The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-07-27
The Spani>h.Al:erican War.
Editor The TINES:

Editor The TINES:
Admiral Dewey's naval victory in
Manila bay, coupled with the de-
struction OF Cervera's fleet in the At
lantic ocean and the capture of the
city of Santiago de Cuba with It's
twenty-five thousand defenders after
great deal of desperate fighting on
both sides, is simply made gratifying
to US for the success of our arms and
creditable to the Spanish soldiers,
even though defending bad cause.
These achievements are grand and
we believe will take their places in
the pages of our history as the most
complete and decisive as have ever
been recorded therein. Great credit
is due our brave men, both officers
and privates engaged in these Strug-
giles, we must confess, but in all can
dor we must say that the men who
stood by and worked and died by
their guns are the men who won and
achieved these victories. The men
that carry and work the guns are the
sons and sinew Of all armies and are
the mainstay of nationalities, Amer
lean valor, coupled as it were with
bulldog tenacity, backing a war
waged in the cause of freedom and
humanity, is proving too much for
Spanish Jreachery, oppression and
brutality.
The deliverance and freedom Of the
people of the once beautiful and fer
tile but now devastated Island OF
Cuba is fast drawing to q certainty,
and the hated and blood-stained flag
of Spain will soon be forever lowered
and will never again float over that
island to menace or make afraid
again the now unhappy but soon-to-
be liberated Cubans.
Spain has made many cOnqueSts
and for many years has been the un-
disputed poSSessor Of all Of her con-
quests, but by her cruel expressions
and blood-thirsty tyrannies one after
another of her possessions have re-
volted and today she fully realizes
that the last one of her conqueStS
and possessions is fast slipping away
from her. Spain has been and still
is bloody nation. Spain,s past rec
ord has indeed been q cruel and
bloody record. History teaches that
Spain has waged more wars and IN
these wars shed more innocent blood
than any nation under the sun, not
even excepting the unreasonable, re-
vengeful and blood-thirsty savages
in anv part of the world. Spain,
though, in measure is paying now
in blood, and later on Will pay in
treasure for the treacherous destruc-
ton of our battleship Maine, and for
the cruel murder of our unsuspectlng
countrymen who formed the crew of
that battleship. Retributive justice
has overtaken these Spanish devils
incarnate and they have been made
to render more than life for life and
blood for blood.n Our government,
| dare say, will make the Spaniards
rue the day that emboldened them
to shed American blood, but for the
retrihution of the blood of others
and of the poor Cubans we will have
TO leave it in the hands of Him who
has said, vengeance is mine, | will
repay
The destruction of Spain,s boasted
fleet with the complete and success
full capture Of Santiago and its 5000
defenders will certainly convince the
Dons and Dagoes Of Spain that they
are not quite as invincible as their
pufTed up vanity has led them to be-
iieve, nor neither are the Yankee
pigs as cowardly and as awkward
as they have tried to have the rest
of the world believe. 1t is TO be
hoped now that Spain will see the
uselesSness in irving to further pro-