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The Spanish War Policy: Gomez

Julio Sanguily is a prisoner in La Cabana, Juan Gualberto Gomez surrendered, Yero is in San Domingo, Guillermon is ill with hemorrhage and surrounded by troops in the Guantanamo mountains; Urbano Sanchez Hechavarria and two of his brothers are in Mexico. What can you expect under these circumstances? So the time has come, in my opinion, for you to prove to the whole world that you are a true patriot, by laying down the arms; a course that, far from discrediting you in politics, would exalt your name to the high position in which I wish to see it forever.

We do not need to recite the contrast there is between this utterance of March, '93, and the leaves of history written in blood and fire, through the whole extent of the Island during the year following which witnessed the complete defeat and humiliating retirement of the Pacificator Campos; and on the succeeding days there has been shown the discomfiture of Weyler who has, irrespective of all the stories of outrage and all the announcements of triumph, failed at a more rapid rate than his predecessor. The Maceos look so much alike, it is fortunate one wears a full beard and that the other does not. They are mulattos and full brothers and Antonio is the cavalry leader who has the greater celebrity, and, next to Maximo Gomez, the largest share of the glory of the war. It is understood to be the Cuban's best chance to strike for liberty when he is on a horse and has a machete in hand. Then he rides in for war to the knife, and that is the way the Maceos are fond of fighting.