The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-05
COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning. November5 s, 1855,
Spain and the United States.

RECEPTION OF THE AMERICAN MINISTER
On Saturday, the 3Oth ultimo, the
Queen of Spain received in private
audience at the Palace of San ude-
fonso, Mr.. John P. Hale, our newly
appointed Minister to that country.
On being presented to the Queen, Mr..
Hale addressed Her Majesty as fol-
lows
MADAM In presenting the letter
which accredits me to your Majesty's
court in the quality of Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
OF the United States of America, T
fulfil the mission with which I am
entrusted, of assuring your Majesty
OF the sincere desire of the Govern
ment and people of the United States
to confirm, establish and perpetuate
the friendly relations which have so
long and happily subsistcd between
the two nations, and that shall dis
charge my duties to the best of nv
ability, by devoting all my energies
to the realization of so desirable an
object. If it be permitted for me in
my humble individuality to introduce
personal matter among the lofty
considerations affecting the progress
and welfare of nations, I would add
that it is personally agreeable to me
to have been chosen as the represen-
tative of my Government in the court
of power which was our sincere and
constant friend in the first great
struggle undertaken by us to estab-
ish our nationality. These rela-
tionc oo,,oo,+ a.1. c1-1
auspices, have continued up to the
present day. through the great strug-
gle IN which we were recently en-
gagged on behalf OF constitutional gov
ernment against treason, anarchy and
reYolt.
Other nations have sometimes con-
hidered it necessary to have recourse
to war in order to settle their interna-
tional differences, but with regard to
Spain and the United States, reason,
justice and public right have suf6ced
for the pacific arrangement of the
questions that may have arisen be-
tween them.
Let me finally be permitted to ex-
press a hope that, by fulfilling with
zeal and soicitude every act of cour-
tesy that a nation expects from the
representative Of friendly power, I
shall succeed in rendering myself
sufficiently agreeable to your Majesty
to be able, in all humility, to contri-
butte personally to maintain the peace,
honor and welfare Of the two ma
tions.
place in your Majesty's hands the
letter of the President, with the ex-
preston of my sincere wishes for the
continued health, felicity and prospe-
rity Of your Majesty and all the royal
family.
The Queen replied as follows:
SENIOR M1N1sTRo: I receive with
satisfaction the letter you have just
presented to me, by which the Presi-
dent of the United States informs me
of having appointed you his Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentlary rcar my person.
am sincerely grateful for the de-
sires of the American Government
and people to strengthen and perpe-
tuate the bonds of amity which have
always existed between the two ma
tons.
These desires are equally shared by
me, and considering that our rcla-
tons Of mutual friendship and good
viii aye already as old as the Republic
itself, and that during this long period
reason, justice and law have sufIiced
to effect the pacific settlement of al
International questions, cannot but
entertain the hattering hope that the
two nations are destined by Provi
dence to remain perpetua1ly friends
and allies.
I request you. Senor Ministro, tc
be the Interpreter Of these senti
ments to the President Of the Repub
lie, assuring him Of the real satisfac
ton with which I saw the termination