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VOL 1.
JEFFERSON, TEXAS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 1869.
NO 18
Resumption—Funding Hip Debt.
measure intended to give this gmrajiteo is
! still awaiting the vfrdict of somewhat un-
If President Grant and Seoretary Bout- certain Legislatures. We hope and ox-
well shall indicate, in their forthooiuing*j Pect >t will ultimately be given favorably.
iWm tl.ni It will not be if thero is unduo relaxation
of vigilance on tho .part ot the radical
The at^ove terms will be strictly adher-
•d'to.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
1'iiited States tiovcrwneut.
THE EXECUTIVE.
Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, President.
Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana. V. President.
James G, F lane, of Maine, Speaker of M. R.
THE CABINET.
Hamilton Fish, of N. Y., Secretary of State.
John A. Rawlins, of 111., Secretary of War.
John H. Robeson, of K J., Sec ot Navy.
Geo. S. Boutwell, of Mass., Sec. Treasury.
Jacob D. Cox, of Ohio, Sec. of Interior.
Kbene/er R. H lar, of Mass., Att'y General.
J. A.J. Crcsswell, of Md., Poftmaster Gen,
BUREAU ..COMMISSIONERS.
Columbus Delano, of O., Internal Revenue.
E. S. Parker, of Md., Indian Affairs
8. H. Fisher, of Ohio, Patents.
MINISTERS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Henry M. Watts, of Pennsylvania, Austria.
James Watson Webb, of N. York, Brazil.
Judson Kilpatrick, of New Jersy. Chili.
J.tBoss Brown, of California, China.
E. B. Washburne, of Illinois, France.
Reverdy Johnson, of Mi|. Great Britain.
George P. Marsh, of Vermont, Italy._
William S. Rosecranz, of Ohio, Mexico.
A P. Hovey, of Indiana, Peru.
George Bancroft, of Mass., Prussia.
Albert. G. Curtain, of Penn.. Russia.
John P. Hale, of N. Hampshire, Spain.
MINISTERS RESIDENT.
Alex. Asboth, Mo., Argentine Republic.
Henry S. Sanford, of Conn., Belgium.
Albert G. Lawrence, of R. I.. Costa Rica.
George H. Yeaman, of Ky., Denmark.
Fitz Henry Warren, of Iowa. Gautamala.
E. M. McCook, of Ohio. Hawaiian Islands.
R. H. Rosseau, of Kentucky, Honduras.
r. b. Van Valkenbure, of N. ¥., Japan.
Hugh Ewing, of Kansas, Netherlands.
P. J, Snlivan, of Ohio. U. S. of Columbia.
A. B. Dickinson, of N. Y.. Nicaragua.
Chas. A. Washburn, of Cal., Paragua.
James E. Harvey, oi" Penn, Portugal.
J. J. Bartlett, of N. Y.. Sweeden & Norway.
George Harrington, of D. C., Switzerland.
Edward Joy Morris, of Penrt., Turkey.
Tlios. A. Still well, of Indiana, Venezuela.
Meesago and Report, a desiro that mca"s«
Ores be taken by Congress to insure an
parly return to speoio payments; we shal
expect to see every obstacle to Such re-
sumption interposed by the Democratic
party in and out of Congress. Tho bare
suspicion that the Administration may
favor an oarly resumption lias impelled one
of oar City's most zealous and influential
Demooratio organs to open upon it as fol-
lows :
" The Finances of the Country—
Let Well Enougm Alone.—The Secre-
tary of the Treasury, it is now asserted,
will, at the approaching mooting of Con-
gress, unfold a scheme for the early re-
sumption of specio payments—that is; as
stated, the resumption within a few months.
To such a scheme, or any scheme looking
to resumption at a time fixed loss than five
or ten years in tho future, we enter an
earnest protest in advance. It is bccausc
of his ability to concoct and press such a
schcnie with influence that tho power
resting in tbe Secretary cf the Treasury is
so dangerous.
