New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-14

has now got the control OF our Administration, and
lear that cur relations with the United sIes are aDoue
pes, but from the encounter OF two personalities Inc
people desire peace but two bellicuse Generals one
whom you send out and another who has lately returned
from Cuba Caballero de ROdas about 10 come To-
gether I'M Madrid ike two locomotives moving in oppo-
site directions the track Covered up under the
walls OF diplomacy and patriotism, personal annosltes
many before 1t, could have been avoided by frank
clanafops there NAV be span would satisfy them be
assured OF IT, by eOnciatory so long
second intention Is concealed under them IL YOU
are really neutral i'm The question OF Cuba rupture Is
impossble; but IL you are driving at something else.
you ought to the face or the world and lot put
il forward under cover of equivoeal notes.
" The moment could not be more opportune for an
enemy 10 attack Spain. Divided into hundred uls-
cordant PARTIES with two civil wars on her handsome
in Cuba and another at hOmewith foreign boy on the
throne for whom the people feel no loyalty that tnrone
dislodee them all any dipomast with moderate ability
Tor intrigue could easily plunge Us INTO IoIeeh war
would he you dshonOr great as the oe,
cupati0n of Mexico was International good
faith forbds certain sggressions IN moments OF msio
more or less iustaabe in ordinary times. You say that
n Spain such condition. war Is imp o0aDie pc
she would Weld Your Idea OF the spirit OF thls
people is at fault. An iudomitahle independence,
an uncalcuating passion OF natlonanty. Is 0IT
characteristic. Perhaps Joe Bonaparte would
have given much better government
people cannot be brought 70 submit 10 foreign dctaoh
with you would immediately unite an parties
under Tag Don Alfonso, Don Carlos the Republic
matter what II be, 80 IT be natlOnal-wOuld receive
the united support Of the people, and there would DE
only cry against you 1hs was the eject OF tnat
note OF Gen. sckless which was withdrawn in the time
the Provisional Government AT the sole suspicion OF
threat the press OF all parties put itself alongside the
Government and directed the course OF the Government
and money was found and an army OF loOOO men was
fight Cuba The American Government reeog-
nized that IL had made mistake, ana Gen. Sekes re-
manned at his post.
This people was never better disposed toward the
United states than 10 Is to-day We look up TO you as the
model Of all those excellent things 20 which we aspire
small fraction only OF military men is moved Dy OJner
impulses. But neither the visible Government or spain
this Parliament which has been foisted into the
Chambers represents to-day the aspirations OF ms peo-
pie and the good faith OF foreign exacs
OF them to-day greater circumspectOn ana more gOou
will than in ordinary circumstances. The fatality OF
and Of the people OF Spainl ignorant OF persons ana
things, hearing nothing aud seeing nothing but the
epaulets ana saDers Whcn surIVunu Law 1,
afforded occasion Tor some lmpruuence IN the way Itu
sckes has been treated in his absence. refer 10 the
request the President that he might not ne sent PACK
here again, when certainly he s far from being the
American Minister who has shown least goodwill toward
Spain But he has any personal resentment TO satisfy
ana comes back do what he would not have done
which rule this adyenttiOus Government, but also TO
the United states. Gen. Sckes Is man or taIent ana
patriotism and the Spanish Minister OF state Is GOOD,
naured and intelligent; nevertheless, the pressure or
circumstances and the play Of passions is such that the
first conference OF that dipOmast with this Minister
may occasion a conflict even without their wishing OF
desiring IT,"
Thus far my Spanish friend spoke give his remarks
Just as he made them, good expose Of the
ASPECT Of the Cuban question as IL Is seen
here to-day by one of the enlightened OF living
spaniards He is evidently about coming events
and you win be able to say, perhaps without sufficient
cause. have suppressed my own answers; but have
not thought proper suppress anything OF What you
will call Spanish preudices, because my friends pulse
beats always in unison with his countrymen that by
finding out what he is thinking feeling you pretty
sure to know what this people thinks or feels.