The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-04-18
Iufa nous Diplomacy.

Infamous Diplomacy.
We have in these columns frequently
and emphatically charged upon the
Pierce and Buchanan Administrations
intentional and wicked disturbance of our
relations with Spain for the purpose of
fomenting hostiities in which the fl!i-
busters of the South might seize and &C.
cupy Cuba. We have charged that offers
Of the most advantageous commercial
treaties with Spain have been refused by
the Democratic party when in power, and
that the object of the refusal was only
the continued excitement of the public
mind of the South and the prolong CATION
of the trade grievances complained of at
the NORTH conquest of Cuba, for
the uses and purposes of American slay-
cry, being the Interior object to be gain
ed. These charges have been vociferous-
ly denied but now we have proof of
their truth so clear and incontestable
that they are from this date HISTORICAL
Mr.. Horatio J. Perry, who was Secretary
of Legation at the Spanish Embassy when
Mr. Soule was Minister, has just printed
in the New York Evening Post, certain
letters and documents bearing upon these
points, in which the facts upon which we
have dwe't are put beyond cavil. Mr..
Perry throws Acod of light upon that
infamou4 Ostend Conference, the case of
the Black: Warrior, and other things
which cut great figure in their day, all
of which were so shaped and managed as
70 e,nbroil and separate the two countries
concerned. His paper is long and the
events to which it relates have been a
few years out Of mind, else we should be
glad to present it to our readers entire.
They will content themselves with a sum
mary of the facts Chicago Tribune.
The Demands of the Virginia Agitato rs.
The Richmond Whiy, which emulates
the Enquirer in frantic disunionisn,
says, in its issue OF last Tuesday,
" But the conclusion to which we
would, if possible, direct the attention of
the President and his friends is, that if
it were possible for him to adhere to his
do-nothng policy, without coming into
collision with the seeded States-so far
from accomplishing the restoration of the
seeded States, TIE certain consequence
viii! be the loss of all the remaining slave
States. Virginia and her border sisters
wW not be content uiM bginy uamolested
themselves, nor rih hariny the Conttd.
crate States unmolested. If they have
demanded peace and the status quo from
the Federal Government, it has been
only for the purpose of ascertaining
whether it is possible to obtain from the
North guarantees that will justify their
remaining longer in association with that
section And these guarantees must be
| Of a nature that rW necessarily disband
the Republican party, and preyent here
after any oryan'eatton based upon such
principles. Republicanism, which is but
another name for sectionalism, must 90
down, or the Union must 90 down
There is no Southern State that will re-
main in any Union under the domina-
ton of sectional party, foreign at once
to its politics, and hostile to its institu-
tions. 1t will not answer the emergency,
then, for the Lincoln Administration
merely to do nothing hostile or oJnonious
to the South. The Southern people do
not desire, and will not be content with
non action. On the other hand, they
demand that there shall! be action-such
action as will place their interests under
their own protection-such as will take
it out Of the power of the North to d.
them injury"
| What is the use Of talking of i" con
cessions" and compromises" when
the conservative q papers of the slave
States demand the surrender of every
principle that should undcrlic our gov.
eminent. We are more than ever con-
WINGED that the only question for the
people of the United States to decide is,
whether they will stick to the old Consti.
tuition as it is, or adopt the Montgomery
instrument
Boris PRESCRIPTION FOR SECESSION.
john NJ. Bolts had an interview with
the President this morning The latter
asked him what was the remedy for Sc.
cession. Bolts replied: Grape for the
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