The resumption of specio payments
within a few months means what 1 It
means simply that, at the expiration of
these few Months, the price of everything—
a loaf of bread, a pound of butter, a day's
labor, a calico dresr, tho rent of a house,
the value of a farm, the salary of a clerk—
shall bo arbitrarily and suddenly restored
to tho prevailing standard when specie
payments were suspended: What would
be the effect ? The merchant who holds
a stock of goods to-day valued at $100,000
would be forced to soil them at $50,000 or
$00,000; for wo assert that values are
disproportionately inflated, and aro not at
a par with gold to day, but above par
So tbe laborer who to day receives $2 50
fur his day'rf work, would then receive but
$i 25 or $1 00. Real estate to day
valued at $50,000 would scarcely soil for
enough to pay the mortgage. Tbe holders
of evory class of property would bo com-
pelled to sell largely and at great sacrifices
to meet their obligations; thus flooding the
market With everything s l*ablo, and pre
oipitating widespread and general bank-
iuptcy and ruin. We should see sueh a
financial crisis as has never before visited
this oountry.
It is because wo do not want such fear-
ful disaster and ruin that wo protest against
any precipitate action or utterance on this
subject by the becretary of tbe Treasury.
T!ie country is not vet prepared by a long
wny for the resumption of spceio pay-
ments,"
comments by the tribune.
These objections to resumption will be
just as cogent five, ten, fifteen, or fifty
years hence as they aro to-day ; and there
will be just as many-—nay, there will be
many moro—then in debt and anxious to
sell property at hi^h prices in order to
THE JUDICIARY—SUPREME COURT
Salman P. Chase, of Ohio, Chief Justice.
Nathaniel Cliljord, of Ale., Associate Justice . . . , . . ... . ... ,
Samnei Nelson, of N. Y , Associate Justice, j come out rich and glorious. Wait till tbe
R. C. Grier, of Penn , Associate Justice.
David Dans, of Illinois, Associate Justice.
N.Jj.Swayne, of Ohio, Associate Justice.
Sain'I F. Miller, of Iowa, Associate Justice.
Stephen J. Field, of Cal., Associate Justice.
TUE U. STATES DISTRICT OURT—
WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS.
T. H. Duval, of Travis County. Judge.
Geo. R. Scq',t, of Travis. District Attorney.
Jehu H. Lippard. of Hill Conntv, Marshal.
A. Nibiack, Clerk, Tyler Branch.
INTERNAL REVENUE—FOURTH DIS-
/( i, TRICT OF TEXAS.
F, W. Sumner, of Grayson Co., Assessor.
8. D. Wood, of Smith County, Collector.
ARMY.
W. T. Sherman, of O., Gen- Commanding.
t. H. Sheridan, ot O., Lieutenant General.
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IVIL-M1LITARY GOVERNMENT OF
TEXAS.
Bv't-Maj. Gen. J.J. Reynolds, Commanding
4th Military District, Headquarters at
Austin, Texas.
V:>
Texas Slate Government.
JE. M. Pease, of Travis Co., Governor.
W. C. Phillips, of Travis, Sec'ty of State.
E. B. Turner, of Travis, Attorney General.
M. C. Hamilton, of Travis, Comptroller.
J. T. Allen, jof Travis, Treasurer.
Joseph Spence, of Travis, Com. Land Office.
, JUDICIARY—SUPREME:iCOURT.
Amos Morrill, of Travis, Chief Justice.
A. J.Hkmiltou, of Travis, Associate Justice
L. Lindsey, of Fayette, Associate Justice.
A. H. Latimer, of Red River, Assocate Jus.
C. Caldwell, of Marion, Associate Justice.
G. H. Slaughter, Clerk Tyler Branch.
EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
C. T. Garland, of Marion, Judge.
A. P. Shuford, of Wood, District Attorney.
year 2,001, and still the clamor will arise,
"Don't resume yet! Wo are not ready !"
And, on tho other hand, there is nothing
needed to effect resumption but the will.
