Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-01-22

most advisable. You will, OF course
keep me advised by telegraph and Is
post Of your proceedings pursuant to thjs
Instruction. l am, sir, your obedient
servant, HAMILTON FISH.
On the fifth Of November, same date
IS the letter to Mr.. Cushing, Mr.. Fish
addressed noie to Mr.. Schenck at Lon.
don, saying: Herewith you will receive
a confidential copy OF instructions this
day addressed TO Mr.. Cushing, contain
! ing the Presidents conclusion as to Gu
| ba.h He then Eriefiy recites the tenor OF
| the letter, and says: "This being the
case, the President is Of the opinion that
1t ls just 10 communicate to Great Brit
| ain the conclusions arrived at in the
note to MIR. Gushing, and to suggest that,
in his opinion, the expression by Great
Britain to Spain and Of its approval Of
the view of this government, and influ-
ence to induce settlement will tend
to more speedy acknowledgment
aud will more surely indUce the govern
ment Of Spain, by some wise and con-
elusive measures, TO render all thought
or necessity of Intervention from any
quarter unnecessary. The government
Of Great Britain may possibly of its own
accord, think proper, in view, OF its own
interests, to Cooperate with the United
States in this effort to arrest cruel war
OF devastation. Humanity. In it, own
great interests and regard for the pres.
ervation OF peace OF the world, will,
1t is believed without doubt, lend to its
support position which this govern
ment has at length been forced t. as
sumo, and to address its representative
at Madrid to that end. Mr.. Gushing has
T0s6RU ham al snH tn of int
view with the minister of State until
you have communicated to this depart,
ment the result OF your interview with
Lord Derby. You will take the earliest
occasion practicable to comply with this
instruction, and will promptly commu-
nicate with the department by telegraph
and in cipher the result theTeof.n SINH |
lar letters were addressed to the
United States ministers at Paris, Berlin,
ST. Petersburg, Vienna and Rome,
and instruction given; to ask, in effect,
the moral support Of the governments |
to which they were accredited. No |
vember 18th, Secretary Fish telegraphed |
to Mr.. Schenck, that advices had been |
received from Mr.. Cushing, which sug-
gested delay in reading the Instructions |
to Lord Derby. On etWeuty-ninth OF |
November, Secretary Fish directed Mr. |
Schenck TO read the instructions receiv- |
ed to Lord Derby as soon as opportunity |
permitted, and to explain that interven- |
tion is not contemplated as an immedi- |
ate result, but as contingent necessity, |
in case the contest should be prosecuted, |
and satisfactory adjustment Of the ex- |
istiDg griefs be not reached, and we sin |
cerely desire to avoid any rupture, and |
are anxious to maintain peace and es-
tablish our relations with Spaia on a
permanent basis OF friendship. Mr.
Schenck Snd other ministers were in
formed that the Presidents mes
sage would discountenance the
recognition Of belligerency or in
and that Mr.. Cushing
hsI been instructed to read his instruc-
tiOns to the Spanish minister OF State
without waiting the result of Schenck's
interview with Lord Derby. On No
vember 3Oth, Mr.. Gushing telegraphed to
Fish that his dispatch of No
vember 5th bad been delivered to the
OF State, with verbal explapa-
tions as near as foreign idiOm would |
permit. On December 4th Mr.. Cushing
to Secretary Fish as follows:
O. 1 have had an interview with the min
ister OF State, and he admits cur griev-
ances. He is opposed in principle to
sc sequestration Of the property Of foreign
ers, condemns the ways Of redress, and
will take up and promptly settle each
case, and will remove all cause of COM
plant as to the treaty; reprobates the
conduct Of the local authorities
in Cuba as more Injurious to
Spain than to the United States"
The correspondence contains no re-
sponses from any representatives to
whom instructions were sent to be read
to the governments to which they
wore accredited, nor is thers any
later than Deem
Der 4, 1875, relating to the spe-
cial instructions of November 5:h.