The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-10-07
EcEg@sANGUHlE'
Discussed BY tho Released oubsn.
Prisoners Counsel.
CLEVELAND AND oIHEY PRAISED

ligerent Attitude OF Certain sena-
tors, Says Senior Rodriguez, Pre-
vented an Armed Conflict with Spain
] Washington, Oct. 1.-THE celebrated
case of Julio Sanguiily IL presented in
| a semi-official form in a pamphlet is
| sued by Sanguilly's counsel here, Jose
I. Rodriguez. 1t tells the story In de-
tail, and gives number of letters pass
! ing between Secretary Olney. Senator
Sherman. Consul General Lee and the
| United States minister at Madrid, Mr..
Hannis Taylor. As whole. the docu-
ment upholds the course Of President
Cleveland and Secretary Olney, and
points out that the agitation in Sam
guilly's behalf in congress served only
to prejudice his case. -a- q.
| After stating that the attention Of
congress was not attracted to Sanguilly
until the very moment in which.
through skillful diplomatic manage
ment, the release of Sanguilly from inn
prisonment without further suffering
or humiliation had been secured" the
writer says.
But that moment was one Of ex-
IRENE perplexity, which the friends Of
Sanguilly will not easily forget.
Through an exuberant effusion of pa
triotic zeal and most commendable
humanitarian feelings onthe 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-
representation 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 OF attempted
to be perpetrated; through the desire
of certain Cuban agitato1s. without au.
,hority 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 Il dis
tinguished public man o. this country
seemed to have been led of converting
case which involved the liberty and
perhaps the life Of d 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.
MI. Olney; though the vociferation
of certain part OF the press. and
through many other causes and cir
,f ~, 1T
might have proved fatal was created
at once.
"A measure of doubtful Justice, and
of more than questionable efficiency,
calculated perhaps more TO irritats
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 Divine Providence. through
the righteous attitude Of the state de-
partment; through the firm stand OF
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 lit
tie byword of badinage:' through the
cooperation of the Spanish minister,
and perhaps through the earnest appeal
r,pt -, -,
able chairman of the senate committee
OH 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 free man. was join
Ing his family and preparing to leave
the Island of Cuba Warm hearts and
cool heads had ohce more overpowered
the furies of blind excitement"
DR. Rodriguez says his study Of the
case lied him to the conviction that
the Spanish authorities of Cuba would
never voluntarily release his client 8
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 undoubted Spanish de-
termination to keep sanguIly within
the walls of Fortress La Cabana more
for fear of what he might do If re-
leased than for anything else. there
was any reasonable possibility of turn
ing Sanguilly's case into o casus belli
or Of making it the subject of hellger-
ent demonstrations or displays of
force"
For this reason it was determined
that diplomatic action toward Il pardon
would best serve Sanguilly's interests.
Sanguily himself approved this.
The conclusion of the pamphlet says
In part:
1.-THE Sanguilly case reveals the fact
that all attempt, no matter how much
accompanied by noise and alleged pop
ulur support, to force upon the ad-
ADMINISTRATION an undesired attitude, or
TO dictate to 1t the manner and the
form in which its duty must be per-
formed. is foolish to the extreme, and
dangerous, even If it is sincere.
Had it not been for this giant who
ls called the American government,
had 1t happened for it's executive and
diplomatic department to be entrusted
to less faithful hands or to persons of
less supreme manliness and political
honesty than President Cleveland ana
bis secretary of state. Mr. Olney. the
tate Of Sanguilly would have been very
different. Thanks to the courage of
those two great Americans. Julio San
gully Is not still lingering inside of
Spanish fortress or serving sentence
as cruel as ignominous.
1.-THE intervention OF the Achilles of
the Cuban war Of lsGs-187S saved San
gully upon the field OF battle. The in
tervention Of the Achilles of the Amer
lean diplomacy saved him now from
his enemies and perhaps also from his
friends"