New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-20
Our Unatoned Grievances.

Gath, in late Washington letter to tn,
chicago Tribune gives Ms the following
(tatement Of the case against Spain:
The absorbing nature Of the episode Q.
b the massacre OF the Virginius has giveI
bubac criticism such turn that We can no,
Understand why Mr.. Fish should have any
bther grievances on his hands. TIE fact is
hat the State Department, as long ago az
July 8, 1870, presented book OF two hun.
red and forty Six pages to Congress. ex.
Manning, by corres pom len,e, far worse
5trccilics eft the SpaDisn than the Virginius
N~, inple siig he lives, not Of fioutt RI,
nt of peaceable Inen entttled 10 American
protection. The delay, Prevarication, and
bsolenee OF The Snanish IN these cases had
klready melted III, Seer, try of State
eyonl torbearancc when the Captain OF
b. Virginius covered with popular fury q
Gpomattc correspondence already fier, Q
nd warlike on our side.
The first was the case of the Mary Low
Ql, an American brig, which WIS capture d
the British Bahamas by the Spanish gum
oat Andalusia, while flying the American
ag, and WAS towed into Havana. From
svana the Mary Lowell, WAS carried int
uevitas, Cuba; her crew confined in Q
bitary prison, and every interference by
De American aud British authorities re-
bnted with insult. On one Gee aston, the
b Jtain General said that he would com
unioate with our consul when he found
convenient"
Next, the steamer Lloyd Aspinwall, reg
arly cleared at Port au- Prince, in Hayti.
y Nuevitas, captured by the Spanish war
eamer Herman COrtes, February %, 1870;
3D. although MIR. Fish telegraphed: Ill
Fized on the high seas, demand immediate
elease," yet her crew were imprisoned,
bd the cook died i'll a dungeon, while the
Pssel was not gwen up unui nearly ruined
exposure.
Third, the slOop Champion, bound from
hx Cages to Jamaica, in ballast, sprung a
blk, and made Tor the bloody harbor Of
ntiag, d. Cuba, where her uususpecting
plain was refused permission to commu-
cato win our corsul, and the vessel sank
deep ter, under custody OF u Spanish
kn-vt-war. white her crew remained prla-
tly. The only reason for this inhospiual-
was the entry If an unknown passenger
n the ships papers, Nho had faileu 10
nr aboard,
Next is the case of the schooner Lizzie
3jor, which .was overLauied on the high
y, thirty miles from the Cuban coast,
tao resp. ctnhle passengers, with proper
(sports. torcibly taken Oft by the steamer
fnando eli CatOlicO, and put in prison.
CntA. tie American slOop Fulton. OF Kew
Ut, proce, dung quietly into the oowa,dly
fbor of Havana, was beeot by volunteers,
her captain threatened with death, on
! charge that he had taken the murderer
ICas' non. the Spanish editor, away from
West; and our consul was obliged to
n 10 AVE q Spanish polics guard
ccu IN the Fulton, ana she sent to sea.
Sixth, Two citizens OF the United States,
Charles Speakman and Albers Wyeth |
H. innocent American citizens, and sea.
b. on the A.nericant schooner Grapeshot, |
re Overpowered at Sea by Cuban passed. |
IL, while bonn for Jamaica, and COM |
td to drop The Cubaus near Santiago de |
b.. Unabie to put oft from shore, they |
IL captured, taken t. Santiago. and, Dies. |
he rotestaticns of both British and |
eIIcan oonsuls, the men were shot. The |
hnieh commander Informed these con- |
hat he believed the men ~ be inno- |
t, but they must die to please the Gaia
AMI prevent a Inutlny.
he following extracts from letter Of |
br speakmsn-who, by the way. was no
rtins citizen, but of the town of Aurora.
iana-gives the touch of nature which |
kes the wh0le world kin:
SANTIAGO DE CUBA. June IL. 1869.
II DEAR WIPE AND CHrLD These
tie last ines you will ever re-
Ee from me. In four hours | am to be
Il, having been captured by the Span
is on the island of Cuba, where the yes
ran, Instead Of gong to Falmouth, ia
Eca, where shipped to 60. Now, Mag
/ have no money to leave you, and
sorry, darling, as leave you penniless
] you may get some by getting a good
liver to sue the owners of the vessel for |
hases. They have taken my life, and
|riyed you Of my support, and ought to
xnnrt van | have one kind |
md here. a Mr.. O'Callaghan. Darling,
not write more: my hand is sore. Tell
lsin Fannie and Aunt Olden. May God
highly bless you, and keep you and
Ry is my last and only prayer. l
kmand YOU to sue the owners.
CHARLES SPEAkMAN.
our affectionate and dying husband,
addition to the above outrages, six
er American citizens have been shot
bout trial. in various towns of Cuba,
nty Of our citizens deprived of their
perty, aud thirty. six unlawfuuy impris-
UGH were the cases on which the State
partment was busy when the Virginius
taken on the high seas and her crew
! to death. The law, natural aud intel
tual, in all the above cases, was detied
the Galatians, volunteers and officers.
stop and outrage an American ship,
perly cleared from one port to another,
le we have made no recognition of bel
tepcy, is high offense-more worthy |
pficial and armed resentment than to
Anga priyateersmen. GATH.
|bme one who knows all about it says: