St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-04-25


erneos impression that his departure from Nard was
ordered by tile government knew nothing Of the Us
tend business until much iater-iI. j. Pl
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" | Strictly private and confidential. ]
MADRID, September 6, 1854.
lion. Wm. Il. Marcy, Secretary Of State:
Meantime, | repeat that
am persuaded there never has been
more sincere and ardent desire on
the part Of the government and pco-
pie of Spain to be well with us than
at this moment. This people is look
ing now to the United States with a
respect and affection only equalled by
their jealousy of - and their hatred
to tyranny.
"This is the nation with
which the cool calculations Of policy
and sound Judgment weigh least of
any on earth but at the same time
it is the nation with which sympathies
and feeling weigh most.
am not deceived in the charac-
ter of their sentiments toward the
United States. | suppose | can ap-
preciatc as well as any one the degree
of faith to be put in the demonstra-
tions of official personagcs, but the
people do not lie, least Of all do they
act from dissimulated purpose.
In July | had occasion TO pass
through the barricades from one end
of Madrid to the other, whilst their
sturdy defenders were hardly cool from
the heat of forty-cight hours fighting
and n few hours of victory.
Eternal glory upon his country
Long live the hand of liberty Bles-
sed be thou y were the eXclamations
which greeted me and in many Of
the streets they stood up i'll line and
presented arms to me, an humble of.
iiccr of the United Statcs-a thing
they would not have done to any o.
their own ministers that day.
"Anl yet had done nothing fol
them nothing, except to maintain foi
five years in their midst the proper
and digniiied bearing of an American
citizen, as we'll in the presence of thcil
rulers as in that Of the people. |
was the United States whom they &C
claimed, and to whom they wished +
do honor.
81 am not at liberty to expose al
the motives for my opinion, but | an
convinced that every concession, eve
ry security which can reasonably be
demanded by our government with re
gard to the difficulties of the past OIL
the guarantees Of the future, with the
exception only of the cession of Cuba
could be obtained from this govern
ment now, if they were truly and in
telligently sought.
THE peaccable session Of the islant
Of Cuba by Spain to us at this time i:
impossiblc-still more impossible nov
(if can say more) than before tt
revolution which has begun, Th
present ministry ceuld not in any wa
attempt it, even if Tie opinion of a
its members We're unanimous in it
favor. 1t could not be done Other
wise tnan as an act deliberately dc
termined on and voted by the SPANS
people in Cortes, as the will OF tn
whole nation.
There is no cabinet, there is n
: minister possible who could dream {
J proposing that measure in the pre-
/ cnt state of affairs in respect 30 II
: There is no CortGs possible whic
would consider it. There is no poop
. which would not instantly hurl mini
! ter and Cortes to destruction for ha'
Il ing touched it. <
+ "But the attitude Of the Unite
> States toward Spain must be entirel
: reversed before that day, or it wi
. never arrive for us. The United State
j. must on that day be recognized by Il
y Spanish people as the best friend
i Spain, as her wcll.wisher, as symp
: thizing with her struggle for libcrt
u as not dangerous to her, nor hostile
u any part of her dominious, but as
great and powerful friend, whom Lou
e Napoleon and Lord Clarendon hold
If profound respect.
It "This may be true today, but
s must be manifested differently, and
II must be recognized by the SPANS
e people. To this, and for the furtht
&c ance of the great interests Of the u
IS ted States, all subjects of Difficult
"a between the two governments shou
C be made to disappear on one side
D. the othek* The restrictions on co
s. mcrcc, between the two nations a
IN the colonies should be removed. Q
- I.
IS trade, till, live, die and be buried
ID Cuba, with the same privileges viii
l. Spaniards enjoy in our own countl
II, and the same in all other dominlons
id Spain. Liberty Of commerce, liber
II Of conscience, liberty Of thought a
liberty of action, must be theirs
re ciprocally to the same extent as tn
nc are conceded to Spanish subjects
rs the United States. The closest in
IN macy of commercial intercourse shot
"a be established. Our steamships mi
70 multiply in every port of Cuba a
q Spain. Our friendship must be p
1t pable and evident to every Spaniar
ef its value must be felt in every harb
y on every new railway, in every f
ne row, and on the shoulder of eve
ST patriot soldier. Our industry mi
IL stimulate and develop the industry
ne Spain, whilst at the same time rea
d. ing richly its own reward. And
ID right of our citizens to be and to
Is all this should be guaranteed by eff
in tive provisions, sanctioned by a S
TO- emn international compact.
to =
hp sOn the l-th of the same month wns able to 9
Mr. Marcy an official proposal from The spanish GOV
Is mFt 20 refer all claims between the two government
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