The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-06
IMPORTANT MANIFESTO FROM THE CUBAN JuNTa.
Address to the People Of Cuba-The Pass and
Present Of the Revolutionary novemeDt-
kutagonkm Of The american Admin
kdratlon- Tripartlte Treaty,
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TO THE PEOPLE OF CUBA.
Events which are not TO be discussed here, errors
and poisfortunes which we win examine at another
;rns. have come to overthrow violently the toisome
.ombfnation which was to have brought liberty to
Cuba. and to disturb the mind of all the good pa
riots who had placed theirahopes in the projected
movement. Since our eombated revolution has re-
ssiyed such and oft repeated reverses, it was e
Risimate and very justifable to desire to know in
al their details the immediate causes of that new
disaster SO to guard against their repetition in
inture and to ask an account in the proper quarter
Of the immense and grievous sacrifices sustained
Reasons of high convenience, which the Cuban
Junta have already sufficiently explained, have ne
sessitated the appearance BRIEF without doubt, Of
public manifestation of these deporable causes; but
there is no reason why-on the contrary everything
induces to concentrating public opinion anew,
we should not endeavor to define the present situa
non, and ascending to higher and more general con-
siderations, demand from the study of the past les
SONS and guarantees for the future. To satisfy that
double exigency, this document is issued.
They are much deceived who think that with the
ussfortuncs SUSTAINED our revolution has died they
are also much deceived who imagine that it has ex-
perenced very grave reverse. To concede either
mppostion, it would be necessary to ignore COM
ptely the vitality which exists in principles, or to
misunderstood the special stimuli which operate
upon the revolutionary sentiment in Cuba. 1t would
he necessary to magnify excessively the importance
Of the acts which have TRANSFERRED and to asfy their
inHuence over the march and the progress Of our
future operations.
The revolution of our country is cemented on one
side in the barbarous and oppressive system which
has enslaved it for centuries and the other in the
progressive knowledge which its inhabitants have
been acquiring of their rights, of the justice which
assists them and Of the benefits which are to be ex
peeted when that power is annihilated and that op
preston overthrown-so that the energy of the mo-
lives which gave the first impulse to the determin,
hon Of the Cubans, being still existing, or rath
increasing constantly, the fundamental base of our
patriotic and noble undertaking is still the more
strengthened and fortified by its very reverses.
We must not confound the revolution which its
moral and intellectual progress slowly mbued in the
minds Of people oppressed by the harsh chain of
aespotsm and their resolution to resort to it, with
These plans may be openly resorted to at any Of
yedoubles its activity, acquiring from its very
Severses greater strength and new powers in its
strife with tyranny. If other proofs Of this truth
were wanting, Cuba herself would offer irrefutable
proofs Of it, in the history Of the past years. and if
We desired to paint in few words the different
phases Of that increase Of convictions and moral
energy, produced By the very disasters which have
been suffered in our country, we might say, with
M proprety that they consist in this that previous
10 1873 it was simple plot--n 1850 and 81 it was
conspiracy, to reach in 1866 the height Of real
revolution. That logical, memorable march, proceed
ing from the development of IDEAS the tyrant could
not interrupt, but on the contrary precipitated,
thereby offering new demonstration of the fact, that
In proportion their victories multiplied they
had always to increase their material means Of as
sistance. In Cardenas and Puerto Principe the OPP
position was made by a few attachments. The +
whole army was employed in the Vuelta Abajo; and
this year. when they dreaded new battles, they did
not hesitate to place in arms the most unusual ell
nent, believing themselves still insecure, notwith.
standing the cooperation Of powerful alliances
abroad. Is it thus that revolutions succumb or re-
troUade?
No, the Cuban revolution has not died; nor will it
have been detained one single instant in the success
sve DEVELOPMENT of all the elements which copsti
aute it's vitality and promise it triumph in no We ,
distant future. That general cry which ris
through all the length and breadth Of the country,
asking new action and movement-those offers Of
reiterated and more costly sacrifcesthat universal
anxiety to hasten the time for breaking the secret
the new combinations, and the hour Of the n n
struggles, evidences of it. And in contemplating
that excitement which ferments in all minds, and
hat which hos .aan oil Inv
it may be said that in Cuba the fatality Of its past
uncertainties and msfortunes s the historic condi-
hon Of it's future trumphs. One fact is wiped out,
and another is prepared in the book Of revolution, to
salient and better Marked and thus it is that where
ever vulgar or imperfect appreciation meets with
motives Of grief and dsmay, even there springs up
s9ns the Of Fs ps ae Of renewed
Looking at our present situation, under this point
Of view it is not right that We should waste ON time
in useless lamentations on account OF the past still
less In barren recriminations. What signify little
gold that has been lost, and some tears more that
have been shed a tribute to the consoatory prin-
eiple Of our future redemption? That which is OF
importance, and is more worthy of us, is, that We
should ask from experience the lessons which it
treasures up, and that we should continue giving to
the world the glorious example Of patriots who, far
from being cast down by misfortune, exhibit more
erect and resoute front, and hasten to the combat
with renewed heroism.
Let us not calumniate the past; the branch Of the
future fruit Is there still In germ. The idea which
ned us to establish our revolutionary operations in
these States was one Of necessity. 10 vtuperate
to-day because the hour of triumph does not yet
shine is to do violence to the conditions Of logic and
20 ignore the principal motive VI all progress. We
must not forget it. Ii in the beginning Of this cen
1ury Cuba remained inert in the midst Of the gori-
GUS rising which forever crushed the Spanish doui
MON in her great American territories that was due
not to her want Of convictions and OF TO begin
ahe strife-vhich then exceeded they still exceed
the Territories in Question-but to the memorable
law Of ts limited extent and Of its geographical and
typographical coufguratsoo; 1t was due TO the econo-
mical and social conditions in which It Stood it was
due to the reunion d these and other special circum
stances, which still, for the most part, exist and
winch are highly dangerous to every internal move
ment which has not fo its foundation the initiative,
or at least the immediate snn,orf az fnneian movers