National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-25
AMERICANS HOLDING CUBAN SLAVES

"Let the bondmen go Free" We know
that this little sentence will make such men
as William Welsh and Mr.. Satan shrug
their shoulders and clasp their hands forci-
bly, upon their pocket-books. We know
that it will seem very hard to them indeed,
after having spent so many years of their
lives reyeling in the wealth which has
been drawn with relentless hand from
this source of avaricious recuperation. We
know that it is very unpleasant for them
that we should remind them of this sin of
continuous commission so often, and yet
we do not see how we can very well do
otherwise. Welsh, Satan & Co., and as
many others as there may be who are en-
gagged in the unholy and despicable traffic
of human flesh and blood in the persons of
Cuban natives are entitled by right Of hui
mainly to our attention in this matter.
They deserve it, and are welcome to it, and
shall have it freely. By this time William
Welsh must have lost his interest in the
false proven charges which he egotistically
preferred against the mythical Indian
frauds, and now we hope to gain his atten-
ton for a short time to the subject of
white man, protesting profound religious
principles, living in the freest government
under the gaze OF the sun, holding men in
bondage who are struggling with heaven
born zeal to gain the goal of freedom.
Satan, we know, has made it business to
do mean things ever since he was cast
down nine times the space between night
and day, and it is quite natural for US to
expect almost anything of him that is
basely bad and viciously sinful; but of Will
liam Welsh We look for, and most certainly
wish for, better things. William Welsh
and other American citizens who are at
present doing lucrative slave business in
Cuba and playing very philanthropic COM
edies in the United States are requested to
give US their ears for few moments. You
know, gentlemen, at least you ought to
know, in the first place, that such transac-
tons do not accord in any way with the
spirit and intentions of our republican in
stitutions; and, again, you know-but if
not it is simply because you are of that
blind class who will not see-that the
President of the United States, being aware
of your Ubiquitous system of fattening your
purses on the miserable wretchedness of
handful of the finest patriots the world
ever knew, has presented your deplorable
condition to Congress in several of his an
nual messages, and urged with no unearn-
est voice that some measure be taken which
would remove this terrible temptation for
evil-doing upon which you fasten your sell
fish clutches with such morbid avaricious-
ness as to make all high minded and humane
persons shudder and blush for the imbeciled
meanness that finds such easy and welcome
harbor in your breasts. And it pains us,
gentlemen, to state to you that this is not
all; it is simply little drop in the great
bucket of vile devilishment which you are
holding willingly in your hands. You
know, and thele is no doubt but that there
was time when you felt that this traffic
was crying outrage against humanity in
an enlightened age, but callousness will
come in time, gentlemen, to those who per-
sist in hardening themselves with the
filthy exercise of sinful work, ana thus,
after long engagement in the degrading
enterprise, you have brought yourselves to
such q state that you are unable to appre-
ciste the wretchedness which now exists in
Cuba, and the urgent necessity of every
good and freedom loving man lending his
influence and assistance for the purpose OF
procuring for that brave people that which
is their Inalienable right-their independ-
ence. We would like to sympathize with
you in this matter SO far as your pecuniary
loss is concerned, but it is quite against our
principles. You have already made many
fortunes out of years Of patriotic sufferings
which little band of courageous people
have undergone, and you have. we will
acknowledge, in many instances been