Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-06-18

Mr. Rost, one of the Confederate Commission
srs 20 tlo Secretary Of the State department
They clai.. it to have been taken from one OF
.be steamers captured by the Federal Navy.
Wa find IT in the Louisville Journal OF the -
covxIssIox OF THE CoNFEDERaT< tiArss OF
M4nRin, NJ -rca : l3O3
Hon 7 N. T Hunter. etc etc:
SIR; have tie honor to inform you that
arrived in Madrid accompanied by DIT. heaFI,'
az ie ~, nf cur reyerses was being received
kr,r ,ysiti,ce some time in the expectation ol
learuing, its real pature aud extent ierGugh
Southern ,,spers applied ior and obtained an
;tr,iayyN,ih ih Mr. CA!leron COllGntrs, the Span
ISL 5, crrtaTy ol foreign Gh&us, whose reception
,grs 4 md aud f,isndly | told him at the outset
Jat nav government had been asXiOus from tue
Le-iruit,, 70 form friendly relations with Spain,
and hal sent mo IN August last Instructions 10
procred to This court, which the arrest and de-
ta,,ijon of Alessrs Mason and Sdrl had pre-
vented me from obeying sooner stated tie
nature OF those rstructions, and venturcd the
hope that tlse object Of ny mission might be al
iained without 100 great delay.
AIT expressing his qualification at ny sale
arrival. aud the assurance that ] would be
nle;sed with The society If Madrid, all pre-
yious American euvOys had been, he asked me
y h thrr hal any authentic accounts OF our re-
cent rtyerscS and expr cd great surprise that
fifteen thousand COniederstes should have sur
rendered without greater resistance, regreiting
the feet that such disaster was calculated to
have upon the Bi3rGis IF our troops | told him
that hal no authea,ic information, but had no
doubt the number of prisoners was grossly ex
aCgera'ed As from what had seen in various
American pspers the real number must be under
six Thousand that the enemy was vastly supc-
rior in numbers and the resistance of General
Buckuer al that could be desired. | uniJlded
before him q map of the United States, and
pointed out the localities of jmfrset, i RI Henry
and Fort DJnelSon, showed him the distance
from these points 10 New Orleans and Texas,
along the line Of the Mississippi river, which the
Invading army intended TO follow. | stated that
tlr,u2hc,i. this distance there were roads up
on which the transport Of the aGiT eL Of aa amy
could be Effected " hi.e we had nearly three
| thousand leagues Of railway which cou'd be
used tor purposes Of defense, and GeS Ioyed Is
! the enemy advanced, and that, besides, the
! NcrIhern troops could stand neither the heat cf
! our summer ucr the maladics incident to the eli
mae.
concluded by saying, that, e7en without
| ihesa natural Obstacles / ED not iel Spanish
/ minister tbat brave ana uni 9 G pie, fighting
/ for lheir nationality and ind-p ;ndencr, could
not bc subjugated the armies Of MAJ oleOn
d
/ for years UycupIed its capital and tOItressts; I;
| bat when the SpaIi>h armies had been nearly
destroyed, the entire people rose in their might
/ and drove the imperial iegiOns beyond tie Py:o-
! uees : 81 It Wodld be with Us in the end. He
/ was we'll pleased with the allusOn, and said he
/ had no doubt Of 0UE ultimate success, provided
! our people could stand the pIivatiODs which
( pro.rlcied contest would bring upon them. lie
l,eut or to say, that OF the question Ct riGhs he
4 y. b.. = ol.a rlrr, Ia n az
much IS it had been with Spain iu the French
invasion, IT with tie present Queen ia the cJn-
test with DJa Carlo. but the qrestiUn wi
which foreign governments had 10 deal was a
question Of lact, not Of right We ask 10 b.:
racogn AS . government ne Jari1 We must
show, as $ ;ain aud the QIeen's party had shown,
not Only ihat We had the right to establish, and
had established, government, but that We had
/ the power to maintain it against all the efforts
of cur opponents aud rs thus Tar 1t could not
be sAii we had made that proof, further time
mast clapse before the Q lseu's government
could TeccgliZs ours.
