The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-01-17
sntevvoutioss In Cuba.

A few years ago rebellion broke out in
Tunis against the present Dey of that coun-
trv After considerable bloOdshed he put
down the insurgents, and then treated their
leaders with atrocious cruelty. Among
other things he caused number of old men
to be f1ogged to death, and had their daugh-
tiers and sons, among them boys of twelve
wears, strangled or shot. The horrors in
Tunis finally became so great that the
French government threatened armed inter-
ventiOn in case these cruelties should not
cease at once.
In these threats of Intervention France
was joined by Spain, whose Minister Of For
eign Affairs instructed the Ambassador of
Queen Isabella at the Court of Tunis to re-
monsrrate energetically with the Bey, and
inform him that Spain would not permit
such horrid proceedings in country 60
Lear to her, and that, if her warnings re-
mained unheeded, she might even go so far,
in the interest of humanity, as 10 dethrone
the cruel ruler.
The Bey of Tunis made at first an inso-
lent reply to the Spanish Ambassador but
he took good are not to drive matters to
extremities, and the executions and other
cruelties ceased.
So the Spanish government itself has set
precedent which might be applied to 1t At
once in regard to the Cuban question, and
which effeCtually excludes it from the plea
that no foreign powers have right to OBJ
iect to the manner in which it deals with the
Cuban insurgents.
There are other preoedents, however,
which prove abundantly that for more than
twenty years East, most OF the Great Powers
of Europe have claimed and exercised the
right to interfere. at least automatically
when government treated its subjects, no
matter on what pretexts or under what pro-
vocation, in manner repugnant to the civ
ilized spirit of the age.
When the infamous King Ferdinand the
Second of Naples, in the Spring OF ls49, de-
iuged the streets of his capital with blood,
and sent to the scaff)ld o, the galleys the
most distinguished men of b, country, the
governments Of England and France not
only threatened Intervention ih case the
King should persist in his extra rdinary
course. but actually sent fleet to IT, Bay
of Naples in order to enforce their deman..
In this they were cordially supported by the
Prussian government, which instructed its
Ambassador at Naples to bring his whole IN.
fiuelce to bear upon the King in order to
put stop to the cruel treatment of his lib
eral subjects.
Shortly afterward Louis Napoleon, then
President of the French Republic, earnestly
urged Pope Plus the IXth to discontinue the
cruelties practiced on the captive leaders of
the insurrectiOn of lS49: and the refusal of
the Papal government to comply with his
wishes had much to do with the anti. Papal
policy which Louis Napoleon pursued dur
ing the frs. ten wears OF his reign.
1t Is Nell-known, furthermore, how
strongly the governments Of France and
England demonstrated with the Emperor of
Austria, in the Autumn # lS49, on account
OF the atrocities perpetraied by his military
exc ;utioners in Hungary. after Arthur
Geurgey's surrender at Villages. and bv
r .,etzky and d'Aspie in Lombardy and
Venetia.
France protested, also. in the same year,
In the interest of humanity. against the
wholesale executions which took place dur
ing the Summer Of 1919 in the Subjugated
Grand Duchy of Baden by order of the
present Emperor William.
Prussia, on her part. made the oppressive
measures which the Danish government
adopted in regard to its discontinued subjects
in th. duehies of Scheswig and Holstein, q
standing grievance sgainst the Cabinet OF
Copenhagen; but the latter, relying on the
support of France and England, haHghtily
turned deaf ear to the remOnstrances of
the Cabinet cf Berlin. This was one Of
the principal causes OF the war of 1854, in
which Prussia and Austria were allied
against Denmark.
In 1868 the military governors of Russia
in Poland were guilty of numerous cruel
ties toward the insurgents IN tnal unIOfGu-
nate country. A cry of horror resounded
in consequence throughout Europe. Aus
tria, France and England demonstrated
with the Gar, and demanded change of
policy in the name OF outraged humanity.
When Prince GortschakOff told the Ana
bassadOrs of the three powers that Russia
would net permit any foreign government
to NEEDLE with its domestic affairs, Austria,
France and England formed An offensive
and defensive alliance, and addressed jointly
a threatening note to Russia. War would
undoubtedly have ensued but at the ele>-
enth hour Napoleon iii. shrank from the
consequences of a renewal Of the Oriental
war, and peace was preserved.
The horrors perpetrafed in Cubs, there Is
no doubt whatever, lar surpass those which
the infuriated soldiers of hing Bomba COM
mitted in Naples, or which took place in
1919 in Baden, Hungary, and Upper Italy,
andin 1868 in Baden.