An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results embracing a complete record of military and naval operations from the beginning to the close of the conflict with descriptions of battles, sieges, exploits, and achievements of our army and navy

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Chapter I

SPANISH CHARACTER AND HISTORY— DISCOVERY OP CUBA — ATTEMPTS AT COLONIZATION — EXTERMINATION OP THE NATIVES -COMING OP THE BLACK MAN.

Spain's Domain in the Eighteenth Century — The Decadence of a Hundred Years — Spanish Character — Heroism and Fanaticism — The Hand of the Inquisitor — The Jews and the Moors — Warriors Unfit for War,, and Colonists Unfit to Colonize — Columbus Hears of Cuba — Taking Possession for Spain — Characteristics of the Natives — Ideal Conditions of Living — Extirpating the Natives—" A Ton of Gold "— Spanish Outrages and a Ruined Colony — Indians Bound in Slavery — Killed out of Pure Wantonness — Native Suicides — A Long Story of Rapine, Brutality, Waste, and Insult — A Bishop's Testimony — Beginning of the Slave Trade — Coming of the Black Man, . 61