America's War for Humanity; Related in Story and Picture, Embracing a Complete History of Cuba's Struggle for Liberty
by John James Ingalls (9781150795107)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Thompson Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898 History / Military / General History / Military / United States History / United States / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Blue blood fails to redeem the demerits of a native Cuban; the moment a Spaniard decides to marry a creole and make the island his permanent home, he is dropped from the list of trustees; the government suspects all who have come to acquire some actual knowledge about the colonial state of affairs. For the protests of the natives the charge of mutiny and its sanguinary consequences has long been the only answer; and in the course of the present century alone the demand for reform has cost the lives of 850,000 West Indians, at least two-thirds of them of Caucasian descent. No wonder that those demands have at last taken the form of a vendetta clamor, declining every compromise between annihilation and absolute independence. THE CLASS OF MEN WHO COMPOSE CUBA'S ARMY. A distinguished American who served for some months with General Gomez, thus describes the rank and file of the patriot army in Cuba: "Half of the enlisted men as you saw them together were negroes, with here and there a Chinaman. Occasionally, a man was pointed out as a Spanish deserter; and in every case he appeared on an equality with the others. The officers were of all classes -- planters or planters' sons, professional men and peasants of the more intelligent order, with a trifling percentage of negroes and mulattoes. The prevailing tone of these forces was distinctly aristocratic; in fact, they were just such troops as Georgia and the Carolinas would have sent to the...

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