Connecticut western news., 1875-12-17
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ecuOol. IunCS or ScnOOl taxes or any part % thereof, either by legislative, municipal or rectly or indirectly, of any religious sect or denomination, or in aid, or for the benefit oi --a any otherobject of any nature or kind what
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 s.,,n agll THE CHURCH QUESTION. --.
 The President says: would call your attention to the importance of correcting an evil that if permitted to continue will prob ably lead to great trouble in our land before sstlie close of the nineteenth century It is ssSthe accumul alton of a vast amount of uh- ,sstaxcd church property In 1850 I believe .@ theschureh property of the United States which paid no tax, municipal or State, &ss amounted to about eighty-three millions of dollars In 1860 the amount had doubled v v and ip. 1875 it is about one billion. .ssis By zl900, without check it is safe to say '@this property will reach sum exceeding ,OOO, ,OQ0, ,000. So vast a sum, receiving all the protectioni and benefits of government, without bearing its proportion of the bur Sdells and expenses of thesame, will not be A looked aupOn acquiescentiy by those who sshayestol pay taxes. AliH sto4F~lF,
 would suggest the taxation of all prop erty equally, whether church or corporation, scxempting only, the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, eQIHCeS.~ af'-- ~''t s-~aEssssote FOREIGN RELATIONS. sf-s
 Our relations with most of the foreign powers continue on satisfactory and friendly footing. sChili has made reparation in the awh aleship Good Return case Portu- Sgal has emancipated her slaves. A recipI rocity treaty with the Hawaiian islands has been concluded. The Spanish government has paid over the sum of eighty thousand dollars for fhor l:.k of the families or persons of the ships cont pany and certain passengers of the Virgin1 ins, and this is ordered to be paid to parties interested -A '''''A .,4 l5 ~, -s..t.... ! .xl@ss .ss,lo THE CUBAN REBELLION. ,A 1.-The past year has furnished no evidence 'of an approaching termination of the ruin .oes conflict which, has been raging for seven years in the neighboring island of -Gnba. - The same disregard of the laws of civilized warfare and of the just demand of Ghllnlanity which shaye heretofore called . forth expressions of condemnation from the nations of Christendom have continued to blaoien the sad scene. SDesolation, ruin and pillage are prevailing the rich fields of one of the most fertile and productive re- gions of the earth, and the incendiaries' torch firing plantations and valuable facto- ries andshuildings is the agent marking the alternate advance or retreat of contending parties s The protracted continuance of this strife seriously affects the interests of all commercial. nations, but those of the United States more than others, by reason otfhe close proximity, it's larger trade and intercourse with Cuba, and the frequent and intimate personal and social relations which have, grown up between it's citizens and Ithose of the island. Moreover, the property of our citizens in Cuba is large and Is rendered insecure and depreciated in value, and in capacity of production by the continuance of the strife. and the unnatural mode of its conduct saiaassesa--,
 The same isitrue, differing only in degree, with respect Ito the interests and people of other nations, and the absence of any req sonable assurance of near termination of theconfilct must of necessity soon compel the States thus suffering to consider what the Interests of their own people, and, their duty toward themselves, may demand.
 l have hoped that Spain would be en- abled1 to establish peace in her colony, to afford security to the property and the in terests pt. our. citizens, and to allow alegiti- mate scope to trade and commerce and the natural productions:of the island Because of this hope, and from an extreme relue- tance to interfere in the most remote man. ner in the fairs of another and Il friendly nation, especially of one whose sympathy and friendship ina the struggling infancy of oifsown existence must ever be remembered with gratitude, have patiently and anx- leuslyJwalted the progress of. events. Our own civil conflict is too recent for us not to consider r the difficulties which surround g9Yernment distractel by dynastic rebel lion at home, and at the same time that it has to cope with separate instruction in a distant colony. Hut whatever causes may have lArOdlpad tho tuo ofi xyh1 1oL ously. affects our interests, it exists with all its attendant evils operating directly upon this country and itsspeoples sz.ss,Iss E
 Thus far all the efforts of Spain have proved abortfve, and time has marked no improvement in the situation. The armed bands of either side now occupy snearIyaihe saas4 ground as. in the past, with the differ ence from time to time of more lives sacri-, feed more property destroyed and wider extents of fertile and productive fields, and m0Eegand more of valuable prol ertyl con- stantiy wantpn1y sacrificed to the incendi- ary's torch. In contests of this nature, where a considerable body of people, who have attempted to free themselves of the controls of the superior government have reached such point in occupation of terri tory, in power and in general organization as to constitute in fact a body polite, hav- ing government in substance as we'll as in name, possessed ef.the elements of stability, and dtequipped with the machinery for the adfninistration of internal policy and the execution of its laws, prepared and able to administer justice at home as we'll as in it's dealings with other powers, it is within the province ot those other powers to recognize It's existence as g new and independent na- ton, In such cases other nations simply deal with; an actually existing condition of things, and recognize as one of the powers of the:earth that body polite which, possess ing the necessary elements, has in fact be- come a new power-in a word, the creation of aneE State is a fact. To establish the condition of things essential to the recognl- tion of this fact there must be people oe- cupying a known territory united under some known and defined form of govern ment acknowledged by those subject thereto, in which the functions of government are administered by usual methods competent to mete out justice to citizens and strangers, to afford remedies for public ard for private wrongs, and able to assume the correlatiVe international obligations and capable of performing the corresponding international duties resulting. from it's acquisition of the rights of sovereignty. A power should ex- lst complete iAa it's organization ready to take and able to maintain it's place among the nations of the earth. While conscious that tue iRdrfectioh in Cuba hassshown-a a strehSth and endurance which makes it at % least doubtful whether it be in the power of Spain to subaqe it, it seems unquestionable thatHo such civil Org ganization exists which may be recognized as an independent gov ernmentg gcapable of performing its interna- tional obligations and entitled to be treated as one of the powers of the earth. A recog- nitienCVnder such eirtnm mstances Swopld be inooHsistent with the facts and would com mel the prapttnor fo Inv