The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-05
SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1859.
THE DEPARTURE or DULCE.

IF the Cuban insurgents belonged to the same
race AZ the American colonists who in 1776
revolted against British misrule, they would
long since have won their independence and
have rescued their beautiful island from the
Spaniards. Unfortunately, neither Spain nor
her colonies breed men in these times of the
stamp Of Cortes and the other conquerors of
the New World, and the consequence is that
the contest in Cuba has been distinguished by
little else than savage cruelty and lying of the
most extravagant description. 1t is true that
most of the brag and buster has come from
the Spanish side, as the Cubans have been
unable to communicate any definite reports of
their operations to the outside world. Ac-
cording to the Spanish accounts, however, the
rebels have been annihilated again and again,
but somehow they will not stay whipped, and
at the present time their prospects appear to
be brighter than ever, and if they were of
any other than the Spanish race, their inde-
pendence might be considered as an assured
thing.
The forces of the Government consist in a
great measure of Spanish volunteers, who be-
long to the greedy class who have hitherto
subsisted by plundering the Cubans under
official sanction, and who look upon the ma
tiyes of the island with much the same feel
ing of contempt that true-born Briton does
upon one of those blue-nosed Nova Scotians
who are now protesting against being forced
into union with Canada which is distasteful
and disastrous.
The Spanish volunteers have had it all their
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commenced, so far as the management of the
campaign against the natives is concerned,
and their leaders have been forced under all
circumstances to accede to their demands.
Captain General Dulce did not manage mat
ters to suit them, and he consequently was
forced to resign his Office as soon as the de-
mand was made, no time whatever being al
lowed him for consideration; and to-day he
will sail forSpain after having disgraced him
self and the liberal government that he pro-
fessed to represent by having given his sane
ton to the outrages perpetrated by the men
who were nominally under his command. 1t
is not possible that Dulce's successor will find
the volunteers any more disposed to submit
to dictation, especially after this triumph
over regular constituted authority, and
after the weeks of unrestrained license that
will elapse before his arrival.
With this revolution in the camp of theil
antagonists in full operation, the time ha
certainly arrived for the patriots to strike
some effective blows; and if the present op
portunity is permitted to pass by unimproved
we may readily conclude that the Cubans hav'
nothing of the old Castilian pluck that con
cured the empires of Mexico and Peru, anC
made Spain the master of the new worl'
which Columbus discovered by the aid o
Spanish enterprise and iberality. The mex
few weeks will probably reveal what the in
surgents are able to do, and if something de
cisive is not done soon, we may expect to Sc
the instruction sink to the level of a mer
guerilla warfare that will devastate the island
destroy its industries, and make the last cast
of Cuba worse than the first.