That Placido was at the head of this conspiracy there is not a doubt; but what his plans in detail were, I know not; the means of acquiring them are not within my reach. Nevertheless, from the treatment throughout of the Cuban authorities towards Placido, we may safely conclude that Placido’s plan in detail evinced no lack of ability to originate and execute, nor of that sagacity which should mark a revolutionary leader. Placido hated slavery with a hatred intensified by the remembrance of wrongs which a loving and loved mother had borne. The iron, too, had entered into his own soul; and he had been a daily witness of scenes such as torment itself could scarcely equal, nor the pit itself outdo. Call you this extravagance? You will not,--should you but study a single chapter in the history of Cuban slavery. Do you honor Kossuth?--then forget not him who is worthy to stand side by side with Hungary’s illustrious son. What may be the destiny of Cuba in the future near at hand, I will not venture to predict. What may be her _ultimate_ destiny is written in the fact that,--“God hath no attribute which, in a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, can take sides with the latter.” This sketch, though hastily written, and meagre in detail as it must necessarily be, will show, at least, by the quotations of poetry introduced, that God hath not given to one race alone, all intellectual and moral greatness. William G. Allen FOOTNOTES: [A] A son of that distinguished friend of humanity WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. [B] “Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them, from the face of the spoiler.” Isaiah 16: 3, 4. [C] “Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.”--_Jesus Christ._ Matt. 25: 45. [D] “Is it not that thou deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him? and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?” “If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking of vanity,” etc. Isa. 58: 6-9. [E] “Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.”--_Jesus Christ._ Matt. 7: 12. [F] “Thou shalt not deliver unto his master, the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee. He shall dwell with thee; even among you in that place which he shall choose, in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best; thou shalt not oppress him.” Deut. 23: 15, 16. [G] “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Lev. 19: 18. Matt. 19: 19.