The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-05-15
The Cuban Patriot.

The Cuban Patriot.
A correspondent Of the New York Sun
gives the foEowiDa sketch of Cespedes,
the leader Of the Cuban insurgents:
Carlos Manuel Ccspedes was bofs about
forty five years ago, in the town Of B@ya-
ma, Cuba. The first twelve years of his
lite were spent with his parents, who re-
sided on plantation in the vicinity.
With them he only lcarncd the first rudi-
ments OF reading, writing and arithmetic,
while at the samo time he INDUCED in
those hardy employments ard health-
giving games which are consequent to a
life in a country naturally mountainous
and full of forests. His family having
moved when he was twelve years of age
tc the town of Bayamo, Carlos Manuel
was sent there to school for the FIRST time.
A few days after the commencement of
his studies there, he gave proofs of an
extraordinary mental activity and intel
lectual talents, leaving behind him the
most advanced of the scholars in the
school, and being recognized by them as
the head of the institution. When
eighteen years of age he went to Havana,
with the object of prosecuting his studies
there for the law profession. His great
intellectually was further developed
there, at the same time that numerous
personal affairs gave him an opportunity
to show his active, courageous, and tena-
cious disposition, giving an indication
then that he would be as ''great in war
as in peace" Graduating as attorney
at-law in Europe, where he went after
wards, and receiving the greatest univer-
sity honors, he returned to Cuba and
fixed his residence at Manzanillo. His
powers of eloquence, energy, and his
knowledge soon made him the most pop
ular man in the vicinity, and entitled
him to rank as the first lawyer in that
part of the country. But of all traits in
his character, generosity marks an i'm
portant one, and will give lustrc to all
his future actions. The fortune which
he inherited from his father, the wealth
which he amassed by his industrious ex-
ertions, and his future prospects of In
creasing 1t, would have secured him
life full of comfort and ease but his pa
triotic heart could not support longer the
sight Of his country in chains, and the
victims to the outrages of the tyrannical
Spanish Government. Inspired by o
heroic resolution, he gives freedom to all
his slaves, abandons his sugar estates to
the merciless fury of bis Spanish foes,
who burn them all in revenge, and sacri-
ficing all on the altar of liberty and inde-
pendence, with the noblest motives he
inaugurates the revolution in Cuba at
the head of one hundred patriots
movement which now counts in its ranks
the whole native population of the island
To the present he has shown in all his
acts the fullest energy and untiling con-
stancy, and the greatest moderation in
the exercise of the discretionary power
conferred upon him by the unanimous
accord of all Cubans. When we see
men of this stamp, supported by all the
natives of Cuba, and that they, without
arms and ammunition of any considera-
ton, and by their unaided efforts, not
only have been able to withstand the ad-
vance of the Spanish foe, but have re-
peatedly defeated them and at last OBJ
tanned possession of almost all the land,
then it becomes impossible for us to doubt
the final triumph of liberty, and the pre-
vailing of American institutions at the
gem of the Antilles.