If that bo right, wo can resume to-day us
well as at any future period. It is true
that resumption involves a shrinkage of
nominal (not real) values; but wo are
confident that, while some must suffer any
how, tho suffering will bo far less if we
make tho plunge at once and have done
with it, than if we undertako to resume by
degrees. Resume at once, aud all nominal
values will adjust themselves to the new
bases; but, if we resolve to resume ot a
future day, who con say at what rate labor
should bo hired for tho year just ahead, or
what price should be charged to-day for
the grain, meat or wool that is not likely
to be used till next summer? Resump-
tion at a specified futuro day is a conun-
drum which every one must resolvo for
himself. "Shall wo really resume at the
time specified ? If so, now will prices bo
affected, and to what extent ? And what
will a barrel or pork be worth next July
which is worth $30 now. and will prob-
ably sell at $22 twelve months from next
New Year's?" Who does not see that
these proLIemfj involvo infinite perplexity
and headacho ?
The way to prepare for resumption i3 to
resume." If Congress dou't see fit to open
this way, wo trust that tho Supreme
Court will.—iV. Y, Tribune.
friends of the measure. Other interests
are pressing for consideration. A deep-
seated prejudice against the colored people
on the right hand and on the loft still op-
erates strongly against the prompt ratifi-
cation of the Fifteenth Amendment, Tbe
slow routine of the regular meetings of
Legislatures would not be waited for if tho
thousands whoso political froedom is wrap1,
prod up in its destiny were white uiou iu-
stead of black. Special sessions ought to
havo been, aud ought now to be called to
disposo of tho question, to relieve disfrans
ohised colored citizens of a heavy burden
of injustice and tho nation of additional
dishonor. It is to prompt to right action,
to allow no rest to the public mind, not to
permit the negro and bis rights to bo over-
looked and disregarded, that an anti-ela-
very press and anti slavery meetings aro
still necessary. Tho same oneuiy in spfrs
it, though different^! form, still lives.—
Tho balanoo is too nearly equal to allow
safely the vigilanco, strong purpose and
wiso counsel of tho disciplined and expos
ricneed standard bearers of the oauso of
freedom to be yet dispensed with.
The Philadelphia Morning rosL the
most discriminating and peerless ® the
radical political daily press, in announcing
the annual meeting of tho Pennsylvania
Anti-Slavery Society, sets forth the need
aud interprets the present mission of our
movement as follows:
"Wendell Phillips demands further pro-
tection for the loyal colored men in the
South. In an article we reprint to day
,he asserts that wo aro forgettiug the one
great question of tho war—the negro—and
that the Administration is guilty of cruel
neglect, Tli<-ro is truth in what he says.
Tho American people have their pazo fix-
ed upon Mr. Boutwell and the finanoee!
they suppose that the Fifteenth Ameud -
ment will be all tho security the colored
race will need. w
"But tho laws protect no one. An net
of Congress is but parchment, tied up with
red tape and hidden away iu-a pigeon hole.
The letter of the law is but the scabbard,
the spirit drawn from it is tho sword. All
our precautions and earefully worded
amendments are usoless unless tho pooplo
see that they aro enforced by tho Govern-
ment. That they have not beon enforced
properly is because of the misfortune of
tho President in choosing a Cabinet which
has an overcautious, slow man like Mr.
Fish for its nominal head, and hue too was
W members who are content to let tho
rebel leaders regain power by quiet tyran-
uy, so long as they do not commit sueh
glaring outrages as the riots in New Or-
leans. Little attention has been givon by
tho Government to the signs of tho times
in the South—the Tennessee election, the
division of tho Republican party in Texas
and Mississippi, the faet that everywhere
the Government is claimed as the ally of
such men its Senter and Dcut. Tho
Tribune, wl^ch of old would have sound-
ed the alarm, is silent, and tho people at
the North do not cotuprohond that in a
few years wo shall be confronted with a
national danger, irtising out of tho restora-
tion to political power of the organizers
and leaders of (La rebellion and the prac-
tical political subjection of tho colored race
to tho whites.
