Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1878 — What is doing On in Cuba. [ARTICLE]

What is doing On in Cuba.

Gen. Antonio Macco, the well-known Commander-in -Chief of the Cuban patriot forces, arrived in New York a few days ago. The General has been wounded twenty-one times since the beginning of the campaign, and now carries in his body four bullets. He says during the past six years the patriots have been constantly promised aid from this country, but up to the present time they have received absolutely nothing. The strength of the patriot army, he says, is not much over 1,000 men, but they are well-armed and drilled, and in fine condition. They have opposed to them over 40.000 Spanish troops, who give the patriots not a moment’s peace. The General asserts that there is not the slightest truth in the report of his surrender. He says: “I have made no terms whatever with the Spanish Government. I am commissioned here by the Provisional Government, and by the courtesy of Gen. Campos was permitted to pass through the lines. The war must continue. There is now no more Congress or standing Government, and affairs are under the direction of Manuel Calvar, bead of the Provisional Goyenjlaent.”