The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-26
Progress Of the Revolution in Cuba.

Progress OF the Revolution III CuDa.
From the ". Y. Herald.
General Caballero de Roda is to succeed
General Dulce as Governor-General in the
Island of Cuba. This is the tenor OF short
despatch from Madrid-short but full of mean
ing. General Dulce was the man for con-
ciliation, the man OF the amnesty, free press,
free speech, and representation in the Cortes.
Roda is the man who put down lnsurrection
in Cadiz with the cannon and deluged the
streets of dissatisfied Malaga with grape shot.
The two men represent great principles and
give fair picture of the change which has
come over the dream of Spain in relation to
Cuba. The progress of the revolution there
has been so rapid and so great that new
policy has succeeded the old one in the
Spanish Government as well as in the Spanish
population in Cuba. The latter at first
secuted the idea that the Cubsns could or
would do anything towards overthrowing the
colonial government. Now they have done
so much that the Spanish population in Cuba
think that every Cuban should be at once
tried by military commission and executed
to save the honor of Spain.
Caballero de Roda comes TO Cuba to fail
more signally than Dulce has done, and Dulce
has failed from the want of common sense on
the part of the home government and the
Spaniards residing in the island. Had he
been authorized to act in the spirit of the
nineteenth century instead Of Che sixteenth,
and to establish Colonial Assembly, he would
have preserved the island to the Spanish
monarchy. There were not wanting Cubans
in Madrid who urged these views upon Gene
raj Dulce before his departure for Cuba, but
he either could not or would not listen TO
them. He now goes back with the simple
satisfaction that he can say to Azcarate and
Bernal, "You were right" The Caballero de
Roda comes to different banquet banquet
of blood. From Cape Maysi to the river Da-
mui, two-thirds of the territorial extent OF
the island of Cuba, the Spanish Government
holds only the ground its troops stand upon or
! the guns of it's ships cover. Instead OF being
able to reconquer the Central and Eastern De-
partments the struggle will now be to hold the
Western, for there the fires of revolution have
caught at several points. This, will require
more troops than Spain can under any con-
=, tingeney send to Cuba, and more money and
| material resources than Roda can possibly ga
ther. He may shed much blood, he may riva
Murillo, OF Venezuela, in infamy, but the re
suit will be the same-the Spanish element
must leave Cuba or perish by the sword they
have drawn.
In the early future a sore difficulty will
press upon our Government. When you
neighbours housesis on fire, the prinoipl9 Of
Intervention is an admitted right. Not only
may we intervene to save ourselves from dan
ger, but the voice of humanity calls us a.
well to save lie and property II the tenaut
possessed with the fury of a mailman, insists
upon consigning everything to the flames, n
may be controlled or even dispossessed. Tai
madman's policy would seem to be- that which
inspires the Spanish element in Cuba and Ou
GoYsrnmsnt, as the next and strongest neigh