"Public opiuion is all that in this coun*
try can make the laws powerful. It is the
the power that inspires and directs Legis-
latures, Governors and Presidents. To
appoal to it is necessary now, and (hat is
the special work to which the Anti-Sla-
veiy societies are pledged. When slavary
was abolished it was incorrectly thought
that the usefulness of tho societies was
over, Events have proved how far-s>ighted
was the wisdom that ninintaiuod them,"
T|w Case of Cuba.
Whether justly or mistakenly, the Hon.
Charles Sumner, since his speeob at the
Massachusetts State Convention tea weeks
ago, bus heeu regarded as tho leading op-
ponent of tbe recognition by our Govern-
ment of tbe faot tlutf a state uf war exists
in tho neighboring island of Cuba, where a
powerful party is struggling for independ-
ence of Spuin. Assuming only that what
is universally understood, on the faith of
Mr. Sumner's own deliberate utterances,
muBt have some grouudwork of truth, we1
call that statesman's atteutiou to the fol-
lowing fscts : J
I. Tho revolution (rebellion, jususroo-
tion or whatever you may obooso to call it,
in Cuba is still active and defiant. Six-
teen months havo passed since tho inde-
pendence of Cuba was formally proclaimed
and a resolution evinced to maintain it by
force of arms, yet it is to-day more formi-
dable iu area, in military force, and in its
external relationships and aspeots, than it
wss then. Meantintimo wo havo bocn os-
tentatiously advised of tbo dispatch of ex-
pedition after oxpedition , from
Spain, expressly to put it down; and
a loan which strained Spanish oredit to
the utmost has boen negotiated and spent;
leaving it difficult to sayjhow much more
money can be raised to prosoouto this ex-
hausting, ruinous contest.
II., Nearly or quite a year has passed
since tho now Liberal Spanish Constitu-
tion was framed and perfected. It ex-
pressly "uarantcos the right of ell Span-
iards to political,and religious liberty Tho
Republicans demanded nn express inter-
diction of slavery, but were voted down
on the assumption that this would be ridic-
ulous tautology—that tho general guaran-
ty aforesaid procludod tho holding of any
ono in bondage—that the popular adop-
tion of this Constitution would render sla-
very thenceforth impossiblo. Yet though
tho Constitution was ratified nearly a year
ago, slavery is still maintained whercvor
tho Spanish flat? floats in the West Indies.
And, if wo can understand the new formula
of Government imposed on Porto Rico, a
determination is evinced by Sprin not to
allow the ex'stefiee of Slavory to be oven
diseased or questioned.
III. On tho other hand, tbe evidence
that the anti-Spanish Cubans have actual-
ly nbulifihcd slavory to tho utmost limit of
their power, seems to us no longer ques-
tionable. Proclamations, decrees and pos-
itive acts of all kinds, combino to form a
demonstration whioii be who resists might
as well doubt that tberc is any Buch isle as
Cuba.
We might ts well proceed toarguo that
since our own abolition of slavery, the pol-
icy of this country necessarily favor^
iSmapcipation throughout this hemispherei
but can it bo noodod ?—Missouri Dem-
ocrat.
of tbo
• ' "Officers of Marlon Comity.
Donald Campdell, County Ju tge.
VV, H- Johnson, County Clerk.
John H. Salmon, District Clerk.
J. H- Roberts, Sheriff.
John Summers. Assessor and Collector.,
W. N. Hodg^, Treasurer.
OUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
R F. Williams, C D Morri*
lihair Smith. Kp«r
The Need of Vigilance.
' Though chattelism has been abolished
still the pricc of liberty is vigilance. As
yet freedem for tbe negro either North or
South is quite a different thing from the
freedom enjoyed by others. Io a largo
portion of tho North it doos not yot allow
iiim to vote. In tho South if be votes at
all it is generally at the risk of loss of etn-
plyoment, often of life itself Tbo nstiou's
guarantee that as an American citizen his
right to vote in ny State which ho may
choose to reside shall not h° abridged, ho
Utrrir (hnc not vet received Tbe important
It is now over eight manthssinco Gen,
Grant was inaugurated as Presideut of the
United States. Yet in Texas, under tho
immediate control of the President's subrir*.
dinates. it is loyalty, not treason, which is
made odious.
