The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-03-28

AS yet the insurrectionist have puI no,
one to death. But can they forgive the
assasSlnation OF Captain Lopez and others
equally innocent2 May they not think
Teprlsals necessary? 1T Is feared they will
III they do, much blood will flow, and God
only knows what awaits u.s.
"You may well Imagine that oil these
terrible occurrences fill the hearts OF Gu bans
with hatred for the Spaniards, but we are
obliged to bear oil in silence. The Spa
niards, no doubt, some day will have to an
swer for the numerous assassination COM
mitted by them on this island, for by no
other name can the execution of political
prisoners be called. For my part, I cali
down upon their heads the venyeance of a
just God"
Commenting on the above, the Baltimore
Sun says:
1.-The outrages upon civilization which
the Spanish troops in Cuba are practicing,
IN the shooting of captured rebel prisoners,
may have an effect that is not contemplated
b,y the Spanish authorities, in producing
the recognition of the Cubans rs bellige-
rents by other countries, upon humanita-
rian grounds, if no other Revolving cru
elites have been the iuvariable attendants
OF oil the wars which Spain has heretofore
Waged to preserve her hold upon her colo
mes on this continent, and the results of all
those conflicts ought to have taught her
that her policy was as useless as it was bar
barous. The denial of quarters; the butch
cry, in cold blood, of prisoners; the insti-
CATION OF slaves to insurrection, were
familiar methods of carrying on wars
against the South American reYolutionists.
Cropping off the ears of the inhabitants of
q town and sending q basketful of them as
presents to their headquarters, and after
wards shutting up the inhabitants in their
houses and burning them alive, were among
their pleasant pastimes in Peru, where the
people OF thirty towns were destroyed,
these peculiar entertainments being varied
with tying ecclesiastics and women to guns
and publicly fogging them, after stripping
them in the presence of the troops It is
possible that other nations may feel prompt
ed to interpose in the struggle in Cuba
lest 1T may run into a repetition Of the same
horrors Spain must abandon atrocities
like these If she would not render the loss
OF Cuba, like that of hor former American
colonies, inevitable. There is another
marked feature of her policy which she will
have to give up, even if she succeeds in
putting down the present insurrection in
Cuba, and which has ever been, as it ought
to be, source of chronic discomfort in her
American possessions. It is her baneful
practice of persistently endeavoring to pro-
mote her European subjects and to prevent
the native colonists from having any share
in their own government. OF about 800
viceroys and captains-general whom she has
appointed since her conquests in America,
about twenty have been from the body of
the American population. 1t is not won
derful that the obligations of allegiance
have been SO often successfully thrown off
by those who, instead of receiving that pro-
lection on which the duty of obedience is
founded, only know their government by
its efforts to prescribe, depress. degrade
and humiliate them"