The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-11-30
THE SPANISH BOOK OF BLOOD.

World Report of $. 5. Cox's Speech'l
Loek.at this book of blood which |
hold in my hand-"Martyrs OF Liberty
in Cuba!n See the numbers OF those
executed from 1868 to 1871. There are
1928 whose names and residences are
given, and from the Spanish official re-
cord. Here are 1850 names whose
fate is unrccorded Sixty-one dedicated
in death to the garrote The rest OF
the list are the condemned and trans
ported. Bloody annals How much
of terrible suffering do these Vlcllnliss
represent? God knows! Nearly o,VtV
persons not killed on the battlefield
1t curdles the blood to read or pohaer
over these diabolical orders SO lniernai-
" executed. The act ofJuly =, 1000,
gives the President power to demaiiu
the prisoners who are American cll-
zens, and if refused for an ,unreasoha'
BILE amount of time to use such means,
not amounting to actual war, rs WI
effectuate the demand. On i0r ioi'-
night of Gen. Jackson or Governor
Marcy! Our protests were written ~
wateri-the defiance OF them III o,ooui
Five thousand victims have sufferer
since these public protests, IN ueiu '.ics
of the treaty of 1705, which provinces
for fair trial of our citizens py span,
with advocates and facts and all the
paraphernalia of justice, these Hee" d
were done, which make "earth SIGN anu
heaven weary But how can ! Drlns
these indescribable horrors home toyou
unless particularize? | mention t'ii ;u
or four instances. Nsr VIII these ~
clude those who were inculpated III ~
surrection. In FEBRUARY, lS.Z, MI,
Voorhees,, member of Congress iron,
Indiana, in his seat, after mentiohihs
MANY eases of Americans mutila.ea
and Shot referred to the case OF youn S
Seakman, of Indiana, sailor poun"
for Jamaica, whose ship went asno ad
in Cuba. Utterly innocent, he"as 'e asae
at nightfall and at sunrise silol' ,,,.;tb
cried OUT, said Mr.. Voorhees, WAR WAR;
his diving breath, that he was III A a. on
lean citizen. His appeal died ouI ~
the air. The soil drank his oiVou,
This too was at Santiago! h'p sho
Wyeth, of Pennsylvania, ieil ~ I'LL. uns
same time. No wonder Amerlvh 'il,a
doing lawful business In Cupa, p,o n,ari.
British passports. -Four you's; hs em-
cans in Havana, innocent OF WV roek-
blem or its meaning, wear olue done
ties. They are set upon YIN :" Is
to death by Valmaseda's butchers 30.
there any redress? DR.. how"t Co ",
lieved after long debate in Cohs slssc
RE had sold some medicines 70 'lo or
who became patriots. he was III "a. nd
lean citizen In defiance OF treaty wv
decency he was imprisoned Inl,'ee {.
months; then drum-headeu iia. Ivy a" At the
rican colony; and only resc.'e Can u,
last moment by an action Oh ,1 o5d
But for the eight scholars n'', nv ro
in the winter Of 1870 there was ~ tbs an
lief no appeal. Do you rec',ii ,,e mite
fate? The facts are painfully aSi ,i,eh Nv
4 Spaniard, Castanon, was hl liz vas ~
n Cnban at Key West. His Douy " WnI
removed to the Havana Cehie'ei,.in n
nlaced in one or the inches oei ,,ni,;,g
glass nlate. Some students iIollo Mi,
in the graveyard marked tn .I I'M si,he class
Il diamond. Says our eohsu,, 500 ros not
was nor broken, the wreath 4. M one
touched: no insult was l1eehus l,ndan,s
was Injured Thirty of these s.u ''s :, q.
were CONDEMNED to the c ii,n,, we're
eight shot! At nightfall tney :, M iiue
arrested; at daylight they were III I HIS
and the fatal bullet sealed 1 1ne,' Oldest
roseate morning in blood. Ih t,,, et fanr-
was not twenty, the youngest, i ous i how,
teen, and that bright ,harn harm, irving
sobbing his heart away,eyen bo bnre
in his agony for the mother VINO yo I
him-was 6utchered to MAKE max little chill
teer Cuban holiday. Suffer ll' Ss,na T
dren to come unto me, sad .h , dn pre-
butcher, that may strange s,le'i FAR
cious Young lives. God is now non . me-, nee
me, wreaking His divine .,', island,
upon that country, and t !,'l,, where where
where such things are p2sslole, The
such nrbarities are unreuress' ,ra the
recent b,,tcheries at Santiago alf tbese
fit, because horrible, sequence" ,' "a ask
deeds without a name. Do vi The in
me for The remedy? | answer, ~, 70 stop
.S...,r.. ~ o;vilizeu NATIONS '" S'Sf