The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-08-07
NO EXPEDITION AGAINST CUBA.
Tho Revolutionary Party Has Net Sen
Gen. Rolo6 to Attack the Island.

Tho Revolutionary Party Has Net Sent
Gen. RoloG to Attack the Island.
In tho last few days various stories have
reached this city regarding nlibustering OK
petition which. it was said. was about to start
under Gen. Rolofi for an attack upon Cuba.
No expedition has started for Cuba under Gen.
Rolof1's command. nor under any ono else's.
Independent Cubans are organized as tho Gu
ban Revolutionary party. with view to final
effort on the part OF all the elements OF Cuba
and Porto Rico favorable to absolute tnds-
pendence and the establishment of q true re-
public. War is perhaps inevitable. and In the
island it will doubtless be helped by the Cuban
exiles- But such Q task as they have UNDER
taken is not to DO narrowed to partial and dis
orderly expeditions. nor to be endangered by
an unnecessary violation Of the laws Of q coun-
try whose respect Is essential to Cuban suo-
cess and could not be earned by q work infe-
rior to its purpose.
Gen. RolofI is now at Tampa. quietly build
Ing up his mercantile business His family
will shortly arrive there from Honduras. A
party OF Cuban patriots met recently at St.
Augustine. Con. RoloH was there. and SO
also were Joseph Marti OF this city. Gen. Sera-
fin Sanchez OF Key West. and s. J. Pogo. tho
editor OF Ell Yura. In the Florida Times Union
OF July % Mr.. Marti says:
ganized in the United States. as in any other
country where Cuban exiles are to be found.
to bring tog ether with one definite and demo-
cratic purpose all the elements favorable to
independence within or without the island: to
create. by the popular suffrage Of the exiles
an organization able to command the respect
OF tho island and the republics willing to help
her. and to collect the means for effectually
helping the war which Is at any moment liable
to start in Cuba: to prepare. By strict and sim
cere adherence to democracy working re-
3 the S
respect to the rights OF man. without atten-
ton to caste ancestry. or color. and the imme-
diate and equitable exploitation OF the vast re-
sources OF the island
ITO collect by constant aggregation funds
to he % the
1 ral heip tho Gnissd states South
Sqa san. ths may @fs WIZ TIN
war liable to start az q flash at any monent
to prepare temperate and prosperous peace
a true republic. which will live In the peace Of
open commerce and mutual respect with the
Revolucionario Cubano."
Regarding the rumors Of deseents about to
be made upon the COAT o. Cuba, mr. MART
mediate expedition. nor should they be salts
Ned with any, such peltry results as might be
accomplished b. such attacks. mr. Marti also
I'VE do not recognize birth in Cuba as essen
to h 9 wsk E ss dSnsy OF
Spaniard OF good will a seat in our. councils
We proclaim the colored Cuban one Of US with
out special rights on account OF his color nor
special deprivations because oft.
We shall not 60 AN inch further than the
laws of this or any other country permit We
have thought out our plans without descend
ing to Goa st tricks or the violation OF interna-
tional law. No Cuban in the United States or
in any other country is to-day outside OF the
work OF organization. All independent Cubans
possible. the establishment In America OF a
new republic where All opinions and races
may live without clashing. and where hatred
OF the m iitary and jealousy Of far apart local
tiles shall be avoided by a system Of equitable
heartfelt peace With the United States"