New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-15

A large crowd Is expected TO DC present 10
witness the game.
NATIONAL CUBAN LEAGUE OF AMERICAN
CITIzENs-A number of gentlemen met on
the tenth instant at DR.. N. j. Crows Office,
No. l2l Basin street, near Poydras, for the
purpose Of effecting permanent organize
ton of . Cuban League Of American citi-
zens. After some preliminary business they
organized by the election of the following
named gentlemen as officers and executive
committee, to serve for one year or until
the island of Cuba is ibersted from the
Spanish yoke, viz:
w. II. Pemberton, president; C. s Bean,
vice president: Jules Abelst, secretary; N.
J. Crow, NJ. D., cor responding secretary;
Joseph Andrew, Jr., treasurer.
Executive cOmmittee-A Rougelet, j. c.
McLead, General H. N. Frisbie, A E.
Adams. Paul Trevigne, s. L. Langdon. Ben
jamin Jacobs, A. T. Selover, q. Mckee,
Fisk, G. T. Lawson, Thomas w. Wickham,
John Roy, A. J. Dumont, David Wilde, c.
Karlige.
Dr. Pembertou thanked the gentlemen
present for the high honor conferred on him
in selecting him as president of an orgsni-
cation which had for its purpose such noble
objects as the plotting out of the civilized
world of the last remains of human slavery,
and the assistance OF a people who are
making such heroic efforts and self-sacri
fees to accomplish their independence, and
the abolition of every vestige of slavery on
this continet.
Although our numbers are small, he said,
if we are true to the cause We have under
taken we may accomplish q great deal. You
we'll remember the anti-slavery society
started about forty years ago in the UDited
States. You have seen what it has accom-
plished. A few patriotic Cubans, with Car
los NJ. de Cespedes, wealthy planter, at
their head. on the tenth day of October,
1868, eight years ago to-day, raised the
standard of liberty on his own estate near
the town of Yara. with only l4o men, with
out arms enough to arm them. They were
all that could be mustered at that time, but
they have increased so rapidly, with very
little assistance from abroad, that the great
power Vi Cpoiu CdA 0O1 oUoO0o snoW, anu
they will finally succeed.
The League adopted the following pre-
amble:
WHEREAS, We, being fully convinced that
the cause OF the revolution now existing in
the island of Cuba, it rightly understood.
can not fail to command the sympathy and
moral support of every enlightened people,
and believing that the lovers of freedom,
who had m ade such sacrifices in blood and
treasure in our own country, are unwilling
longer to look on with folded arms and
view the patriotic endeavors of the Cubans
to secure their independence which carries
with it the emancipation OF 500, 900 souls
and the final blotting ont of abiect slavery
throughout the civilzad world. as Cuba 10
the only place on the face of the globe, ex-
elusive Of Africa. whore absolute human
slavery now exists; therefore be it
Resolred, That we, as American citizens,
do associate ourselves together with the
view of rendering all legitimate aid both OF
a moral and material kind; and We call
upon our fellow citizens to aid us in this
great work by forming sister associations
in every State of this Union; we call
espe cally upon our colored fellow.ciizens
for assistance in order TO remove the stigma
of slavery from their brothers in Cuba"