Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-12-18
Expei TIE Assqssinsi

Spanish chivalry is the news, Light
bonfires in The streets of Madrid,
OF Seville, of Cadiz, ye swarthy pa
triots: Ring the bells of Giralda
illuminate the Alhambra Shout de
Sauce to the Republic of the United
States until your cautious governors
throw Gordon of police about
the United States Legation in Mad.
rid, lest mob violence and interns
tional complications result. 1t is a
wondrous triumph for Spain-oDe
man slain, and the event hailed asthe
greatest exploit since the time the
Moors were driven from the Spanish
peninsula! In London Lord Sails.
bury con graduates the Spanish EN-.
bassndor on the magnificent achieve
ment of killing q single soldier. In
Washington ambassador De LONE
sends word to his colleagues of the
diplomatic corps that the revolution
is endedi for Maceo is dead. In Ha
vana weyler, the butcher, innocent
of participation in single battle,
rides in theatric style down the prin
ciple avenue while men cheer-or
get locked up as approximation
sing paeans of praise, aud little chill
dren in white robes scatter flowers
in his path. A glorious victor has
been won.
Maceo is dead! Aye, but how
slaiu! Comes the story. we'll authen
ticated. that black treachery alone
accomplished the deed. With
traitor on his own staff. lured by
treachery to rendezvous upper pro
lection of the Spanish word of hon
or, all unsuspectiug he fell. he and
the boy Gomez, under the murder
Gus fire of ambushed assassins. From
his blood, as from the blood of
dragon in mythology, armed men,
with hearts beating the all the more
tiercly for freedom from the iniouit
Gus yoke of Spain, will spring to
prosecute the work he so gallantly
begun.
ASSASSINATION said Lord Bea
consheld. addressing the House of
Commons on the death of Abraham
Liocoln' ASSASSINATION never vet
changed the history of the world
Please God, the assassination of An
tonic Maceo shall change the history
of Cuba only for the better IF
Spain has resorted To tho methods
of the early American I,,dian in war
fare, if the bravo is to he the idenl
soldier in the Spanish Amy and ig.
noble treachery the highest form of
martial triumph, the time is at hand
when the United States will inter
fere to help the establishment in
Cuba Of Government with loftier
ethical and moral ideas than Spain
can show. Assassination has been
the common practice of the Spanish
forces on the island. Paciticoes,
prisoners of war, tho wounded in
hospitals and non combatants of all
sorts have been murdered in cold
blood But the story of General
Macec's death shows cold blooded
predetermination to assassinate ney
er parsleled 10 civilized warfare.
Past now is the time when this
nation need seek longer for all ar
rangement which, in Grover Cleve
lands words, shall end this war
with honor and advantage to Spain"
No longer do we, with that ponder
Gus statesman, recognize the "chiv
alrous devotion to the national hon
Or of Spaniards. 1t is asserted
though doubtfully-thst there is
honor among thieves, but we have
never heard of honor among assas-
sins.
If the story of Maceo's death by
treachery be true it affords new rea.
son why the United States should in
terfere to stop the barbarous conflict
raging at our very doors. Let US
drive forth Weyler and his band of
assassins, regarding them, as the
doughty Chevalier Gourgues held
the Spaniards he hanged two centu.
ries ago at the mouth of the st
Johns River, "Not az Spaniards, but
astreacherous robbers and assassins.r
IN. Y. Jourcal.
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.