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238 Marching with Gomez
ment of Castellanos against Gomez at Saratoga are
unusual.
The Spaniards did not take the revolution very
seriously at first, thinking it would confine itself to
its old stamping-ground in the East, where they
could crush it out at their convenience ; but before
they knew it, Gomez and Maceo were at the gates
of Havana. Therefore Martinez Campos, and later
Weyler, concerned themselves with pacifying the
country nearest at hand. The elaborate trocha
policy, the guarding of the railroads, the garrisoning
of important towns in the middle provinces, and
local operations kept busy all the soldiers Spain
could spare. The East was left pretty much to itself.
The late Jose Marti,1 the agitator and father of
this war, said as early as 1884, "If we can sustain
the revolution six months, we can count on Spanish
mistakes to do the rest."
The inhabitants of Cuba Libre address each other
as " Ciudadano (Citizen)." They already feel themselves citizens of a republic, and in addressing strangers and people of consequence, Ciudadano has
replaced Sefior. In this country many homesteads
1 Marti devoted his life to the cause of Cuban independence and for its sake
wore chains as a mere boy, in Spanish prisons. He was a voluminous writer, a fervent
orator, and a man with a genius at organization. He gathered the scattered Cuban
emigrants into a compact body, by organizing revolutionary clubs, and strove to arouse
their patriotism through revolutionary newspapers. Cuban cigarmakers, in"Tampa,
Key West, and in every large city of the East, paid regular contributions to the
juntas organized by Marti with unwavering faithfulness, and in the Island, veterans
of the Ten Years' War awaited his call to arms. The call came on February
24th, 1895, an(* was responded to at once by Maso, Moncado, and others. Antonio
Maceo and his brother Jose landed near Baracoa on March 31, and Gomez, with
Marti himself, landed, after danger and delays of voyage, -on April 11, near Baracoa
also. On May 19th, 1895, Marti fell at Dos Bocas, Oriente, under an unexpected
volley from the advance guard of a Spanish column ; but his work was accomplished ;
for the revolution was already under wav.
| Title | Marching with Gomez |
| Creator | Flint, Grover |
| Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
| Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000283 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 238 Marching with Gomez ment of Castellanos against Gomez at Saratoga are unusual. The Spaniards did not take the revolution very seriously at first, thinking it would confine itself to its old stamping-ground in the East, where they could crush it out at their convenience ; but before they knew it, Gomez and Maceo were at the gates of Havana. Therefore Martinez Campos, and later Weyler, concerned themselves with pacifying the country nearest at hand. The elaborate trocha policy, the guarding of the railroads, the garrisoning of important towns in the middle provinces, and local operations kept busy all the soldiers Spain could spare. The East was left pretty much to itself. The late Jose Marti,1 the agitator and father of this war, said as early as 1884, "If we can sustain the revolution six months, we can count on Spanish mistakes to do the rest." The inhabitants of Cuba Libre address each other as " Ciudadano (Citizen)." They already feel themselves citizens of a republic, and in addressing strangers and people of consequence, Ciudadano has replaced Sefior. In this country many homesteads 1 Marti devoted his life to the cause of Cuban independence and for its sake wore chains as a mere boy, in Spanish prisons. He was a voluminous writer, a fervent orator, and a man with a genius at organization. He gathered the scattered Cuban emigrants into a compact body, by organizing revolutionary clubs, and strove to arouse their patriotism through revolutionary newspapers. Cuban cigarmakers, in"Tampa, Key West, and in every large city of the East, paid regular contributions to the juntas organized by Marti with unwavering faithfulness, and in the Island, veterans of the Ten Years' War awaited his call to arms. The call came on February 24th, 1895, an(* was responded to at once by Maso, Moncado, and others. Antonio Maceo and his brother Jose landed near Baracoa on March 31, and Gomez, with Marti himself, landed, after danger and delays of voyage, -on April 11, near Baracoa also. On May 19th, 1895, Marti fell at Dos Bocas, Oriente, under an unexpected volley from the advance guard of a Spanish column ; but his work was accomplished ; for the revolution was already under wav. |
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