Facts about Cub

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: chiefs of operations having at their disposal all kinds of resources to remunerate important services, we should, after five years, remain yet destitute of practical guides to lead our troops, and of spies to give them information as to the position and plans of the enemy. Sut this is not all Experience...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: chiefs of operations having at their disposal all kinds of resources to remunerate important services, we should, after five years, remain yet destitute of practical guides to lead our troops, and of spies to give them information as to the position and plans of the enemy. Sut this is not all Experience has demonstrated that seldom an attack on any town has taken place, without the enemy being in communication and accord ivith some of Us neighbors, who, thoroughly knoioing the locality, lead and protect them in their incendiary, sacking and devastating work. The foregoing statements of General Jovellar leave not a shadow of doubt of the corruption of the Spanish rule in Cuba; of the false patriotism of its agents and supporters; of the crimes of its adherents; and finally, of its dreadful isolation in the midst of the oppressed country, forced, as its highest authority confesses, to grope its way across the obstacles of a hostile or unsympathizing population. Should more proofs of these facts be yet wanting, the actual Captain- General, Concha, will furnish us with a more recent and not less convincing one, among many others, in his extra taxes of five and ten per cent, on income and capital, to meet the requirements of the war. His absolute powers, notwithstanding, and in spite of his manifold decrees, either coaxing or threatening and punishing the reluctant people, he has not yet succeeded in collecting the fifth part of the amount expected to be derived from those sources. Alarmed by the severity of the decrees of General Jovellar, great numbers of persons left the Island, among them many of the boasting volunteers, who, deserting their colors, some; times by tens, came to this country or went to Mexico; thus showing that even those most fervid Spanish patriots...