Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-11-19
,"0u1Af MporTEafENT.

I'm Cu1A1 ExolTElfEST.
n eaptsfs II the steamer Wiz
.aeps ard the brutal execution Of he
peaseayesss olAcers and rev by tlu
CskaA authorities has created q wa
~xcaeeArsnt In the United States coma
almost to that which prevailed nth,
meMorable spriag Of 1861. Meeting
hare beer held In all Of the principa
cities Of the country. wbereat excited
speeches have been made and ringing
resolutions, passed, urging upon III,
xosernment immediate armed inter
vcntioa In the affairs Of Cubs aud The
ehastiseMcnt Of the authors OF thu
inhuman outrage. Tho newspapers
without exception asd without re.
RArd to political antccedents or par.
tisan bias, respond to the sentiments
expressed by the people. aud demand
sof the government prompt actiGn
which. shall put an ins,ant stop to the
throat-cutting procliv,ses Of on,
swarthy neighbors, aud wr-st the
Queen Of the Antilles from the bloo "
hands Of its contending factions.
We have M special reason for oh
3saing to . foreign war at this lime.
II would doubtless be productive Of
much good. 1t would reli, We in .
great measure tic finaucial distress
which now locks ap tina chaMmels o.
trade, give 10 the country at least the
sembiaace Of prosperity, and would
prossibly give vent on q foreign fec
to the military genius Of tho admin
istration, which fur five years has
practiccd In a kind Of ametcur way
on the unfortunate people down
South generally. and the people Of
Louisiana especially. We have NJ
particular admiration for tho Spanish
character "a cxemplifcd in the per.
sou NJ the best specimen of the Cas-.
lillian Grandee, certainly none for
that phase Of it developed amid the
orange groves Of tropical Cuba. II
II is proposed to declare war In the
name Of our common humanity and
to wage it to the utter determination
Of these brutes for the vindication
Il the moral prctcnsions Of our .pe-
cies, we, as a member of the species.
give u voice unanimously for
drawing the winding sheet of obliv.
ion around the bleeding remains OF
Louisiana, and voting the last man
and uttermost grecnback ia the pious
crusade, without fu 'thcr parlcx or
diplomatic halr-spiitting. If it is
proposed to declare aud wage war
in defense Of the rights Of Americana
citizens or Of the national honor, VIC
would mildly suggest a full i~n.esii>
of the facts anil an applies
lion OF those principles of inter- :,
rational law, claimed aud acted upon =
By the government OF the United =
States in the late civil war: and if it ;
shall be found that the Cuban au.,
thorities have murdered unoffending, >,
American citizens, or offered any :,
insult to the dignity of the govcrn-
nent,and war shall bc found necessary
o avenge the one or redress tLei
'ther, let war be formally declared .
md diligently prosecuted. Popular v
as expressive Of the feelings II
md sentinents OF the popuiace, ia Il
profitable for information, but it is r
'ften unsafe to follow its dic,a,ion N
u shaping policy In affairs Of govern y
nent. t.
The facts, SO far as they arc known b
md have been published. are about as j
oIlows: The Virgins, = steam pri- u
7ateer In the service of the iasurgcnt Y
n patriot Cubans, loaded with war t:
Material and volunteers for the patri- II
t army, in attempting to affect q o
sntling was captured of the coasr of CT
;ubs by the Spanish gunGoat lorna
,. on The 4tb inst. was taken 10 the SC
rbor Of Santiago de Cuba, where N
ertain Cubans and General Ryan, an Fl
american, found OIL board, who we're
nown to have been identified with 81
he patriot or insurrcc!ionary move i"
lent, were summarily shot 10 death 2:
y order of General Burriel, COM til
lander of the National forces. Sub as
equently the Captain Of the Vir- be
his assistant officers and crew.,
, the number of thirty or forty, T.,
ere tried by court martial, -
'und guilty Of aiding and assisting ~
insurrectionists, sentenced to -
and duly executed on the 11th. =,
the facts shall be found TO cor r.,
'spond substantially with the vcr. :,
on now given by the Cuban author- ~
les. and Ns bare seen nothing to -.
'odify OF materially vary that ver- :,
on, our government haa 10 jus,
fuse Of complaint. The Virginius h,
cared from tho port of New York ST
it'll rcgulsr papers. Letters have q
received snd published in the Ut
nited States, written OH board e,
10 Virginius at Kingston, Jamaica, IN,
herein the character and the mis- it
Of the Nirginius are fully set M
nth and shown to be piratical, as IN
Id by the Cuban authorities. Re- ,r
sated efforts have been made, at in.
rivals within the last FIVE years, tof
occurs from the government of che -,
nited States recognition Of the
'lligerent rights Of the insurrec- az
but the government has uni w
rmly refused, for the reason that "'
ere was and has been nothing to ."
cogaize. The insurrectionists have !"
,ver had . government, n mail o. W.
blishment, a port, or anything to ~
title them to be regarded in any ~,
her light than 10 insurrec,iopists.
to the law OF nations,
erefore, their aiders aud abettors oil ~"
. high sea- ars liable, when cap
red, to the pains aud penslties .
hich attach. to piracy. m,
Captain Fry. Of the virgiuius, it du
distinctly stated, was aware of the IN,
lture and extent Of the risk he in- wb
fred, but was induced by the large t S.r
m Of money paid him deliberately Ioh
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