New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-10
JRDAY, july TO- 1s69.-QUADRUPLE SHEET,

9e demonstrated over his signature In The Times or last
FEBRUARY the impossbity OF the existence Of those con-
hdeltia relations between Minister and Secretary Oc
tobe December Of 1885, under shelter OF which
he would now fain take refuge. Last February he
writing TO njure In another sense and tho account no
gives OF that affair." and the he therein makes Of my
letters false and lbelous but the letters
true had actually passed. showing the kind Of rela-
tion which existed between down to March Of the
present year. when, after seeing his February letter,
ceased 70 salute him at all
Tha, letter. which has produced oil this public scandal,
Is thusa point blank contradiction Of his other letter in
May could not have been the Secretary he represents
in tho f1rner and at the same time the Secretary he
would now be glad to make in the latter The fat is
that had nothing at oil to do with furnishing his house.
with any his private affairs which transacted
directly by aim aud by his family without my inervel
| ton.
We come then tohe only fact he has woven into his
May letter. IL is only half fact and propose to give 1t
entire Mr. Hale has been into the Spanish State Depart
ment, and, after studying the documents finds that the
only thing he thinks he make something ont Of that
his official notes TO the Spanish Government at the time
this smuggling affair occurred are in my handwriting
just as they ought be- Secretary OF this legation II
being precisely my official duty and that Of nobody else,
to aid him in the preparation Of his official communica
lions TO this Government 1t would have been strange
deed II he had made Of other hand than mine for
that purpose; strange that that circumstance alone
might have been sufficient to excite attention.
But as TO his signing papers without knowing their
conents, have never known him at any time to sign
any document In any language without first reading IL
all carefully, and at rst perhaps laborously; aud
ho has repeatedly declared me- Others whom he
has kept waiting in my presence mere current office
business, that this lifelong custom, from which he
never varied. Those him best at home will be
best able to judge. His official notes. requesting orders
for the free admission packages from abroad like those
on other subjects prepared by his requeIt IN
nd n Ia ala tba
Their half Of the factthGt those notes without fault
Below is true copy OF tic specially mentioned by
Mr. Hale. and which, after hs comments. feel at Liberty
TO give entire 1t is dated the 18th Of December 1856
Whether Mr.. Hale knew what he did when he signedt
will best appear from a short examination.
We have Just in senor Ruiz dc VeascOs letter Il
Mr. Hale given the legal instrument prenserted, that
on the 18th Decemberthe day before he, Yelasco had
informed Mr. Hale that their accounts would be balanced
up 10 that date by Mr. Haes furnishing him order for
the admission OF three cases-hat these arrived and
that affair so terminated.
Subsequently pay OF another account Of money fur
nished to Mr. Hale the latter offered yelasco another
order for the free admission OF two bales Of carpets which
was the ono pending when Mr. Hale forced tc put
stop to this Of his franchise by the discovery which
the Custom House officers had made meantime, that the
three instead OF going TO Mr. aes house had BEEN
introduced Senior Ruiz de Yelascos warehouse fer
sale The latter however not knowing this discovery
Department the sthMarch, that had made 20 NJ.
| Halo those communications which obliged him TO write
his letter to yrasco OF March 18th, complains to Mr.
Hale for his suddenly royokng what he had before pon
tAneously offered him.
The nature OF the transaction between Mr.. Hale and
Ruiz de veAsco is eydent also Il is clear that Mr Hale
wrote his Official note 70 tho Spanish Government by my
hand on tho 18th OF December in consequence Of E de
| Yelasoos private communication to him Of tho day
| previous
Lot US now sec all there was in that official note
Translation ron The onglsal spiuhh
MADRID, Dec. 4, 1871.
legation orhe United Siaies OF Amcriea Hadrii:-rhe
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlopotenthV OF the
SG se p s ana Bess H EscSeSy S
good command tho proper orders TO issue or the
England one OF snsiin curtains and stun for curalns
one Of cotton bedas ono Of table linen aud stun for
napkins which are coming addressed TO his name,tO DO
dispatched at the Custom House of Madrid. MrIIale
takes this opportunity 70 renew to lls E1ceency Lrut
To Ills E1ceency the Munster OF State Of Her CatiDo
i Majesty .
IL viii be seen at glance that there nothing in ls
request ns there was nothing any Of them in my hard
writing which could afford me or anybody tho slightest
idea Of the improper Mr. Halo intended to make f
tho orders requested Aud IL is evident on Its face
that there had been anything wrong or suspicious IN
those requests It have been noticed by the Spanish
! State Department well by me- and the orders re.
ouested would either have been conceded or would
Mr. Ias's fault is not i'm the requests he
orders the orders he received according to his 70
oness III il I'm tho made Of those orders after he
got them Thus his effort 10 divert attention from thu
vital point where the fault really lies TO another where
And YOU viii not fail 20 remark, that while Mr Haet
principal occupation for two years subsequent TO TINS
SORTS OF cock dbun charges aud complaints against
me- which nh the state Department. at Washington and
which last publicly appear IA The Timers letter OF Feb
! ruary. unfortunately published by New-Hanlpshlre
CONGRESSMAN 10 whom II was privately addressed. he
/ mani
confidence by his Secretary OF legation which had
happened Il wOuld have been his Imperative iuy TO
rehrt and which would certainly have saved lin tho
trouble OF beating round the bush with letters and art
gces and calumnies on all imaginable subjects except
nee op and vain attempt to stain me- to dscredit
me- and 10 procure my removal from tls uuel
some stigma which should place mo In false position
favorable 20 his own escape, ,,.. -, ,,.t,.. soDo
one moro word only The letter OF President serra M
Hales purpose but Is his only document We may
gre p1SSsps ~ s Government summoned point
blmk by tho American Representative to take the re-
sponsbity OF newspaper paragraph, says In the band
"oniy united by the bonds OF friendship and the political
relations which are natural among PaSc men S ba aoss
remember the 1 IN Prescnt serSho orr
gan after that And perhaps you may t & h ao
seen foreign Minister more politely sent ABOUT MS JUST
ness insiJs r Ia re%emSeFed L was repubhshed in
THR TRIBUNE in youf London correspondents leIVor VI
that this letter OF President serrano Is tho only
satisfaction Mr. Hale has received, after mat was saa
or the floor OF the Spanish Cortes and published IN o
Snanlsh press La Poea has not seen t to correct 10
orticie The Minister OF State has not stood up IN INC
Cores 20 defend foreign minister unjustly NO
denutv has rsked tho statement that the DOCUMENTS
ced for do not exist Nothing hvs been done Lor our
noruar representative in country where ne mas TO-
sided FOR nearly four years. except TO aenonhee nun as
q smuggler and 20 suddenly forget the article "hen
oied nnon 10 reform It. and II Mr.. Hale derives any
a,drt from that certainly will not deprive HIM OF the
consolation. .,. h.vo a,ios, ham forcad
20 administer to Mr. Hale as severe as his Public e'tes
Se been insoent aud mendacous. But something TOO
on has been written and said already In this shametnl
and my purpose s TO end 1t at once for all
~ Ar Hale has any charges against me he ought 10 not
oniy make them but prove them. -, - ri.
Those he has heretofore preferred rest soIey on MS
- asaertOns-hls own Yeracity--and after Whab VIC