Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22
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Warrington News and Gossip
WASHINGTON, April l9, 1869.
A NEW WAY TO SETTLE THE ALA
RAMA OUESTIoN.-In the Senate Mr..
Chandler offered a resolution that the
President be directed to open negotia-
tions with England, for the settlement
of all open questions on the basis of the
surrender of all British North Ameri-
can possessions to the United States
Mr.. Chandler read long extract from
his former speeches, to show that he
originated the position now assumed by
the Committee on Foreign Relations,
and insisted that if his advice had been
followed heretofort, the Alabama ana
all other claims would not now remain
unsettled, but that if the resolution he
offered, looking to the withdrawal OF
our Minister and non-intercourse had
been adopted, such claims would nave
been paid in thirty days.
Mr.. Chandler concluded as follows:
The resolution he had offered to-day
afforded,the only peaceful solution to
our difficulties. We have had treaty
after treaty and rejected them. This
leads to irritation. He uttered the same
sentiments now he did two years and a
half ago. He would have required
mortgage for the amount due; the mort
gage was recorded and the security good.
He believed we had now put this mat
ter on a proper basis. If Great Britain
should meet us in friendly spirit, ac-
knowledge her wrong and cede all her
interests in the Canadas in settlement
of these claims, we may have perpetual
Deace with Great Britain; but if she
does not, we must conquer peace. we
cannot afford to have an enemy's base
so near to us. 1t is national necessity
that we should have the British possess
sions. He hoped that such negotia-
tion would be opened, and that it Will
be peaceful one; but if it should not
he. and England insists on war, then
let the war be short, sharp and decisive.
If war should come, he would say now
that-the 10000 veteran soldiers OF Mich
igan would take the contract to capture
the Canadas in thirty days, without
man or gun from any other State.
But their will be no war. Great Bri-
tain does not desire war with us. When
our Ministers abroad proclaimed this
Government oyerthrown, because they
were nearly all in the interest of seces-
sion, it was wonderful that IL was
Thought abroad-France thought it was
late United States. Great Britain and
France were in accord with the rebel
lion. If the United States had been
oyerthrown the empire would have been
established, but the United States was
not overthrown, and, therefore, the em-
pire was not established. When the
Emperor Napoleon was informed
that the occupation of Mexico would
lead to war with one million men, ne
withdrew his army from Mexico. he
had staked the cause of the empire on
the success of the rebellion. Great Bri-
tain staked her empire on the sea. She
knew the rebellion must succeed, or she
must abandon this continent. In con-
clusion Mr.. Chandler expressed the
hope that the resolution would be
passed.
Mr.. Sumner moved that the resolu.
ton be referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and it was so refer
red.
The Cuban question has been rendered
more interesting and important to-day
fIom the fact that the city is full o.
rumors crediting the Administration
here with decidedly hostile intentions
towardth Spaniards on account of the
recent -outrages to the American flag
and the seizures Of American citizens
President Grant, il is confidently de-
clared, has sdirecteG a peremptory demand
TO be made upon the Spanish authoritie:
in Cuba for the immediate release of the
brig Mary Lowell and the surrender o
the two passengers taken from the brig
Lizzie Majors, 1t is said that Secretary
Fish has already telegraphed instruc
tions to our representative in Cuba tC
make this demand without delay, and &
refusal to comply promptly will be fol
lowed by hostile demonstrations from
our naval squadron cruizing in the vi
cinity. The official dispatches that have
been received here make out plain
case for the Interference of cur Govern
ment, and this step is said to have been
taken after nature deliberation.
These warlike rumors give much de
light to the Cuban emissaries here an6
20 the sympathizers with the Cuoar
cause. AS to what will be the result o
the demand on the part of our Govern
Inent. opinion is pretty evenly divided
here. some holding that it will be acced
ed to without hesitation, and other
declaring that Spain will not suffer
Gen. Dulce to yield an inch-that sht
will 90 to war first and endure tht
double embarrassment of domestic anC
foreign strife rather than succumb ii
the face of a threat. But few days viii
doubtless tell the whole story.
Telegrams from Savannah lead friends
of the Cuban revolution here to believe
that General J. b. Steedman was.suc
cessful in landing in Cuba with a picked
force of men. The expedition has beer
in preparation for number of months
Steedman himself spent two weeks il
Havana, and during the latter part o
the time was SO far under arrest as to b'
ordered quietly by the Captain Genera
10 report to him daily. The first rendez
yous of his party was on one of thu
islands near New Orleans. When Ad
miraI Hoff received his first orders, tn,
headquarters of the expedition wer'
changed to a point on the Florida coast
A blockade runner, captured from tn
rebels in the late war, was obtained, ant
the belief is that nearly thousand men
well supplied with arms and thorough.
accustomed to them, have been landed
The Cuban leaders have been fully &C
uuainted with Steedman's movement
for some time. Information has beel
received that bodies of men are night.
drilling i'm New York whose u timat.
destination is Cuba, though they vii
probably not leave direct from that city
1t NAV be stated in this connection tina
the Navy Department has just addet
five vessels to the squadron in the Souti
Atlantic, so that II now consists of clever
vessels, with an aggregate of lQ8 guns.
At Cincinnati on Saturday clever
prisoners were sentenced to the Peni
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