Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-05-12
Message rfon. Cuban Ratirriiotts. Rati i'1ts' q.
CnAi.LEsroN, 8. {; !. O., o. april s,i rs

Editor Evening Post :, 5Sssta5 rs
SIR: I,will be more than obliged
to you for small space in youriliboral
paper, for the following few lines,
and for which l do thank you very
much. Yours respectfully, q
AGUsTINE CossIo CIsNERos.
A FEW THOUGHTS.
The time is near at hand when the
Cubans will be able to demonstrate
and prove to tho world tho sincere
and very deep gratitude which they
feel toward the American people and
nation. ..
The history OF Cuba from time i'm
memorial, and more SO in the last
fifty years, is history of suffering
on the one hand and oppression, per-
secution and despotism ON the other.
Spain has misrepresented the Cubans
in every possible way, in order to
hide her crimes, deceive the world,
and more fully tyrannize us. She has
put all the ohetanc!as, il, her power
to our advancement, she has opened
wido all the avenues of vice and COR
ruption, she has overtaxed us beyond
the limits, and by 50 doing driven us
to ruin and desolation. A corrupt
Spanish clergy have muzled and
chained our inIeiiect, the result being
that the Cubans have been deprived
of political and religious rights.
On August IL, 1851, Gen. Lopez
landed in Cuba with 500 Americans.
On the 18th he was defeated and on
September 1st was executed, together
with 81 of his followers. Their
bodies were cut in pieces and paraded
through the streets of Havana by
the Spanish populacc. From that
day to this the history of Cuba has
been and is a history of blood. Our
people have been prosecuted, op-
pressed, tyrannized and executed for
the least cause, and many and many
q time for no cause at all. Our only
crime is to be Cuban and to. love
liberty and progress. ..~
There is not a single day in the
year in which one or more Cubans
haye not been killed by the Spanish
government in order to satisfy their
passion for blood and vengeance.
Finally Canovas del Castillo and
Weyler conceived and put in
execution the plan for the com.
plote determination of the Cuban
people, including old and helpless
women and children-and all to be
done in the name of God, civilization
and humanity!
O, men of honor, please stop and
think ! Just think Of this for mo-
ment
AT last, God is just, lie is with us.
lie is mcrciful and Cuba soon will be
free from all oppression, political and
religious.
Washington and Simon Bolivar,
the great and noble sons of God, the
two who started the foundation of
liberty in Amcrica-theso two great
men started what we Cubans have
been endeavoring to finish in our
struggle for independence. We
arc weak, but we thank the Almighty
that at last we have found our
brother in this nation. We have
always turned our eyes to the Ameri-
cans for help and sympathy and We
have not been mistaken in our cxpec-
tation and hope.
T'H liberal press of the whole
country and all the people, with very
few insignificant exceptions, are with
us to-day.
In the heart of each and every
Cuban there is and always will be a
lasting monument OF love and graft
tude for the American people and
nation, and in generations to come
the name of Americans in Cuba will
be thought of and pronounced in
reverence, love and eternal gratitude.
Please accept this small testimony
of brotherly love and gratitude from
the Cubans.
Augustine CossIo CIsNERos.
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