The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-03-09


Remedies by personal experience, and
| now their champion
Mrs NJ. f. Chamberlain, 50 S. Broad St,
/ S. Tonawanda y. Y. says; II thought l
! would die with dyspepsia and heart trouble.
Suffered three years Munyon's Heart and
1 dyspepsia Cures promptly cured me"
Neehannock ave, New castle Pa. says: suffer.
/ ed win nervous debility for number Of years.
| hunyon cured me by treatment from the Home
! once IN Philadelphia
Nj wm. Il tan. 2oa York St, Jersey city,
form OF stomach trouble and tie RGenaatism
Cure cured my wife after she had suffered for six
James II Fills Rrooklyn. A. A Co Nd says:
could hardly move with rheumatism for over
two years. Gould not get relief. Two bottles
MUNYON'S Rheumatism Cure completely cured
Guide 70 Health and medical advice abso-
lutely free. Prof. Muuyou, 1905 Arch ST.,
Philadenhia
Cuban mulatto hero, who for two years
kept the Spanish army at bay and led
them lively quick-step through the
western provinces, to the very gates of
Ilabana. As swift on the march as Sheri-
dan or Sotnewall Jackson, as wary and
prudent as Grant himself, he had inspira-
lions Of military genius whenever crisis
arose 1t is not generally known that
MARTINEZ Campos, who owed his final de
feat at Colisea TO Maceo, was second
cousin of this black man. Maceo' mother.
whose family name was Grinan, came
from the town of Mayari, on the north
coast of eastern Cuba, where all the peo-
pie have Indian blood in their veins
Colonel Martinez del Campos, father of
Gen. Martinez Campos, was once military
governor of Mayari. While there he loved
a beautiful girl of Indian and negro blood,
who belonged to the Grinan family and
was first cousin to Maceo's mother
Martinez Campos, Jr., the future general
and child Of the Indian girl, was born in
Mayari. The Governor could not marry
his sweetheart, having wife and children
in Spain; but when he returned to the
mother country, he took the boy along
According to Spanish law, the town in
which one is baptized is recognized as
his legal birth place; so it was easy
enough to legitimatize the infant Campos
He grew up in Spain; and when sent to
Cuba as Captain General, to his everlast-
ing credit be it said that one of his first
acts was to hunt up his mother Having
found her old and poor, he bought fine
house in Campo Florida, the arstocratic
suburb of IIabana, established her therein,
and cared for her te1derly till she died
The cousins, though on opposite sides of
the war, befriended each other in many
instances, and it is said that more than
once Captain General Campos owed his
life to his unacknowledgtd relative
Antonio Maceo' devotion to the cause of
Cuba libre was like that of mother to
her child. Money could not buy him,
nor speeious promises deceive, and he
died as he had lived, standing noblg by
his principles. His half brother, Jose
Maceo, was captured early in the war and
sent to that dreadful African prison.
Ceuta whence he escaped, later on, with
Quintn Bandera and others of his staff
The last named negro colonel, is to- day
a prominent figure in Habana, "Quintin
Bandera'' means ''fifteen flags" and the
appellation was bestowed upon him by his
grateful countrymen after he had captur-
ed fife en- Spanish ensigns Everybody
seems to have forgotten his real name, and
"Quintin Bandera" he will remain in his
toby. While in the African penal settle
ment the daughter of Spanish staff Of
tcer fell in love with him. The little
blind archer who laughs at locksmiths in
duced her to assist him to escape and flee
with him to Gibraltar; and there he be-
cuer. She is of Spanish and Moorish de-
scent and is said to be a lady of education
and refinement; at any rate, she taught
her husband to read and write and feels
unbounded pride in his achievements,
The noted General Jesus Rabi of the
Cuban army is of the same mixed blood as
the Maceos-Indian, Negro and Spanish.
Another we'll known negro commander is
Gen. Flor Crombet, whose patriotic deeds
have been dimmed by his atrocious cruel
ties. Somebody has aptly characterized
him as the Dessalines of Cuba, and Antonio
Marceo its Toussaint l. Ouverature.
Among all the gold lace hedizzened Of
ficers now swarming Habana, none attracts
more admiring attention than General
Ducasse, tall, fine looking mulatto, who
was educated at the French military school
of st. Cyr. He is of extremely polished
manners and undeniab Bile force of character
can make a brilliant address, and has
great influence among the masses. To
eject such man as he from a third rate
foreign restaurant in his own land would
be deemed sufficient cause for a call to
arms. His equally celebrated brother, Col.
Juan Ducasse, was killed last year, in the
Pinar del Rio insurrection.
Besides these sons of Mars, Cuba has
considered her history enriched by the
achievements of colored men in peaceful
walks of life. The memory of Gabriel de la
Valdez, the mulatto poet, is cherished as
that of Saint. He was accused by the
Spanish government of completely in the
slave instruction of 1874, and condemned
to be shot in his native town, Matanzas.
One hrioht morning in Nav he stood nv