The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-27
MINIS TER DUPUY DE LONE
In Behalf of Queen of Spain Replies tn the
Appeal of Mrs Jefferson Davis and Other 9
iu Behalf of Senorita Cisneros

New York, August 25.-In response
to an appeal cabled to the queen of
Spain by Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other
notable American women, urging Glenn
ency for the young girl Evangeline
Cossio Cisneros, incarcerated at Ha
vana by the Spanish military authori-
ties, and who it was reported, was to
be exiled to the penal colony at Ceuta,
Africa, the resident Spanish minister,
Dupuy de Lone, has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to Mrs. Davis, giving the
official Spanish version of the arrest of
the young Cuban and the alleged rea-
sons for her detention and proposed
trial:
"Lenox, Mass, August "a.
Mrs. Varina jefferson Davis, Nara
gansett Pier, r. t.:
Dear Madam:-Don Juan du Boso,
first secretary of the royal Spanish le-
cation, who went to see you in my
name, has reported to me the conver-
sation he had the honor of having with
you Saturday last.
majesty, the queen, through her minis
ter of state, the duke of Tetuan, that
you had really telegraphed to her maj
esty and l have also supported the
noble words you have expressed in
your conversation.
Mr.. Du Bcso told you that when
your cablegram was received by the
queen, the Spanish government had no
knowledge of the arrest Of Miss Evan
palipp COScia CjcnoroS and also that
her majesty had given orders, as soon
as it was received, to report to her the
merit of the case, and had been pleased
to command me to inform you, if your
message was true, that she had re-
ceived it favorably and with all the re-
gard due to lady SO worthy Of re-
spect as you are.
"The information received from Cuba
by the Spanish government and laid
before her majesty, and that has been
transmitted to me by cable, shows, in
my opinion, that a shameless cOnspira-
tion to promote the interest of one or
more sensational papers is at the bot
tom of the romance that has touched
your good heart.
THE facts show that Miss Evange-
line COssie CisnerOs, lured to her
house the military commander of the
Island of Pines and had men concealed
in it, who tried to assassinate him in
connection with an uprising Of the
prisoners in the island. For that Of
fense, far from being condemned and
being ready to be transported to a
penal settlement in Africa, she has not
yet been tried; the public prosecutor
baS not yet presented the case for the
nHent; he has not yet, as is a
fetfUYyYte of our law, asked a sentence
to be imposed on her, and the case is
not yet ready to be finally disposed Of.
These 19eo5 .Bre very. easy to prove.
The American consul general, any ..of
the foreign consuls in Cuba willing to
get information, can convince them
selves of the truth, and could have
been applied to by the papers which
have started this sensation, if they had
really been prompted by sentiment of
humanity instead of having been
prompted by the desire of increasing
their circulation by their usual SLAM
derOus methods.
THE absolute falsehood of the press
publications, in relation to concrete
facts related with the case, is not fav-
Orable certainly to the eXactitude of
the considerations with which the in
nOcence Of the accused person pretends
to be proved.
II have the honor of giving you the
above information by order of her maj
eSty, and to inform you, by her special
command, that she is we'll and favora-
bly, disposed to correspond to your
earnest plea and am instructed to add
that, as the case stands, and before the
trial has been completed, and a sem
tence imposed, she is not allowed by
the law to interfere, but that instruc-
tiOns have been communicated to the
governor general Of Cuba to bring a
speedy trial and to grant to Miss Co.'S
sic all possible consideration.
Il am, madam, respectfully yours,
''ENRIQUE DUPUY DE LONE"