Many of them have transferred their property to this country. what remnant of it was left. and have started in upon business engagements here of an honorable character. Many of them have left behind the titles that they wore under the Spanish Monarchy and in Cuba. and have cheerfully abandoned the distinctions which made them prominent among their own class of people in order to accept the plain equality of the democracy and the republicanism of the United States. They have come in great numbers. and not one of them has set his foot upon these shores who has not had extended to him a hand of welcome and a heart beating with cordial regard. for this is the land of the persecuted refugee. It is a land to which all the oppressed of the earth may come with perfect assurance that when they have planted their feet upon our soil they have got home to the land of liberty. These people have come in great numbers.