The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-16
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"h"' .miSIng IsS xiSIEIg sPs5ish Qratos said spnius
:, 'A N"""-A - saDernl View.
In the Constituent C0ftes, May %, during the nro
gIess OF the discussion on the Constitntion article
ig. was presented by the COMMITTEES in a new form
avste. SVftes constituencies will reform the actual
ysel vi government of the provinces OF the Ultra
mar mar when the Deputies from Cuba and Porto Rico
nave taken their Seats TO extend the same with the
Hhynuincauons wnlch may be believed necessary the
rights consigned in this constitution" one or two
anehdments were proposed but rejected. In the dis
some short speeches from Senores Fernando IsIn
SllVela, RUIZ Gomez, Garcia Lopez and Moret
Cuba. " ~ ="
REMARKS OF SENIOR CASTELAR,
-, After brief preface he said:-If we have right
70 complain OF Cuba-ah, Cuba and Porto Rico have
much more right to complain OF u.s. We have lately
governed our colonies with regimen of the most
aOsOute injustice. In the ancient times we governed
our colonies in accordance with all the prncIpes of
Justice which could possibly be exercised in n repi
men 80 unjust as that OF absoutsm The Spanish
NiGeeIoys were model OF prudence Our laws OF the
LInes are one or the greatest monuments which can
possibly be found In colonial regimen. Our Salas de
IN tndlas mad very humanitarian policy with respect
70 W america The worst enemies of Spanish domina-
uon IN America recognized that we Sustained
Ine union between those colonies aud the mother
country more by affection than authority and force
so 1t was, that from Buenos Ayres to Quito in that
Immense llne there were required only 5000 men to
susie sustain the majesty OF the Spanish nation. We, who
Were SO lmplacabe with the heresy which presented
itsen IN Span-we, who would not pardon Fray
LUIS de Leon, or Santa Teresa or Cazela, or Con-
sstahtlhe, or the most eminent philosophers, par
dohed In the Indians the heresy Of ignorance In the
midst OF the rigid Catholic unity which all the
Spanish Empire obeyed. Wei, there came the
constitutional regimen in the times of Isabella
IL, ana we followed a system Numerically opposed
to the ancient The DEPUTIES from the Antiea came
mere and we would not admit them TO the Cortes of
1881; 1884 came, and we did nothing to impulse
liberty IN Cuba or Porto Rico And when the last
events arrived on the 10Th OF October, there was
Couftday in Cuba. This was in alluson to the fact
that queen lsabcllas birthday was celebrated with
te usual henors on the 10th Of October last There
mas undoubtedly, been some motive or pretext for
tne rebellion we all condemn. The last deeds have
Pfem Sara very sad Ihe liberal union promised Cuba
I LIneIai reforms. Senor Posada Herrera indi-
Gated this from one of the benches in the Opposi-
oi0h M speech he made against the Government
OF General Narvaez The ministry OF Ultramar
was assigned to Senor Canovas and he opened up
an inquiry But by one OF those misfortnnes so fire.
quent IN Spain, the Commissioners from Porto Rico
arrived here, and presented a great economical
POLITICAL administrative, and social plan forgetting
iothlng, absolutely nothing, that referred to the
we listened TO them; we promised to take into con,
slderatlon their counsels. But scarcely had they
epoch-the last days of Isabella II. We for
got, l repeat, all their counsels and warn
islands an Odoas tS% GGRGse aRPR
II IT. Is Indispensable that from these benches there
should issue word of hope and promise Of felicity
Tor these distant regions; it is Indispensable p n.
us s1ouId nave the patriotism to consider thai Cub.
ana Porto Rico cannot continue living as mO0slrOus
exception IN the midst OF that democratic life which
Is extending itself all over the American continent
Ihere are three great facts upon which we ought to
raise our new Colonial policy The first is the inde-
penaence OF America, the second is the democracy
OF america, and the third is the great example Eng
land setfus with Canada. There is no DENYING
the the influence ,91 Of these facts they are the
very milky way (ria lactes) OF great
thoughts Consequently, if we wish to be
at the altitude OF our destiny in America and to con-
tlnue and renew our grand traditions there by means
Of lbery, we ought to say soemnly that we will not
be content with promises like those of 1887 We
ought @ p psoemnly to promise the provinces OF Cuba
and Porto Rico that though we cannot exactly
assmilate them to Spain, because there are dangers
and lnconyenences in so doing yet the day in which
tneir commissioners or deputies enter these doors
we VIII c9ncede to them regimen OF their own
Wnlch snail serve as an example to all America and
give us title to say before that continent that
II we nave become civilized, we are not content
with this, but that we will follow those grand
examples of liberty and OF democracy which
lhey oer to us in the middle of the nineteenth cen
tury, the century OF liberty hope this, gentlemen,
especially nope this from all who contribute to the
great work or saving Spain. l hope we shall not
forget America, and, above ALL not forget that Cuba
and Porto Rico have at their gates the grand ex-
ample OF the democracy Of the United States; that
there slavery is fallen; that that immense ignomny
is destroyed, and that it is necessary we should have
no more slave trade nor slaves! 1t necessary we
should inscrbe there the grand principles of liberty
Let us say like the ancients, that as the sun was
never entirely obscured from our dominions to-1av
liberty shall neither be ecpsed or obscured In them