The Jefferson (Texas) Radical, in an
articlc on the tyranny of the prescriptive
rebel opinion which predominates in its lo-
cality, cays:—Anti-Slavery Standard.
"Thcro aro hundreds of loyal men in
this community who are not only afraid to
declare their political. sentiments openly,
but arc absolutely afraid to do certain inno-
■noecut things that they believe would mas
terially advance their pecuniary interest.
The cause of this fear is mainly owing to
the fact that there aro a few moo in our
midst who seen to bavo no other business
under the sun than that of going around
watching tho act s aud doings of other peo-
plo. Several busi ness men have informed
us recently that they would gladly adver-
tise in the Radical, but know it would be
used against tbem by certain parties living
in this town. Now isn't this a pretty bus-
iness for those gentlemen who, whilst they
are going around talking about tyranny
and oppressiou of the government, are at
tho same time spying into the affairs of
other people and threatening them with in-
jury to their business, if (bey dare exer-
cise their own freedom of speech and ac-
tion. How long is this to last T When
will the time come when freemen, and
white freemen at that, will bo allowed to
do as they please in matters which per-
tain #s they may ceneoive, to their own .pe-
cuniary interest, to say nothing of -thorr
politicrl liberties ?"
Responding to tlio speech
Haytian Minister, colored, Grant said :
General: If any proof wore wanting of
tho unfounded character whioh unt{|i, re-
cently pervaded at least parts of this coun*
try, against the race from whioh you aro
sprung, it might be found in tho high
tono and polished remarks whioh you have
just utterod. That, however, like all sim-
ilar prejudices, no matter how deeply im-
planted, must sooner or later yield to the
force of truth. Th throes by which the
new birth here was accompanied, were ins
deed agonizing and their effects even now
are searcoly over. Provident tatesmeli,
however, havo Dcgleoted no fit opportunity
for sanctioning and securing, by law, those
privile ges for your kinsmen, whioh have
been tho inevitable and natural result of
our groat civil convulsion. Among thcita
is thoir right to employment abroad ns
woll ns at homo, in the public rervice. A
right which as you say, has been acknowl-
edged by tho appointment of ono of tho
formerly proscribed race to represent tho
United States in Hayti. I congratulate
myself for this occasion to render homage
to tbo change in publio sentiment adverted
to, by receiving you as I cordially do, as
the first Envoy Extraordinary and Miniss
ter Plenipotentiary from that Republic."
Retrospective.—Tho way of tho
transgressor is ever hard. A very singu-
lar exemplification of tho time-tested wis-i
dc:'i of Solomon comes to hand in a rcccnt
item of nows. 'Juantrell, the leader of
tbo Lawronce massacro, has been traokod
to San Francisco by detectives, where ho
enlisted in the army, and was sent to Camd
Scott, Nevada, An order sent for bis
arrest rcachod thcro too late, ho, with
"three others, having deserted, taking the
outfits in tbe camp. Only few
year* ago this men, notorious in infamy,
was pluudoring and murdering at will,
with the moral force of the Administration
at his back. Too often, indeed, ho oould
rely on what was called tho moral ecnti-
ment cf the country. If the respectabili-
ty and piety of tbe country did not aotually
support Quantrell, it never very seriously
denounoed him, and it did denounoe all
who took up arms to punish him and de-
fend the prinoiplos of froe government'
Remember the bowl of holy horror whioh
went up from the respectable people of
tliia land, when subscriptions were first
taken to furnish Sherp'a rifles to the Union
men of Kansas. Was not Qenrj Ward
Booohor almost read out by all tbe ortho-
dox churches when it was told that he and
his congregation wero sending arms to
what it was fashionable irony to call,
"bleeding Kansas ?"
Now, this man ia a wanderer, hunted
down by bis fellow mon, on tbe far slopes
of tbe Pacific, bearing with him whorever
he goes, not alone tbo heart and the con-
science. but the brand of Cain. Wo com-
mend the lessou of Quantrell, tbe homicide,
to the intelligent leaders of the Demoeraoy,
tbe attempted patrioides. As tho muider
of a uian is to the murder of froedom, to
will be tho fate and memory of tho ono to
that of tho other:
The mills of the gods grind slowly,
But they grind exceeding fine.
