The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-07

capacity to Rule.
When the Spanish authorities in Cuba COM
menced their senseless persecution OF the
HERALD correspondents sent to that island to
report on the rebellion we understandingly
informed them that no repressive effort of
theirs should prevent the full truth on the
subject being told in these columns. The
time has forever passed when government
can successfully conspire against the publica-
ton of the truth in its own day. In the old
times, before the press was born, before the
telegraph was dreamed of and before the rail
road was imagined, the guilty secrets of
rulers, their grinding expressions and the
springs of their policy were buried and
hidden away for after ages to be startled by
discovering them. Such musty authorities rs
MIR. Motley struggled through to write the
story Of Spains tyranny in the Neither
lands, became the graves for centuries
of the misdeeds, the barbarities, the bloody
fanaticisms of the age. We have changed
all that. Spain may have Jagged in the
race Of progress, and her satraps may be
conscientious in the belief that truth unfavor
able is as reprehensble when brought to
light as ever was the creed of wealthy Jew
when the Fathers of the Inquisition wanted
money. The nation, ignorant Of or blind to
the change in relations between the ruler and
the ruled, must be taught the new gospel,
whether it would or no. 1t cannot isolate
ITSELF however great its desire to be let alone
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the knife. Because the struggle in Cuba was
| lapsing into the stage Of indifference on the
| part Of the outside world and because the
parti-colored and exaggerated reports sent
from the Antilles conveyed no just idea of the
| bitter war being waged, the HERALD resolved
to cut deep into the difficulty and lay bare its
heart. Hence agent after agent was despatched
thither by the HERALD. The Spaniards had
hitherto held all or nearly all the lines of COM
municaion in their hands. They could say
what they pleased or falsehood-and
back it by all the weight of a responsible gov
eminent, and hence the stupid stumbling
blocks thrown in the way of our correspond
ents by the Spaniards. The circuitous and
unauthenticated mode by which information
reached the world from the insurgents mill
tated against their reports being unhesitatingly
accepted The cause of truth demanded that
some one should speak to the world impair
TALLY and with the authority of direct evil
dence, disinterestedly and intelligently stated.
1t was the cardinal point of our instructions
to the HERALD commissioners that, in spite of
all obstacles they should remember that they
were expected to tell only the truth, please or
offend whom it might With this much dis
tinctly laid down we come to the immediate
subject of this article.
In another portion of the HERALD will be
found the letter of our secret commissioner
to Cuba, who left Santiago de Cuba for the
rebel lines some weeks after Mr.. O'Kelly's
successful effort in the same direction. The
reasons governing him in first communicating
to us his experience from the date Of his re-
turn to the Spanish lines will be easily under
stood, Us he explains them. We have only now
to state what we limited in the beginning of
this article, that every effort made by the
Spanish to kill off our news or deaden its
effect has been foiled with success which
will astonish them.
I'll Tue lOlu VI ltbt ulOUbl NlT. MIlleu Wulkcu
coolly into the town of Manzanillo and sur
rendered himself to the Spanish authorities,
after light breakfast at the residence Of the
United States Consular Agent. He expected
to be ordered to prison, and the Don of the
district did not disappoint him. He was
placed in the cell where Mr.. Kelly had suf-
fered so many unmerited indignities. Mr.
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prsonment came suddenly to an end, after
two days incarceration. He had admitted
the fact of his having arrived from the camp
of Cespedes, the Cuban President and had
announced his connection with the New YORK
HERALD There was not the slightest legal
difference between his case and that of Mr..
O'Kelly, but the former was released and
the latter is on his way to Spain, prisoner
of war. 1t will be entertaining to notice the
sarcasm INDUCED in at the expense of the
British government by Captain General Piel-
tain, when the Acting British Consul pointed
out to the Don this similarity of conduct Of
the two HERALD men and the dissmilarity of
treatment accorded them The Captain
General tauntingly informed the Acting Con-
sui that if he would lodge formal complaint
against Mr.. Millen he (the Captain GeneraD
would order Mr.. Milens rearrest. At this
time Mr.. O'Kelly, confined in Fort Cabana,
was sleeping at night upon the damp floor Of
his cell. Indeed, until he had dropped some
thing into the palm of one Of the naughty
Spanish officers, he was left unprovided with a
bed. From an interview had with our other i'm
prisoned correspondent, Mr.. Price, we learn
that he believes his arrest was caused by Mr..
o Kelly's prosecutors who wished to find out
whether there was such thing in existence as
| HERALD secret cipher, whether Mr.. O'Kelly