Year: 1870




The insurrection in Cuba has been crushed,
or has been ON the eve OF being crushed, .
hundred times within the last fifteen months,
according to the news received from Havana
and through Spanish sources in this country
and Spain The slaughter Of Cubans by the
heroic troops Of Spain has been going on all
the time, and the number slaughtered in the
aggregate, according to these wonderful
accounts, were never exceeded in the wars Of
modern times Then the large quantities Of
munitions of war and provisions that are con-
stantly being captured by the Spaniards are
| surprising. And, Of course, the insurrection
becomes weaker every day, as 1t has been
getting from the first. The very latest sensa-
ton is that the Cuban Junta in New York have
ordered the insurgents to lay down their arms,
owing to the failure Of all negotiations in the
United States; and that one thousand FIVE
hundred insurgents have already surren-
dered at Tunas. The wonder is that under
these circumstances Spain should continue
to send out SO many troops and should
have felt it necessary to build q feet
of thirty gunboats in the United
States, in addition to the large naval force
already around Cuba, for the purpose Of sup
pressing an insurrection that was already dead
or dying. Now it must be apparent to every
one that these repeated accounts from public
and private sources Of Spanish successes and
of the decline of the instruction are manu-
tured to deceive the American government and
people and have no foundation in fact. Why,
killed and captured and Of the munitions Of
war and provisions that have fallen into the
hands of the Spaniards, the insurrection must
have been most formidable one The Span
iards, by their own statements, prove that all
they have said about the insurrection was
false. The truth is the Spaniards, despairing
of putting down the Cubans by arms, resort
to the Quixotic expedient of accomplishing
their object by the most glaring mendacty.
They hope to deceive the American govern
ment and people by this ruse. They cannot,
however, delude our people by such palpable
falsehoods, if they can the weak men
of General Grants Cabinet. The most
lamentable thing about all this is
that the government at Washington and such
men as Mr.. Sumner pretend to believe these
mendacious reports for the purpose of cover
ing up their own pro-Spanish policy and to
deceive the American people. But the truth
will come out, and will overwhelm Mr.. Secre-
tary Fish, Mr.. Hoar, Mr.. Sumner and others
with disgrace. The Cubans are making a
noble fight for independence, and in spite of
statements to the contrary all the evidence
goes to show they are stronger than ever. This
great republic, which has heretofore loudly
proclaimed it's sympathy with the Poles, Hun
garians, Italians and all other peoples strug-
Cling for freedom, now turns its back upon our
near neighbors-upon an American born peo-
ple--who are heroically fighting for liberty
from foreign yoke and the worst despotism
on the face of the earth. Nay, worse than
that, our government aids this very despotism
to crush people struggling for republican
freedom. How humiliating is this How has
the great representative country of republican
liberty fallen! The conduct of the American
government toward Cuba is the greatest blot
upon the history of the country, and those who
are responsible for it will have a serious
account to settle hereafter with the American
people.