The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-12-17
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necessary ~ ihe gfeat rebellion. there l.
10 reason why We should not advances In
material prosperity and happiness as no
other nation ever DID, after 30 protFaefed
and devastating a war.
~ WAR ~ FRANCE
Som sfer The existing war broke ont In
Europe, tho protection OF the United
States Wial-ier In Paris was invoked In
favor Of the North Germans domlciled in
French territory. Instructions were Is
sued to grant the protection. This has
been followed by an extension Of Amer.
can protection TO citizens of Saxony,
Hesse and Sax Coburg, Gotha Columbia,
Portugal, Uruguay, the Dominican Repub-
lie, Ecuador, Chill, Paraguay and Ven.
ezuela in Paris. The charge was an enor.
nous one, requiring constant and severe
labor, as well as the exercise Of patience;
prudence and good Judgment. 1t has
been performed TO the entire satisfaction of
the government, and, as | an officially In
formed, equally so to the satisfaction of the
government of North Germany.
As o as | learned that a republic had
been proclaimed at Paris, and that the peo-
pie of France had acquiesced in the
change, the Minister of the United States
was directed by telegraph to recognize it,
and tender my congratulations and those
of the people of the United States. The
establishment in France of a system of
government disconnected with the dynas-
tic traditions of Europe, appeared to be
a proper subject for the felicitation of
Americans. Should the present struggle
result in attaching the hearts of the French
to our simpler forms Of representative
government, 1t will be a subject of still
further satisfaction to our people. While
we make no effort to impose our institu.
tons upon the inhabitants of other coun.
tries, and while we adhere to Il rtradition-
al neutrality in civil interests elsewhere,
we cannot be indifferent to the spread OF
American political ideas in a great and
highly civilized country like France. We
were asked by the new government to use
.our good offices jointly with those of the
European powers in the interest of peace
Answer was made that the established
policy and the true interests of the United
States forbade them to interfere III
European questions jointly with Eu
ropean powers. ascertained in
formally and unoflicially that the govern
ment of North Germany was not then dis
posed to listen to such representation
from any powers, and though earnestly
wishing to see the blessings Of peace re
stored to the belligerents, with all 0
whom the United States are on terms o
friendship, | declined on the part of thii
Government to take a step which coulC
only result in injury to our true interests
without advancing the object for which
our Intervention was invoked, Should Thu
tlme come when the action of the United
States can hasten the return of peace by
single hour, that action will be heartily
taken.
THE NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATION.
l deemed it prudent in view of the nun
Der OF persons of German and French
birth living in the United States, to issue
soon after official notice of q state of wa
had been received from both belligerents,
proclamation defining the duties of tn,
United States as a neutral, and the obliga
Tons OF persons residing within their ter
ritory, to observe their laws and the law
OF nations. This proclamation was fol
lowed by others, as circumstances seemed
to call for them. The people, thus &C
quainted in advance of their duties anC
obligations, have assisted in preventing
violations Of the neutrality of the United
States.
CUBA.
It is not understood that the condition
of the instruction in Cuba has materially
changed since the close of the last session
of Congress, In an early stage of the
rnptaut fha nttthpffttoc ~ Gnotn snn,,
gurated a system Of arbitrary arrests, O
close confinement, of military trial and
execution of persons suspected of com
plicity with the insurgents, and of sum
mary embargo of their properties, and
requisition of their revenues by executive
warrant. Such proceedings, so far as
they affected the persons or property Of
citizens Of the United States, were il
violation of the provisions of the treaty
of 1895. between the United States anC
Spain. Representations of injuries result
ing to several persons claiming to be citi
zens of the United States, by reason o
such violations, were made to the Spanish
government. From April, 1869, to JUNE
last, the Spanish Minister at Washington
had been clothed with a limited power tt
act in redressing such wrongs. Thaf
power was found to be withdrawn, il
view, it was said, Of the warlike situation
in which the island of Cuba then was
which, however, did not lead to a revoca
ton or suspension of the extraordinary
and arbitrary functions exercised by thu
executive power in Cuba, and we were
obliged to make our complaint at Madrid
lnthe negotiations thus opened and still
pending there, the United States only
claimed that for the future the right
secured to their citizens by treaty shoulC
be respected in Cuba, and that as t.
the past a joint tribunal SHOULD
be established in the United
States, with full Jurisdiction ovel
all such claims. Before such an impartia
tribunal each claimant would be required
to prove his case. On the other hand
Spain would be at liberty to traverse every
material fact, and thus complete equity
would be done. A case which at one timt
threatened to seriously affect the relations
between the United States and Spain has
already been disposed of in this way. TIT
claim Of the Col. Lloyd Aspinwall, for the
illegal seizure and detention of that vesse
was referred to arbitration by mutual con
sent, and has resulted In an award to thu
United States for the owners Of the sam
Of s19, 702.5 5 in gold. Another and lont
pending claim of like nature, that of thu
whaleship Canada, has been disposed Of by
friendly arbitration during the present year
It was referred by the joint consent Of
Brazil and the United States to the decision