“The duty of the virtuous man lies not only in selfishness in cultivating virtue itself, but he who rests while virtue has not triumphed among men has no duty.”
(“The Cubans of Jamaica in the Revolutionary Party”, Patria, June 18, 1892)
FEBRUARY 1ST
the February 1, 1871 José Martí arrives in Cádiz after being deported to Spain from Cuba. He stays there for several weeks and then moves to Madrid.
In 1882 He publishes his Constant Section in La Opinión Nacional of Caracas, in which he comments on the habit of some Parisians of listening to operas and comedies by telephone from their palaces instead of visiting the theatres.
It also refers to the first defenses by women attorneys in the Boston courts; the vitality of the American Democrat Samuel Tilden and the emigration of Germans to London, where no less than a hundred thousand adults of this nationality live today. In 1889 he appeared in La Nación de Buenos Aires, one of his works on North American life. Comment on the methods of industrial schools.
On this date of 1892, Martí sends a letter to Miguel Figueroa. Lying sick in bed, he dictates the answer “because I can hardly write,” but reassures him, “I’ll get out of it. I don’t know of anyone else.”
From New York he sent a letter to General Antonio Maceo on February 1, 1893about to leave for Florida.
And in 1894recently arrived from Key West, writes a short telegram to Flor Crombet.
He points out: “Dear flower, wait a minute, I can see the steam coming out. I come out of the key today, today in great conflict. how did you not answer me I’m eagerly awaiting. Your Martin”