The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-29

O. MACDONELL G. p. A, Jacksc
Trains leave from Central depot, corr
ROW the intelligence that he has purged the
civ of its rebellious population,
To this day men cross themselves III t,e
streets of Guanaxuato wheh 'heS Pass 80. ~
scene of this hideous butchery. Inc same
r,or,etrous policy of exterminaung req
els, was pursued by Calleja In other places
and so far were the Spanish aulholl'ies
from repudiating the acts OF Ihls wy ~
of the Mexican revolution that they ,dP-
pointed him viceroy to succeed Nanesds'
and made him Count of Calderon lie was
afterword nut in command of an eNpedi-
ton formed az Cadiz "for the supJusaIloii
Of South America" -,
After the retreat from GuanaXuato, HI
dalgo had made a stand at GudodldNdl"'
butwa again routed, and the writer ABOVE
quoted contents himself with saying Oh
the result: THE most appalling scenes VI
cruelty were renewed, the details oil Wllch
are forborne lest the heart of the reader
should sicken al the picture OF sahgutnary
horror. Suffice ID to say, that every prs
oner who fell into the hands of the relent-
less Calleja was murdered
Hidaigo was captured and put to death
in 1911 Morelos, who succeeded him, was
captured declared to be a hereto, ana
shot and the patriot cause langushed I'M
til Gen. Nina came from Spain to lead the
Mexican revolt
One of the commonest offenses of the
Spanish officers in the Mexican revolution
was the fragrant violation Of the terms
upon which surrender had been secured
under a flag of true The fort of Soto lie
Marine was surrendered upon written ar
ticles of capitulation, promising treatment
of men and officers prisoners OF war,
respect for private property, the sending OF
natives to their respective homes ana me
foreigners to the United states, ana the
marching out of the garrison with the hon
ors of war. But these conditions were wan
tonly violated, and the prisoners who We're
not killed were sent to the dungeons OF
San Juan de Ulua on a little island oppo-
site Vera Cruz. MIR. Robinson had personal
experience of this place, and says oil the
dungeons: SITUATED about fourteen feet
under the arches of the castle, gloomy
light can only be admitted by a small
grating at the top. There is a constant
humidity, and as the bottom of the 9nn-
geon is below the level of the sea, wafer
oozes in. The number confined in so small
a place soon produced a residential air,
and disease became general among the
men. The sentinels, on opening the doors
frequently tainted away on inhaling the
horrd effiuvia'
Sick and well were huddied together in
chains until all persisted by a lingering
death. save a few survivors, who We're
finally shipped to Spain.
Another incident worth recalling is that
of the capture of a hospital of the insur-
gents by a Spanish commander named
Lillian The following is quoted from the
American book:
"Then ensued. tragedy, by the orders
of the Infatuated Lifian, which it is in vain
10 attempt TO depict in colors sufficiently
strong. The hospital, as we have before OBJ
served was filled with wounded, a large
of who foreigners
pally Americans. Those who could hobble
to the square, a few PAGES distant, We're
made to do So while those whose fractured
limbs would not permit them to move,
were inhumanly dragged along the ground
10 the fatal spot There stood the fero-
cious LRfian Teasing on the spectacle. Re
CARELESS of their miserable situation of
their former gallant conduct of the Glenn
ency and respect which they had shown
TO royalist prisoners, unmindful of all
these considerations, he ordered them 10
be stripped of their clothes and shot down,
one by one"
The last defeat of the patriots which our
author relates was that which ted to the
taking of Los Remedies by the Spanish.
Again we quote from his book:
Numbers of women were made prison
ers with the details of whose treatment
delicacy forbids us to pollute our pages.
1t is impossible to depict all the barbarous
GActSStS
committed a Somgrero, though melan-
choly In the extreme, cannot approximate
those at Los Remedies. The sick and
wounded in the hospital calmly antici-
patsd death, but not in the dreadful shape
in which they were destined TO meet 1t.
The building in which these helpless vic
TINS were huddled was fired, and when
any of the unfortunate wretches who had
strength enough left to attempt crawling
out OF the flames made their appearance,
they were thrust back or bayoneted, and
in less than an hour their cries were sue
ceeded by the silence of death-their ashes
alone remained
Are these still matters Of the remote
past, leaving Weyler an isolated example
OF Spanish cruelty i'm recent times2 Is not
Valmasceda of The ten years war in
Cuba still remembered. with his procla-
nations that every male over Is years Of
age found away from home without jus
tihable reason" would be shot; that every
house not displaying a white flag would
be burned: that women and children
found on farms alone would be driven into
certain towns, and that all insurgents
taken after a certain date would be shot,
and al surrendering would be sentenced
to perpetual imprisonment? These me-
naces were ruthessiy executed TO the sac
Tifice OF many thousands Of lives. But
let Us come down TO the year 1896 in the
Philippine Islands under the rule of that
very Ramon Banco, who came nomlnally
to reverse the policy of Weyler in cuba.
and Is still in command there The in
surrection on The Island of Luzon was in
cited by the same rapacity and tyranny
that had provoked IL in Cuba, and had led
TO The loss OF all but mere yestiges of
Spain's great colonial empire, and the
leaders were the Creole" descendants of
Spanish colonists. and not the native Ma
lays Everybody suspected Of being
leaders he
was arrested and taken to the public plaza
in Manila and shot Scores Of persons
were summarily dispatched in this way.
The instructions from the authorities at
Madrid were TO show no mercy In sup
pressing the insurreetion, and the most
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