It dignified their so-called insurrection into an organized army, with a government at its back which was so recognized and treated with.

They could buy and sell in American ports.
[Illustration: GENERAL ANTONIO MACEO.] GENERAL ANTONIO MACEO about this time was doing great havoc along the Spanish lines.

He darted from place to place, back and forth across the supposed impassable line of Spanish fortifications stretching north and south across the island some distance from Havana, and known as the _trocha_.

Thousands of Spaniards fell as the result of his daring and finesse in military execution.

His deeds became known in America, and though a man of Negro descent, with dark skin and crisp hair, his fame was heralded far and wide in the American newspapers.
At a public gathering in New York, where his picture was exhibited, the audience went wild with applause--the waving of handkerchiefs and the wild hurrahs were long and continued.