Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-22

| SoscfnfleHt snail QreCt that contracts OF
| fered them shall be equitable and the prom
ises feasible. and that said equitable con-
tracts shall be scrupulously fulfilled
The Cuban government shall aid
Italian officers travelling In the immigrant
service. and shall facilitate their duties both
| IN the ports and the interior Of the repub-
The writer has no guide to ascribe sig
nincance to the indignity offered to the
United States consulate at Cienfuegos re-
| ported by Mr.. Sauires to Mr. Hay. but the
| fact may be noted that the indignity oc
CURED February l. 1901 Just one month
subsequent to the signature of the Cuban
treaty with Italy in the city Of Habana.
namely. December 20 1909, and when Great
Britain was proposing to follow Italy in
Cuba.
Cuba Is known as the Pearl of the An
| TILES" The Spaniards termed 1t the Ever
Faithful Isle in alluson 10
JUDAS the loyal attitude of the Gu
Past. bans at the time of the over
throw of the Spanish Bour-
bons by Napoleon. Cuba was discovered by
Columbus during his first voyage, October
% 1902 Havana was founded in 1913 by
VelasqueZ In 1887 Hernandez de Soto sue
ceeded Diego. the son of Christopher CO.
lumbus. with the title of captain general.
Havana was attacked unsuccessfully by
Drake in 1885.
During the first half of the seventeenth
century four brothers Chaille belonging to
the band of mobiles of the Bas Poitou. fed
from religious persecution, and arriving in
the Safntonge (now the Charente Infer
ieure). founded the village of chaillevette.
a seaport near the mouth of the River
Seudre. The brothers, deprived OF Their
titles and estates, resorted to the sea as a
means of existence. Old family papers dis
covered in France disclosed to the writer
that of the brothers Chaille became
master and owner of a ship. La File Bien
Aimee de Saintonge"-the Well Beloved of
Saintonge-in which he traded. from the
Congo on the West Coast of Africa to the
les d'Amerique, which was the port of
Havana. The writer may claim thus that
his ascendants contributed to the wealth
and prosperity of Cuba, while improving al
the same time the condition of the negro in
transplanting him. from savagery to civ
LIZA ton.
Besides, theswriter's brother, Joseph CO.
VEIL when a mere boy. fought to free Cuba.
He Joined the last expedition of Lopez and
was one of the few who escaped and re-
turned when 1t was thought he had perish
ed. due to the paternal kindness of grand
old Spanish gentleman whose hospitality
and home he had sought fleeing from the
Spanish troops.
Narcisco Lopez was born in. Venezuela in
1853. and early in life entered the Spanish
army, in which he rose to high rank and
was given important posts. Having lost
favor with the government at Madrid he
came to the United States in 1919, and
planned with Gov. Quitman the seizure of
Cuba. The United States was supposed to
sympathize with this and similar efforts,
from the fact that since 1913 President
Polk had caused the American minister at
Madrid to sound the Spanish government
with the view OF learning If 1t would en-
tertain offer of 100000 for, the island.
In 1853 proposal was made in the Senate
to authorize the proffer of s3o,000,0 600, but
this was finally withdrawn.
LopeZ's first expedition failed because of
l ~
thorities. The second landed in Cuba, but
was quickly driven out. The third and
most important, the one in which the
writer's brother engaged, was fitted out at
New Orleans.
Lopez offered the chief command 20 JEFF
rerson Davis. then United States senator,
who declined, but suggested Robert e. Lee.
who likewise declined. Lopez then decided
to command the expedition himself. The
expedition sailed from New Orleans with
about 800 followers on the steamer Pom
pero. August 3. 1851. The filibusters sue
ceeded in landing on the coast of Cuba
about sixty miles from Havana, but We're
attacked by an overwhelming force and
killed, captured or dispersed. A great NUM-
Der of the captives were executed, and Lo-
PEE, himself captured. was garroted at Ha-
vana September !, 1851
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A dispatch drawn up and signed by James
Buchanan, United States minister to the
court Of st. James; John Y.
The Ostend Mason, minister TO France.
Manifesto. and Pierre Soule, minister to
Madrid. declared that the
sale Of Cuba would be as advantageous and
honorable to Spain as it's purchase would
be to the United States. But If Spain re-
fused to sell self preservation required that
it be wrested from her by force" En-
couraged by the acquisition of Texas fill
clustering expeditions We're Organized and
directed against the Spanish West Indies.
and especially Cuba These expeditions
joined to the probable future action of the
United States, In regard to the island ere
ated anxiety In Europe. and In 1852 Great
Britain and France addressed a-joint note
to the United States proposing convention
of three, in which they should uisclaim a
priori all intention to obtain possession OF
Cuba and discountenance all such attempts
by others Everett then Secretary, replied,
refusing to accede to any such arrange
ment while declaring that the United States
government would never question SPANS
title to the island. President Pierce, In Au-
gust, 1854. directed the aforementioned min
lister, at London, Paris and Madrid to meet
at some convenient point for the discus
sion of the Cuban question. The ministers
met at Ostend October o. 1854, and subse-
quently at Aix-la-Chapelle, though it was
at Ostend that the memorandum known as
the Ostend manifesto was prepared
The history Of the final cuban revolutions
against Spain is too familiar to need recital
here. Spain signed treaty or peace with
the United States in Paris. December 10,
1893, by which she, renowned all rights
over Cuba, Porto Rico and other depend
encies, which were coded on payment of
twenty million dollars.
On September 10. 1900, an election was
held for a constitutional convention. June
II. 1901. constitution was adopted, and
on May 90 1902, the United States, with
magnanimity and Justice. withdrew. aban:
doing the conquest of the country into the
hands of Estrada Palma. the Cuban presi-
dent.
President Palma on the occasion of the
withdrawal of the United States troops
from Cuba. February 4. 1904. said In part:
I'VE are in the presence of the most ex-
traordinary fact recorded in the annals of
universal history.
I'VE are here TO see off from our shores
the remainder of the troops of the United
States left In Cuba after helping us to Sc
cure our independence and the blessings or
freedom. They could stay longer under
any pretext whatever; they could impose
upon unjust demand. but the govern
ment of the United States, identified with
the liberal spirit and noble character of the
American people The example set
forth by the United States in withdra wing
the trOoDS from Cuban Territory rafiecfs