Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-05-06
LEADER OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.
Carlos Manuel Cespedes was born about forty-fve

LEADER OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.
Carlos Manuel Cespedes was born about forty-6ve
years ago, in the town of Bayamo, Cuba. The first
twelve years of his life were spent with his parents
who resided on plantation in the vicinity. With
them he only learned the first rudiments of read
ing, writing and arithmetic, while at the same
time be INDUCED in those hardy employments and
healthgiving games, which are consequent to life
in country naturally mountainous and full of for
ests. His family having moved when he was twelve
years ofage, to 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
be gave proof of extraordinary mental activity and
intellectual talents, leaving behind him the most
advanced scholars in the school, and being recogniz
ed by them as the head Of the institution.
When eighteen years of age he went to Havana
with the object Of prosecuting bis 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 tenacious dis
position, giving an indication that he would be as
'great in war as in peace" Graduating as attor-
ney at law, in Europe where he went afterwards,
and receiving the greatest university honors he re-
turned to Cubaand fixed bis residence at Manzanil-
10. His powers of eloquence, his energy and his
knowledge, soon made him the most populsr man
in the vicinity and entitled him to rank as the first
lawyer in that part Of the country. But ofa traits
in his character, generosity rurks an important
one and will give lustre to all his future actions.
The fortune which he inherited from his father,
the wealth which he. amassed by his industrious
exertons, an his future prospects ofincreasing it,
would have secured him life full ofease and COM
fort; but his patriotic heart could not support
longer the sight of bis country in chains and the
victim to the outrages of the tyrannical Spanish
government. Inspired by heroic resolution, he
gives freedom to all his slaves, abandons his sugar
estates to the merciless fury of his Spanish foes
who burn them all in revenge, and sacrificing all on
the altar of liberty and independence, with the
noblest motives be inaugurates the revolution In
Cuba at the head of one hundred patriots move
ment which now counts In its ranks the whole nat
i've population of the island. To the present he has
shown in all his acts the fullest energy, an untiring
constancy, and the greatest moderation in the ex.
ercise Of the discretionary power conferred on 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 amuni-
ton of any consideration, and by their unaded ef
forts not only have been able to withstand the ad-
vance of the Spanish, but have repeatedly defeated
them and at last obtained possession Of almost all
the land then it becomes impossible for US to doubt
of the final triumph Of liberty and the prevailing Of
American institutions in the "Gem Of the Anti
les"