RUMORED INSURRECTION IN CUBA.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 193, 26 August 1859, Page 4

RUMORED INSURRECTION IN CUBA.

The sudden disappearance from our city, within three or four weeks past, of sundry Cuban exiles has been remarked by many. The Sim, which is the peculiar organ of Cuban patriotism, gives the foi lowing startling explanation, which may be characterised ■-" important if true." The Flag ;oe free Cuba. —We display . once more in our columns the emblem of Cuban liberty—the emblem under which her patriot sons are, perhaps at this moment startling .the ears of their oppressors with the cry which rang through the thirteen colonies, in the glorious days of our revolution—" Give us liberty, or give us Death." . , We seek to raise no idle excitement. We have good reason for the belief that if the flame of revolt has not already been kindled in the island of Cuba, it will be before the end of this week. The Cubans have, by many disappointments, realised the truth of the j oat's lines, that " Who would be free, Then s Ayes must strike the blow." Therefore, ever since their abandonment by quitman and others, they betrayed by professed friends in the United States, and the squandering of the resources of revolution which they had collected, they have devoted themselves to a new plan in which the initiative and the first efforts for freedom should be exclusively Cuban. Upon this basis they have organised Patriot Clubs throughout the island, and the members count by thousands. Their copatriots in the United States have aided all thenplans, and will share with them in the dangers and the glory of the struggle for Cuban rights. All the stories set afloat about the organisation of American expeditions, are wide of the truth. This last is a pure Cuban movement. The first of this month was the time fixed by the clubs throughout the island for a general rising; and, unless their plet has been discovered, or some untoward event has happened, they are now in arms against their oppressors. The New York Convention of Cuban patriots—a small but determined bandsailed on their dangerous mission in the latter part of March. If the patriots in the island, had not already risen on the day tfxedi-ithe landing off",the New York Convention "would be the signal for revolt. Arms and amunition have been provided, and all are bound by a solemn obligation to stand by the cause, until victory crowns their effort, or the last man has fallen. Most of the Cubans who have gone from New York, are young men; many of them sons of the leading men of the island, and all fired with the determination to free their native soil, or die in the attempt. They go forth taking their lives in their hands. Thr Cubans will now prove the sincerity of the loud-spoken American sympathisers. They strike For their own liberties.. Will our government see to it that they have fair play ? Will Mr. Buchanan stand up to his pledges and professed policy? Will Senator Brown and Tammany Hall back their brave words by deeds of practical sympathy? The next steamer from Havana may bring us stirring news; in the meantime, let those who have talked of Cuba prepare to do something to strengthen the hands of her patriot sons.— New York Tribune, April 15.