The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-07
STORY TOLD IN DETROIT WITH
SOME LETTERS NEVER BE-
FORE PUBLISHED
Mr.. CLEVELAND COMMENDED
SAVED THE PRISONER HIS
LIFE.
THE JINGoIsTs HURT HIS CHANCES
Plea of the Cuban Prejudiced by the
Attempt to Create n Casus
BeIIi.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-The cele-
brated case of Julio Sanguilly is pre-
sented in seni-off1cial form in a
pamphlet issued today by Sanguilly's
counsel here, Jose I. Rodriguez. 1t tells
the story in detail and gives a num-
Der of letters passing between Secre-
tary Olney, Senator Sherman, Consul
General Lee and the United States
minister at Madrid, Hannis Taylor, not
appearing in the state department pub
locations and heretofore unpublished.
AS a whole, the document upholds the
course of President Cleveland and Sec
retary Olney, and points out that the
agitation in SanguIly's behalf in con-
gress served only to prejudice his case.
After stating that the attention Of
congress and the public was not at
tracted to Sanguilly until the very
moment in which, through skillful dip.
lomatic management, the release OF
Sanguilly from Imprisonment without
further suffering or humiliation had
been secured" the writer says: But
that moment was one of extreme per-
pleXity, which the friends of Sanguilly
will not easily forget. Through an eX-
uberant effuSion of patriotic zeal and
most commendable humanitarian feel
ings on the part Of certain members of
the United States senate-through
noble, although misguided sentiment
Of generous compassion, industriously
worked up in their minds and in the
minds of kindhearted people of this
country, by wilfull misrepresentation
Of the facts Of the case and by stories
propagated by false friends and in
truders, about wrongs and sufferings
and indignities perpetrated upon the
prisoner which, in fact, were never
perpetrated or attempted to be perpe-
trated-through the desire of certain
Cuban agitators, without authority II
speak for the prisoner, of posing as
his friends, urging extreme measures,
and precipitating, If possible, con-
f1ict between the United States and
Spain, aiming at no other end and
seeking no other thing than the ad
vance of the cause in the advocation
of which they were engaged-through
the temptation into which many dis
tinguished public man Of this country
seemed to have been led of converting
a case, which involved the liberty and
end perhaps the life of citizen Of the
United States Of America into an in
strument of opposition to the ideas and
principles represented by President
Cleveland and his secretary of state,
Mr.. Olney-through the vociferation OF
a certain part of the press, and through
many other causes and circumstances,
a condition Of things, which might
have proved fatal, was created at once.
DOUBTFUL MEASURES.
ga measure of doubtful justice, and
of more than questionable efficiency,
calculated perhaps more to irr1tate
Spain and embroil the United States
of America in a war with that nation,
than to save Sanguilly, and grounded
upon an imperfect knowledge Of the
facts of the case, was attempted to be
rushed through the United States sem
ate, exactly at the same time in which
the determination already reached by
Spain to comply with the wishes of the
United States of America and set Julio
Sanguilly at liberty was being carried
into execution.
Thanks to Divine Providence,
through the righteous attitude of the
state department.; through the firm
stand of some honorable senators, who
were then called organs of the COVER
nor general of Cuba, or of the queen
of Spain, and against whom the friends
Of the measure acknowledged to have
used "a little by-word Of badinage;
through the cooperation of the Span
ish minister, and perhaps through the
earnest appeal of the prisoners coun-
sci to the honorable chairman of the
senate committee on foreign relations,
the crisis was averted, and the most
gracious act of her majesty, the queen
regent of Spain, to whom Sanguilly
personally was not absolutely
stranger, could be carried into effect In
Havana, without the slightest diff
Guilty.
'rWhen the echo of the speeches
which were made in the senate and of
the applauses which their most fiery
passages had elected from the CALLER
les, had not yet died out, Sanguilly.
already free man. was joining his
family and preparing to leave the
island of Cuba. Warm hearts and cool
heads had once more overpoWered the
furies of blind excitement
DR.. Rodriguez says his study of the
case led him to the conviction that
the Spanish authorities of Cuba would
never voluntarily release his client, as
long as the Cuban war should give the
slightest sign of existence. And as at
the same time he never thought, that
in spite of this undoubted Spanish de-
the walls of the fortress La Cubanas,
more for fear of what he might do, if
released, than for anything else, there
was any reasonable possibility of turn
ing Sanguilly's case into casus belli,
or of making it the subject Of belliger-
ent demonstrations or displays OF
force"
DIPLOMATIC ACTION.
For this reason it was determined
that diplomatic action toward par
don would best serve Sanguillys inter-
ests. Sanguilly approved this, and in
letter to DR.. Rodriguez said: Hope,
which I had lost, has revived in my
soul through your action. Do all that
freedom through pardon, or If not
possible that way, try at least to OBJ
tain my release on bail. But l pray
you, to prevent, if possible, my being
sent to Madrid"
The steps leading up to the pardon
are then given, with all the correspond.
ence between Havana, Madrid and
Washington. The conclusion Of the
pamphlet says in part:
1.-THE Sanguilly case reveals, prom
inently above all its other features,
and in the most striking similitude
with all the phases Of the political sit
uation in Cuba, ever since 1925, that q
feeling of deeply rooted, almost in
vincibIe distrust, is the prevailing ele-
ment in the relations between Spain
and Cuba. It bears testimony, exactly
the same as the Cuban problem, to the
fact, whether willingly or unwillingly
accepted, and each time better estab-
lished, that in all questions concerning
the action of Spain in this continent
the United States of America is a par
ty to the contention and that in obe-