The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1869-12-18


of Cuba with Spain that it felt
for former Spanish colonies in a
like struggle; but there is no de
tucto government Of the insurg-
ents sufficiently organized to be
treated as belligerent. In this
connection Gen. Grant makes the
following announcement of doc
trines, Of which the British Gov
ernment will promptly take no
tice, as bearing on Alabama
claims controversy:
"The principle is maintained,
however, that this nation is its
own judge when to accord rights
Of belligerency, either to people
struggling to free themselves
from a government they believe
to be oppressive, or to. independ-
cnt nations at war with each
other" .......-..-...- .
| The matter of the arrest of the
| Spanish gunboats is explained by
attributing it, in the first place, to
the Representations of the Peruvi-
an Government. The Peruvian
Government having taken no
steps to have the boats detained,
the President, nevertheless, did
not feel authorized to detain them
by executive order, and therefore
turned the question over to the
courts. This is a very lame ex-
PLANTATION. The President issues
an executive order, but does not
fc el Authorized to annul it by an
other order, because that would
release the vessels; as if the reteri-
ton of the vessels was the prime
object Of the order instead Of the
enforcement Of law.
The reason is the true one, but
we did not expect to see it SO
plainly confessed in the message.
There are many minor topics
III the massage to be mentioned
hereafter, which will be of i'm
portance if Con gress does not, by
counter Legislation, show they
have taken the President at his
word, to have ono policy for him
:. self.
7 Torney's Press is growing can
did, and intimates that the recent
expressions attributed to Gen.
Grant, relative to the persecution
OF the Israelites in Russia, are
quite as applicable nearer home.
= The Press says: ssYhe decidedly
I American tone Of the Presidents
reply has attracted considerable
comment in diplomatic circles,
and the opinion is generally eS-
pressed that it, is q definite confirm
; alton OF the assertion recently.
made abroad that the pres cnt Ad-
illustration intends making the
influence of our government ap-
parent as a mediator in behalf Of
kaIl classes who are suffering from
the oppression of Imperial. gov
crnments.'' Whereon the Phila-
de]phia Age says eve do rot
know any civilized country in
which there are SO many people
suffering from the expressions OF
Imperial governments, as in these
United States. In the Asiatic
provinces OF Turkey, there may
be Pachas and Governors as alb
solute as our military command
eIs at the South, but in no cot,n-
try that has ever known civil
Justice or constitutional law is
there such a state Of things. eX-
listing. Here Gen. Grant has
considerable power to .,abate the
evil. In Russia he can only offer
! diplomatic. remostrances, and we
sincerely hope that they will not
! be met by. a reference to the eel
ebrated order Of Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant, expeEling the Jews from
his lines. What we want to be
rid of in this country is military
usurpation, from which every III
terest may, in it's turn, suffer-
The Clarksville Tobacco Leaf
REQUESTS the press. Of the South
to ''pass around one Captain G.
w. ALL, now travelling in the
South as q dr,1mm cr for the boot
and shoe house of S. M. Pomeroy
: & Co, Cincinnati. This man Ali
was in charge Of the Yankee pris-
on at Fort Delaware during the
war, and his cruelty to the Con