The paries accused wore rich. free colored men. who were lut to death and their property confiscated. "their lives taken by wholesale on the scaffold. while noit a. few of thom died nnder the lash. which was freely and mercilessly used to compel them to confession." All efforts to obitain reforut and vll petitions to the throne proved failures. owing to the iflience of the Spaniards in the island. Leading Cubans desire the abolition of slavery. The Spaniards desire to perpetuate it and to increase the number of laborers in bondago by the introduction of coolies and African apprentices. which furnish an additional reason for the hostility of the Spaniards to the native Cubans. notwithstanding the despotic power of the captaingeneral is bad enough. I propose now to show that Spain is utterly powerless to govern in Cuba. and exercises Uo control except such as is agreeable to the volrnteers. Since the conmeneoment of the revolution the "volunteers" have completely defied both the captaingeneral and the levon government.