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The Destiny of Cuba: Island

To the failure of Campos must be added the failure of Weyler, and the reason is not to be found in the men, but in the situation itself, taking into contemplation the economic and military conditions. The Cubans are as thoroughly in a state of revolt against Spain as the Virginians were in the height of the war of the early sixties against our federal government. The whole Island is in revolt, and the very province in which there is most intense sympathy with the rebellion is Pinar del Rio, the extreme west, where Maceo, with not more than ten thousand men, has held a position for more than a month within one day's march of Spanish forces, now not less than fifty thousand strong.