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PEACEMAKING NOT EASY.
AN INTERESTING DISPATCH FROM
CALEB CUSHING TO HAMILTON FISH.

| AN INTERESTING DiOT<AANI1 RO-'
CALEB CUSHING TO HAMILTON FISH.
THE AMERICAN MINISTER TO SPAIN POINTED
OUT TO THE SECRETARY WHY HIS EFFORTS
SPAIN ITSELF AS BADLY OFF AS CUBA.
[pY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIPuNE.]
| Washington May 3.-One Of Caleb Cushing's
dispatches to the State Department, written III
the latter days Of his service as United states
Minister to Madrid. may be Of interest at TINS
time Secretary Fish and Mr.. Cushing hao
been carving on an important correspondence
relating to Cuban affairs the duty OF spain
to institute reforms. and the great interest
Of this country in having peace restored 70 the
island. Mr.. Cushings dispatch was Written oii
June II, 1876 A short time before this MT
Fish had spoken despondently OF the SITUATION
Mr.. Gushing said:
VIII you permit me to make some OBSERVATIONS
OF consolatory tendency In reference 10 the non
success Of your earnest efforts TO amehora'e 'e oo
dition Of things in Cuba:
You encounter, In the first place. the indispo-
sition Of either party TO the contest IN Cuoa 10
listen to the counses Of wisdom and friehdsh'p' II
Is the very predicament described by late writer
in the following words:
'There cOn1unctureS III niStory ia ""'S" 80
soning and the attempt at persuasion fail. Where
opposition is irreconcilabe. where each party Is
striving heart and soul for an object when ne
other looks upon as ruin and gnomny 70 I'M ,nsG s'ln
there can be no arbtrament but force. Inc ruiet
must show his power to rule; the subject must
Is not this true? Is there any example IN history
In which rebelIions have yielded to reason,when
either the sovereign or the TsSeOus ro siTfe yn
after the one or the other party had oeeh VAN
quIsneu 49, ,-r,,ad States have nossessed parlia-
mentary institutions for more than three centuries
mot one only as might be @ nterre4 trGm fhn kns we
we are-mbued with all the Instincts OF order,
peace. and good government Now would We f,oo OF
abroad TO desist from the effort TO put down seces-
sion by force Of arms? Would our nsurgent fellow ,o
down their arms by any promises. assurances, or
even concrete acts on the part Of the Government
Again going back to our own instruction against
eHen c
the colonies have influenced us to make peace!
ali ali sGn@ Saa4sT Great and sFan
combined forces. Of The United States France
With enlightened zeal You have labored thank.
lessly for the peace and welfare OF cuba ana ana % OF
eRc all the good c you desire is only because
have had to encounter impedlments Of moral impos-
s'Dy IN the m as second Place my Residence in Spain
enabled me TO appreciate the true cause ana t ehar ar
erned equally incapable of reeeying good govern l,n,
50 often said. whether YOU call them & peninsulars
Or And r.. 0sps u se q ns
or Pennsuar which constitute the population OF
Now has there been maadmnstraton in Cuba7
So there has been In Spain herself. Have there
sseRns soea Of to~ns 81 military eXeeutons depoaon
embargo Of private property. banishments suspect
mes things hay: Been sSs SSSSjns ;Sns
civfy hiit al
despotsm The few periods Of comparative. but
OF shs das nss s s'ys@ icy sens se
Of two great Sn sSd s Sok
back Know new as to the hslcyon days spain Since
the It. Ct ogssn lisa lsaeess Is 9sg bns
not not only only been civil in Spain. but, sInuItaneous
sD each Of Of nd
herent stability, and every one OF which subssted
6 s Kes Who @ as
he ~ Is, the only snd sln
to the constitution OF the country; And yet. con-
sttutionally honest as he was. his ministers be;
on him , on a Bright m"ot evening in one Of the
most freouented and brilliantly lighted streets OF
Possibly II Prim had not been assasslnated IN the
y been hsy ARC o moi se yet sa4 on
misery the Cantohal Insnrrection but that Is
ba are snSf eondons Ss o e %
manifested alike In Spain and In all Spanish Ameri-
Governed ali same in race. and With defects aggra-
waited the latter by tropical life and by association
with slaves. are at least equally to blame for the
calanites Of Cuba.
In fne looking at the subject from the point Of
alone is OF account in the face Of civil contes;
where both parties deaf to the counses OF
friendship and to considerations Of sympathy and
humanity, 1t seems to me that we have much to
lose and nothing to gain by compromising our
selves In the matter Of Cuba, 1t being super
abundanty evident that. whether as to Lopez and
his companions aboring professedy to betray their
country to a foreign nation for the promotion OF
slavery. in the case OF Aldama and his associates
laboring 70 betray II the same Nation for the
qualification Of personal resentment and ambition.
they all have but thought respects us.
namely to make q catspaw OF our Government,
while ready to emulate. the earliest possible op
portunty the Sublime ingrattude" Of Schwartz
enberg.