The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-07
SANGUlLLY CASE PRESENTED.
1T APPEARS IN SEMI-OFFICIAL
FORM FROM HIS COUNSEL.


tation in SanguiIIy's behalf in
Congress Only Prcjudiced His
Case-The American Government
Credited With His Release.
Washington, Oct. 6.-The celebrated case
Of Julio Sanguilly is presented in a semi
official form in pamphlet issued to-day
by Sanguilly's counsel here, Jose /. Rodri-
guez II tells the story in detail, and gives
a number of letters passing between Sec
retary Olney, Senator Sherman Consul
General Lee and the United States minis
ter at Madrid, MIR. Hannis Taylor not APP
pearing in the state department publica-
tious and heretofore unpublished.
As a whole the document upholds the
course Of President Cleveland and Secre-
tary Olney and points out that the agita-
tion in Sanguinys behalf in congress serv-
ed only to prejudice his case.
After stating that the attention of con-
gress and the public was not attracted TO
Sanguilly until the very moment in
which, through skillful diplomatic man
agement, the release of Sanguilly from
imprisonment without further suffering
or humiliation, had been secured" the
writer says: "But the moment was one
of extreme perplexity, which the friends
of Sanguilly will not easily forget
Through an exuberant effusion of patri-
otic zeal and most commendable humani-
tartan feelings on the part of certain
members of the United States Senate;
through a noble, although misguided SEN
timent of generous compassion, industri-
ously worked upon in their minds and in
the minds of the kind-hearted people of
this country, by wilful misrepresentation
of the facts of the case and by stories
propagated by false friends and intrud-
ers about wrongs and sufferings and in
dignites perpetrated upon the prisoner,
which in fact We're never perpetrated or
attempted to be perpetrated; through the
desire of certain Cuban agitators, with
out authority to speak for the pris-
oner, of posing as his friends,
urging extreme measures and pre-
ciptating, If possible, a conflict between
the United States and Spain, aiming at
no other end, and seeking no other thing
than the advance of the cause in the ad-
vocation Of which they were engaged;
through the temptation into which many
try seemed to have been led of converting
a case which invilved the liberty and, per-
haps, the life of a citizen of the United
States of America into an instrument of
opposition to the ideas and principles rep
resented by President Cleveland and his
Secretary of State, Mr.. Oney; through
the vociferation of certain part Of the
press, and through many other causes
and circumstances, a condition of things
which might have proved fatal was Gre
ated at once. A measure of doubtful JUS
tice and Of more than questionable eff
cheney, calculated, perhaps, more to irrl-
tate Spain and embroil the United States
Of America in a war with that nation than
to save lSansuilly, and grounded upon an
imperfect knowledge of the facts of the
case, was attempted to be rushed through
the United States Senate ex-
actly at the same time in
which the determination already
reached by Spain to comply with the wish
es of the United States of America, and set
Julio Sanguilly at liberty, was being car
ried into execution.
Thanks 10 Divine Providence, through
the righteous attitude of the state de-
partment; through the firm stand of some
honorable senator's who were then called
organs of the governor general of Cuba,
or of the Queen of Spain, and against
whom the friends of the measure acknowl-
edged to have used little by-word Of
bandinage;" through the operation of
Spanish minister; and perhaps through the
earnest appeal of the prisoners counsel to
the honorable chairman Of the Senate COM
mittee 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 abso-
lutely a stranger, could be carried into ef-
feet in Havana, without the slightest diff
fculty.
when the echo of the speeches which
were made in the Senate and of the ap
plause which their most fiery passages
had elected from the galleries had not as
yet died out, Sanguily, already a free
man. was joining his family and preparing
10 leave the Island of Cuba.
Warm hearts and cool heads had once
more overpowered the furies Of blind ex-
element"
DR.. Rodriguez said his study of the case
led him to the conviction that the Span
ish authorities of Cuba would never vol
unfairly 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 determination to keep
Sanguilly within the walls of Fortress Ia
Cabana, more for fear of what he might
do If released than for anything else,
there was any reasonable possibility of
turning Sanguilly's case into casus belli.
or making it the subject of belligerent
demonstration or displays OF force"
For this reason, it determined that
diplomatic action toward a pardon would
best serve Sanguillys interests. Sanguil-
ly approved this, and in a letter to DR..
Rodriguez said: "Hope, (which / had lost.
has revived in my soul through your
action. DO all that you can, my dear
friend to secure my freedom through a
pardon. or, If not possible In that way, try
at least to obtain my release on bail. But
1 pray you to prevent, If possible, my be-
ing sent to Madrid
The steps leading up to the Mardon are
then given, with all the correspondence
between Havana Madrid and Washington
The conclusion of the pamphlet says, in
part "The Sanguily case reveals promi-
nently above all its other features and,
In the most striking similitude with all
the phases Of the political situation in
Cuba ever since 1926 that a feeling of
deeply rooted, almost invincible distrust
Is the prevailing element in the relations
between Spain and Cuba. 1t bears testi-
mony exactly the same as the Cuban
problem; to the fact whether willingly or
unwillingly accepted and each time better
established that in all questions concern