Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-30
GENERAL GOMEZ HEARD FROM.
Letters from the Cuban Leader to
Cleveland md Mckinley.

Cleveland md Mckinley.
CHICAGO, March 29.-The Record tomor-
row will say: C. E. Crosby, whose letters
to the Record have appeared over the sig
nature Don Carlos" joined the army of
General Gomez early in February, having
made his way through the Spanish lines
after secretly communicating with the rebel
governor of the province of Santa Clara and
receiving from him an armed escort to the
Headquarters OF the Cuban commander. He
was present at a number of recent engage
ments at which there was hard fighting. A
letter from the Records Havana correspond
ent, Crittenden Marriott, gives the informa-
ton that some of Mr.. Crosby's correspond
ence has fallen into the hands of the Span
iards on it's way through the lines, and the
Spanish authorities have been trying to seize
him., descriptions of his personal appearance
being sent broadcast through the province Of
Santa Clara. His last dispatch was received
March "a, having been written in the camp
of General Gomez, near Arroyo Blanco, where
he is now reported to have been killed. By
the same courier doubtless was sent the i'm
p%ortant letter of Gomez to President Nc
Kinley, published below. Mr.. Crosby's copy
of this letter reached the Record office yes
terday, having come by mail, as it was the
desire of the Cuban commander that it should
not be published before the original was in
the hands Of President Mckinley. If MIR.
Crosby has really paid with his life for his
courage and enterprise, The readers of the
Record gain from BIN, as an earnest of his
ability as a correspondent, knowledge of the
remarkable letter which was sent by General
Gomez to President Cleveland and which
either went astray or was kept secret by its
recipient, as well as of this late communica-
ton, which probably arrived at the white
house last night. The letter follows:
LETTER TO M'KINLEY.
I'm THE FIELD, NEAR SANCTI ES-
PIRITu, March /, 1S97.-The Hon. william
Mckinley. President of the United States of
America: Sir-General Weyler has arrived
in this district of Sancti Espiritu with IL
numerous army. He comes not to fight nor
to oppose lis strength to the forces which
defend these parts, but with a sanguinary
and cruel general who will avoid combars
and spread crime and desolation everywhere.
He comes to murder the peasants in the
fields, to kill the children, and to drive our
prosecuted and outraged women to the woods,
leaving their homes to be burned, their
hearths violated and their gardens destroyed.
This Is how General Weyler pacifes Sancti
Espiritu, or wherever he may be. Then he
authorizes those who ask him for bread for
their children and alienation for their mis-
cries, to go out into the country and steal
and destroy whatever they may find.
with this, permit me to send you a COPY
of a letter which l had the honor to send
your predecessor in Office, Mr.. Grover Cleve-
land. 1t is the hope that 1t may move you
to sacred action that induces me to take up
my pen 10 trouble you.
LETTER TO CLEVELAND.
SANCTI ESPIRITU, Feb. 9, lS97.-Mr.
Cleveland, President Of the United States:
irLPermit q man w;lose soul is torn
Tttara bl nm nr,n by the contemplation of un-
supreme chief of a people free, cultivated
and powerful; DO not, beg, regard this
You yourself authorized it when you con
coded TO me a place in your last message
Even more, ! beg you do not regard it
as. a request for Intervention in our az
fairs. We Cubans have thrown ourselves
The wisdom OF the American people should
alone decide what course of action you
in arms. No. I raise my Sye Voice oi onty c IN ths
name fame OF unarmed Americans, victims of a
win forgetfulness of the elementary prin-
ciples OF humanity, and the eternal maxims
the closing days of the nineteenth century
at the very gates of the great nation which
TIiSanddS 80 high H drod Modern eTltureasae-
ting forth the horrors Of the middle ages.
interesting to that humanity of which YOU
visa TO call your lllustrious attention,
Look through the world and you will see
how all people with the possible excep-
ton of the Americans, contemplate with
Indifference. or with sentimental platonism
the war which makes red the beautiful
fields of fertile Cuba, as If it were a thing
foreign to their Interests and TO those Of
modern culture, as If it we're not a crime
cial brotherhood.
But you know it is not Cuba alone; II
Is America; 1t is all Christianhood; 1t is
al humanity, that sees itself ,ouraged by
spaia's horrible barbarity. Well 1t is that
the Spanish struggl with desperation and
that they are ashamed to explain the meth
DDS they employ in this war. But we know
them and We expect them. We accept il
az, as a fresh sacrifice on the altar of
Cuban independence.
II is logical that such should be the
of the nation that expelled the
Jew and the Moera; that instituted ana
built ~ the terrlhle inquisiti1n; that es-
tahlisled the tribunals of blood i'm the
Mciherl9ndsi that, apnihiiated the Indians
that assassinateG thousands of her
subjects In the wars OF South American In
dependence, and that filled the cup of i'm
ihauity In the last war in Cuba,
1t is natural that "A people should pro-
coed thus, who, by lint Of superstitlous
ma fangtlcal, education, and through the
y'clssitudes Of It's social and political life
have falien into q sort OF psychological
deterioration which has caused II to fall
back whole centuries on the ladder NJ