Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-07
THE SANGUILLY CASE
LETTERS BETWEEN OF NEY. SHEER
MAN, LEE, AND TAYLOR.
CLEVELAND COURSE
UPHELD.
The Agitation I'm Congress Harm
fui-Distrust of Spain In Cuba
OF American Diplomacy

WASHINGTON, ID. c., October 6.-The
celebrated case OF Julio Sangully is pre-
sented in semi-ofIicial form in a pamph,
let Issued to-day by sanguilly's counsel
here-Jose i. Rodriguez
1t tells the story in detail. and gives
number OF letters passing between
Secretary Olney, Senator Sherman, Con-
sul-General Lee, and the United states
Minister at Madrid. Mr.. Hannls Taylor.
not appearing i'm the State Department
| publications, and heretofore unpublished
As q whole. the document upholds the
| course OF President Cleveland and Secre-
tary Olney, and points out that the agi-
tation in Sanguilly's behalf in Congress
served 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 skilful diplomatic manage
ment, the release of Sanguilly from i'm
| prlsonment, 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 ex-
uberant effusion OF patriotic zeal and
most commendable humanitarian feeling
| on the part Of certain members of the
! United States Senate; through noble, al
| though misguided sentiment of generous
| compassion industriously worked upon
i'm their minds and in the minds of the
kind-hearted people of this country; by
wiful Misrepresentation Vt the facts OF
the case, and by stories propagated by
| false friends and intruders about suffer-
| ings and indignities perpetrated upon the
| prisoner, which i'm fact, were never per-
! petrated or attempted to be perpetrated
through the desire of certain Cuban agi-
tators, without authority to speak for
| the prisoner. of posing as his friends,
| urging extreme measures and precipitat-
! ing. 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 advocacy
| of which they were engaged; through the
| temptation into which many a dlstin-
| euished public man of this country SEEM
ed to have been led, of converting a case
! which involved the liberty and perhaps
! the life of a citizen OF the United States
| of America into an instrument Of oppo-
/ sition 10 the ideas and principles repre-
| scented by President Cleveland and his
| Secretary of State. Mr.. Olney; through
the moderation of a certain part of the
press and through many other causes
| and circumstances, condition OF things
which might have proved fatal was ere
| ated at once.
| "a measure Of doubtful justice and Of
more than questionable efficiency, cal
| cu;ated, perhaps. more to irritate Spain
| and embroil the United States OF Ameri-
| "a I'm a war with that nation, than
to save Sanguilly, and grounded upon
an imperfect consideration 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 de-
termination already reached by Spain to
| comply with the wishes Of the United
states of America, and set Julio San
gully at liberty, was being carried into
execution.
THE CRISIS AVERTED.
Thanks to Divine Providence, through
the righteous attitude of the State De
partment; through the firm stand of
some senator's who were then called or
CANS Of the Governor-General Of Cuba,
or friends Of SPAIN through the CO.
operation Of the Spanish Minister and,
perhaps. through the earnest application
of the prisoners counsel 10 the honorable
chairman OF the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations. the crisis was aYerted
and the most gracious act of her Ma
iesty, the Queen Regent Of Spain, 10
whom Sanguilly, personally, was not alb
solutely stranger, could be Carried into
effect in Habana, without the slightest
difficulty.
when the echo of the speeches which
were made in the Senate. and Of the
applause which their most fiery pas
sages had elected from the galleries,
had not as yet died out. Sanguily, al
ready a 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 conclusion 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 at the same time
he never thought that, in spite Of this
undoubted Spanish determination to
keep Sanguilly within the walls Of the
Fortress La 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 a 'casus belli,' or of making II the
subject of belligerent demonstration and
the display Of force"
For this reason" he continues 81
was determined that diplomatic action
toward pardon would best serve San
guilly's interests" Sanguilly approved
this and in a letter to DR.. Rodriguez
said: Hope, which I had lost, has re-
viyed 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 l
pray you to prevent. II possible, my De-
ing sent to Madrid"
The steps leading up to the pardon are
then given, with all the correspondence
between .Habana, Madrid, and Washing
ton.
DISTRUST OF SPAIN.
The conclusion of the pamphlet says in
part: 1.-THE Sanguilly case reveals,
prominently above all its other features,
and demonstrates, in striking similitude
with all the phases of the political situa-
ton I'm Cuba ever since 1925, that a feel
ing of deeply rooted, almost invincible
distrust is the prevailing element in the
relations between Spain and Cuba. 1t
bears testimony, exactly the same as the
Cuban problem, to the fact, whether
willingly or unwillingy accepted. and
each time better established, that in all |
questions concerning the action of Spain
on this continent the United States are
a marty 10 the contention, and that in |
obedience to eternal laws, historical and |
social as inevitable in their effect as |
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