Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-04-02

that the country and Congress have been
impressed falsely and mendaciously with
a condition OF things in the island of
Cuba that does not exist.
Here follows statement to show that
document setting forth alleged atrocities
was written by Cuban, fugitive from
the island, bitter opponent OF the
Spanish government; yet even he did not
claim that Gen. Weyler was responsible
tor previous alleged outr6ges. The SEN
ator also quotes letter from Spanish min
lister at Washington; letter from W. s..
Bowen, newspaper correspondent,
written from Cuba etc.
Mr.. President, while a large part Of this
creation of excuses, outrages, and atroe-
tiles on the side OF the Spaniards aud the
I Spanish government has fallen, | have
here piece OF testimony, taken from q
Cuban sympat hizing newspaper in New
York giving what purports to be-and
giving ii eNutingly-an account of GER
tain operations by the insurgents on
/ their side ! ask the Senate's careful at
tention to it when little later / will
have it read
MIR. President / do not suppose that
any warfare is conducted on the island OF
/ Cuba as it would be in the United States.
| do not suppose that either side is guilt
less. l know that the provocation to the
constituted authorities is great. The raids
/ OF the insurgents, the destruction of
property, their wanton disregard of every
rule Of law is such that it undoubtedly
has provoked extreme, urgent, forcible,
severe action upon the other side. IL my
friend from Minnesota [Mr. Davisl, who
is in the habit of reading good history,
and brings the wealt h OF its illustrations
into his speeches here, will read anew the
history of the peninsula campaign under
the conduct OF Wellington upon the
British side, and one and another OF the
defeated marshals Of Napoleon on the
other side, he will find constantly all the
way through this guerrilla warfare on
! the part OF those whom France consid-
cred guerrillas and insurgents against t he
existing Spanish government. 1t was
after Joseph Bonaparte had been crowned
at Madrid and recognized as king on a
! throne upon which he would have re-
manned ~ firmly seated as The Hapsburgs,
I or the Brandenburgs, or the Romanoffs,
! if it had not been for the war between
i England and France and the English
army, which did the real fighting. The
Spanish guerrillas would never have made
Roadway against the French.
do not claim that everything goes on
t i'll the island OF Cuba and in the conflicts
there as it would go on under an Anglo
Saxon people.
He then goes on to show how the in
surgents are carrying on the war.
That recital of the way in which spain
is beaten everyw here" to use the Ian
guage OF this communication and of this
organ, is something horrible. do not
take it from hostile paper; | take its
exulting details, with the headings,
from paper sympat hizing with the in
SURE elton and getting reports from its
own correspondents.
Mr.. President, liberty does not fight
its battles III that way.
Freedom has risen
oft from prison bars
bft from battle flashes,
or from llcioe-' lips
DitrHr-t from their ashes.
But it does not rise from the horror and
cuniiagration and DEVILS work that is re-
cited - this Cuban organ Men turn
from this with disgust and shame. The
blood that Is stirred, the pulse hut leaps.
a. t lac story OF Bannock burn and Sempach
and Worcester and Bunker Hill and
Yorktown turns with loathing from this
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