The record-union., 1898-09-14
Issues Aanifesto Explaining Its Hopes
and Objects.
Ackno Wedges the Debt Of Graft
tude to the United States For
Terminating the War In Cuba
-ResolutiOns Setting Forth
What is Desired and a Commit
tee Appointed to Direct the
Movement.

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-Prominent
Cubans of this city have drawn up a
manifesto reviewing the antecedents of
the present situation and setting forth
at length the necessity of constituting
new Cuban party, to be called the
Nationalists, which, without reference
to previous political affiliation, should
bring together and unite all the valu-
able elements of the population of the
island of Cuba interested in the we'll
being and prosperity of it's people for
the purpose of organizing and recon-
structing the country in conformity
with the spirit of the resolutions passed
by Congress on April 18th. After re-
ferring to the military occupation of
the island by the United States, ex-
planning its natural and immediate con-
sequences and showing that the condi-
ton is only a transitory one the mani
festo proceeds:
In laying down that fact as a funda-
mental one, we must not forget the
debt of gratitude which we owe to the
United States, nor the moral RESPONSE
bility which the United States has
assumed before thei world, appearing as
the sponsor of the people of Cuba and
of their capability to develop and fou
rish in peace under the beneficent in
fiuence of justice and liberty. There is
no incompatibility whatever between
the duties and feelings of the American
people and our own duties and feelings
On the contrary, they fully harmonize
since they elmanate in both cases from
the same exalted ideal of civilization
and progress.
I'VE have fought for the principles
which the American people have laid
down as the foundation of public law
in America, namely, that those who
govern derive their power from the con-
sent of the governed. Striving for our
full autonomy for the purpose of or
ganizing and governing ourselves in ac-
cordance with the dictates OF our con-
science and the conditions of our COL
lective life, we affirm and realize the
American principle which proves it's
virtually and efficacy in furthering the
improvement of the individual man and
of a people.
Laboring now for peace and order
with the same ardor and constancy
with which we engaged in war, we shall
demonstrate that we were worthy of
the sacrifices made by the American
nation in our behalf, and we shall dis
pei all suspicion as to our being unpre-
pared for the political liberty which we
have obtained. We shall thus fifty re-
turn the valuable service rendered us
and at once relieve our benefactors
from all anxiety, showing that their
generous act will neither be Injurious
to them nor even the source of serious
care"
The manifesto then outlines the con-
duct which should be followed by those
who wish to see the people of Cuba
prosperous and happy, and calls upon
all who are animated by that feeling,
whether Cubans or Spaniards, to join
hands in the furtherance of that noble
and patriotic purpose.
The Nationalists have adopted the
following resolutions:
Whereas, The situation in Cuba i'm
poses the necessity of uniting the po-
litical elements of the country for the
purpose of supporting the principles
and of achieving the object which in
spired the war of independence; and,
Whereas, 1t is both necessary and
convenient that we should conform our
SciidoSS cDho PlOSCCoihSS W Tie spirit
of the resolutions passed by the Con-
gress Of the United States on April 10,
1898.
Resolved, That, for the purpose of
constituting in Cuba the Cuban Ma
tionalist party, we invite the co-opera-
tion of all the revolutionary elements
and also of all the other elements OF
the Cuban population which sympathize
with the object above stated, without
regard to their previous political affili-
alton;
Resolved, That committee be ap-
pointed whose duty shall be to publish
and distribute a manifesto wherein the
purposes and objects of the proposed
party are set forth at length and to
take all such other steps as may be
necessary in order to convene in Cuba
at the proper time a convention of
delegates from all parts of the island
for the purpose of perfecting the or
ganization of the party
In conformity with the resolutions. a
general provisional committee Of sixty
has been selected, representing the
property holders, the commercial class,
the various professions, the different
sections of the island and all shades Of
Cuban political opinions.
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