The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-02-25
THE RECOGNITION OF CUBA.
WHO rs REsPoNsIBLE FOR THE At
TTTUDE or TIE UNITED STATES.

ernncntal rulers into tnc neEotalons WIN "hui"'
BY which Spain gained time for fitting out armies to
reconqucr Cuba ? This cunning manipulation was
especially contrived so az to give time to
complete Spanish Runboats in our waters,
and our authorities knew tho fact or were
culpably ignorant. Our Fish swallowed bait,
hook, and all not. however, without motive,
In my opinion, But let us look at tho
situation Of affairs In Cuba. 1t IL nearly year and
a half since the Cuban Instruction began. The
spannrds admit that they have spent over twenty
million dollars, all drawn from Cuba, and have be-
sides contracted a debt of S3O0O0,0O0 to put down
the insurgents, besides connscatiug s300000,0OO OF
real estate upon the island. Gen. Prim few weeks
since, in the Spanish Cortes declared that Spain
had within few months sent nearly forty thousand
regulars and eleven ships Of warto the island This
& exclusive Of the fleet Of cunboats
FURNISHED ny orR GOVERNMENT.
Besides this the spaniards have employed AT least
sixty thousand volunteers in addition to the twenty
thousand regulars previously in garrison, making in
all hundred and twenty thousand men, and
sxty-fye vessels OF Up to this time the iasur-
G,nts occupy nearly two-thrds OF the island. They
made raid the city OF Cienuegos, on the south
cru coast, ana obtained as In several other cites,
oil the ammunition. small arms, boots and shoes,
saddlcry, &c, they required.
For about one ycar tho Cuban revolutionists ave
had a regularly established Government folly or
ganzcd officers duly elected. and uen Cespcdes its
chief executive. This Government has undergone
no change. The patriots since that time have orcu-
pied several towns and cities without INTERRUPTION;
Iii, ~ 1870, o,icn 1,nity S,fcndcJ Rpt II ia
not their policy In the FIRST case TO hold those ports
nnd sec nay. 1t EQUALLY useless TO do SO as ,hey
would draw upon them TIE spanish fleet. Ihis hcet,
to oar national shame be 1t said, Is composed TO
great extent OF
AMERICAN STEAMERS,
ammunition, aud American seamen, which the
patriots. denied belligcrent rights. arc prccludod
nom using. Notwitl standing tlns the Cuuans oc-
cupy territory possessing advantages u which
there Ia nothing; analogous IN the United States.
The Diemel swamp. tho Green swamp. TIE okoteno,
kee swamp, t1c cancbrlk,s OF the Mississippi, aud
the everglades NJ Florida do not present greater
dinicnites 10 the stranger and invader. But the
chief part uf Cuba ohcr- great facilities To the de-
fender. The means Of subsistence flr mm prac-
tlculy inexhaustbe, being reproduced more rapidly
means are mostly inacces siOlc to the Spaniards
The United states ha7 an interest, poliU-
cal, moral and material m Cuba exceeding that of
all countries put together, including even Spain.
But some
BLrxpEmNo KxcUsE
hss been trumpet up to the effect that the state Dc.
partmeut has no Official notice q Cuban govern.
men'. aud this Il USED as an argument against re.
cogrition. Technically speaking, H. cannot shave
offcil knowlcir c mill tie agents OF that govern.
mcnt arc recognized Every one knows how quickly
France rcco-u'Ze the colonies M the revolutionary
var IL i4 $50 well known that unr Government
was carly and among g c very first to recognize the
bcligcrencY and cv n tho indcpeudcnce OF tie Cen.
tri .ud south American States when they reyotci
from spain. l. 10 possible that oflcld information
on the status of affairs In Cuba TO be limited To
that supplied by the spanish Minister Mr.. Plumb
our sined II siicut has desired It to he under.
stool--ndecd ha- caused It to be- so stated-that
TnlgE IS so WAR Is crBA.
Does he suppose the people can be deceived BY the
tNCntyycar old story about the prrc base of Cuba
Is mo plan Of gifted President make the
neXation of san poalugo sei-oh TO tue rbandon-
ment Of Cubai Docs the Exccltiy" propose TO
pass by the beehive of Cuba at own doors and
put IT, N tho hornets nest Of san Domingo
Docs he expect ne good sense OF The American
rcoule to DC delighted with buying both war and
q civil war TIE island OF Hayti, aitcs refusing TO
purchase earthquake or two IN tue island Of -.
Ihomas, when womb be less Objectionable aud
Let Inc draw parallel between tile Gu
han cause nov and the rlV olu tiouary cause when
or forefathcrs were fighting fer Independence.
After the aoardeument OF lpiladelphia, consequent
| timber. 80. our Revolutionary Congress migrated
first e. Lancaster Per ns, vuuia, then to York mud
finally To Nnu4poii4 towns whose united manhattan
it mat GAS fcrc,y Cqualled that OF Culiurro, ;hc
| former Cub'u clplts; aud yet senator SUMMER and
| gifted Pred. ~ attempt 10 Oeltlc the Cuban
| struggle by calling Il
- CrrRRLlA wAE,"
and declaring Nat they have mo liked locality for
| ucr Govern cn',' or "pos,c,sion Of towns or
IriIc cprrt-. Had We pTize courts in our days Of
struggles Let u. glluc, further, Of our own ms.
| tory. ~ April li;i, Inc first blood was she'd Il
Lexington. ono hundred aud twenty-five mon re.
en-, f., ,,,rire fr,, 'ic roI,tr. lea, inc tS-c, -.
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p, we were rruu'.c before Quebec wbiro tho noltc
Iri-hnon Nont-o-1. " ave IN his m. Tor ~ la
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