George Francs Train.
UB HOLDB FORTH TO THE FENIANS.
The orratio and irrepressiblo Georgo
Francis Train, who claims to bo the leader
of tho Fenians, and a candidate for Presi-
dent of the United States in 1872, loctur-
ed lust night at Mercantile Library Ilall,
for the benefit of tbo familios of tho "Mar-
tyrs at Manchester." He was esoortcd to
tho hall from the Southern Hotel by throe
companies of tho Fenian Guards, com-
manded by Captains Kelly, Nolan and
O'Mudigan, hooded ky the famous Em-
mett Rand. The hall was pretty well
C1 led. Mr. Traiu was introduced by Gen
Thomas Curly, who states that this was
the annivorsary evo of tho death of the
martyr* of Mauobeeter, for tho benefit of
whose families tho leoture was voluntarily
given.
On tbo platform wcro the Fenian
Guards, with their bannors, Hon. John
nogau, M. W. Hogon, Daniel O'Madigan,
Alderman O'Brien, Maj. Hinos and
others. >
Mr. Train appeared upon the stago
robed in a reddish grey overcoat reaching
neatly to his heels. He oommonood by
saying ha had brought over an Irish ovor-
coat, tbo first Irish prosout he had received
after getting out of an Euglish hostile.
Stripping off tho long-tailed groy, his dross
was of bluo cloth with brans buttons, tho
coat buttoned over a white vest. Patent
loathor boots on bis not very delicato foot,
which no doubt had boen considerably en-
larged and llattoned by the vohoment
stamping whioh ho indulges in while
speeking.
Tho leoture—of whioh wo shall not at-
tempt a synopsis-—was a queer, rambling
disjointed, epigrammatic, bombustic, ridic-
ulous, melodramatic, incoherent, rollicking
roundabout, pantomirnio, sensational, ego-
tistical account of his experience in prison
iu Ireland in 18G8—his wonderful gener-
osity to liberated Fenians—his dauntless
valor in facing English soldiors and police-
men—his trip to Puget'a Sound—his
leadership of tbo Fonians—his candidacy
for tho Presidency, and his rough hewn
opinions of men and things in genoral,
He denounoed the press of St. Louis in
unmeasured terms, particularly tho Re-
publican, whioh had refused to notioo him
and his lectures.
Twice while ho was speaking ho was in-
terrupted by tho roeeipt of dispatches—
one stated to bo by oablo from Dublin,
hailing him as tho candidate for Presidont
of tho United States in 1872; the other
from Chicago, addressed to Dan. O'Madi-
gnn, promising that Chicago would do her
duty by turning out to boar him on Tu«s<
day next, and'signed by John F. Seanlan.
The Dublin dispatch waa probably writ-
ten in St. Louir.
During bis looture, Mr. Train read a
great many of his "epigrams," published
in different papers.
The locture was denunciatory of almost
everything but George Fraoeis—the Mo-
riarty Catholics, Daniel O'Conooll, Gen.
Grant, Mr. Adams, Augustus Kelmont,
tho St. Louis press, the English, the Irish,
SH
in such a vigorous, earnest, infuriated, yet
comical stylo, that tho audicnco oould not
holp boing amuse<£ lie even abused the
Democrat, and eatd it had not noticed his
leoture, but oorreelod himself on being in-
formed of his Mistake.
Wo would ba glad to jive some ex.
tracts from Mr. Train'a harangue, an
account of tb« originality 0t hie ideas and
the vigor of his language, but tho crowded
stato of our oolurans will not permit.
After Mr. Train had spokon two hours,
Major Hinea read a set of reaolations ,
(evidently written by Georg* Francis
himself,) eulogizing the leoturer as" a Fe-
nian dolivarer and a 'candidate for tho
Presidcnoy. Mr. Train then spoke about
half an hour longer, and finally subsided.
