Year: 1872

managed to extract it from the ordure of bats
that frequent the caves and rocky parts of the
island. Perhaps the only thing we depend
upon outsiders for is Illuminating powder and
when others fail to supply it we have no diff
Guilty in purchasing it from Spanish officers,
who sell their powder and occasionally
get the benefit Of it." sour first
act was to declare all slaves free
the unity Of blacks and whites on
terms of equality" sAs long as live will
accept no terms from the Spaniards but their
recognition of the Independence Of Cuba.
''We are worrying the Spaniards to death,
and will continue in that line if it should take
twenty years" son one point you may fully
rest assured, that we can carry on the war for
an indefinite length of time, and will never
surrender" to which brave pledge surround
ing officers cried "Amen."


Do you think that patriots such as
these can be annihilated by paid troops?
When town like Puerto Principe,
with a population of forty thousand, sends
nearly three-fourths of her young men to
the insurgent army; when wealthy Cubans
destroy large portion Of their property over
the entire island, burning their own sugar
estates in order to deprive Spain of her
revenue-when this is done, do you think
that Cubans will not endure hardship for
great cause? "You have no quinine," said
our Commissioner to President Cespedes.


''No, but we have discovered substitute. 1t
is called aguadica, and serves us just as well.
We have little sic kness; we are acclimated.
die Of disease. In dressing wounds we
substitute for nitrate Of silver o vegetable
known as guao We manufacture pantaloons
out of plant called pitadeheniquer, while
sewing thread is obtained from pitadecoroja
The guacacoa bark is made into blankets.
Wild cattle furnish food and leather. We
have our shoemakers, we have no expenses,
we live under genial sky, we want for moth
ing" Of such stern, earnest stuff are Cuban
patriots made. They have fought an en-
gagement daily during the last year. Do you
believe that they are not ready to fight as
many more during the year to come?


What can we do2 We can hold mass meet
ings, we can petition Congress, we can pri-
vately furnish arms, their one necessity; we
can quietly fit out expeditions. "With force
of five thousand Amer icans," exclaimed Pres-
dent Cespedes, eve could secure our inde-
pendence in three months. I'll tell you the
reason-the moral effect would be to make
every Cuban in the land rise to free his coun-
try and drive the Spa niards from the soil. I
don't believe it possible that any Cuban can
be Spaniard, and have no doubt that every
Cuban that has deserted from our force and
surrendered to the Spaniards would be glad
to come back to the rescue if he were satisfied
there was any prospect of success"


Mr.. Henderson declares it to be American
sympathy that inspires Cubans with the
greatest hope. Shall that sympathy take no
tangible form? Can the enemy be fought
with good words Already colored citizens of
New York and Boston have publicly pro-
tested against the singular course being pur-
sued at Washington. 1t is enough for them
that five hundred thousand of their race will
be freed by the success of the Cubans. Ought
it not to be enough for us that an army of
brave republicans composed of men both
black and white, have sworn to deliver their
country from the imperial rule of stranger?
''No reforms will be inaugurated in the gov
ernment of Cuba while single insurgent re-
mains in the island" declared Minister Zor-
rilla to the Spanish Senate. What hope, then,
ofreform? What hope is there but in the
success of the Republic? It calls to us; shall
we remain deaf to its entreaty?