The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-19
TIE CUBAN INSURRECTION.
Message from General Cespedes asking
Recognition by the President OF tho
United states.

Colonel Stockton, of Pennsylvania, recently
arrived at st. Marks, Florida, bearing the FOL
loving message from General Cespedes, the
commander-n-chief OF the Instructions ry
the United States accord to his party belliger-
ent rights, and recognize the independence OF
Cuba:
To his Ereelleney the President of the United
States:
SR-The people of Cubs, by their Grand
Supreme Civil Junta aud through their Gener-
al-in-ch;ef Senior Cespedes desire to submit to
your Excellency the following. among. other
reasons why your Excellency, as President of
the United States, should accord to them bel
ligerent rights and recognition OF their lnde-
psudence:
Because from the hearts of nineteen-twen-
tieths OF the inhabitants Of the Island OF Cuba
90 I'D prayers for the success OF the armies OF
the republic; and from the sole and only want
OF arms and ammunition these patient people
are kept under the tyrannical yoke OF Spain.
The unanimlty OF the masses OF the people TOR
the republic is ominous.
Beoause the republic have armies numbering
over &c, 600 men actually in the field and doing
duty. These men are organic ID and governed
on the principles Of civilized warfare. Ihe
prisoners whom they take-and 30 far they
have taken three times as many as their enc
mics have from them-are treated IN every re-
spect rs prisoners OF Tar are used and treated
by the most civllizel nations OF tho earth. ln
the hope OF recognition by the United States
they have never yet in single instance retail
ated death for death, even in cases OF the most
provoking nature.
Because the Spanish authorities have ALMOST
invariably brutally murdered the soldiers OF
the armies Of the republic who have surren-
dered to them, ind have recently Issued an
an official order requiring their military forces
10 nd or
prisoner of the republic who surrenders.
This is done, the order cheerfuly tells us,
"to save trouble and vexatlon to the Spanish
civil authorities" This is eu outrage the civil
lied nations Of the earth ought not to allow.
Because the United States ia the nearest civ
ilized nation to Cuba whose political lns tltu.
tions strike responsive chord in the hearts or
all Cubans. The commercial and financial IN
terests OF the two peoples being largely identical
and reciprocal in their natures, Cuba earnestly
nftioa. nRRoa.S '0' the 'nsus''.'DADi' .s' - I'VE
Because the arms and authority OF the Re-
public OF Cuba now extended over the two
thirds Of the entire geographical area Of the
island, embracing vsIy great majority OF the
population in every part OF the Island.
Because she has navy IN course OF con-
struction which will excel ID point of numbers
and efficiency that heretofore maintained by
the Spanish authorities in these waters.
Because these facts plainly show to the
world that this is not 8 movement OF few dis
contents, but the grand and sublime uprising
of people thirsting for liberty, and determin-
ed With this last effJrt to secure to themselves
and their posterity those unquest1oned rights
liberty of conscience aud freedom OF the 1ndi-
viduai.
F ually, because she is following but in the
footsteps of Spain herself IN endeavorlng to
banIsh tyrannlcal rulers and in their slea l
place rulers Of her own ohoi'e. The people OF
Cuba, having ten-fold more absolute and 90
tent right than SPAN had, because Cabl's
rulers are sent without her voice or consent
by toreign country, accompanied by ana WIN
swarms OF officials to fill the various oinces
created ouly for their individual comfort,
dra awinr their sustenance and support from the
hard earnings OF the natives or the sol.
Allow US to add with the greatest dihdence
md sensitiyeness, that the difference between
tho rebellion IN the United States, and the
present revolution in Gu a is simply that IN
the former o small minority rebelled against
lags which they had voice IN making and the
privilege OF repeating, while in the case OF
Cuba we are lesisting foreign power in crush
ing us to the earth, as they have done tor CEN
turles, with no appeal but that OF arms open to
us, and appointing, without our knowledge,
voice, advice or consent, tyrannical citizens Of
thslr own country to rule us and eat our sub
stance.
s.Patria libertsd!"
Approved BY the Supreme Junta and ordered
promulgated By
SENIOR GENERAL CEsPLDEs,
Commander IN Chief
Republican Forces OF Cuba.
Headquarters in the Field, March l., 1869.