The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-24
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS-OUR NEW
MINISTER'S ABROAD-MEXICO
From the N. Y. Herald.

From the ". Y. Herald
Our foreign relations are pacific and pro-
mise peace with all the nations of the world
and the rest of mankind. Thanks to General
Webb. He has made it all right with Brazil.
Mr.. Motley has declared to the delighted
Britishers that his programme is peace-same
language, ties of blood, Institutions trade,
Anglo-Saxon civilization, and all that. Mr..
Washburne has exchanged with Napoleon the
warmest assurances of ''happy accord" be-
tween France and the United States no allu-
sion being made to Mexico or jeff Davis on
either side those questions being settled. AS
for Russia, Mr.. Curtin at st. Petersburg will
meet with a hearty welcome, and he will lay
before the Gar the kindest and most friendly
Acknowledgements from our Government and
people touching the unbroken relations of
goodwill that have always existed between
the great republic and the great empire
AS for Spain, Mr.. Hale is awaiting at Madrid
the arrival of his appointed successor, General
Sickles, and the General, now in Washington,
is doubtless awaiting his instructions concern
ing the island of Cuba and the American eagle
that is, the golden eagle. Meantime
although the Cubans and tilibusters are doing
very well in reducing for Spain the cash
value of the island, Mr. Fish, it will be seen,
can have nothing to do with them, except to
catch such outgoing filibusters asmay happen
of declaring belligerent rights for the Cubans,
while England's belligerent rights to jeff.
Davis are mixed up with those Alabama claims.
! General Nelson, our new Minister to Mexico,
we are glad to learn, has arrived at the 'Halls
| Of the Montezumas," and has raised quite a
| ferment among the Mexican politicians from
the prevailing report which ushered him in,
| that his mission is to gobble up the republic
| without ceremony and without salt. At the
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i'll from the Atlantic side, General Rosecrans,
the retiring Minister, was going out on the
Pacific side, en- route to San Francisco II
has been rumored that General Rosecrans had
! been casting about for q treaty involving the
cession to the United States of another strip
of Northern Mexico, including Tamaulipas,
Matamoras Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora
Lower California, and the Gulf of California
and that the scheme had some connection
with a certain American land purchase il
| Lower California from Juarez, and with Gene
raj Fremont's Southern Pacific Railroad; but
we suppose that as such negotiations, even
if entered upon by Rosecrans, were dropped
| with his retirement, General Nelson viii
| begin with a new set of books.
Here, at all events, is a splendid opportu
nifty for General Grant to settle the Mexican
| question to the satisfaction of the civilized
world. In lS47 certain Mexican officials anC
others, holding IN their hands at the time the
power to act in the premises, in the city o
Mexico proposed to General Scott to make
him Governor General of the whole country
in the name and in behalf of the United
States, on a salary of a million of dollars
year pro tenh, but this liberal proposition
General Scott declined because of the diff
Guilty of fusing the white, Indian, and Negro
equality of Mexico with the negro slavery
and negro inferiority which at that day
were the coner-stones of the Constitu
ton of the United States. Now no sucl
difficulty exists. On the contrary with tn,
! annexation of Mexico, in the acquisition q