Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1859 — How to Americanize Cuba. [ARTICLE]

How to Americanize Cuba.

In a recent address to Savannah, Gn., Thomas Butler King made some statements to show that the Americanization of Cuba is now going on rapidly in the ordinary intercourse of its people with the United’ States. Some of these statements are new and highly significant. He says there are from six to ten thousand young Cubans at school in the United States,.and that the number every year increases; und also between 15,000 and 20.000 "Cubans visited the United State in 1856. The number of Americans visiting Cuba is still larger. This constant intercourse must have an effect upon C, ba. Especially must the education of the young men of Cuba in this country, and these the sons of the influential families and the future organizers of public opinion in that Island, tend to promote the growth of American sentiments among the people. This is the natural and peaceful process by which the Cubans are preparing to become American citizens, and when the island is fully ripened by this process, it will come to us naturally, with no necessity for buying it or fighting for it. When Cuba really desires to join the Union there is no power in Spain to hold her a single year. The moral of these facts is, that toward Cuba we have only to exercise the grace of pa-tience. It will be ours just as soon a* its acquisition wiil be desirable.— Springfield Republican.