Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-22

fare !" Just what it is doing to-day,-iu the
guerilla warfare of rowing bands among the
mountains of that island, without really any
organization as an army, without ever max
ing a stand in the path of the Spanish troops
when they attempt to march across the island,
without ever making a fight anywhere for
their homes and their wives and children.
\ He says again:
1.-THE great trouble has been the want of arms
and ammunition. Last year there were landed
5000 arms; before that they only had about 5000;
ana win tnese weapons lhe patriots mad TO contend
were landed on the island less than 500 arms and
/ 1000 rounds of ammunition"
| This makes in all less than 10, 900 stms
which they have received from all outside
sources. Again he says:
In the Camaguey district the families of the
patriots reside their estates but when the enemy
appears they go into the woods They all have
houses in the woods, as near as possible to their
raised. After the column has passed they return.
In the Orienta society Is entirely broken up, the
Both there and in Camaguey the better class peo
pie remain in the cities"
As no one denies on this floor that every
city in that Island, every town in that Island
every village in that Island, is under the
control of the Spaniards, the " better class OF
people " cannot be largely among the insur-
gents, but remain, as Jordan says, in the
towns not engaged in the instruction. lie
gives this idea of their commissariat
Nothing is grown but the bananas, which thrive
without cultivation. Fresh meat is abundant
Hogs run wild all over the island. Poultry is nu'
merous, and there are plenty of wild guinea hens
An army of any size can be easily supported"
The report continues
| " General Jordan has come to New York TO ascer-
tain If some other than the past system of warfare
cannot be inaugurated." N.
This is a confession that the past system
of warfare will not do that it has been
played OUT" to use a familiar expression
that it will not achieve the independence OF
the Island. And now we come to the main
point-here we learn what Gen. Jordan is in
this country for:
which the patriots can rally. Then he can form an
army; Under the present system, he finds il i'm
Impossible" Jordan says, to form an army
out of the materials in the Island, and yet
we are pressed here with the Importance of
recognizing these rowing disorganized bands
as belligerents
And then we find this statement
1.-THE patriot chiefs think they can do better each
fighting on his own account. Gen. Jordan says that
with small body Of Americans he could break
/ to one effective army"
Which 4" chief shall we recognize
which of the warning factions shall we call
the - belligerents -? Had mt we better wait
until Jordan and his " small body of Ameri-
cans " take control of the instruction and
recognize him?
He says again:
The Cubans have no money but they don't want
money. What they need IS arms, and the introduc-
ton Of military method IN carrying the In
obtaining supplies, Cen Jordan does not propose
I to violate the neutrality laws"
We ought to be obliged to Jordan for his
consideration for our laws. He don't desire
to violate them. Oh no. He proposes
only to come here 10 Congress and get Con
gress to repeal those laws That is all he
asks. Then we have this other statement
Most ofthe Cubans are as resolutey bent on in
mi ~ nifinoate sWccess expecng 10 achieve II Nv
the system of guerilla war such a. was successful
in san Domingo.
] The Cubans unfortunately have no capacity for
organization, and nothing has been done in that III
rection.'
] They believe, says Gen. Jordan, that they
can achieve their independence without
- organization, and therefore nothing has
been done in that direction" And he says
/ further
Many Of the Cubans are very nne men. There
Z Is great deal of enterprise among them. Many
both men and women, are well educated. Cuba
would form a magnificent State
/ And now comes what | suppose is the
I highest commentator and the highest eulo-
/ " which can be pronounced upon that peO-
/ pie. He says:
There are leaders in the camaIa who would be
I ornaments TO the United states Congress"
If they sh9sid SasR -, however, they
not needed here to present the cause Of The
Cuban Juntas, as other gentlemen seem quite
ready to do that for them, although they
might be useful, as General Jordan says. as
ornaments. They are in the galleries to-day
i am in no hurry to see them on the floor.
This statement from one who remained in
Cuba as long, unquestionably, as he saw any
hope Of success for the instruction, estab-
fishes beyond question the fact that the in
surgents have no military organization or
power. They are broken up into bands
Jordan could not organize an army out OF
I them. During the months he was in com
mand, he says he lost but fifteen men killed
in battle. He shot some Of his prisoners,
because he had no place to keep them in.
And he left the island because he saw there
was no chance for anything TO be made out
of the contest there unless he could, in some
way. get " nucleus of Americans around
which to organize something like an army
And as a step toward that desirable end
for him-he is asking Congress TO say that
they Will recognize as belligerent army
what he could make nothing of as belliger-
ent body.
And while am speaking Of General Jor-
dan | may as well say that | have heard d.
rectly from this Cuban chief something OF
his version of affairs in Cuba, in a statement
made in the presence of several members oil
the Committee on Foreign Affairs: and
desire any gentleman on that committee to
correct me if they find my repetition here
of some essential portions of that statement
in any respect different from their own rec
objection.
Gen. Jordan was asked what this govern
ment in Cuba amounted to. He said they
had Secretary of the Treasury; they had
their quartermaster and their military or
CARNATIONS. | asked him what their Secre.
tary of the Treasury had to do whether
they had any taxes TO levy, whether
they raised any money in any way, and
whether they had any money in their treasury
He said, g o, no; we levy no taxes We
raise no money" 90 But how are your
troops paid? We don't pay them. "
g Have you any commissary stores - :. No "
" How are your troops supplied" d" They
+ feed on bananas and when they want apy
+ fresh meat, they kill the wild hogs that rur
+ about there in great numbers l asked hin
what he expected would be the result of
recognition of them by this government a.
belligerents. He answered very frankly anC
T instantly to my inquiry, 1--WE could sol
our bonds" He agreed that they could taxi
arms and munitions of war as commercia
, venture now just as well as they could aftei
their recognition by this government as bel
ligerents; that they would be no more abb,
; then than now to get vessels of war from Thu
/ country 3; that they could carry munitions o
war from this country then no better thar
, Rufh a bai
needed money to buy arms, and then the
, would try the commercial venture of gettin,
! them to Cuba. All, yes. The recognition
of belligerent rights will enable them to sci
their bonds, and the agents who have thos,
bonds in this country, and who are waitin,