Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-13
From The Chronoigps.
Annexation Of Cuba.

NeUl dDOul lNt UldlltI WIN EItdt etElENN
and stern resolution, but it seems they have
managed il with little tact aud less success.
Last fall the New York Herald announced
that negotiations had been opened by MI.
Saunders, our Minister at Madrid, for the
purchase Of Cuba. Our own government
kept officially silent, bot as soon as a denial
came from the Spanish governments, ours
officially paraded that as a sufficient refuia.
ton Of the story in the Herald.
But Mr.. Thomas Caute Reynolds, who
was Secretary Of Legation at Madrid, aud is
moreover a Virginiar, and as like to the great
Don Nicholas p. Trist as one pea is like an
other, comes out with a long letter in the
Charleston Courier, revealing almost all he
knows of the matter, and he knows all about
it, so far as so inGlied, indirect, and IfisYui
a document can reveal any thing. II we CO.
pie of the North should generally read his
document il would give them a very exalt-
cd opinion Of American diplomacy and Viz
pinian diplomatisis. Reynolds very nearly
calls Saunders an imbecile fool, and he clear
ly establishes his own title 10 the same cha
racter, SO far as his k%navery allows room for
it.
II seems that in May, lS47, Mr.. Saunders
left Madrid, giving charge of the legation to
the Secretary, MIR. Reynolds. The latter,
supposing that the British had a design TO
get Cuba, either by exchanging Gibraltar for
ii, or taking a mortgage on IL 10 secure their
debt of some $3.50, 900 900, LAS he estimates
it,) watched the operations of the British
bondholders. and says he took means sim
pie but elicacious TO protect the interests Of
the United States in that event" He i'm
mediately apprized Mr.. Saunders Of what he
had done. and 60, the following very deci.
sive and slaveholder-like letter in reply, dated
Havre, Jnly 10Th, 1917:
al have Just received your note Of the 7jh.
] am glad you made the inquiry as 10 the
English debt. Should here he any Danger,
sooner than The English should get any ten
on Cuba, ] would s~Iipulate for the Unilcd
States 10 guarantee in soma way the payment
of the debt, on having u mortgage on Cuba.
elf you should ascertain that there is any
foundation for your suggestion in regard TO
Cuba, you will at once call on the Minister
of State, and request a suspension Of the ar
rsngemant, until ! can return, rs | would Al
once come back if any plan of tie kind was
in agitation"
If Mr.. Polk had instructed his minister to
go as deep as to pay the whole Spanish debt
10 the British bondhoIdcrs, he would proba.
bly, impaIt such a secret to as few breasts as
possible, and il seems that he must have been
rather chary of it, at least in The opinion of
his minister Saunders, for on The 2lth of Ju-
ly, the minister wrole another letter from
Havre 10 the Secretary Of Legation, which
the latte now publishes, showing that even
Mr.. Secretary Buchanan was not in full CON
fdence of the Shareholders in regard TO this
delicate negotiation. Tails letter is as fol-
lows:
What will Salamanca think Of tho threat
contained in the letter Of the committee of
the bondholdars to %Isturizl Is it possible
he had so little spirit as 10 receive such a
document! As this matter is likely 10 be
pressed on the Spanish govtrnment. | would
write MIR. b. on the subject, had | full con.
fdenee in him but as | have not. | shall re-
serve TO myself The liberty Of acting on the
general Notwithstanding the response
bility OF doing what The occasion may call
for. | may therefore submit a proposition to
the Minister"
In explanation of the mystery developed
in this leiler, Mr.. Reynolds goes into a reel.
tai Of the cases in which Mr.. Polk had said
one thing to his ministers and another to his
Secretary OF State. and makes a pretty con.
summate old fox of him. However, as Mr..
Saunders had said he would not write 10
Buchanan, Reynolds thought that he would.
SO he wrote a volunteering despatch in which
he %ventured to express the opinion that Spain
feared our attempts on Cuba more than SHE
did British, &C., &c. And this was no
enough; he magnifes himself very drolly
by saying
"To put an end TO a question from which
I unprecedented much embarrassment to my
self as well as danger to the interests of til,
United States, in ease Mr.. Saunders shoult
prosecute his wild scheme Of pledging on
national faith for the payment of three hun
dred and fifty millions of dollars in order Il
obtain a mere mortgage on Cuba, | commu
nicated, unoficially, To an elevated employe,
OF the Spanish government, the detailed in
formation my despatch contained, in refer
ence TO the parties then urging their claim
as bondholdCrs. He expressed his acknow
Judgements for that unmasking of a shame
less stock-jobbing scheme, and concnne,
with me in the conviction that the course
suggested, and which has since been partial
ly followed, would place the Spanish govern
mcnt IN a position TO check any unwananla
BILE importunities on the subject"
After all, however, Saunders did write 4
Buchanan, asking what was best to be done
And Reynolds made a parade, for what pur
pose we can not understand, Of having writ
ten other important dispatches which he al
forwards destroyed.
This very important Secretary of Legatio
also magnifies himself for the part he wa
going 10 take-nol olicially-to defeat IN
divorce of the Queen Of Spain, a measur
which Sir Henry Bnlwer was supposed I
be urging. What under heaven an AmerI
can Legation has TO do with the divorce Q
marriage Of Qneens, we Go not know, bu
this fellow, Reynolds, seems 10 have cor
sidered it his duly, by hook or by crook, Of
fcially or unoficially, to defeat the scheme
Of the British minister, and was only pre-
vented from doing something important !
that direction by the frmness of the Spar
ish prime minister, which, with admirabl
pomposity, he says
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