The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-12-11
THE REPUBLIC OF SPAIN.

IHE REPUBLIC OF SPAIN. k
In compliance with the reuuest Of Casar..o
/ transmitted to the. American Minister ar
Asarie, Win Instructions to present it to the
Spanish government, the joint resolution
approved en- the Sd of March lest. derius TO
the people of spain, in the ma me, and On behalf
OF tae American people, the congratulations
OF Congress upon the efforts to consolidate
IN Spain the principles of universal liberty In
q republican form OF government. The az.
lstence OF this new republic was inAagurAted
ny striking the letters from the slaves in
fort0 Rice. This benencent measure was
followed by the release Of several thousans
persons illegally held as slaves in Cuha
Next the Captain Gtneral ofthat COLONY was
deprived of the power to set aside the order
Cf his superiors at ri adrid, which had DER
taiaed to the offce since 1895 The ssouss-
tered estates OF American citizens. which
had been the cause of lon and frequent cor
fespondence, were ordered to be restored to
thelr owners.All these liberal steps were ia
Ken in the tsce ofviolsnt opposition dirsctsdby
the re dictionary shareholders of Havana. who
are Vainly striving to stay the march Of Ideas.
has terminated slavery in Christendam. Cuba
only excepted. Unbappily, however, this
baheful influence has thus far succeeded in
defeating the efforts OF all liberal minded
men In Spain to abolish slavery in Caba, ana
preventing the promised reform in that Is
land. The struggle for political supremacy
continues. The pro-slavery aristocracy in
Cuba is gradually arrayiRG itself in mOre and
more open hostility and defiance of the Home
Government, willie it still maintains a politI.
cal connection with tho republic In TIE PEN
insula. and although usurping and dsfyirx the
authority oftho Home Government when
ever such usurption or defiance tends In the
direction of oppre ssion, or the maintenance
OF abuses, it IS still power In Madrid. and
recognized by the goyernm emit. Thus form
Ing an element more dangerous to continued
colonial relations between Cuba md Spain
than that which Inspired the insurrection at
1arra-an element opposed to granting any
rehef from misrule and abuse, With no aspi
r@tlons after freedom, commanding no SYM
pathles in enerous breasts, aiming to riyet
still stronger the shackles of slavery and
oppression, has seized maay of tho smbsms
OF power in Cuba, and under professions of
loyalty to the mother country, is exhausting
the resources of the island, and is doing acts
which arc at variance with those principles
OF justice, of libcrality, and of right which give
mob ility Of character to q republic. In the
interests ofhumanity, of civilization, and of
progress, it is to be hoped that this evil in
fluenee may be soon averted.
THE STEAMER vIRGINIus
was o n the Goth day of September, 1870, duly
reGisi cred at the port OF New York as part
of the commercial n arine of the URitedStates
On the 4th of October, 1870, having received
The certificate Of her register in tho usual
egai form abe sailed from the port OF New
York and has not since been within the ter
'itoliai Jurisdiction of the United States. On
'he 3lst OF October last, while sailing under
,he flag OF the United States on the high seas.
'hc was forcihly Eiszeo by the Spanish gun
boat Tornado, and was carried into the Dor.
IF Santiago de Cuba, where many of her PAS
'engers and crew were inhumanly, and, SO
Far at least as relates to tLose whs were eiti-
zens of the United States,
WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW
put to death. 1t is well established princi-
pie, asserted by the United States from the
of the national Independence, rec
,gniztd by Great Briti3n and other marstlme
powers, and stated by tho Senate in reselu-
ion passed unanimously on the sixteenth
lay OF June, 1858, that American YES
eIs on the high seas.in the time of peace, bearing
he American flag, remain under she jurisdiction OF
he country to which they belong and therefore
my visitation, moleslation, or detention of such
essel by force the part of a foreign power is in
erogation of the sovereignty of the United States
n accordance with this principle the restoration
# the Virginius and the surrender of the survivors
f her passengers and crew, and due reparation
0 the dag and the punishment of the authorities
1ho had been guilty of the illegal acts of violence
7ere demanded.
The Spanish government has recognized the ms
ice Of the demand, and has arranged for the i'm,