The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-12-04
me spanish Rook Of Blood.
NY. world report Of S. S oox's speech.

The Spanish Book Of Blood.
NY. world report Of S. ooxs Speech.
Look at this book of blood which I
hold in my hand Martyrs of Liberty
in Cuba I" See the numbers of those
executed from 1858 to 1871. There are
1, S29 whose names and residences are
grven, and from the Spanish official re-
cord. Here are 1850 names whose.
fate is unrecorded. Sixty-one dedicated
In death to the garrote The rest of
the list are of the condemned and
transported. Bloody annals How
much of terrible suffering do these vic
Tins represent God knows Nearly
1000 persons not killed on the battle
field. It curdles the blood to read or
ponder over these diabolicaI orders, so
Internally executed. The act of July
81, 1868, gives the president power to
demand the prisoners who are Ameri-
can citizens, and if refused for an I'M
reasonable time to use such means, not
amounting to actual war, as viii effec-
tuate the demand. Oh, for a fortnight
of Gen. jackson or Gov. Marcy Our
protests were written in water, the
defiance of them in blood. Five thou
sand victims have suffered since these
public protests. In defiance of the
treaty of 1876, which provides tor fair
trial of our citizens by Spain, with ad-
vocates and factus and all the parapher-
MALTA of justice, these deeds are done,
which make " earth sick and heaven
weary" But how can bring these in
describable horrors home to you unless
I particulaFize? I mention three or
four instances. Nor will these include
those who were incuIpated In insurrec-
ton. In February, 1872. Mr.. Voor-
bees, member of congress from In
diana, in his seat, after mentioning many
cases of Americans mutilated and shot,
referred to the case of young Seakman,
of Indiana, sailor bound for Jamaica,
whose ship went ashore in Cuba. Ut
terly innocent, he was seized at night
fall and at sunrise shot. che cried
out" said Mr.. Voorhees,, with his
dying breath, that he was an American
citizen. His appeal died out on the air.
The soil drank his blood. This, too,
was at Santiago Albert Wyeth, of
Pennsylvania, fell at the same time.
No wonder Americans, doing lawful bu-
siuess in Cuba, provide British pass
ports. Four young Americans in Ha-
vana, innocent of the emblem or its
meaning, wear blue neckties. They are
set upon One is done to death by
Valmaseda's butchers. Is there any re-
dress DR.. Houard was relieved after
long debate in congress. He had sold
some medicines Ito those who had be-
come patriots. He was an American cit
izen. In defiance of treaty and decency
he was imprisoned thirteen months /:
then drum-headed into an African col
ony, and only rescued at the last mo-
ment by the action of congress. But
for the eight scholars butchered in the
winter Of 1871 there was no relief, no
appeal. Do you recall their fate?
The facts are painfully authentic. A
Spaniard, Bastanon, was killed by a
Cuban at Key West. His body was re-
moved to the Havana cemetary, and
placed in one of the inches, behind a
glass plate. Some students frolicking
in the graveyard marked the glass with
diamond. Says our consul, ''the
glass was not broken, the wreath not
touched; no insult was intended no
one was injured. Thirty of these stu
dents were condemned to the chain
gang; eight shot At nightfan they
were arrested at daylight they were
in line, and the fatal bullet sealed their
life's roseate morning. in blood The
eldest was not twenty, the youngest but
fourteen, and that bright, harmless boy,
sobbing his heart away-eyen crying In
his agony for the mother who bore
him-was butchered to make a volun-
teer Cuban holiday. Suffer little chill.
dren to come unto me, said the Spanish
butcher, that may strangle their pre-.
cious young lives. God is now, feal
me, wrecEng his divine vengeance up
on that country, and that island, where
sush things are possible. where such
barbarities are unredressed. The re
cent buteheries at Santiago are the fit
because horrible, sequence to these deeds
without name. Do you ark me fol
the remedy? answer, the interven
ton of civilized nations to stop sucl
atrocities. The great powers intervenet
to stop the Ottoman in his barbaric wal
upon Greece. Is not this a case of sim
liar aggravation?