New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-03
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NEW ORLEANS FRIDAY. DECEMBER g. 1875. 2


ne Various Phases of the Caban Ques-
The special correspondent Of the Chicago
Tribune, writing from Washington under
date of November q, says; |
1t is pretty determinately settled by the |
great omuiscients of our political inner life |
that the President, in his coming message
to that body the recognition Of Caba's
righta ~ belligerent nation, and the &C
knOwledgment in amplest terms of her
belligerency. The apathy with which our
country has heretofore regarded the strug
giles OF the liberat0rs in Cuba Tor their free
dom from an over r-the-ses despOtism, is a
wonderful popularity of public sentiment,
that owes it's rise to forgetfulness Of past
personal history, and It's continuance to the
same, superinduced by home troubles of an
eugr0ssing nature. What We lack, and
have lacked, is time to mediate.
But the time is at hand when the ever
lasting fitness of things is to be brought
into active operation, and the sentiment
and spirit of a dormant administration are
at length revolutionized into positive action,
whose vived results will immediately oblit-
crate great deal of the timidity of the
past. What has heretofore initiated against
Cuba with us, as we'll as want OF thought
upon the subject, is ignorance. The abso-
in the dark concerning the island; xnd, as
the press has been queerly silent upon it,
the ignorance has continued and exagger-
ated itself
The same correspondent says, speaking
of the House Of Representatives:
The Cuban question is sn issue upon
which the Democrats are likely to be di-
vided. Ex-Governor Swami, of Maryland,
who has been on the Commi,tse on Foreign
Relations in tho two last Congresses. is a
candidate for chairman of that committee
in this Congress. He has been Conserva-
| tive, and has always agreed with Secretary
| Fish on the Cuban question. Sam Cox, fail
ing to secure either the speakership or chair
manship OF the Committee ON Ways and
| Means, wants to be at the head of the Com
nittee on Foreign Relations, and he has
been the champion of free Cuba for years.
| General Banks, an ardent Cuban, who thinks
the Liberals should receive recognition,
also wants the craftsmanship of the commit
| tee.
| The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times, November %, says;
/ 1t ia not likely that the real condition of
ment and Spain will be made known before
the publication of the Presidents message,
and perhaps may not be fully disclosed
even then. Enough is known, however, to
warrant very confident belief that no
recommendation of granting belligereut
rights to, or recognizing the Independence
OF, the Cuban government will be made in
the Presidents annual message. 1t dees
not seem probable at the present time that
the correspondence will have reached that
stage where the government of the United
States would be justified in taking any
such extreme action, and there can GER
| tainly be discovered no desire on the part
| of tho admiuia ra finn IN hrnil tho n trv
in needless war with Spain or any other gov
ernment. Almost all that has been printed on
the subject has been the merest speculation,
most OF which has been the farthest possible
removed from the truth. Whatever the
hopes of especially interested parties may
be in respect to the unusual naval prepaIa
tions, it is safe to reiterate the statement
that they are wholly precautionary, and are
not made with any intention of precipitat
ing hostilities, either directly or indirectly
What the nature of the demands made upon
Spain by this government may be is wholly
unknown, and, excepting that Spain hat
manifested pacific and yielding disposi
tion, the nature Of her reply does not seen
to be known in detail to our government
In considering this question it must also bt
remembered that Congress will be in ses
: sion many months and that there would b,
plenty of time hereafter to present any
exigsncies which may arise to the considera
tion of that body.
| The following is special dispatch from
} Washington to the Philadelphia Times, No
; vember %:
About three months ago Valmaseda, Cap
tain General of Cuba, sent to the govern
ment of Guatemala a demand for the revo
cation of its recognition of the independence
. of the Cuban republic. The Guatemaleal
/ government refused to receive Falmaseda'
, envoy, demanding conference with tn,
, home government instead of with colonia
. officer, and DR.. Lorenzo M0ntatua was sen
to Madrid to protest against this informa
{ | action. Inasmuch as Peru, Chilli Salvador
, ! Venezuela, the Argentine Confederation
Bolivia, Columbia and Mexico had eithe
rights of the Cubans previous to thi
. | demonstration by Valmaseds, the entir
5 combination Of Spanish American republic
joined Guatemala in the protest agains
the irregular action. and thereupol
the United States minister at Madrid wa
called into consultation with DR.. MontafGa
: the result being that with the consent of tn
State Department the United States joine,
with the Spanish American republics, tn
idea being that not to sustain Guatemal
under the peculiar circumstances of the cas-
would be contrary to the Monroe doctrine
. Some time previous to the Burriel butcher,
: of the Virgnius prisoners, an order was ID
4 | cuOu W tho opnhtSh SOfCAhuohp sAVAh
! authority to the Captain General of Cub
. to proceed during the progress of tn
: revolution, without regard to any recon
mendations or suggestions that nigh
come from the home government
that would interfere with any scheme
which he might adopt for the suppressio
!. OF the rebellion. This order being in plain
!; direct and emphatic violation of sectio
! seven of the treaty Of l195, which guar
I antees to American citizens the right Q
!, trial by jury, the employment of counse
! has been the occasion of considerable COZ
. respondence between the United States an
: Spain during the past twenty years, non
! OF which has been published in the diplt
, matte correspondence. Minister Cushin
: has been successful in negotiating prG
tocol for . new treaty between Spain an
!; the United States, in which Spain speciicall
! agrees to yield to the American deman
. that the seventh article Of the treaty {
{ 1895, or rather the American interpretatio
of ", shall be regarded.