The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-10
THE CUBANS CAUSE.
AS JUST AND HOLY AS THAT OF
PATRICK HENRY.

Stirring Resolutions Passed by Meeting
of Citizens of Jacksonville, Florida, Who
Want the United States to Give Cuba a
Helping Hand.
JACKSONVILLE, April 4.-Gonzales
de Quesada, who is now at the head of
the Cuban party in this country since
Gen. Marti,s departure, ACCOMPANIED
by Col Fernando Figuerado and DR..
Fermi VALDEZ Dominguez arrived here
from Tampa this morning. They were
met at the depot by the reception COM
mittee, consisting Of r. J. Martinez,
E. N. Delgado aud J. P. Cancio, and
also by about fifty Cubans and escort
ed to the residence of A1r. Cancio,
whose guests they are while here.
Tonight mass meeting was held at
Metropolitan Hall to express sy1npa-
thy with the Cubans in their effort to
throw SPANS yoke. There were full
ly 500 people present, including the
most prominent business men Of the
city. Among those present were Uni
ted States District Attorney Clark.
United States Marshal Mckay, Post
master II. W. Clark, Mayor D. U.
Fletcher, City Attorney Bars and
Judge Gibbons of the city court. The
meeting adopted the following:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the
American people here assembled,
l. That they most heartily sympa-
thize with the Cuban patriots in their
desires and efforts to free Cuban from
foreign control and obtain for the peo-
pie Of that island the right of self-gov
ernment SO much priced by us. They
have vastly more reason for their &C
ton than had our forefathers, of
whose actions we are so proud, and
they will persist in their patriotic en-
deavors until Cuba is free.
2. That it is the duty of lovers of
free American institutions to express
their sympathy for the oppressed peo-
pie of Cuba and their desire to see
them free.
3. That we urge upon the Legisla-
ture of the State of Florida the duty
of formally by resolution expressing
the sympathy of the whole people of
Florida with the movement for free
Cuba.
4. That We urge upon our Federal
government the duty of promptly re
cognizing the Cuban patriots as bel
igerents and doing all in their power
to secure the recognition by the Span
ish government of the freedom of the
island of Cuba.
5. That we call upon all American
citizens who sympathize with the Gu
ban patriots TO make known their
sympathies, in order that their moral
support may be given to the good
cause.
Queseda received a dispatch today
confirming the reports sents out that
General J. A. Maceo had landed on
the island with three generals and 221
men. One of Mr.. Queseda's party ad-
ded that arms in the shape of cannon,
rifles and ammunition were also land
ed, but from what portZthey were
shipped is a secret none of the gentle
men would divulge. The four generals
who landed are old campaigners
against the Spanish. They fought in
the last revolution. The three lieu
tenants of the famous Maceo are F.
Crombet, the Costa Rican, F. Cerron
and Patricio Corona, who was known
when in Jacksonville as Senor Miriam
da, one of those connected with the
yacht Lagonda, which was seized in
Fernandina, found to be laden with
arms and ammunition, and which was
subsequently released.
Quesada hints that Maceo and his
party were landed from the steamship
Ethelred, which was fred upon by
Spanish vessel a day or two ago.
Queseda seems confident that the
revolution will succeed. He said:
THE only difficulty we have is to get
our ships out of this country. If we
clear the coast of this country we will
do the rest. This talk about Spanish
warships patrolling the coast of Cuba
is all buncombe sent out by the Span
ish authorities to bulldoze the patriots
and their allies. The steamer Mas
cote, a week or so ago, made a trip to
Jamaica and then skirted the entire
island Of Cuba, and how many Span
ish warships do you think she encoun-
tered? Not one. Not a single war
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