Identifier: slaveryfouryears02keif (find matches)
Title: Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Keifer, Joseph Warren, 1836-1932
Subjects: Keifer, Joseph Warren, 1836-1932 Slavery United States
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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own this insurrection. Governor-General Weyler in-augurated fire and slaughter wherever the Spanish armiescould penetrate, not sparing non-combatants, and, February16, 1896, he adopted the inhuman policy of forcing the ruralinhabitants from their homes into closely circumscribed so-called military zones, where they were left unprovided withfood, and hence to die. Under Weylers cruel methods andpolicy about one third (600,000) of the non-combatant inhabi-tants of the island were killed or died of starvation and inci-dent disease before the end of the Spanish-American War.Yet a war was maintained by the insurgents under the leader-ship of able men, inspired with a patriotic desire for freedomand independence. The barbarity of the reconcentrado policyexcited, throughout the civilized world, deep sympathy for theCubans, and, April 6, 1896, a resolution passed Congress, ex-pressing the opinion that a state of war existed in Cuba,and declaring that the United States should maintain a strict
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J. WARREN KEIFER,MAJOR-GENERAL OF VOLUNTEERS.(Front a photograph, l8g8.) Cause of War with Spain 287 neutrality, but accord to each of the contending powers therights of belligerents in the ports and territory of the UnitedStates, and proposing that the friendly offices of the UnitedStates be offered by the President to the Spanish Govern-ment for the recognition of the independence of Cuba. Thisresolution and the proffered friendly offices bore no fruit.To meet a possible attack upon our citizens in Havana,the battle-ship Maine, commanded by Captain C. D. Sigsbee,was sent there in January, 1898. It was peacefully anchoredin the harbor, where, February 15th, it was destroyed by whatwas generally believed to have been a sub-marine mine, de-signedly exploded by unauthorized Spaniards. Of its officersand crew 266 perished, and the splendid war-ship was totallydestroyed. Preparations for war commenced at once in our country.Congress appropriated $50,000,000 for the national defence. It al

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