The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-05-11
NAPOLEON AND SPAIN.
Some Facts Quilted From History Whicl
Correct Instantaneous

SOHO fncts Cuilcd From History Watch
correct Miss'atcncnts.
TO the Editor OF The Post:
Hampstead, Texas, April si..-Cahle dis.
patches apparently inspired by the Span
ish government, have OF late frsauvntl,
been sent across and evidently to frlsh,cn
the United Stotes government. from DOING
justice to the Cuban cause by recognizing
state OF war 81 that island Vat tue
same spanish troops witch nad driNun TN,
great Napoleon from Spanish soil Wouli
be equal to- the emergency IA giving tho
Yankee Nation a drnbhng urless ste de-
sisted iroiu giving aid, moral or real tV
thu Cuban cause.
American neM spapo,s have oopici thcs,
atiiVlcS without comment. dnn III Tint, m
my humble Judgment, they diu wrong, Tor
whtlc no one cares aa iota ass 20 lheir
INST ight with Napoleon, vet IL seems
wrong that the Spanish shonid b. allowed
to misuuute the pages of history Written
indclibly 10y impartial historians.
Thcre are hut two instances that could
Historically be considered IN tNis cuuupo-
ton. In iSeS. during the rctssn ot isoua-
parties brother. thctc was tcrihlu up
isns ot the Srautsh population against
French rule Napoleon. uudcirsiinaiinp
the size of the movement scHt IA .n,tdc-
quatc force under unknuNn rrNcrdla TO
suppress the uprising The Funuh met
with serious reNrrscs, hut hardly Had Ma
poleon himself crossed the rNrcncos aud
taken charge of the campaign siV fn"
Spani0rds We're almost annihiiAt.d and
iiunepartc restored TO his tnruNc AZ Mad
rid. So IN this Instance the Spanish lirag
VIII not hold good. Now tn the ncHL In
he winter of 1872 Napoleon cam" IN col
lislon with II Russian winter and the pom
crtul army OF Russia THE Hrst drtea,
aud retreat from Moscow Rnu the nnniII-
lation of his powerful army was the sigma.
for the uprising of Europe. Ccntrai lsu-
rope was on iirc and huNdrcds VI thou
sands OF troops were forming the circle
which ar,crwari crushed Napoleon at
l,epsic. II was then that Napoleon, IN
the spring of 1913. had 10 cali IA all await
aide troops for his own defense, aud Spain
WAS almos, left bare OF French tioops.
Wellington nj that time WAS IN Spain. He,
with II fine corrs of English Troops, had
made several EFFORTS to clear srain from
French troops. Now was his oppui tuiiiy.
He advanced and defeated Jonidnn M \ IL
ioria. nnd then eager to take pnrt IN The
t'rrihlc struggle going on tn central I'm
iope, he Fought MS Nay Through we iNr-
puc,s INTO France The lronch troops
had nccu withdrawn by Napoleon hut Il
they M,rc driven ont II WIZ ny ellington
nni his lsuslisnnen, ana not ny tlN span
iaris
ii the spnniurds eau. during the las,
three centuries. md amy comfort ioi 'he'r
ynlur IN the pages Of history they are .h-
titled to it. for never wis u great nntion
travelling to rs doom faster or stondirr
Nor has amy other nation ever come up 10
destruction, Spain was never fnilsurI IN
III the Moors were Hn'tihllat"d. Vhc jews
were prosecuted without ,tNHon anl win
DEATH or buptiau siarine them IN the idce
death hy thousands. Tie record OF Spain
upon the Western ileuispherr f. ona l9na
l.gt Of blood, periidv and distinctions Nrr
W. 10 wonder. thru. that ,'"ea Is iniag
hllzinf from on. cld Ia the other ifun
the irr OF rebellion? Now II IS lniimatci
that the mother country WI oNer nome
rulc to pnciIy the iHianu already lost va.
no; cuhr knows Ne. Spanm Is. liuin"
rude might haze done two years ago hp'r
psily tonicrctl enl before Cuban SOL wat
orcuehcd with blood u ~ f,e Tom uow
or acath. and this ereot Reruhsic ~ ours,
nndaunicd by the threats OF tho i'aflia-
runa nrrngs the ocean VIII "prct the clos
ing srenes of that terrible sirfo when onr
president rccoeni2es the Independence OF
Tie lslnud OF cuba YIN. loacph.