New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-22

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September is62he made his celebrated Proclamsuos .,
to unmerted censure preferrIDg return to Europe.
rather than he subject 10 the unrendy ORDERS OF zen.
their masters and who showed his dispeasure 90 much
that ChiefJusiice Chase who had gone WIN 9e 20
ieyed could be more useful there than the army.
which not my profession and Thought tne eiper,
enee Of the volunteer generals was PROOF Vi NY S'''
With regard to Cube shall he brief hold that the
Of the Confederate States the 18th Of May 1901 They
were organized de faeto goyernments.hsd made war
forts Besides they had received Mr. Stewards procara.
Of the blockade Of the Southern porte made on the
the sonthwhen he should only have declared the ports
Of entry closed And they had not received that pro
clam the argument in favor OF state OF war sin
creased by the fact that the two nations. without the
knowledge Of each Others action nsa come ~ or .s
proclamations OF both Governments L therefore neIs,
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Government for the regulation OF its owB citizens and
their rights "a and 81 NAV be ordinarily a sa ead
count But the question was settled ~ President
our diplomacy in mixing up the Alabama claims with the
subject OF beligerenoy false one on our part and
settlement Of those claims There three ways OF
settling private well national wrongs: TO call upon
asht It out; to exercise Christian forgiveness and OBJ
Hvion or TO seek advantage, when your
attitude in which our diplomacy bad placed us and,
citizen Of the great Republic protested against
It, England hated In 1851 feared In 1863 and con-
wrongs toward Cuba, and cleared away the Alabama
claims used a bar to the recognition OF bellgerency
quoted the part Of Secretary Fishs note t0nster Rob
The civil war in Cuba has continued year hattie amer battle
Ia, been fought thousands Of Eyes ha'' ossn and TIE
law for whom the sorh indebted TO spss
interest Of humanity evidently requires When essential inter-
Of the State injured BY the civil Of Aeshbenng pose.
With which, humanity he has ben obliged 10 Teaoa
against sbich ATTENDED the
msny party eenn the q
the justification for assigned BY the eminent Spanish shOr
Ithen pressed these admissions In connection with other
notorious facts IN justification Of the resolutions offered
conquest and expansion OF empire the world over
England especially took position our Pacific Coast !
threatened us along the whole OF our Northern border
Gibraltar the Mediterranean Sea; guarded the great
highway to the East by her protege the Vieeroy OF
Egypt eircumyened in China aud anticipated US ind
Japan planted standard in places Of oenso
and defense the world and now uses spain az an ado
vanced post commanding. In military phrase oil our IA,
MISUNDERSTANDING the map OF the lsthWns,
which would in hands give us. through shipcaSal
the commerce and supremacy IN Eastern Asia and Japa
order that few ships and muntops OF wa9
should be sold by merchants to the spanish tyran
Cuba! Well could sympathze with the indignation ol
the great Chatham at those who boosted OF putting
miserable pepper into the treasury at the loss OF
great empire.
such is the outline OF my argument which the con-
eerted enemies OF Cuban liberty las; night attempted to
suppress aud upon which rest the justice and policy OF
my resolutions which at last were unanimously adopedi
take occasion more explicitly to remark that stand
by and with the Republican party, but hold that their
representatives shall not rule but be ruled by the PUBIC
will, when intellgently and fully made known
Yours truly Z. M. CLAY.
Neu- York, Jan. 20, 1870.