Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10

leRlSIdluTe, no courts, no ports, nOIHlnS
but struggling bands occupying strag-
Cling camps. To the present day not only
had the insurgents in Cuba not won a
battle, but they had hardly fought what
deserved the name of battle. 1t was
case of clean, outright guerrilla war. He
asked the senators to contrast the Cuban
insurection with the American civil war.
when European nations in most guarded
fashion-and not by offensive resolutions
recognized the belligerency of the
Southern Confederacy. The Southern
Confederacy was then in the occupation
of more than million square miles of
territory. With. three or four exceptions
there was not a single post held by the
federal government in the Confederacy.
Resolutions of secession had been but the
test of popular elections, after the de-
lberate election of state conventions. The
Confederates had at that time an estab-
lished government with legislative pow
ers in full force, with a department of
the army, a department of the navy.
with regular official life recognized in the
capitol and with courts of justice through
the whole length and breath of the Con-
federacy. Secretary Seward, Mr.. Hale
went on to say, imploringly and entreat-
ingly urged upon the European powers
the injustice of even so limited measure
of recognition of belligerency as those
powers proposed to take-and did take;
| and he never ceased to INSIST upon Eu-
ropean nations receding from that recog-
nition, which they at last had done.
Mr.. Mitchell, republican, of Oregon
Spain did not recede from it.
There was no European power" said
Mr.. Hale, that, during the first years
| of our civil war, showed such friendh-
ness to us as the kingdom of Spain did.
| Spain never allowed British built and
| equipped priyateer to remain in her ports
an hour beyond the time absolutely nee
| essary for supplies. And when the Brit
ish privateers took prisoners from union
vessels into ports of Spain they were at
| once released by the Spanish authorities"
Mr.. Hale spoke of the inf1ammatory ap-
peals of most of the American newspa-
pers and of the action of both houses, and
attributed the popular feeling against
Spain to the mendacous report of con-
dition of things in Cuba which did not
really exist
The charges against General Weyler
he characterized as absolutely menda-
cous fiction from beginning b end-set
up by somebody. And now he had discov-
cred evidence of that mendacity. That
evidence was the very moderate, respect
full and dignified statement of the min
lister of Spain which statement had been
brought forth by the recitals which had
swayed the senate.
Mr.. Hale sent to the clerks desk to
have read Senior Delomes statement to
the press; but Mr.. Davis, republican, of
Minnesota, objected to it's being read as
being a communication from foreign
minister in relation to international re-
| lations.
After some colloquy on this point Mr..
Davis withdrew his objection, and the
statement was read in full.
Mr.. Hale supplemented Senior Delome's
statement with recent dispatch from
Cuba, published in metropolitan news
| paper. denying the truth OF the charges
against General Weyler.
The hour of o'clock arrived, and the
Dupont senatorship report item inter-
rupted Mr. Hales remarks, but the sena-
torship matter was laid aside temporarily
and Mr.. Hale was given unanimous COLI
sent to proceed.
Mr.. Hale read from a paper published
in New York in the cause of the Cubans
an article setting forth, with exultant
headlines, the work which the revoiu-
tionists were doing in the burning OF VII
lagos and destruction OF sugar ana To-
bacco plantations.
"Iiberty," Mr. Hale declared, docs not
fight it's battles in that way. freedom
has risen oft from prison bars, OFT from
battle clashes, but freedom does not rise
from the, horrors and conf1agrations ana
DEVILS work recited so exultingly by this
organ. A man turns from them with nat
ural loathing. His pulse which leaps at
the story of Bannockburn and Bunker
Hill and Yorktown, turns with loath1ng
from them. 1t is not even war; 1t is not
battle 1t is murder; 1t is outrage. 1t Is
the widest strife of savagery. If l vote
alone 1 will vote for no resolution that
will give aid and comfort to the leader
whose exploits are so exaltingly chroni-
cled as have read them here
To a question put to him at this point
by Mr.. Sherman Mr.. Hale replied that
that was just the question which the Eu-
ropean nations had put to the United
states during the civil war. How long
had they to wait? 1t was that considera-
tion (the anxiety lest foreign powers
| f0h Ind rrtx IN
added stoop to the tall form of Abraham
Lincoln 1t was that consideration from
which the optimism of Seward took on
sadder tone. 1t was that consideration
which broke down the lion-hearted STAN
ton and left him ruin. The answer to
the question was given by Mr.. Seward.
Here Mr. Sherman internosed the re-
mark that before a single battle was
fought in the civil war, Spain, England
and France had acknowledged the South
ern Confederacy in the very language con-
tanned in the pending resolution.
Were they acting rightly?" said Mr..
Hoar, shooting the question point blank.
mo, / think not" Mr.. Sherman an
swered, "but we have waited now long
time and seen the atrocious acts commit
ted at our very door. and have never
raised a friendly hand nor sent single
friendly word"
Mr. Hale went on to illustrate the point
he was discussing, and quoted with
high measure of praise Mr.. Stewards re-
ply to the question of how long European
nations had to wait, and said that that
was the answer which he (Mr. Hale)
made to Mr.. Shermans question.
.sThe United States" Mr.. Seward said
twill suppress the rebellion, but 1t must
do it in it's own way; the methods by
which it shall be done must be selected
by the United States, and no foreign
power must be allowed to interfere with
the United States in it's method of sup
pressing the rebellion"
That" said Mr.. Hale, "is the answer
today. This must be left to Spain. She
sends troops to Cuba by the thousands
and by the tens of thousands. She sends
able and experienced commanders. And
as Europe waited so the United States,
by every precedent set by our govern
ment must let Spain have a fair oppor-
tunity of suppressing the rebellion. 1t is
not the first one. General Grant said in
his message that they are periodical.
I'VE are taught by General Grant the
restraining lesson that We must do what
the European powers did when the Unit
ed States announced that 1t would settle
tha rahellfou in its own way They re-