Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29
No War with Chill.
Mr.. HARRISON'S ULTIhATUM
Brings the ISclligPrCnt Little
Nation to Terms.
The Presidents Message and the Ac-
cOmpanying Correspondence.

A Carefully Prepared and Ineligible
Summary of the Whole Matter, and a
Review of the Several Steps which have
Led to a Peaceful Result.
The complications between our govern
ment and the government of Chilli, growing
out of the attack on the sailors of the
United States ship Baltimore in the streets
of Valparaiso last October, have reached a
crisis during the past week, so far as the
action of the United States government is
concerned. Under date of the Dist of Jan
uary, Mr.. Blaine sent to United States
Minister Egan, for communication to the
CHILEAN government, so-called ultimatum,
and this was followed on Monday of this
week by the communication to Congress of
message from President Harrison on
this subject, accompanied by the volumi-
nous correspondence growing out of these
complications.
The SO-CnIIed 'Iltimatum."
The despatch sent by Secretary Blaine to
Mr.. Egan, under direction of the President,
says in substance:
LIST, That our government is compelled
by the facts in hand to believe that the
attack on the sailors of the Baltimore had
the aspect of IAN attack on the uniform of
the United States navy, having its origin
and motive in a feeling of hostility to this
movement, and not in any act of the sailors
or of any of them
u'Iot "a ,,uIlio autbpritias pf Val
paraiso hagrantly failed in their duty to
protect our men, and that the Gillian po-
lice and soldiers Joined in the attack upon
them.
3D., That the government of the United
States insists on suitable apology, and
promise of reparation for this assault.
This despatch was couched in friendly
and conciliatory language, while being en-
tirely firm and positive in its tone, Mr..
Blaine saying that: "YOu will assure the
government of Chill that the President has
no disposition to be eXacting, or to ask
anything which the government would not,
under the same circumstances, freely con-
cede. He regrets that from the begin
ming, the gravity of the questions involved
has not apparently been appreciated by the
government of Chill, and that an affair in
which two American seamen were killed
and Is others seriously wounded, while
only one CHILEAN was seriously hurt, should
not be distinguished from an ordinary
brawl between sailors in which the provo
cation is wholly personal and the partici-
patton limited. No self-respecting govern
ment can consent that persons in its ser
vice. whether civil or military, shall be
beaten and killed in foreign territory in
resentment of acts done by or imputed to
their government, without eNacting suit
able reparation. The government OF the
United States has freely recognized this
principle and acted upon it when the in
jury was done by its people to one holding
an official relation to a friendly power in
resentment of acts done by the latter. In
such case the United States has not sought
for words of the smallest value or of equiv
ocal meaning in which to convey its apol-
ogy, but has condemned such acts in Wig
orous terms, and has not refused to make
other adequate reparation.'
The despatch further informs Mr.. Egan
that the offensive letter of Senior Malta,
the secretary of state of Chill, which he
sent to the Gillian representatives at all
foreign governments, and directed the
CHILEAN minister at Washington to publish
in this country, ''imputing untruth and
insincerity to the President and secretary
of the navy of the United States" must be
at once withdrawn, and an apology offered
or all diplomatic relations with the govern
ment of Chill will be at once terminated
Mr.. Blaine further says that it will be quite
time to consider the request for Mr.. Egan''
recall which the CHILEAN government has
made, after a reply to this note has beer
received.