The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-22
"SUNSET" cox.
He Speaks to the Republicans of GrRua Ia,
RDain-What he Said.

From Malaga (Spanish) paper;-
After the review by the Mayor of Granada
and the march of the volunteers, on Sabbath
afternoon last (May 2S), the soldiers, numbering
$50 republicans, belonging to the company OF
Captain Mariano proprietor of the washing
ton Irving Ronda," were invited by an American
(Mr. Cox) to partake of the hospitalities under
the roof of their captain and within the walls OF
the Alhambra. IL was near o'clock before the
company assembled.
After many expressions for the republic, their
captain, the American Minister, Mr.. Hale-who
arrived while they were assembliDg-the wine
was passed and the hilarity began. After the
company had enjoyed the hospitalities, Captain
Mariana introduced to them the gentleman who
had invited them to the entertainment as the
Hon. s. s. Cox, present Member of the Congress
of the United States for New York city. He
was received by the company with many vivas.
In his speech he said-I have seen to-day,
under arms, in front of the unfinished palace of
Charles V, and under the shadow of the old
dismantled tower of the Alhambra, three thou
sand volunteer soldiers of federal Spanish
government. Great vivas bravos y While,
by the policy of the American Repub-
lie, the American people do not in
tervene with arms in the affairs of foreign ma
tions; while the American Minister cannot with
propriety, answer the partisan salutation you
have rendered. yet say TO you, speaking, con-
sciousy, the unanimous voice of my country, that
there are forty millions of republicans of my
country, of all sects and parties, extend
ing their hands, as they have extended
their example, to welcome the birth OF new
Spanish republic! (Vivas.) More than that
there are twelve other republics of the New
World which would lift up their voice in your
own grand language for new order in their
mother country. Viyas;l You have cried,
Long live the Republic!" (Vivas.) Do not
despair of the republic You have no king.
(Cries of ''No.'O You have no queen. Cloud
cries of mo! nop and viyas.) You are now
Iepublic! You may have heard of the man who
was astonished when told that he spoke prose.
You may be astonished when tell you that you
are now living under republic (vivas), and you
live! You get your livings. Your young
senoritas are still winsome, winning, and
being won. (Laughter.) Your senoras
dren. Oaughter.) And yet all this under a
| republic This can be continued. Select your
| system; and then your chief; not alone because
| he is general, but because he is a civilian
| honest patriotic and intelligent. Call him
| what you please; but make him not supreme;
| only the executive OF your supreme will, eX-
| pressed through your provincial organisms,
| public opinion and a constituted federal
| order. Thus you will make the republic, now
provisional and national at Madrid, in your
Gortes, federal throughout each province Of your
| with the cry Long live the Federal Republic"
A federal republic is rational for every land and
| for each hemisphere. A republic not federal
would lead, as the French republic led, to the
lantern and the guillotine Liberty herself
might be the first victim A federal republic
| implies personal liberty, consisting with social
order and public spirit. In federal repub-
| lie there is feodus, league, band
of States, each State, sovereign over its
| own home concerns having its provincial
| Legislature, its ancient customs and fran
! chises, unimpaired by central power, whether
that central power be consolidated in an eXecu-
tive tyIant Of on head legislative tyrant
of many heads. To attain such a republic re-
| quires moderation with freedom. You have
already made progress in commercial and indus
trial freedom. You have already freedom of
l,f I'll
and freedom of soul and body. You can only
perpetuate these by self-imposed restraints.
Your vegas, which lie below us, are warmed by
the sun, but they are tempered by the SHOWS Of
as from the melted SHOWS. Heaven
gives you enthusiasm. 1t is in your warm
hearts. Reason gives you the GOODNESS of moder
ation by which to temper enthusiasm. Thus,
your plains will be green and golden with fruit
ful industry, your homes happy, and your re-
public realization of your most splendid hopes !
To restrain freedom by moderation, avoid the
eXcesses incident to revolutions, frown upon in
fdel and rash counsels among yourselves; re-
serve the ballot and keep it pure; reserve the
freedom of the press, and keep it rational
and fair; the right to worship God with
out secular hindrance; the right of life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness; and to conserve
these, constitute your republic, not as tyran-
nical, consolidated unity, but a democratic,
decentralized diversity in unity. plH,ibus
GHuW-lu Inc, u rcu0Idu republic! NNlNaS)
Your mountains are rich in every kind
of precious material, especially its mar
bles. Build your temple out of
the various marbles of different colors,
hewn by different hands, and of different
sIzes but let them be all fifty joined together,
and the foundations so firm and the arches so
keyed, that no commissions of the passionate
populace, and no reaction of king-craft, shall
shake them from their proper places. You have
IL in your power thus to create ont of dissimilar
materials and interests a federate unity. If,
however, your elected rulers prefer a monarchy
-(murmurs) )-bide your time and struggle
rather with rational than with violent methods.
Civil war, Spaniards is the grave of liberty
If they give you the federal republic-which
God help guard it with vestal vigilance, for it
is more precious legacy than all those monu-
ments of Moorish luxury or Spanish regality-
ment. Such republic was the United States,
under its written Constitution. May your Cortes
make for you such an organic law. (Vivas.)