The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-10-07
THE CASE OF SANGUILLY
Discussed by the Released Cuban
Prisoners Counsel.
CLEVELAND AND OLNEY PRAISED

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tors. says senior Rodriguez, Pro-
vented an Armed Conflict with Spain
washington, oct. THE celebrated
case of Julio Sanguilly is presented in
a semi-oiiicial form in a pamphlet is
sued by Sanguilly's counsel here, Jose
/. Rodriguez. 1t tells the story in de-
tail, and gives a number Of letters pass
ing between Secretary Olney Senator
/ Sherman, Consul General Lee and the
United States minister at Madrid, Mr..
/ Hannis Taylor. AS a whole the docu-
ment upholds the course of President
| Cleveland and Secretary Olney and
I points out that the agitation in San
/ guilly's behalf in congress served only
| to prejudice his case.
After stating that the attention of
| congress was not attracted to Sanguilly
until the very moment in which,
/ through skilful diplomatic manage
ment the release of Sanguilly from i'm
| prisonment without further suffering
or humiliation had been secured" the
writer says
but that moment was one of ex-
treme perplexity, which the friends of
SanguiHy viii not easily forget.
Through an exuberant effusion of pa
triotic zeal and most commendable
humanitarian feelings on the part ofcer-
tain members of the United States sem
ate; through noble, although misguided
sentiment of generous compassion, in
dustriously worked up in their minds
and in the minds of the kind hearted
people OF this country by wilful mis-
represent tation of the facts of the case,
and by stories propagated by false
| friends and intruders about wrongs
and sufferings and indignities perpe-
trated upon the prisoner, which in fact
were never perpetrated or attempted
TO be perpetrated through the desire
of certain Cuban agitators, without au-
thority to speak for the prisoners, of
posing as his friends urging extreme
measures and precipitating, if possible,
a conflict between the United States
and Spain, aiming at no other end and
seeking no other things 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
perhaps the life of citizen of the
United States of America into an in
strument Of opposition to the ideas and
Cleveland and his secretary of state,
Mr.. Olney though the vociferation
of certain part of the press, and
through many other causes and cir
cumstances, a condition of things which
might have proved fatal was created
at once.
"A measure of doubtful justice, and
of more than questionable efficiency,
calculated perhaps more to irritate
Spain and embroil the United States
of America in 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
senate exactly at the same time in
which the determination already reach
ed by Spain to comply with the wishes
of the United States of America and
set Julio Sanguilly at liberty was be-
ing carried into execution.
"Thanks to DivineProvidence, through
the righteous attitude of the state de-
partment; through the firm stand ol
some honorable senators who were then
called organs Of the governor general
of Cuba, or of the queen of Spain and
against whom the friends Of the mea-
sure acknowledged to have used a lit
cooperation of the Spanish minister
and perhaps through the earnest appeal
of the prisoners counsel to the honor
able chairman of the senate committee
b on foreign relations, the crisis was
averted.
"When the echo of the speeches
which were made in the senate and OF
the applause which were their most
fiery subjects, was elected from the
galleries had not as yet died out San.
gully, already a free man, was join
ing his family and preparing to leave
the Island of Cuba. Warm hearts anC
p cool heads had once more oVerpowereC
the furies of blind excitement"
DR.. Rodriguez says his study of the
case led him to the conviction thai
the Spanish authorities of Cuba would
never voluntarily release his client al
long as the Cuban war should give th'
slightest sign of existence And as a
: the same time he never thought tina
y in spite Of undoubted Spanish de
:. termination to keep Sanguilly within
the walls of Fortress La Cabana NOR
for fear of what he might do if re
O leased than for anything else, therl
was any reasonable possibility of turn
ing SangWllys case into a casus bell
ent demonstrations or displays o
force"
. For this reason it was determined
= that diplomatic action toward pardon
- would best serve Sanguilly's interests
= Sanguilly himself approved this.
The conclusion of the pamphlet say
in part:
1.-THE Sanguilly case reveals the fac
that all attempt, no matter how mucl
accompanied by noise and alleged pop
ular support, to force upon the ad
ministration an undesired attitude, o
to dictate to it the manner and tn
form in which its duty must be per
formed, is foolish to the extreme, an,
\ dangerous, even if it is sincere.
HAD it not been for this giant VIII
is called the American government
y had it happened for it's executive an
: diplomatic department to be entruste
to less faithful hands or to persons O
less supreme manliness and politics
honesty than President Cleveland an
y his secretary of state, Mr. Olney, tn
ID fate of Sanguilly would have been yer
Isl different Thanks to the courage q
I'd those two great Americans. Julio San
y gully is not still lingering inside q
a q Spanish fortress or serving a sentenc
as cruel as ignominous.
"The Intervention of the Achilles
.t the Cuban war of lS6S-1818 saved Sau
il gully upon the field of battle The in
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