SPAIN. 



SPALDING, BENEDICT J. 



not,. nor can it be, the abrogation of a right which 

 those who are at present directing the operations of 

 the revolution are far from believing themselves en- 

 titled to invade | thus precipitating the solution of 

 so difficult a question. On the other hand, however, 

 the Provisional Government could not in its turn 

 oppose the use of a right which our slaveholders pos- 

 sess in virtue of our laws, and which many of them 

 wish to exercise namely, to emancipate their slaves 

 at once. It also sees how desirable it is to employ at 

 once in the service of the country the freedmen, and 

 how necessary to make haste to prevent the evils 

 which they and the country might receive from a 

 failure to employ them immediately. The Govern- 

 ment, therefore, urges the adoption of provisional 

 dispositions, which are to serve as a rule for the mili- 

 tary chiefs in the several districts of this depart- 

 ment, in order to solve the questions presented to 

 them. Therefore ; availing myself of the faculties 

 with which I am invested, I have now resolved that 

 the following articles be observed : 



1. Free are the slaves whom their masters at once 

 present to the military chiefs for this purpose, the 

 owners reserving, if they choose, a claim to the in- 

 demnification which the nation may decree. 



2. The freedmen shall, for the present, be em- 

 ployed in the service of the country m such a manner 

 as may be agreed upon. 



3. To this end a committee shall be appointed to 

 find for them employment, in accordance with regula- 

 tions to be issued. 



4. In other cases, the slaves of loyal Cubans and 

 of neutral Spaniards and foreigners shall continue to 

 work, in accordance with the principle of respect for 

 property proclaimed by the revolution. 



5. The slaves of those who have been convicted of 

 being enemies of the country, and openly hostile to 

 the revolution, shall be confiscated with their other 

 property and declared free without a right to indem- 

 nity, utilizing them in the service of the country. 



6. The owners who shall place the^r slaves in the 

 service of the revolution, without freeing them for the 

 present, shall preserve their right as long as the 

 slavery question in general is not decided. 



7. The slaves of the Palisades, who may present 

 themselves to the Cuban authorities, shall at once be 

 declared free, with a right either to live among us or 

 to remain among the mountaineers. 



8. The isolated refugees who may be captured, or 

 who may, without the consent of their masters, pre- 

 sent themselves to the authorities or military chiefs, 

 shall not be received without consulting with their 

 masters. . 



Of the leaders of tho insurrection, the Ha- 

 vana correspondent of the New York Tribune 

 gives the following account : 



General Cespedes, the hero and chief of the revolt, 

 was, I am well assured, a lawyer and property-owner, 

 and at the opening of the war emancipated his slaves. 

 He is a man of good appearance, fifty years of age, and 

 has travelled in the United States. His second in 

 command, Arango, the Marquis of Santa Lucia, is a 

 native of Puerto-Principe, and at taking part in the 

 insurrection also manumitted his slaves. General 

 Aguilero was a man of great wealth, and had held 

 once under the Government the office of mayor over 

 the town of Bay amo, just burnt by the rebels. He, too, 

 released his slaves. General Donato Marmol bears 

 the repute of having genuine military talent, as he is 

 said to have defeated his opponents in most of their 

 encounters with him, and signally at Baire, in the 

 Eastern District. He is admired for the ready in- 

 vention of a new weapon of defence in war, which 

 is called the horquetilla, and is a kind of hook 

 to resist bayonet charges. The hook, which -can 

 be made without much trouble, of wood, is held 

 with the left hand to catch the bayonet, while with 

 the right the rebel brings his rude machete, a kind 

 of sword, down upon his Spanish foe. General Que- 



sada, the one other mentionable Cuban leadei, 

 served with credit on the side of Juarez during tho 

 intervention in Mexico. The soldiers of the revolt 

 are of the rawest kind. A good part of them have 

 been recruited from the emancipated slaves of Ces- 

 pedes, Arango, and Aguilero. Many of the weapons 

 are of the poorest kind, but I have heard that a cer- 

 tain number of Enfields have been furnished them, 

 and lately some hand-grenades. It is told me that 

 no help, or exceedingly little, has reached them from 

 the North. Among some other things of their own 

 device, they have been employing wooden cannon, 

 good for one shot and no more. 



SP AIDING, Yery Eev. BENEDICT JOSEPH, 

 D. D., administrator of the Eoman Catholic 

 Diocese of Louisville, Ky., a learned and able 

 Catholic clergyman, born in Marion County, 

 Ky., in 1810; died at Louisville, Ky., August 

 4, 1868, of injuries received by the accidental 

 burning of the drapery of his bed. He was sent 

 at an early age to St. Mary's College, in his 

 native county, and, having passed through the 

 course of study there, entered the Diocesan 

 Seminary at Bardstown, where he continued 

 his studies, with a view to the priesthood. In 

 1832 he went to Rome and entered the College of 

 the Propaganda, where he graduated with high 

 honors in 1837, and was shortly afterward ele- 

 vated to the priesthood. Eeturning home in 

 the latter part of the year named, he taught 

 for several months the students in the theolo- 

 gical seminary of St. Thomas, and was after- 

 ward assigned the position of agent and eco- 

 nome in St. Joseph's College. In this responsi- 

 ble position his services were of great value to 

 the institution. In 1840. he engaged with the 

 Rev. John Hutchins in establishing a first-class 

 seminary for boys in Breckinridge County, 

 which they jointly carried on for two years 

 with great success, and with much benefit to 

 both religious and secular education in that 

 portion of the State. In 1842 Dr. Spalding was 

 called to Bardstown, having been appointed vice- 

 president of St. Joseph's College. He remained 

 in this position till July, 1844, when he was 

 named by his bishop pastor of the Church of St. 

 Joseph's, at Bardstown. He continued in charge 

 of the Bardstown congregation till 1849, when 

 he received the appointment of pastor of the Ca- 

 thedral church, Louisville, and vicar-general of 

 the diocese. This position he retained till the 

 day of his death, with but two short intervals, 

 while the see was vacant, when he was invest- 

 ed by his superiors with the administratorship 

 of the diocese. During the sixteen years of 

 his vicar-generalship, though performing ardu- 

 ous duties in connection with the temporali- 

 ties of his Church in Kentucky, as well as those 

 which devolved upon him as pastor of the Ca- . 

 thedral church, he never received any salary 

 "beyond his food and raiment, but dispensed 

 largely of his own private fortune to those who 

 were in need. His property, which was con- 

 siderable, was left for benevolent objects. He 

 was greatly beloved by Protestants as well as 

 Catholics, for his blameless life, his generous 

 liberality, and his courteous and self-sacrificing 

 disposition. 



