The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-04

Foreign Affairs In relation 10 90
Cuban War-6tFIet Neutrality Be
: commended.
NEW YORK, June ga petition
Congress in support of Senate
Chandler's bill for the revival {
American Commerce, is receiving e
natures.
The Herald publishes a forthcou
ing report of the House Foreign Al
fairs Committee on Cuba, of whic
the following is a synopsis. The re
port opens by referring to all of th
numerous petitions in behalf of Cubs
signed by nearly fifteen thousand pee
pie of the United States, and ther
after a recapitulatiOn of the earl
stages of the struggle, and the delu
sive promises of Spain to speedil
crush the rebellion. and the immens
effort made by the Spaniards and vol
uBteers. continues as follows:
/ The Cubans had at lara October IL
| 1868, 147 men; 1000 on the 18th o
| October; g, 700 in November; and IL,
900 in December. They have nov
10000 we'll armed men. There az,
$4,000 err lied aud drilled. but with
out arms. and they claim that with
supply of arms they can put into tht
field 100000 fighting meu-citizeDs
farmers, and emancipated blacks
men of the country, fighting or it
liberty.
These hostile forces have not for.
gotten the objects for which theJ
were orRanized. From the declara
ton of Cuban Independence, at Yara,
to this hour, there has not been a
week, scarcely an hour, day, which
has not been marked in the calender
OF war. by fierce and bloody contests
No revolutions presents a more con
slant aud determined struggle. al
though the Oabans were undisoi-
plined and unaccustomed to tho use
of arms, of which in the beginning,
they had few or none, snd their enemy
was composed of the best troops OF
the navy and army of Spain. whose
places in the military posts of the Is
land had been supplied by resident
Spaniards, organized as volunteers.
The Cubans, nevertheless, have
been ready to meet their foes in skir-
mish, combat or battle, and have
shown themselves as brave in attack
a. uSAGuCC.
A record of nearly all the raids,
skin finishes, combats and battles oc
curing from the 11th of October,
1868, to the defeat of Pueblo and Co
yanache. which terminated the cam
paign of December, 1869, and Jauu-
ary, 1870, give an honorable distinc-
ton to the struggle of the Cubans for
independence. that would in noWise
be discreditable TO a people long ac-
customed TO self government, and
trained to the use of arms.
It is unnecessary for the purpose
we have in view to specul upon
the advantage gained by the Spaniards
or Cubans in these constantly repeated
hostile encounters. The record is
presented az undisputable proof of a
long continued existence of civil war
in Cuba.
But we recall Incidents of the cam
paign of the past winter. in which af-
ter exhaustive preparations by the
Spanish Government. and almost con-
fident assurance OF the speedy termi-
nation of the war. her best GeneIals,
Pueblo and Goyanache, in a c)ncen-
trated campaign, under Valmaze1a,
were both defeated. the former with
loss of l 300 out of 200 men, as evil
dence of the spirit and capacity eff the
Cubans for successful war.
The report details at length the
official Information as to the events in
Cuba, received by our own Govern
ment, as we'll as Spain, and continues
that the immediate proximity of
Cuba to the United States gives to
these grave events an importance
which cannot be fully appreciated by
another State. European or Ameri-
can. The Cubans appeal to our peo
pie for sympathy and support in their
unequal struggle for liberty. The
Cuban question becomes, therefore,
an American question, and the gov
ernment of the United States is con
stantly compelled to interfere in be
half of its citizens against the unjust.
DEGREES Of the authorities and people
of Spain. and for the protection of
the lives of innocent aud unoff nding
Americans. as well as to justly by
agreement. almost universal sympa-
thy which is felt, and 10 part *
pressed, by the American pc pie in
the cause of liberty 10 Cuba
Various acts of aggression upon
our commerce by Spanish cru sers are
narrated. down to the case of Lloyds
Aspinwall. fer which no rep4ration
has been made in answer to the de-
mands of our Government.
The various and cruel DEGREES that
have been passed by the Government
of Spain, during the progress of the
war, is sufficient 20 stain the charac-
ter of the struggle. Notwithstanding
the constant protests OF our Govern
nent, these DEGREES stand substan-
tally as they we're issued, and are ex-
ecuted, not according to the instrue-
tions of the Government of Madrid,
but Ia the ferooious spirit of the Cat
al)nian volunteers. without regard to
the conclusions to which the Spanish
and American Governments may ar
rive.
The American Consul General at
Havana recently received from the
British naval officers the assurance of
their protection. and an offer of file
of marines to protect him, and, when
ever 1t became necessary, to seek his
safety on board British man of war;
and still later, the American Vice
Consul at Santiago de Cuba was
called to account for dispatches sent
this Government, and published by
order OF Congress-, by unauthori Zed
and irresponsible volunteers who
govern Cuba, aud under the advice of
the Spanish Governor, who was una
bic to protect him, sought his safety
from personal violence by taking ref
uge on board French frigate. under
the protection OF French naval Off
GERS.
The Spanish volunteers. the au
thors of the atrocities of the war.