The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-11-21
This Must BE stopped.

This Must BE stopped.
Tho war Of Spain in Cuba has been for too
long a disgrace to tine civ iii.atiun % the age.
II has been doubly disgraccful to us, first,
because the European powers out Of defer
cncc To the Washington Government have
excused themselves from ending its barbar-
tiles 10y an energetic ''.t as they could
have done at an moment and secondly, be-
cause in allowing it t. proceed We have
proved ourselves recreant alike to the prin-
cinlcs of the men who gave us u country,
ANA to the principles % human freedom.
For more than nine years Spain has been
steadily losing ground in Cuba and during
this period the Cuban revolution has been
steadily advancing toward success. Yet
our Government has steadily opposed the
cause of Cuba. At sundry times during the
progress OF the war the blood Of the Ameri-
can people has been stirred. This was
notably the case on three occasions:
when the butcher VALMAsEDA issued his
Infamous decree, which our State Depart
mcnt qualified as "disgraccful to the
age" when the sanguinary volunteers OF
Havana, with the sanction Of SPANS rep
rcscntative in Cuba, murdered the medical
students; and when VALMAsEDA's rival
in cruelty and savagcry, BURRrEL, muir
dcrcd the officers and crew Of the Amer
lean steamer Virgnius. On each Of these
three occasions the Spanish diplomacy Of
Don HAMILTON FIsH's State Department
knew how to overcome tn" just wrath Of the
American people.
Count NALMAsEDA, who Il universally re-
gardcd as the iittest representative Of Span
iuh colonial fu, In, All a baI at
time an aidc-dc-camp, Major in the army,
by name MARITIME CAMPos. BY one Of those
turns upon which all Spanish commanders
rely for success, MARTINEZ CAMPos is to-
day Commanderin-Chief of the Spanish
army in Cuba, and in that capacity he has
outdone in bloodthirstiness even his predc-
cessor. Count VALMAsEDA attemp I'd to
suppress the revolution by force, and his
programme was determination. When
asked, on one occasion. how commission
Of Cubans would be received, If, on the sug-
geston Of the then Captain-Gcneral DULCE
they presented themselves to arrange the
terms of a settlement his answer was, con
bdldsos-with bullets.
MARTINEZ CAMPos has pursued a different
policy. As long as he thought the rcvolu-
tion feeble he captured women, children,
| and old men, all OF whom figured in his OFF,
cial reports as surrendered prisoners, and
| then in conjunction with Captain General
| JovELLAR, he compelled these prisoners
mostly women, to write appeals worded by
| himself, to Cuban officers in the army, intend
| eel TO secure the surrender Of their relatives
| to the clemcncy Of the Spaniards. Finally
MARTINEZ CAMPos, having bribed a few
Weakened Cubans, telegraphed to the
! Spanish Minister in Washington that the in
surrecton would bc finally and completely
suppressed in twenty days. and that he had
captured the entire Cuban Congress and its
| President. In time the facts leaked out that
| EDUARDO MACHADo, the President OF the
| Congress, but not the Congress itself, had
been captured by treason. as was subse-
| quently the President Of the republic Don
TOMAS ESTRADA. But tho suppression Of
the revolution was further of than ever.
Congress still sits, and Vice-Prcsident FRAN
CISCO CEsPEDEs is installed in place Of the
captive President, ESTRADA.
| Now MARrINEz CAMPOs throws OF the
mask and shows himself In his true culOrs.
The following edict needs no comment:
"HKApeuIRrrKs IN cuAA, Nov / 1871
| 90 To ne OmmdHdGs ~ GIann'
| Conndcntal)
Knowing the uscessness clemcncy toward the
my who unable to appreciate IT, Tor they ESTEEM 1t
a. We akness on our part, find myself called upon
adopt energetic measures to nnh at once and forever
with the hydra OF the n-urrecton You Will therefore,
upon the receipt OF thus order shoot all prisoners
whoever they NAV he, making 1t appear IN your report
| as they had teen Killed In battle
Il recommend to you secrecy In this matter and an ex
act iulnment Of this order, MARriSkz CAAros."
Surely such an Infamous exhibition of saw
agery and cowardice cannot be parallelcd in
the modern history ofany country. Is 1t not
the imperative duty Of the American people
to demand the termination OF war SO
brutally carried on Congress is in session,
and the acknowledgment Of the independ-
ence of Cuba will put an end to these hid
| eous and bloody orgies