He honored him because he found that his native land was so prone to that chronic cruelty which belongs as much to the Spanish character as it does to the Comanche Indian. and he found that Sanguily had the inspirations of an honest. patriotic heart beating in his bosom. and that after the failure of the revolution of 1868 to 1878 he had come to this free land and accepted our invitation to become a citizen of the United States. although he had been compelled by his poverty to return to his native land in order to rake together. with his wife and children. the little fragments of a confiscated estate. that he might live upon it. not being able because of his wounds to work atanything else. That glorious. grand man. Fitzhugh Lee. was proud to take him by the hand in a prison and call him an American citizen. while the Senator from Massachusetts repudiates him as such because he thinks there is a possibility that there was some fraud in his naturalization.
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Spanish character is prone to chronic cruelty