The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-11-10

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GUAIMARo, October 10, 1869.
My Esteemed Friend, Nearly two months
since addressed letter to house in New
York, in which represented the great need
that the Cubans have Of supplies of cloth
ing for men, women, and children, medi-
cines, arms, and munitions of war. | am
oratifed to find that this appeal of mine has
met with an effective response, and that
,lready number Of cases of clothing ma
terial have been landed in the Bay OF Nipe
from schooner bound for Sisal, Mexico,
rom New York.
Iwish, Colonel, that there were hundreds
Of such reponses, and that there were q
hundred American pens with me here to
represent the situation-to depict better
than can I the picture of this civil war.
While we have no absolute need of foreign
soldiers of any kind to carry this struggle to
successful fruition, we do need supplies.
As near as I am able to calculate, we have
26, 500 men who have arms, and | state in
perfect sincerity that we could use imme-
diately 1900 stands Of arms, and with that
number in our hands could end this war in
ninety DAYS. We have not wasted our
armies nor materials in attacking large
cities-seaports, | mean; because, even
though we took them, it would be at sacri-
flee of life of our trained soldiers, with a
them, for the reason that we have no ar
tillery to defend them against the Spanish
navy. Puerto Principe and all interior
towns we have so closely besieged that they
IRE really of no avail to our enemy except
The name of holding them. We occasion
ally are benefited by it, for in their attempts
TO send them supplies we often capture
their trains.
There are men of great mind and brain
in this cause. The Cuban patriots, as a
people, are men Of a higher class than any
other Spanish Americans. They are, the
most of them,-all the leaders atleast-men
who have received their education either in
the United States or in Europe. They are
comprehensive. able, and devoted to their
cause. I observe that there exists doubt
in the minds Of few citizens of the United
States of the extinction Of slavery in this
island. Slavery was abolished when the
standard of revolt was raised, and again hy
the twenty-fourth article of the Constitul-
ton of this Republic. There are 10000
liberated slaves now following our camps.
| Thousands of them are, armed with ma
| chetas-a half hatchet and half meat-aNe.
| They have shown q willingness to meet the
enemy in the open field with such weapons
| only as these.
| But what most desired to call your at
tcntlOn 10 Is our great nced OF clOtnlng lOl
| our people. feel assured that if this press.
ing want of these worthy people was well
| understood in the United States that there
would such tide OF contributions of mate
rials and money be poured upon us as would
relieve all our wants and secure for the Gu
bans an early triumph over the truly bar
| barous Spanard.
wish this might he brought before the
American ladies'. 7 wish that they might
comprehend how $4,000 Cuban ladies are
| living an aboriginal life, half naked and but
poorly sheltered, as the forests and hill
sides and spreading palm trees can shelter
them. Such an army Of self-denying ladies
was never before assembled on earth. Their
devotion knows no parallel except in the
lives Of our Revolutionary mothers. l hope
the whole American people may realize the
| situation of these people, wants, suf'
ferings, devotion. and worthiness-and then
aid them. ..".
/ wish had the time TO write you much
more. But as our messenger can only carry
| a very small parcel, am obliged to close
| this letter. You may address me, care o
the Cuban Junta, No. II Broadway, New
York.
Yours, most truly, rFr. ..H
THOMAS JORDAN,
Acknowledgement Army Of Cuba.