The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-13
CUBA.
ValmC CsCdn's Infamous PrOcInmiutIOn-A Re
spOnse from tiic Patriot General MarmOi-
WHrtO the kuiic.

VnlmCs Cdn's Infamous E'rOcInniutiOR-A Re
spoUse from tIio Patriot General MarmOi-
War to the knife.
private letter from Santiago de Cuba Of the goth
Of April states that column Of 1000 troops had left
that city few days previously to operate against
inc nsurpcnts i'm the vicinity of fipuani and that ON
the first days march they encountered them at
''Sucna del Aqua where the troops received
severe check IL also states that the insurgents oc
Cupicd Santa susanna and san Luis, and that the
Spanish hospitals in Palma Soriano were Tiled with
sick and wounded. The writer adds that the Ame-
riCan flag had been raised and salutcd in Camp I'll
Ramon, the heaGqlaiJcls oi General Malmo VINO
had issued the following proclamation in reply to the
recent one OF COunt Nalmaseda, commander of the
Spanish forces in the Eastern Department.
To the People Of observation-disclosures The
Spanish General Nalmaseda issued proclamation
on the 4tl instant 10 the inhabitants o the country
the object of which IS to authorize arson, MURDER
and disregard Of property and to sanction all the
horrors which vie mclcenarles, without conscience
or religion, are capable OF committing.
This decree, with the preamble that precedes it,
is evident proof of the most harefarced cruelty.
The prologue is the song of praise of a conduct
which has not been observed The proclamation is
the otCia sanction OF practices that have been
forced for three months.
The Scnor Count prides himself on having par
doned us; of having offered protection to our
mothers and to the women we had abandoned; and
this same most excellent Count, wishing to make a
chronological event in his personal history, threat
ems us with new era, to begin the 14th instant,
when, to quote his own words, ''the man of yester-
day will he no more
Cubans-On the 18th OF January the Spanish Gene
raj OCCupiedthe place WhereOn BaYam0 once had
stood-Iow covered with rubbish and ashes.
Almost three months have passed since the fatal
day, and this period is stained with the blood of
hundreds of victims and the burning of their quiet
While the 'ilustrious" Count hiding his obesity
in the tower of TarragOitia keeps up the appear
Spanish vOunteerS-hateiul tools of laundering
Jupiter Of modern times-murder women, children,
and old men, burn houses, rob, violate the wife be-
fore her very husband, Kill the child before its father
and invent in their fury horrors that the most bar
barOus ierOcity would shudder at.
The blood of their victims Is still warm; the mutt
lated body of Miguel Milanes, that of Palalo, muir
dered before his mother Wlie' ana sister; that OF
Ramon MARITIME ana ms son Lucas the one aged
and crippled, and the other mere STRIPPING; that
of AdoO Rodriguez ana Florencio NillanOva, both
quiet young men, with no Other CRIME than thaJ OF
having preserved pure III their hearts the sacred fire
Of liberty; that OF Bernardo Camacho torn from the
AIMS OF his wife after scarcely month of marriage;
the body OF Bartolome TamayO, guilty Of having
sons that loved their country; those OF the brothers
NuViOla Luis NIcstre Francisco Puente Agurre Luis
Guerra, Diego Batista; that of Wan, Frenchman,
eighty years Of age, murdered IN his own house,
where he iay covered with Ieprosv; those of Luis
Reyes and a great many Others whose disigued
remains were abandoned on the high roads to the
mercy of birds of prcy-these, all these, are the
bloody proofs of the kind indulgence, OF the never
too highly TO be praised humanity, OF the gentemnly
ana philanthropic Count OF Namaseda.
And while he authorizes the execution OF these i'm
pious saughters, do you know the protection he
offers to the women taken by force to the ruins of
BayamO and Jiguani? My blood rises with mdigna-
ton when remember that they serve pastimes to
his centious troops. OnlccrS and soldiers without
respecting wifes a sisters grief, force their way
into their houses, scof at their afction, and take
pleasure in repeating to them that the objects of their
love are dead or VIII soon de at their hands, and,
using violence, proane the sanctuary Of grief, con-
vertng it into an impure spot by mendcing with
sword or bayOnet the unfortunate woman who re-
Siss their laSCiViOus proposals.
Citizens The General Nalmaseda, who for hrCe
months has authorized these butcheries and atrOc-
ties, has the bOldncss, the unheardOf impudenCe TO
present himself before you the indulgent and
! loving father Of so many straylng children.
Brothers Your country needs all your efforts
come all, to die if necessary lighting ana untirng to
save Cuba from the hateful tyranny of SPAIN There
can be no wayering between dying like sheep at The
! nn q
! battlefield defending our holy independence.
Brothers, our everlasting curse be upon Spain; let
| vengeance make us tigers let natred swell our
veins, and let us die before surrenderng; let us fly
together TO the Fray for we viii be strong united,
| and victory Will crown our sacrifices.
| Patra LiDertad DONATE DEL MARMOL.
Headquarters at FL Ramon, April Q, 1868.