He waa escorted baok to the hotel and left
to his slumbers. The crowd who attended
him were mostly Irish, and they enjoyed
his odd humor very muoh. Vive la hum-
bug !—St. Louis Republican.
Cuba and. the United States*
Again we are inclined to say that tha
cause of Spain io Cuba is lost irretrieva-
bly. An island soeurged by fir* land
sword for a year or more, desolated in its
agriculture, unsettled io all its labor, caa
have little left for a transported official t-t
speculate upon, or a negro trader to profit
by. Our hter advices from that devoted
quarter do not improve tbe miserable as-
pect of affairs. Plantation* have beon
burning wholesale, and thore havo been
considerable desertion of mullattoos from
tho Government ranks, and accessions of
sugar making blacks to the patriots; and
so necessary has it been for General De
RoJas to mako an cxamplo, that be has
executed, wbilo on his rounds of inspect
tion, a colonel who had intended ti> march
over to tho insurgents. Moreover the mors
chants of Havana have begun to murmur
respecting' tho advisability of pcace on
moderate terms, and £very rcccntly tho
rebels won a battle near Remodioi; and so
influenced tho disturbanco whioh baa tat
ken place iu Cardonas that^tho Governor
of Mautnnzas has been forocd to march
there. Tbe Cubans havo gained no seas
port, it is true, and oould not bold ono
without a navy; but it is evident from their
interior devastations that tbey have made
a number of ports for some time paat very
uncomfortable. These facts may not provo
past all doubt that the flag of Spain has
boen finally trodden undor foot, but tho
distress of the Santiago jurisdiction, whero
it appears that Valmaseda has been ablo
to mako no progress, tbo abandonment for
tbe present of any design against tho Cii
onaga robols, atid tho reoont features of
news already touohed upon, have a mosnv
ing not hopeful for Spain. Mr. Becorra
may assuie tbe Cortes that the Captain*
Genoral'a tolograms aro favorable; but so
long as the fabled victory of Las Tunas
remains the Bolo laurel deemed worthy of
boast in a year of military aorubswork, and
so long as Spain recruits from her prisons
to send troops to Cuba, who will venturo
to bo her soothsayer !
At a timo when such circumstances as
we have dcscribcd appeal to our attention,
a remarkable document roaobos our band*.
It is printed in Spanish, boars tbe stamp
of tho Cuban Republio and tho signature
of one of its officials, and entirely purports
to be a vorltablo testimony thnt tho Cuban
Coogress have resolved in favor of annex*
ation to tho United States. But for the
opposition of a member or two of the old
Junta who considered the movement tot
annexation as premature, distasteful, or
wanting in solfsroliance, this important pa*
per, which bears the date of May last,
might sooner have been given to the Amer*
ienn publio. All thatnood now be romark*
od upon it is that, while not presenting in
set terms the resolutions passed by the
Cuban Chamber of Representatives, it
appears to be the announoemont of Prasi*
dent Cespede's Minister of naoienda —
Tho Junta will havo occasion to fnrthor
attest it, wo presume, since they have al*
ready mado oloar certeia antKSlavery
passuges of the Cuban Constitution, Vae
rious vinws aro entertained of the subject
of annexation, none of tbem unfavoralple
to tbo liberty and noblost self-interest of
Cuba; but it is important in any case to
know tho roal feelings and wishes of the
countrymonof Cespedes, and especially
gratifying to be assured that those feelings
and wishes aro naturally directed to the
United States. Our country would have
ill fulfilled its mission if the sooorged chiU
dron of Spain hsd no better fate than to
return to tho fleahpot* of despotism. An-
nexed or not, we cannot fail to ardently
hope that the speedy deatiny of tho long
suffering province nay ba freedom with
order, and peaoo with nothing to revenge.
Cuba is fur tue United State*; it would bo
impossiblo to say that tho United State
is not for Cuba. Our solo problem is bow
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the Americans (till but tho aforesaid Georgo j to help tbem honorably, with a jo' ey
Frunci?—wore abused most roundly and equally without fear aud without reproach-
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