Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-03-29
THE BLACK WARRIOR CASE.
Important from Madrid-Debate in IN.
Spanish cortes ON our Cuban Relations.

important from Madrid-Debate tn the
Spanish cortes on our Cuban n Relations.
We translate, from the official government
organ OF Madrid, the following extract from a
recent debate in the Spanish Cortes, on the re
lations between that country and the United
States.-Neac York Herald.
SENIOR RAMEs: My purpose is to draw from
the Minister Of Foreign Affairs some explana-
ton sufficient to counteract the effect of GER
tain facts which have conceded with the depar-
ture from this court of'the Minister of the Uni
ted States, Mr.. Soule. By some respectable
member of this chamber an article has been
published which ascribes to Mr.. Soule the idea,
or belief that the rupture of our relations with
the United States is inevitable and the pre-
text for such an extreme case is supposed to be
the slight with which Mr.. Soule and the coun-
try he represents have been treated by the
Spanish Government. Coinciding with this
fact, in itself very important pamphlet has
been published, with the express purpose of at
tributing to the Spanish Government all the
various difficulties now existing between the
two governments, or, at any rate, the response
bity of not having settled them; and Mr..
Soue is so praised in it for his benevolence to-
wards US, that you would almost think that he
gave up the interested the country he repre-
sented Besides, in some papers, information
ceived, in the latter days of his stay, several
sights from the Miniter of Foreign Affairs.
These facts have urged me to ask the Minis
ter for some explanations. l believe that con-
sidering the especial circumstances of the case,
and the serious and immediate interest which
our country has with them, since it is the only
international question we have pending, it is
expedent to correct the effects which may be
produced by the above facts. The best means
of reetifying public opinion, both here and in
the United States, where it is very important
to place it in the right, as far as it is possible,
as the facts will be enhanced by distance, and
as usual made fruitful by the American ex-
Minister, who will be anxious, doubtless to re-
pair, In some measure, among his friends and
partsans, the failure of his unfortunate diplo-
matte campaign in Spain--the best means to
arrive at this object would be for the govern.
ment, in view of the particular circumstances
of the case, to bring to the chamber the docu-
ments and correspondence which have inter
vened in the course of this matter between both
countries.
know that the Minister of Foreign Affairs
will not grant this, and will be unwilling 70
put aside the custom called diplomatic secresy
and which we observe to an excess in my
opinion, &c. Therefore, with due respect IL
the right of the government on such subjects
limit my request to ask the Minister if he thinl
that the reasons and facts ] have exposed pos
sess the gravity which | attribute to them, t.
give some explanations, sufficient to proven
the consequences which / anticipate.
Senior Luzuriaga, Minister of Foreign A
fairs, replied. He expressed his pleasure a
the opportunity offered him to make explana
tons, to satisfy public opinion in spain and 4
the United States. He denied any slight fror
motives Of courtesy and duty. He said he ha
no time to read what may have been publshe
on the subject. He took for granted that tn
publications having been participated in b
members of the Cortes there would be in Their
nothing unbecoming. That the government Z
the United States determined on the 18th q
January TO replace the Minister TO Madrid
When the news reached Madrid, Mr. Soule ha
left, but the government Of Her Majesty ha
learned by a perfectly regular channel the Ian
guage in which it is officially announced to th
Spanish Court, which is in harmony with tb
relations of peace, amity and good understand
ing which exist between the two governments
"In this state of the case" adds Senior Luzu
riaga, "the government of Her Majesty, who
in the sight Of all, may now act Of its own FIRE.
will, from its own impulse, after having received
this news, has ordered that all pending diff
WIN tue IHlieu DidleS De submitted Il
new investigation, instructing especially thos,
charged with it not TO search for arguments /,
reject the claims Of the United States, but /,
study simply to ascertain what is Just, in orde
to grant ii spontaneously, freely, as it become
the people whom it governs. 1t is resolved, b
its own impulse, to grant whatever is Just, with
out any pressure. The government is conf
dent that the same feelings will be found in th
government of the Uhited States. The Presi
dent announced it so to the House Of Repre-
sentatives, saying that his sole object was JUS
tice. We are, therefore, perfectly agreed, AM
since there will be, doubtless, the same sin
cerity in both parties, the government cher
ishes great hopes Of arriving at an entirel
peaceful solution" lie concluded, protesting
his devotion to good sense, justice and reason
but did not enter at all into the merits Of th
case.