The evening times., 1898-05-25
SPANS BLOODY HISTORY.

= The history of Spain has been a history
of perfidy and treachery ever since the
nation existed. The blowing up of the
Maine was not the first crime of the
kind OF which Spain has been guilty, and
the treachery of the Spaniards in the
Philippines, in pretending to show Admi-
raj Dewey a channel where there were
no mines, in acknowledgment Of his kind
ness in not killing Spanish prisoners, was
an attempt at the commission of a crime
no less detestable than the destruction Of
the Maine. During the revolution in
Venezuela and New Granada in the ear
ly years Of the present century the Span
iards were guilty Of crimes that have no
parallel in history. Many of these out
RACES have not been made public owing
to the fact that the victims were all muir
dered, and the records, if any were kept.
were in Spanish hands. But 1t was stated
in Spanish official documents that $4,000
prisoners had been sacrificed in cold blood
by shooting, hanging and other modes OF
execution. How many inoffensive men.
women and children were slaughtered OF
whose fate no further notice was taken in
the official dispatches of the royal COM
manders than appears in the following
words is not known:
1.-THE town or pueblo of -, with all Its
in habitants has disappeared from the
face Of the earth.''
In June, 1916. the Spanish general Mu-
rillo entered the city of Santa Fe de Bo-
gotta, and In one of his dispatches which
every person of either sex capable Of
reading or writing was treated as reb-
el and executed. for. by cutting on all
who can read or write we hope to ef-
fectually arrest the spirit of the revolu-
tion."
Six hundred men, with their wives and
daughters who were educated were hang
ed or shot in Santa Fe de Bogota and
Cartagena, after which their bodies were
exhibited on gibbets.
A manifesto was addressed to all ma
tions by the congress Of the province OF
Rio de la Plata, dated at Buenos Ayres.
June Is. 1876. of which the following are
extracts:
.'The town Of Cochabamba was taken
and delivered up to plunder for three
hours. The commandant of the royal
troops, Goyeneche, entering with one
half OF his cavalry the gate of the prin-
cipal church, the Host being exposed,
killed with stroke OF his sword the
fiscal Lopez Andreu. who presented 1t.
He ordered the governor intendant to be
shot, and, observing with complacency
from the balcony of his house this in
iquitous assassination. he ferociously
cried out to his troops not TO shoot the
victim in the head, as he wanted it to be
stuck upon a pike. When 1t was severed
from the body the headless trunk was
dragged through the streets, while at
the same time the brutal soldiers were
permitted to dispose at pleasure Of the
lives and property of the inhabitants for
many successive days. Wherever this
Nero went death and devastation mark
ed his path. A gesture clouded yisage,
an indiscreet word or a tear stealing
down a cheek was a crime of state"
The royalists have adopted the dread
full system Of putting men to death indis-
.criminately for no other purpose than to
diminish our numbers, and on entering our
towns have been known to massacre even
the unfortunate market people. driving
them into the public square in groups
and shooting them down with cold-blood-
"a, wanton cruelty.
In the district Of Vale Grande they In
dulged themselves In the brutal sport Of
cutting oR the ears OF the natives, and
transmitting . pannier full OF them to
headquarters They afterHaxd destroyed
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