The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-22

| Of the wells, fidelity in corners, ana capaoley
among the unobtrusive. But these are
| dreams. No man can be considered ht 70
| serve the Republic in the humblest posiuon
unless he has twenty five yards OF signatures
| in his pocket. Perhaps not even then. rms
| is a w orld in which some are happy ana % souue
"mees erable." We must take IL as " so0S
End of The Revolution in CuOa a-"haV
Next!
F,'on, The ". y Herald
Now that the revolution in Cuba exhibits
undeniable signs of subsidenoe, quackery-
monpers abonnd with assurances OF the new
phase which the Cuban question IS taking.
One assures us that the people Will never sub
NIT when in fact the greater part of them
have never rebelled another tells us that
movement is on foot in Madrid favoring the
sale of the island to the United States, when
such an idea would suffice to insure the over
throw of any Spanish Cabinet; and a third,
more hopeful still, insists that the revolution
is to obtain new life from some undefnable
cause, and mount in triumph on the wings of
glory. But there stand the hard facts to contra
dict all these. The telegraphic advices
from Havana which we have recent
ly published, must put an end to
the hopes many had entertained of an
early severance of the "Gem of the Antilles
from the Spanish crown. Count Valmaseda
officially informs General Dulce that on the
10th instant he took possession of Bayamo,
which was the headquarters of the revolution
ary government. This is the Richmond of the
revolution. Whether, pursuing the parallel,
General Cespedes will, like General Lee, find
an Appomattox and accept an honorable sur
render, or Valmaseds like General Grant,
offer terms which, by including a cspitula-
ton, shall free the country from the horrible
evils of guerrilla warfare from disbanded
insurgents, remains to be seen. One thing is
clear: the movement which has been for the
last three months on foot in the eastern por-
ton of Cuba with all the honors of a revolu-
ton, now subsidies into mere local disorders
1t is not our intention to review the causes
which have produced this result. They are
many, and have been faithfully presented to
our readers by our correspondents and our
own frequent comments on events as they oc-
CURED. But there are certain facts which it
will be well for General Dulce and the purely
Spanish population of Cuba to bear in mind
in their present triumph, if they wish for
peace. The late insurrection was the first
purely Cuban movement of any extent against
the Government which has taken place in the
island. 1t has taught thousands of the ma
tive population two great fac.s-frst, that it
is not difficult task to drive the small, iso-
lated Spanish garrisons out of the interior of
the country; and, second, that it is very far
from being every Spanish bullet that kills.
In gaining possession OF these two facts; the
popular mind of Cuba has made an immense
stride towards the independence of the island;
and whatever fate may attend Cespedes,
Aguilera, PerdemO, and the other prominent
leaders, they will be looked upon by the
people as representative men. No act of the
Spanish Government can tear them from that
position.
There is but one course, therefore, that
,Cisdom will counsel to the Spanish authori-
ties in Cuba. The Government must abandon
the policy of intense ESpanoLismo which it has
hitherto pursued, and permit, in the coming
election of deputies to the Cortes, that native
and representative Cubans be sent to that
body. Cuba has wrongs which Spain should
redress; and she can never do this until the
true voice of Cuba can be heard in her legis-
ative halls. 1t is not enough to send Span
iards resident there to the Cortes, and much
less is it wiseto send there any of the few
Cubans who have become thoroughly Spanish
in their views, and are for that reason hated
by their countrymen. II the Government
persists in ignoring the people of Cuba, and in
sending only its own partisans as deputies to
the COrtes, it will prepare the ground for
new revolution in the island.
But both Spain and Cuba have made great
progress in the rightful condemnation of the
sixteenth century policy which still rules the
Spanish colonies. The scheme which we pub
lished some days since on the authority of
Senior Ascarate, one of the Cuban deputies
now in Madrid, as being the plan OF General
Serrano, chief of the provisional government
of Spain to-day, embraces all the points which
the telegraph announces as being the policy
adhered to at a recent meeting of the leading
liberals of Havana-a separate nationality for
Cuba, with an insular Assembly, division of
the Cuban budget from that of Spain, and a
Captain General appointed by the Crown from
the civil or military list, as may be best. We
have good reason to believe that agitation for
this plan is the shape which the Cuban ques-
ton In the island and in Spain will take at an
early day, and all other forms of agitation
must give way to the new idea.
Corruption! Corruption! Corruption
From, Brick" PonleroyS ". Y. Democrat.
In the days of mythology, the Pantheists
always bestowed gifts on the priests of Scraps
or Isis before consulting the oracle, and in
proportion to the munifcence or parsimony
of him who sought the presence of the i'm
| postor was the augury favorable or the re.
! verse. And something more than rumOr says
! that the political priests and oracles OF Wash
! ington are praotised on by primary propitia-
| tions. Human nature has exhibited the same
traits of weakness and susceptibility to i'm
| posture for almost countless generations. 1t
| is not to be wondered at that the conlmuniS
UuIguS of antiquity, in q state of natural igno-
rance should have been deluded by the few
who monopolized learning. But in this age
of free schools and universal dissemina-
tion of nlightenment-with the telegraph,
railroads, and ap untIammeed press-With
equal political rights secured to all, it is a
matter of philosophical inquiry, at least, why
the people of this country will quietly submit
to the Outrages which are daily perpetrated
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