Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-12-13
Martial Ear .foroad.

The recent cruel numbering Of eight
medical students in Havana, and tho
sentencing of thirty.two others TO the
chain,gang for periods varying from
two to ten years, is another illustra.
ton of military rule and suspension
of the sacred right of trial by jury.
Our rulers at Washington find them.
selves well sustained in their dastardly
and bloody reign in the South, by our
more Southern neighbors at Havana.
Gonzale Castanon, the brute whose
grave the enragcd military claim has
been desccrated by the medical stu
dents, was killed about Is months ago
at Key West, in duel which he went
there to provoke with Mr.. Reyes,
tho editor of Liberal Spanish jour.
nal, whom he invited to his room and
insultcd, the result being challenge
and the arrest of Reyes, WHIP was
bound over to keep the peace. A
friend OF Reyes then challenged Cas-.
tanon, who was killed in the duel that
ensucd. Castanon's remains were
subsequently removed to Havana, and
a monument erected to his memory
by the Spanish volunteers. This Cas-.
tanon was the editor of paper pub
ished in Havana called the Vo. de
Cuba, and it was the special organ of
this brutalized mob called the Spanish
volunteers, 1t is said he advocated
tho killing Of all native Cuhins and
the re. pcoplng Of the island with col
ouists from Old Spain, just as our
Castanons have tried to kill off the
old Southern stock and re people the
Southern States with Puritan carpet.
baggers from New England = and
what iow niggers would bc niggcrs
enough TO stay with their.
1t appears from the published re.
ports that on the 23d DAY of Novem.
ber last, there being 10 lecture TO one
of the medical classes, the students
and few Others went TO the cemetery,
and in foolish but evidently, as they
supposed, harmless ffolic, broke the
glass of the nicho OF the monument
over the grave Of GonEale Castanon
When the news Of the occurrence
reached the Spanish volunteers, they
became feariully excited, rushed to
their armories, seized their arms, and
went roaming about the city of Ha-
vana in search of the offenders, and
in their blind fury attacked innocent
persons who could have no possible
connection with the affair On the
25th OF November Captain.Gcneral
Crespo, u sort Of provost marshal,
went to the medical college and, fail
ing in discovering the real offenders,
arrested the whole class Of forty stu.
dents. On Sunday the 26th, a review
OF some six thousand Spanish soldiers
(devils) took place, who, after being
dismissed, broke out in riCtous demon.
strations and demanded the instant
punishment Of the offenders By
night the demonstration of these saw.
ages become so violent that General
Crespo brought the entire class before
drum. head court martial. On the
2Sth of November the sentence of tho
murderers was announced at o'clock
and at 3 o'clock eight Of the medical
students were brutally shot in the
presence of thirty.two of their class.
mates, who were condemned to prison
torture-some for ten years. Thus
ended, for the time, one of the most
barbarous illustrations of the law of
force and violence so successfully prac.
ticed in this country and faithfully
initiated by the cruel and blood thirsty
Spanish. How long will it be before
the American people will be invited
TO blood banquet of this sort, TO ap.
pease the vindictive spirit of tho
usurpers OF power and the liberties Of
the people in this country