! Continuing tn; conversation, he asked nc
what had been the result OF the interview of
! Mrssrs Mason and Sid Il and n TEouyenal
sad these interviews had led TO no Tesu :
that the Emperor Napoleon considered the dis
ruytiun Of the Uuion and Of its rising navy as
great misfortune to Fiance, and was OF late,
Inclined to hope that i: might be reconstructed ;
| md fnther, tia! he would, under No ciIcuui-
stances, incu- the emnity Of the North by taking
the lead in recognizing US; while the present
administration III Englaud was to n greet extent
composed of abOlilonists, and wanted the sup
poIt II the abOl ton party for its maintenance IN
power, de,u1ing itself at the same time with the
vain hope ibat if the civil war was protracted,
and the culture Of cjtton ceased, in whole oT il
part, the monopoly Of that starle would pass
from the Confederate Safes to Iud.a, as CON,
Dc;lsatior f.r the present sntferngs OF the British
lnal jcturing population. But spain was
Iit3e-ostly situat Z her interest was that North
A erica should be possessed by two great
powers, who weuld balance each o;Eer hel
couasels were not tainted with Puritan fans i
cism, and surely SIZE had no interest that th'
monopoly cfI the cotton supply should pass from
: | rs to England. Spain was our natural ally anC
Giend. and hef paramount interest was that "
should become an independent power Wht-
we wese recognized, similarity OF l. StitGtiOi
IDEAS and social habits would form between u
, d more cordial friendship and alliance than has
ever sted between t % people. lie said h'
hoped it might be- s , but be would not conces
Tie fact that MI S ward taking great PAIN
to convince him that the North had always beei
, fIjcudly, while the South WAS ever hostile t,
Jain that VIII /, tie Njrh was their best Gus
toner for the sugar of their colonies, and sup
p,ied them with all they wanted in exchange
no private expeditions had ever sailed iron
their pcrts for the invasion OF Cuba, bat iuvaria
Div fIom those Of thc Sou b, and that il the Con
cdera,e S:sles became hereafter strong gov
ernIucnt their i.St attempt al inquest wUul'
] be upon that island
ans wered that lie representations Of Mr.. Sc
w.hd were SIT gcnuous and untrue. FOrmrll
. the North as we'll a3 the South wanted ca
The N0r:h wanted it, and viii ever waut It, 10
Z lie urotits Of its commerce; the South wanted
Il 10 make three new States Of Il, an thus obtai
. 10 the Federal Senate six more members, wbic
Z would, for the time, have equazed the power {
u the free and slavehoding States in that JiJ
With the reconstruction Of the Union tho motive
i Of the South would necessarily revive, butt do'
q not now, anI never will again exist provide
! tina. the independence of tie ClnfederG Stat
. is recognized and securely established. IA
- Slu.h would then deena il its interest that gTe'
country Ike Spain should continue a slave p0P
er The two together wiih b aZil, would laN
= the monopoly Of the system OF labor which sioI
i can make interiropical America and the regioI
: adi5iniug it available 10 the uses OF man, aud
y great extent of the rich products OF that lab0
= Nothing in the past could give an idea OF the c
reer Of prosperity and power which would th'
be Opened to rs The ime at whici our reco
= milton should take place Was, OF course, e
a clusively within tue discre N ct her Msjes'y y
- government, but could be assured that wh'
m that time arrived, cur recognition would rot
"a made dependent upon the action of other po'
- ersl At the time OF the insure,ton Ofthe Spa
/, 4 ish colonies the United States had recoguiz
ix men iiIo ~ ,h 49,
rial influence deri' ed from that recognition grei
IS ly aided them inachievirg their inarpenden'
{ luld assure my government that her Majesty
ID government would follow this example in th
own good time, without regard to the course
OF other Lasionsl To this question he would /
e'' make positive answer, bat simply said, Spa
10 AS you are aware, is slow-slower perhaps, tn
o,ier nations in coming to decision in matt
or f;.,,,,,,,,,e.. h,,t arfer she dives. she eaYr
ted a., 3srisian ;hrouel without ,oysfd TO con
quences" He LIFT me under the imrr ,ssion Il
lhe tbs Q " rnmcrt ~ .vld rot be lhs f,s. 20 rec