which promised at the least that with regard to the Gu
ban revolution il would restrict its interference the
servance OF the laws Of neutrality which those who
hare for the liberty Of Cuba did not intend to violate.
1hts concurrence OF circumstances by stim aatng The
mPaence of portion Of the Cuhnns brought for the
nrst time dscord into already arranged field Of labor
Unfortunately the Junta itself could not preserve the
unity requisite to happy result TO the enter
prise One portionethcr actuated by it, own rootel
convictions yielding to the impules which carried
away the more aAen-began to put in action and pro-
vide the Indispensable requisites for project of its own
employing for Its particular purpose, without the know
funds and material that had been placed the Of
the latter: regardless Of tho plan they had agreed
FIenirg and which only few DAYS before they had All
satiEet-upanmously and uncon itonally ratiei-and
by which the means and the execution Of tho plan we're
soIely and exclusively confded to the clcf chosen to
head the movement
Tho cal ynlanation which afterwards nrctond.
ell 10 10 given 81 these secret and isoiaei combinations
differs somewhat from this statement hut ifit
possible 10 admit H. IL would not Justify the exceptional
m M disru " %
execution Of plan already conded to another aud sole
direction The Junta, however, has abundan means TO
sustain all II The confidential declarations made
in moments OF expansion by one OF the parte' to mem
beers OF he Jun'a and to many othersthe oganzati
and preparations which undertaken and divuged In
Southern Staic-thc written acknowledgment now in
tc hands of the chief, by which IL appears that this
persons In Cuba TO sccnmoush particular ends-in a
word the Junia has in its favor Of evidence which
will be impossible to invalida,e by simple dcnal,
In c.tical and abnormal epochs may perhaps be bet
Der listen to the impulse Of enthusiasm, than abi e by
the inevitable slowness of pIemeitatei combinations
TIE majority Of the Juna would have wished so per-
suade itself with regard the schemes Of OF It's
members; but now when IL is bitterly undoceivcd IN
Ms own most hattong expectations IT cannot concede
that this unadvsel and unexpected deviation was
Sornded on any solid reasons.
The reignng plan had been for two months the object
oil continued and anxious discussion among those
bers Of the Junia then stationed at the South, but
these di.cnssions were postponed until the whole
body could be united aud other patriots be convoked In
order TO seek perfect certainty In the enlightened
eoun' els of the greater number BY common consent
and what II more by the deliberate advice and stringent
request of hborers of the highest cons icaton-thc
continuation of the plan agreed upon conf med
sgre6 rs Tie only ono on which Cuba placci her faith
and her holes.
After these solemn acts could II 10 the Junta,
could conceive that transactions Of such class
should be cast aside for new projects Had the chief
then been consulted about di-olvng the compact he
had been in making il with him2
lid one portion OF the Junta solicit the acque,cencc
Of the otter in this iransccndat innovations Even In
tLc superstition that had been invited coui should
the Junta con,ent 70 the modification o. plan wach
was the sell considered fruit Of many painful expe
ri ncesS Had Il the right to impose nos ono, breaking
fhe compact sanctioned by Its constituontaf And
eoneeding that had IL the right 10 launch bindy into
PRISE without closing the old g, a. not TO
have N ,eave consequences runous to lite SUCCESSOR
should IL rush into IL without preparation without
Known chiefs with insufficient powers with none Of tho
requisites which have been insisted upon again and
again by the unanimous vote of thoe who gave the
mission 20 beautiful c1untry-not 10 involve
her In bloody mockercs Of revolution
Whatever circumstances they invoked, could any exist
tnat would redeem the and the certain
dangers OF partial, Isolated attempt, unexpected in