Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — CUBANS WILL NOT SURRENDER [ARTICLE]

CUBANS WILL NOT SURRENDER

Officers in Pinar del Rio Providence .Issue a Proclamation. The following official document has been issued by the Cubans from Pinar del Rio province to the world: “We will never, forget the bloody offenses of the sanguinary Weyler, representing the Spanish nation, his assassination of aged people, women and children, the persecution of our families by the brutal Spanish soldiery and the efforts of the chiefs to exterminate all the elements that compose Cuban society. All these have aggravated our convictions and we declare again that we will not accept anything but absolute independence. We must have a government of our own and an assembly of representative* according to our own constitution. We are sworn V> liberty."