The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-31
COLUMBIA, S. C..
Sunday Morning. January 81. 1859.
Serious Condition In Cuba .

Serious Condition In Cuba. u
The late advices from Cuba exhibit a sad
state of things, caused by the hostility be.
tween the Cuban and the Spanish factions,
and by the reoklessness and brutality of the
Spanish volunteers. The feud between the
Spaniards and the CreoIes is an old one, the
former holding all the offices and looking
down upon the natives with pretty much
the same contempt that was felt in the
colonial days here by English residents for
the provincials The Spanish merchants
transact most Of the commerce, but do not
identify themselves with the island beyond
what their interests demand, their motto
being, Give years of privation and for
tune" The Baltimore Sun states that the
Creole merchants and planters are among
the most intelligent and enterprising of the
population. Their feelings towards the
Spaniards have been very much akin to
those OF our forefathers towards the English
in the days preceding the revolution. They
feel that they are only wanted by Spain for
what can be got out of them in taxes to
support q horde of Spanish Office. holders
and regular army, exclusively Spanish, to
keep them in subjection. Like our fore
fathers, they have found all the official
avenues to high and honorable ambition
closed against them. They have felt the
natural longing to be free, and to dispose of
their own destinies, which is awakened in
all nations who are subject to oppression
and misgoyernment, and which Spain her
self has lately exhibited against less rigor-
Gus, e1acting and intolerant tyranny than
that to which Cuba has always been sub
jected. There would seem to be no longer
any doubt that the mass of the Cuban peo-
pie have thoroughly sympathized with the
attempt at revolution which is now sup
posed to be failure. 1t is said that young
men of the oldest and wealthiest Cuban
families have daily focked to the insurgent
standard, and that such has been their
ardor that where they could not reach the
rebel lines overland, they left Havana for
Nassau, and thence descended upon the
Eastern coast. Even Havana seems to be
pervaded by revolutionary sympathies,
which are beginning to be manifested by
occasional attempts to shoot the soldiers
and volunteers from the housetops, and
which made an imposing demonstration in
the recent funeral of Camille Cepeda, q
native Cuban, who had been brought in q
prisoner of war, and died IN captivity.
Thousands of the Cubans in Havana at
tended his funeral, and flowers were thrown
upon the hearse and in the streets through
which the procession passed. Even if tie
present insurrection be put down, it will he
hard, where there is such hostility among
such class, to keep it down, and Cuba has
always the same vantage ground in its
attempts ut independence which the North
American colonies had in their distance
from the mother country, with the addi-
ton OF powerful friend in their own
immediate neighborhood. The excesses
attributed to the Spanish volunteers bring
to mind the conduct of similar class in
Arkansas and Georgia It is not strange
that the troops everywhere look with dis
dam AMI detestation upon these superser-
viceable lackeys of despotism, who make up
IN brutality what they lack in military
training.
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