The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-06-01
CUBA
A Ncyy Independent Government
gseIRitely 0SsG satZeti-- Carlos
Manuel CeSpeGes Elected Presf-
{ dent. II 81

Information Of the highest importance
is in just received from Cuba by the
steamship Columbia. It is to the effect
that the Republic Of Cuba has becn for
,nally established byta Congress held at
GnaimaFo, small town: in the Central.
Department Of the island, about twenty
leagues east of Puerto Principe The
intelligence is dated Tueyitas, May II,
and runs as follows:
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PATRIOT GOVERN
s The Cubans have established o Gov
ernment at Guaimar0, with Carlos Man
uel Cespedes as President; Francisco V.
Agulcra, Vice President, Secretary of
State and War; Pedro Figucreda, Assis-
tant Secretary Of War, and General Man
uel Quesada, C)mnander-in-C Chief Of all
the forces. They have put aside all par
tv dissensions aud seem determined here
after to act in an orderly manner and
with essential organization. The Cuban
Legislature conducted their proceedings
great unaQimity, and, as you have been
advised, passed m act for annexation to
the United States.
ADDRESS OF CEsPEDEs on REsIGNING HIS
, PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY.
To the Inhi!pitaats and the Liberating
Army of the Eastern and Western De
-Fellow-citizens and Soldiers
of the Fatherland: The course of events,
which l have never distrusted, without
giving view as to our revolution--a
revolution which is to-day what it was
yesterday and will be tomorrow, the
constant aspiration of the people of Gu
ba for independence, brought to the field
Of actual existence-leads me to-day will
lpgly by the hand before the legal rep
rcsentatives Of the Cuban people,to res
tore to their hands the double authori-
ty with which my good fortune, circum-
stances, and your bountiiul confidence
had clothed me, those Of General in
Chief Of the Eastern and Western De-
partments, and Chiet Of your Provision
al Government. r. sra oe agsqs V.r e5
Now that the House of Representa-
tives, gathered from allpapts of the is
land, has been happily inaugHrated in
Gdaimaro, 1t becomes from the moment
of its organization the supreme and only
authority for all Cubans, because it con
stitutes the depository of the people,
will, sovereign Of the present and con-
troller of the future. All temporary
power and authority ceases to have q
rightful voice in Cuba from the very
moment in which the wise democratic
system, laying its solid foundations be-
neathIthe gigantic shadow of the tree of
/ liberty, has come to endOw us, after suf-
feripg the most iniquitous rule, with. the
most beautiful and magnificent ofhumm
institutions-a republican government
Unfeigned gratitude Lowe to the des
/ tiny which afforded me the glory Of be-
ing the first in Yara to raise the standard
Of independence, and the still greater
/ though less merited satisfaction, to SCI
crowded around me my fellow citizens il
demand of liberty, thus sustaining my
weak arm and stimulating my poor ef
forts by their confidence. But another
glory was, reserved to me, far more CRATE
ful to my sentiments and = democratic
convictions that of also being tile frs
to render homage to the popular [sover
eighty, ,r...,-..I, ,.-.,.--.,, .,f,.,,
This duty fulfilled, having given al
account to the fatberland, in its mos
genuine nerepresentation, of the work wieI
with the assistance ofits sownhereicsons
I5had the good fortune to have com
menced, it still behooves me, fellow-eiti
zens, to fulfil another, not less iniperious
to my heart, Of addressing my! gratitude
to you; to you without whom my hum
BILE, isolated efforts would not have pro
duced other fruit than that of adding one
patriot more to the number of preceding
martyrs for independence-to You who
recognizing in me the principle rather
than the man, came to stimulate me by
your recognition Of myself as chief OF
the provisional Government and liberat
4 ing army. aksr1 a.k -.-l jf3i.,
Fellow-citizens of the Eastern Depart
ment; aYourefforts as initiators Of tbs
struggle against tyranny; you constancy
! your sufterings, your heroic sacrifices OF
all descriptions, your prvations,the com,
bat without quarter which You have sus
tanned and continue to sustain against ar
enemy far superior in armament and dis
cipline, and who displays, for want of the
valor which a good cause inspires all the
ferocity which is the attribute of tyranny
have been witnessed BY myself, and SC
will remain eternally present to my heart
le are the vanguard of the soldiers of om
liberties. commend you to the admira
ton and to the gratitude of the Cubans
Continue your abnegation OF, SELF youl
discipline, your valor, and your enthus
iasm, which will entitle you to that graf
itude and that admiration
Fellow-citizens ofthe Western Depart
.ment: If it has not been your good for
tune to be the first in grasp;ng arms
neither were you among the last in lis
tening to the voice of the fatherland thai
cried for revolution. Your moral ai(
assistance respondent frcm the very on
set to the call of your brethern of the
Eastern and Central Departments. Ma
ny of you hastened to the scene of re
volution to share our labors. AT this
Fmoment despite the activity displayed
by the Spanish Government in Your dis
tricts, where its resources and the mum
Der Of their hosts render more difficult
the current of the revolutions, that SANG
Government trembles before your de,
termined attitude, from the Cinco Villas
to Havana, and from Havana to the ives
tern boundary, and your first deeds ot
arms were the presage to you, and the
brave and worthy sons of the, Eastern
and Central Departments ofnew and de
tcisive triumphs. ,&UJ
FELLOW Citizens of all the Island The
! blood of the, patriots who have fallen
t!during the first onset of the struggle has
consecrated our aspirations with a glori
GUS baptism. At this moment, when des
tiny has been pleased to close the mis-.
sion ofhim who was your first leader
swear with him, by that generous blood
'Elthat, in order to render fruitful that grea,
Socrifip6 Won will Sha,l ,-ny1r o,,-, t;Il 4Le