The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-16
"BLOODY HIGHWAYrEN.'
Americans RoundIy Denounced In an
Editorial In a Havana Paper.

de Ii Mnrinn published recently an
editorial under the head of Cow
ards" which was in part as follows:
The scoundrels of the North
that nation which owes to Spain, to
the generous Spain, the soil on which
they tread, discovered by our naviga-
tors, and that use the sea opened to
their vessels by Columbus, Balboa
and GaetanO-that sea, which, if
spiteful. would open its bottom to
bury them in tin enterprises
worthy only Of pirates and highway
men, have commenced to lombard
Puerto Rico, and have repeated their
foolish attacks on Cardenas and
Cienfuegos without previous in
timation Of notification of any kind
against the established international
custom and against all rights con-
corning open cities and places not
fortified.
'Such and unheard-of disregard Of
written laws, such violations of
treaties and the decisions of the in
ternational congress of Aix-la Cha
pelle, of November, 1918, makes of
those men a brood of tigers. placing
them out of humanity which they
dishonor.
Miserable wrctches, descendants of
the regicides of Charles |, and of the
fanatics that impelled the arm Of the
fierce magistrate LETTERS to legal eN-
ecutiOn en- masse for the simple ac
cusation of carelessness in the prot
estant worship descendants who
owe their nationality to monstrous
rebellion against their motherIa nd
from which they flew to attain an
UNDERSIGNED civil liberty, SO as to
avert punishment for theiri great
crimes.
They reached prosperity and rich
ness by turning the American land,
prOfaned by them, into a cemetery of
Indians, beheadcd by thousands,
after having been despoiled of their
properties. The Yankees have been
red years to hide their origin and
make us forget what they were when,
on board the Mayflower, they invad-
ed the sacred soil of America.
80 many were their protests of
love toward the feeble and regard
for Justice that we almost believed
with Laboulaye that they were men
of superior race that had come to
the world to illustrate and redeem
it.
Now we see those men of 4 SUI
perior race. those lovers of liberty,
those Philanthropists, are 4 crowd
of cOwardly murderers. All masks
have fallen off their faces. and they
appear just as they are, just as they
always have been-a gang of bloody
highwaymen, ungratefui and rebel
sons of their motherland, who pat
ronize all ingratitudes and tlial re-
bellions. They were denunciators Of
innOcents in the Cromwellian revo-
luton, and now falsely accuse Spain.
AS they robbed Mexico to widen their
dOminions. they now wish to rob
Cuba to enlarge their riches, and in
the same manner that they con-
stituted their country when they ex-
terminated the aboriginal race OF
America calling to their help all the
malefactors of the world, offering
them the rights of citiZens-they
wish now to exterminate the Span
iards. and to be the only owners of
the continent.
LET us take them as they are and
let us give Justice to those aSsassins.
Let Cuba be the avenging axe under
which they expiate their past crimes
and their present infamies. Let us.
for humanity. extirpate this leprosy
of America. Let us have no pity.
Let us give them no rest. Let us not
honor them with our mercy