New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-05
DEsPoTIC SPAIN PREFERRED TO Re
PUBLICAN AMERICA.

We we're surprised to observe that
the Picayone in late number lauds
very highly the treatment of mon
archical and priest-ridden Spain to-
wards the revolutiOnists of Cuba,
and makes it an occasion to condemn
the treatment of the republic of the
United States towards the Southern
people lately in similar opposition
to the national government. After
quoting a letter from Havana, ex-
crossing the gratitude of Cuban
refugees for the kindness of consuls
and steamship captains, and for the
generous amnesty and indemnity
extended by the Spanish government
to those whom it had published and
punished as rebels, having no bel
ligerent or other rights, that paper
proceeds:
Now let us say few words:
The Cuban war ended few months ago,
the armies of Spain being victorious in
the contest. The Spanish government
Immediately ordered that all confscated
property, amounting to millions of dol
lars, should be returned to the Cubans.
The Spanish Consuls abroad were in
structed to pay the passage Of refugees
abroad and furnish them other facilities
This was promptly done, and the Cubans
enjoy now in Cuba, Spanish province, a
complete freedom of the press and of the
right of assembling and expressing their
opinions The slavery question is daily
discussed in the Havana papers, and will
soon be decided.
The war for the independence of the
South ended thirteen years ago by the
triumph of the armies Of the North, and
the Government of the United States of
1 America still retains all the confscated
| property of Southerners except that Of
those who have died. Many Of our citi-
zens are still disfranchised. What con-
trastl The noble and magnanimous action
Of the Government Of Spain will be adj
mired and applauded over all the world.
The Vindictive and cruel policy of the
| Government of the United States can moi
be but universally condemned.
Then the massacre of men, wo-
men and children of the Cuban in
dependents is to be forgotten. The
sack and burning of their homes and
villages is not to be remembered
The murder of the American Captain
Fry and his American associates il
atoned for, and all the cruelties Of
Spanish rule obliterated by the re.
turn of all confscated property tC
the Cubans, and free passes to the
Cuban refugees in other lands.
On the other hand the republic o
the United States has waged a ter.
rible war to determine the construc.
ton of the common Constitution
lit has resulted in an incidental liber.
alton and consequent loss to slav,
owners Of some $4,000, 600, 900 OF in
vestment, and in the. creation of 8
common and national dubt of abOut
| So, 1000, WDO, 600. During this wal
both the Union and Confederate gov
ernments confscated the property o
all their respective enemies. 1t wal
in both cases a war measure which
was legitimated by the usages even
of civilized warfare. Such prop.
erty has on the falling in Of th,
life estate, been recovered and re-
stored to the inheritor. This is tn,
substance Of the charge; That "th'
United States Of America still retain
all the eonfscated property of South
eFheFs, exceptithat of those i0ho haU
died." How much Of the Northern
debt andsotber property confsoste.
b. The Conlederaey how many 0
fhesa people we're expelled from TIL
Confederats lines there ia no reo0rd
We had hoped all reeriminations 70
The acts Of Yfehg Or inhumanit,
praetiesd on both nidesof Our eiYi
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