Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-13
CUBA.
The Reported Collapse Of The Cuban Cause
DisCrsGitsd.

The New York Tribune Of the Slh says:
We are not yet believers in the story of
the Cuban collapse. It's peculiar parent
announced the same news less than year
ago, and on uncOunted occasions an
nounced the downfall Of JuareZ In MeEi-
co. But the elastic revOlutiOnists would
not stay down, and Juarez and Cespedes
still live, and Bazaine has gone TO France,
and Dulce to Spain and his grave. Such
facts as these have very pungent and
striking moral. No one can affirm that
Mr.. Cespedes, or even Mr.. JuareZ, is at
this moment leading a happy life; MOI, for
that matter, is Marshal Lopez. Yet by
some desperate arr, these indOmitable men
still live. The atmosphere round about
their struggles is surcharged with fiction
and full OF the rumor of defeat. Never
theless Mr.. Juarez keeps the leadership,
which he has held for nearly fourteen
years, amid all sorts of Mexican erup-
tions, and through every State Of his Fed
eral Union has entertained prOnuncia-
mentos half dozen times. Nor will il
do 10 say that Marshal Lopez is dead yet,
for be has written "A letter TO his son
which runs exactly 10 the contrary. As
for Cespedes, we have Information which
seems TO be positive, that the campaign
Of his forces IN East Cuba is of the most
promising character; aud for the rest, we
can trust IN the record which the Cubans
have won rather than to the lie which the
Spaniards have manufactured. These per-
sistent leaders may die, bat they do not
easily resign.
The meagerness of the Cuban means
proves nothing definite. Those OF the
Spaniards are occasionally as bad, for We
hear of them joining the Cuban ranks in
the East from starvation. The Cub9ns, it
Is true, may die of hunger; but the Span
iards, thousand Of whom are said TO be
in hospital 40 Santiago, die of cholera.
1t is admitted that las ragamuilins of Ces-
pedes can enter city aud take prisoners
and supplies, all from sheer hunger. IL is
also granted, We believe, that they fight
TO the extent Of losing hundreds OF mon
In battle, all from sheer cowardice. On
the other hand, we learn that the new re-
cruits of Valmaseda are taking 70 their
heels from terror OF the guerrillas. Here
we have the very element which has
made it rash 10 predict anything of the
Mexicans 1uring the war of intervention,
which deceived Mr.. Corwin, which puz-
zled Mr.. Seward, and sent French Mar
shal home and put an Austrian Prince to
death.
We repeat our caution against the te-
merity Of believing that the cause Of Cuba
has yet come TO fnal grief. The patriots
of that island reassert in the boldest and
most vigorous language their determina-
tsOn TO perseYere, whether they OBTAIN
outside aid or not, We hope that they
will, and that the plight OF Spain may
operate to their advantage. The report
sent us by Admiral Poor that the Span
iards have less than Il, 600 troops in Cuba,
exclusive, we suppose, OF the inefficient
volunteers, may serve as an Offset to some
recent exhibits Ofthe supposed impotence
ofthe Cuban cause. The patriots have TO
take up arms, as it were, against siege'of
hard lying, and we hope that they Will
not oppose 1t with its own fatal weapons.
Otherwise, their collapse, not less than
that Of Spain, Is pre-orsaiRsa.