The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-22

being able to make their way directly TO the
Republican camps in the interior of the
island, they took refuge here until they could
have an opportunity of joining the forces of
Cespedes and Quesada Many of them are
exceedingly poor having brought with them
nothing but the clothes they had on. But
their weathier countrymen have provided for
them as literally as duty to the cause of their
country would allow. They have supplied
them with food, lodging, and necessary cloth
ing and for the sake of economy, they have
bestowed them in numbers together One of
the houses used for this purpose is situated in
West Hoboken. Some forty young men lodge
there. Their provisions are purchased in
quantities; they do their own cooking; they
sleep uphn straw, like soldiers in camp, each
man being supplied with a single blanket
They are perfectly quiet and orderly, and
there is no more reason for attacking them
than for attacking the same number of peace
full boarders at the Astor House.
The wel-paid spies of the Spanish Consul
had, however, learned of this little commu-
nifty of patriots, and the Consul at once
brought to bear those all-powerful influences
by which he controls the action of gentlemen
IN office here whose names have not hereto
fore been associated with oppression and
outrage committed upon the weak and de-
fenseless. But since the creatures of Spanish
depotism have succeeded in perverting the
servants of the United States into gendarmes
of slavery and the slave trade, we are com
PEELED to witness things which before seemed
impossible.
On Monday night the 10Th, General Bar
low, the United States Marshal of this dis
trlct, left this city about midnight He was
attended by three of his deputy marshals and
followed by force of twenty-five marines.
Reaching West Hobol1en between / and
o'clock of Tuesday morning, they broke in
the doors of the Cuban lodging-h house, and
kidnapped the whole party First the Marshal
endeavored to bribe one of the party by the
offer of money to betray to him some imagi-
nary deposit of arms. This base offer having
been honorablyrefused the Marshal demanded
what they were doing all together in one
house. He was told that they were living
there until they could return to Cuba, to
fight for their country; and that they were
living there, not at the expense of the Cuban
Junta, but at that of a benevolent society
organized for the purpose. He asked if they
practised military drill. and was told that they
did, but that they were not aware that any
law of the United States forbade it. Finally,
after various questions General Barlow seeing
that his proceeding was without any legal
ground whatever. released his captives at
HOboken whittier he had marched them be-
tween two files of marines, and they returned
to their house. They had endured an outrage
lOr WHICH Jnere Is no JuSUlHcaIOn, ana WHICH
the law ought to punish severely; but, as the
victims are foreigners and poor, it is probable
that the authors of this wicked deed will es-
cape unframed.
If President Grant has any justification
for ordering or allowing the commission of
such wrongs as this which we have now de-
tailed he will do well to lay it before the
public with as little delay as possible. The
ancient persecution of fugitive slaves among
us, their capture by United States Marshals,
and their return to bondage with all the
forms of law, are remembered with disgust
and horror which this outrage against these
Cuban fugitives of freedom revives and in
| tensifes anew. 1t is felt that our shame to-
day is as great and as shocking as was our
shame then; and when we recall the anticipa-
tions which attended the beginning of Gene
raj Grants administration, the sense Of
shame becomes something akin to despair.