The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-19
THE CUBAN IMSURRECTYON.
Message from General Cespeeaes asking
Recognition by the President Of tho
United Statos.

Colonel Stockton, Of Pennsylvania, recently
arrived at St. Marks. Florida, bearing the fol-
commander-in-chief of the instructions ry
forces in Cuba, asking that the President OF
the United States accord to his party belliger-
ent rights, and recognize the Independence of
To hes Ezcellency tho President Of the Unitsd
States:
s1R-The people Of Cuba, by their Grand
supreme Ciyil Junts and through their Gener-
al-in-chiee Senior Cespedes, desire to submit to
your Excellency the following, among ether
reasons, why your Exoelency, us President OF
the United States, should accord to them bel
hRerenttEhts and recognition OF their inde-
Because from the hearts Of nineteen-twen-
tieths ofshe inhabitants of the Island Of Cuba
60 pprayers for the success Of the armies OF
the republic; and from the sole and only want
OF arms and ammunition these patient peeple
are kept under the tyrannical yoke of SPAN.
The unaDimlty Of the masses Of the people tor
the republic is ominous.
over 10000 men actually In the field and doing
duty. These men are organized and governed
on the principles OF civilized warfare. The
prisoners whom they take-and so far they
have taken three times as many as their enc
mics kRye from 'them-are treated in every re-
spect VS. prisoners Of war are used and treated
by the most civilized nations Of the earth. In
The hope OF recognition by the United States,
ated death for death, even in cases of the most
provoking nature.
Because the Spanish authorities have almost
invatiably brutally murdered the soldiers of
the armies Of the republic who have surren-
dered to them, and have recently issued an
an Official order requiring their military forces
hereafter instantly TO kill and murder every
prisoner of the republic who 'surrenders.
Thus Is done, the order oheerfully tells us,
TO save trouble and vexat1on to the Spanish
OWL authorities" This is an outrage the CIVIL
lied nations Of the earth ought not to allow.
Beeanse the United States is the nearest civ
nized nation to Cuba whose political instisu-
tions strike responsive chord in the hearts Of
all Cubans. The commercial and financial IN
terests Of the two peoples being largely Identical
appeals for the unauestionable tight OF geoog-
nition.
T Because the arms and authority OF the Re-
thirds Of the entire geographical area Of the
island, embracing very great majority Of the
population in every part Of the island,
Because shs has a navy in course Of con-
and efficiency that heretofore maintained by
the Spanish authorities in these waters.
Because these facts plainly show to the
world that this is not 8 movement Of o few dis
Of people thirsting for liberty, and deterinin-
ed with this last effort to secure to themselves
and their posterity those unquest1oned rights
liberty OF conscience and freedom Of the indi-
T.t
/ Finally, because she is following but in the
footsteps of Spain herself In endeavorlng to
Danish tyrannical rulers, and in their stea
place rnlors Of her own ehoi,e. The people of
Cuba, having ten-fold more absolute and oo-
tent right than SPAN had, because Onba's
rulers are sent without her voice or consent
by q foreign country, accom- mpanfed by and with
swarns OF oficla,s to fill the various Offices
created only for their individual comfort,
drawing their sustenance and support from the
hard earnings OF the natives of the soil. %Fs
Allow us to add with the greatest difidence
and ssnsltiveness, that the difference between
the lebellion in the United States and the
present revolution in Cuba is simply that in
the tbrmer o small minority rebelled against
llaIaHhich they had o voice IN making and the
prlysh hges Of repeating, while in the case OF
Ing g e ear IS s Tss y sFssh ssh
turIes, with NO appeal but that Of arms open to
US, and appointing, without our knowledge,
voice, advice or consent, tvrannical citizens Of
their own country to rule us and eat our sub
stance. u, s atffe,trft,e, rt. H.
| "Patria y ihertadl" '-
Approved BY the Supreme Junta aud ordered
promulgated by saattA .4.. n 4,e... 4,
--es FaA SENIOR GENERAL CEspEDEs,
II Commander IN Chief
| Republican Forces of Cuba.
i Headquarters in the Field, March /, 1869.