In a letter to Ohio State Librarian Galbraith, Senor Fidel G. Pierra, the head of the Cuban Junta, thus explains the origin of the Cuban flag:
“The Cuban flag dates back from about 1850 or 1851. It has a Masonic origin and hence the triangle. The red field is the emblem of war. The purpose of the movement here in the United States was to conquer the island. Southern people, fighting Masons, were the leaders. The three blues stripes representing the three departments into which the island was then divided. The white stripes were put, I believe, merely to divide the blue. The intention of the Southern people who were interested in the scheme was to make three states out of the island.
“The star which appears in the red field has a more remote origin. It was the lone star of Texas. In New Orleans, at about 1850, there existed the association of the Lone Star. They assisted Narcisco Lopez with money and in other ways when he invaded Cuba in 1851, and he adopted the flag of the association, I suppose, out of gratitude.
“When Carlos Manuel de Cespedes began the revolutionary movement of 1868 he had another flag, but the people of Puerto Principe and Santa Clara raised the present flag, which was finally adopted as the Cuban national flag when the first constituent assembly came together in 1869.
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