New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-04-05
CUBAN FREEDOM.
AMERICAN SYMPATHY FOR STRUGGLING


A'S S,nSs DEMANDING THE RECOGNITION OF
.' CuBhN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BY MAYOR
HALL, REPRESENTATIVE FITCH OF NEVADA
Ex-Gov. sALoMoN OF WISCONSIN, AMI
OTHERS.
DESPITE the extremely unpleasant weather
shat prevailed last evening" the seats and aises OF he
reat hall of Cooper Institute thronged 10 'her
pmost limit with enthusiastic and intelligent frends OF
tne cause Of liberty in the lever fathiui ise. LUG
stage and the speakers desk were drsped Win inc ou
han and American colors. fraternaly intert"incu o
hand of the list Regiment played variety OF It's sweet
ese airs and the vast audience including many aues
not only listened with unweared attention, but greeted
the stirring resolutions and the impassioneu u''eiA
of the successive speakers, with thunders OF tu"ou
applause. ,.. -. .,o
Douglass Taylor, Chairman OF the Commlt'ee u 'He
Cuban League in few appropriate remarks introduced
the Chairman Of the meeting Mayor Hail. who was ell
Enthusiastically received. and said:
SPEECH OF MAYOR HALL
Ladies' and gentlemen Americans, natiye-born, and
naturazed. and cOequal in the eyes OF American law
supposed that the greeting you have given the intro
duction made by the Chairman OF the committee OF AT
engagements was personal greeting TO myself.
should indeed be proud and happy. but ree ,S
friesds Of the Lone Star of Cuba gives lap
to 9e @Sh in Dfa1 t Esf
man before YOU appisuse. who in this cause should be
plausej had the honor, little over year ago. to
preside similar meeting. We were told on the FOL
Ihsses the Cronisd "a storm OF hsses which believe.
to be Literally Translated In 6s Sa6
done themselves and the city very needless service III
vas o opv few insnrrecons upon few sugar planta
ons Cuba and the rebellion would be over ID W days
The very fact apart from all those considerations
whose details know well. identified with the strug
from ali those details the very fact that one year after
assembled again to put up the cry OF american
lives. has along with the motto OF
higher applausel; and that We have GPproacneu Ine
time when that was poetry, and what was sympathy
year ago has assumed the shape OF something pTac
tical in its aim toward the struggling power that curing
the past has sustained itself almost pqa49a exce
men. the 81 fTieates and the almost 400 guns
which SPAR, has in vain q, employee, , to put
dence in the glorious Cuban nation. Great applause
We met tonight this stage, Of both the parties
in the State NewYork every single Democratic
newspaper, with exception. and that unfortunately
thy its rhetoric and s eoquence In the cause Of Cuban
nrad 10 feel that t6e great Rspaban parv a
almost unit in favor OF Cuban sympathy applause;
and we have met tonight to endeavor to impress prac
caly upon the American Government the great of
,he American people ~ felt u your own metropolis in
>beAaii OF me DYING prayer OF 0awlhs-.fuoa must De
.%.s., ,2s :rplause What has oeen zone
during this year in Cubai The leaders of the Cuban
movement have been jealous So has Spain The Cuban
leaders have been what the Spanish leaders have not
,been-intellgent and humane: Applause The fol
Of @ G0sSn tho %Ss hSe ee6 a.
from the days Of TheTmopyl9 TO the present there has
been no such golden spectacle presented as that OF the
humanity of the Cubans toward spain III the face OF
barbarisn which. although this is the nineteenth cen
tuIy, has scarcely been equaeu III any oller OF the
eighteen. lApplause.I
Last Summer member OF the Administration died in
Washington. He was lying upon his dying bed expect
ing the coming not only of his President not only of his
official associate, bat Of his friend. He left this people
and he left you legacy and in his dying words he said
SCUBA must be free" Iappausel, and shortly
afterward Gen. Rawlins died. Req,uescat IL,
pace" That legacy is still unadministered upon.
We are here 10 call for letters Of administration
upon II. The day Of mere poetry-the day Of mere
sympathy has passed. We must have something
practical. lAppause.I In vain have we gone through
civil sustained the principle Of liberty unless
rama of Spanish gunboas going down the bay. We de-
mand-that's the wOrd!-Of the Administration Of the
United sates-no matter what may be its pOcs-n the
past the OF the glorious present,
try that supineness must cease. and something must be
done toward giving our aid and sympathy 70 Cuba our
neighb0r relation 10 her demands upon Spain for JUS
tice and for freedom. fApplause.J
The Queen OF the Antilles has upon her the
shackles Of despOtsm that were placed there by kings
and queens hereofOre that placed there by
OF Republicanism by Prm. Misses IL must be the
the American nation TO at least assist in riK
ing shackes from her and allow her 10 reach
them forth untrammeed and free; While at the same
each say 20 each WELCOMED Welcomed We free
Republicans together" lGreat applauseJ
LIST OF OFFICERS.
Mayor Hall then introduced IN complimentary terms
Gen. Darling, who read the following list Of VicePres
dents and Secretaries o. -. Meeting:
VioePresidsntG
D. n Morrab, ChAunesy ShaasT. Richard kedy;
Peter Cooper. go. Stoses Sof. ia IN, "a Asrrwsh