Show GEN MACEO IS NOT A PRISONER At the Head of His Forces and Sure of Success GFATEFUL TO AMERICA FIGHTING A SYSTEM OF TlIlANNY AND OPPRESSION Quesada Continent Tlia He and His Followers Vii Soon lie lleeos nizod as Belligerents When Tliey Will Accept thc iII That Has Been Tendered ISy America and Other 5yn iiatliiiiT New York July IThe World publishes pub-lishes an address from General Rafael de Quesada to the American people Among other things this statement says vMany misstatements regarding the Cuban situation have been made They should TJC corrected I have received word from Cuba today to-day that General Maceo is not a prisoner pris-oner He is at the head of his forces ea and confident of speedy success Grateful to America I wish to express gratitude to the lAmtncan people for their sympathy We are fighting a system of infamy and oppression we are fighting the Spanish government not the Spanish people I find American sentiment with us I have more than 3 thousand letters from leading citizens of the United States expressing sympathy and clfer lag aid in behalf of free Cuba 1 im ve told all these gentlemen that we cannot violate the law They must wait until we are recognized as belligerents bellig-erents by the United States government govern-ment then we shall have all the men and arms we need and the war will end quickly I must say however that Cuba is Puctlcally ours victory is already insight in-sight We occupy nearly all the island The Spanish soldiers have the town and the ground they stand on Despite statements to the contrary the death rate among the Spanish troops is apt ap-t palling The reinforcements asked by General Campos are to fill broken regiments The pestilence Is sweeping away the soldiers at increased speed Generait Campos a few weeks ago had a total force of 40000 men We have 20000 armed soldiers in the field but we have 100000 men ready to goo go-o the front and fight as soon as they can get suns and ammunition 1 The Situation Changed The situation in Cuba has changed within a week The yellow fever destroys de-stroys more men in a day than are lulled in many battles I is safe to say that during July and August General Gen-eral Camps will lose 10000 men from yeWow fever alone We want more arms and ammunition ammu-nition We could dispose of 2000000 cartridges at once The men to use them are ready to march at an hours r notice I Marti was a great organizer and his services were of inestimable value There has been delay in filling his I place But by July 1 his successor will be installed Meanwhile the yellow fever will have destroyed thousands of > the enemy and we shall conquer We shall soon be recognized as belgerent The republic will be pro claimed very soon The first country t recognize our new government will be Chili next Peru and then Colombia I Colom-bia and next Argentina The South American countries are all with us Venezuela has too many serious com plicat ns just now to make any official demonstration for Cuba Chi detests the Spanish h government We hav her entire sympathy Her wealthy and influential young men have held many meetings recently and sent us substantial aid Gulf Stxlcs AVith ln In North America the gulf states S are with us to a man Florida is enthusiastically en-thusiastically for Cuba So we are confident ofwinnlng our cause and establishing r es-tablishing a substantial republic at an early day We consider our independence S inde-pendence now a good as accomplished 55 accom-plished We wish again to thank the press > and the people of America for their sympathy and letters of encouragement encourage-ment Meanwhile we shall obey the Jaws and in obedience to President I Clevelands proclamation do proclamaton nothing contrary to the will of the government I I |