Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-04-21
Negotiation With oyuin.
Documents transmitted to Congress 6y I'll,
President If tie United States.


lCoNTINUED.
NO. Y.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO DON LUIS ne ONIs,
ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PIE
NIPofENTIARY FROM SPAIN.
DepaftDient Of state Uarch l2th 1875
Slh-Ihe admission IN your letter OF the
24th otJanuaTy, that all the facts grounds an,i
arguments, alleged in Vour Dre yiouS notes NJ
20th December, and of6tii and ath .Januar, n,
support ofthe pretensiops of Your government.
upon the several points OF difference which
nave SO long subSisted between the United
States and Spain, are essentially the same a.
had already been advanced aud discussed al
the period OF the extraordinary mission 10
SPAIN, IN 1905 while it justi;ieS the reluctance.
ca the part Of the American government ma
infested "A my letter OF The 10Th January. 10 the
renewal or an exhausted discuss ION, cannot but
excite some surprise, as cOmportinv so little
with The professions of tire earnest desire OF
your government to bring these differences to
speedy aud happy termination which haye
peeh so strongly and so repeatedly expressed,
as weilln your notes, as in TIE recent comm.
ntcaiIOns from Don Francisco PiZarro TO the
minister Of the United States at Madrid The
observation, that truth is o all times and that
reason and Justice are founded uDtiI immnta-
bic principles, has never been contested by the
United States; but neither truth, reason nor
1usuce consist III Siu5bOnnesS of assertion mar
IN the multiplied repetition Of error | refer.
req you TO the letters from the extraordinary
mission OF 1893, 10 EOn Pedro CevaiiOs tor an
ample ana satisfactory refutatiou Of the sun.
posed facts, grounds, and arguments now re.
prOdAced by you. You reply by telling me.
mat there does not appear TO be a single in
cdent 10 give the smallest support 10 tie IRE.
tensions OF my government that all the vague
positions ON which il has been attempted L.
found them nave been refated and dissipaled,
Dy theSpanish government, by dc mOnStIa alton
SO Unanimous and convincing as 10 leave no
alternative to reason 10 resist it," And YOU.
more than once, intimate, that the American
government does not, Itself, behave in the va
.ftl nj q gfa laafa. sarNfs 4
BY lts MINISTER'S, IN support Of the claims Of the
C1lted states, as asserted by item.
10 language aud sentiments such as these.
the government OF the United States cannot
fepiy; bor can it. IS. tt0ut all EFFORT continue
at al a discussion sullied by such unworthy
and grcundiesS imputatiOns.
am directed by the PRESIDENT to cOnfue the
observations upon your atenOtes, to those pa rts
or them which have relation to the essential
subjects OF controversy between the two Ma
tiOus.
To give siagle instance of that course of
argument, which you represent fts equivalent
u mathematical demonstration in favor of
SPAN, II viii be suihcieat TO refer 10 yourasser.
lions, in relation 60 the question of the eastern
boundaries OF Louisiana, as retrOccded TO
France by the treaty OfSt. IldephOuso, in iSOD,
and coded by France 10 tie U. 5. in 1893. The
Claim Of tie H. ,. under that Ce5SiOu to the tel.
FitOry, east of tie Mississippi as ldras tie river
Eefdido, rests, as you well knew, upon the
words M the tWo treaties, describing the COLONY
on proViuce or Louisiana, ceded By them, as
Aayug the same extent, not only that If had al
the time OF the reirocess ION in the bands OF
Spain, but also nut IL haul Uhen FraHce yOs,cs.,d
a., ana such as II should be- after the treaties
subsequently entered into between Spain and
ether states..... Ou know also with vhaf
force il was iged by the ministers OF line u s.
ai AfahJuez, 10 1905, that those words referring
- the primitive possession Ot the province BIZ
trance, COT have had 10 other meaning than
mat Oi extending the retrOcessiOu TO the Per
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