He was arrested. together with his brother. and put in jail and kept incomunicado for as many. I think. as seven or eight days. and when he was discharged. without any crime being imputed to him. it was with an order of banishment from his church and from Cuba. and were he to return there now he would be at once arrested and executed. Here is an American citizen. fully naturalized here. with the bestpurposes and intentions. a perfectly innocent man. who went back to the Island of Cuba upon the highest mission that the human mind can conceive of. and who has done untold good to those people. has introduced there the light of Protestant Christianity in a way. perhaps. to give offense to some other churches. but. at the same time. probably not in a way to offend against the sentiments and feelings of the American people. certainly not those of the members of the Southern Baptist Convention. who sent him there. His arrest and banishment violate our treaties with Spain. but that grave offense has received no notice from our Government. When this Christian minister was in prison. our Government did not visit him.
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