The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-27
GRANT AND MEXICO.

A Significant Speech by senor Romero-Grant
and the French Invasion of our sister Re-
Dubllc-He Was In Favor OF Going 10 war In
Her Behalf.
On the evening of December 3, Mr.. Seward
was entertained in the Mexican capital by Senior
Romero now member of President Juarez's
Cabinet and during the civil war the Mexican
Minister at Washington. During the course of
the evening Senior Romero made a speech in
which he authoritatively stated that Grant was,
at the close of our own war, in favor of driving
the French out of Mexico by resort to force.
He said:-
would not consider that had completely
complied with my duty-with the duty of a
public man, as well as that of a private citizen
if in manifesting my Acknowledgements towards
our illustrious guest, should fail to do so in
reference to another person, to whom Mexico,
as well as myself personally owe great debt of
gratitude. On the termination of the civil war
in the United States, in April, 1865, the states
men of the country felt the unanimous desire
that the French invasion in Mexico should
speedily terminate. AT the head OF those who
were in favor OF pacific solution Qf may call
it SOY was our distinguished guest, the Hon.
William II. Seward. At the head of those who
were in favor of an armed solution of the Mexi-
can question was person of great distinction
in the United States, who rendered most eminent
services to his country during the colossal for
the preservation of the URion who, as military
man, now occupies one Of the first places in the
world and to whom the people OF the United
States have lately conhded the direction of their
| Government allude, gentlemen to the illus
| trious General Ulysses s. Grant. He manifested
| the most positive desire to see Mexico free from
| foreign invasion; and he believed that this OBJ
| ject could not be carried out as promptly as he
| desired, unless the United States should accom-
pany her demands to France with an armed de-
| monstration. l need not remind you, gentle
men, that the peace policy prevailed in the
councils of the Government of the United States;
| that, thanks to it, we found ourselves free from
| the complications which might have ensued from
great war in our behalf which would in that
| event have been probable between the
| United States and France. In manifest
| ing our Acknowledgements, and in honoring
| the memory of those who sustained the pacific
policy, should consider myself as failing in my
| duty were / to abstain from recording their
| distinguished services or manifest my gratitude
| oy doing honor to the sustainers of the policy of
| an armed demonstration, which might have
| been the most eficacious, but perhaps the most
| dangerous. The distinguished chief of that
| policy-he who was the very incarnation of it
| is the actual President of the United States
| Such was the magnanimity and good faith of
| General Grant, that on speaking with him.
| after the termination of the Intervention in
Mexico, on my return to Washington for a few
days. in June, 1865 to close my mission to the
United States, he expressed to me his satisfac-
ton that the question, in which he took such
| great and noble interest, should have terminated
| pacifcally, and without having imposed upon
| either of the two nations the sacrifices that,
had it been otherwise, they might have been ex-
| posed to.