Excerpt from Cuba in 1851: Containing Authentic Statistics of the Population, Agriculture and Commerce of the Island for a Series of Years; With Official and Other Documents, in Relation to the Revolutionary Movements of 1850 and 1851 Recent events have drawn the attention, not only of our own citizens, to Cuban affairs, but have also attracted the serious no tice of the leading journals and people of Europe. The subject is not confined to the excitement of the moment growing out of the late transactions on the island. General Lopez and his party may be swept from existence, and undis barbed quiet apparently reign; yet, the end will not be reached. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.