The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-22
Tue quhia ay gaole Euesday zorung neeember o.
npresident Andrew jackson in his TEX

as message of December /, 1886, said:
"1n the preamble to the resolution o.
| the house of representatives, 1t is dis
| dinotly minated that the expediency o.
recognizing the independence of Tex
as should be left to the decision of con
| gress. In this view, on the ground o.
| expedienecy, I am disposed to concur
| and do not, therefore, consider 1t neces
| Sary TO express any opinion as to the
strict constitutional right of the execu-
| tive, either apart from, or in conjunc.
| ton with, the senate. over the subject. II
| is 10 be presumed that on no future Oc-
cdsIon will dispute arise. as none has
heretofore occurred. between the execu-
| tive and the legislative, on the exercise
Of the power of recognition 1t will al
ways be considered consistent with the
| spirit of the constitution and most safe,
/ that il should be exercised, when prob
ably leading TO war, with a previous I'M
Outstanding with that body by whom
war alone can be declared. and by whom
all the provisions for sustaining its per-
is must be furnished. It's submission to
congress, which represents in one Of It's
branches the states of this union and,
in the other, the people of the United
States, where there may be reasonable
ground TO apprehend so grave conse-
qUence. would certainly afford the full
est satisfaction to our own country and
a perfect guarantee to all other nations,
of the justice and prudence of the mea-
sure which might be adopted
FOLLOWED BY TAYLOR.
The initiative thus asserted by con-
gress and conceded by President Jack
sen to congress in the case of the Iecoe-
1itiol Of Texas was f0:ioNni III The cas-:
of Hungary of President Taylor, which
his GIANT IN invite tho -rav0lll-
tionary government of Hungary to send
to the United States a diplomatic repre-
sentative. since the pTesiden. entertain
cd III d3;.;-t thai, IN such case, al ne LeEf
meeting of congress, her iniepen 1ence
would be speedily recognized by that en-
lghtenel body
Until now, no further question has
been raised in regard to the powers Of
ongress.
THE cases Of Hayti and Santo Domin-
go are passed over as governed by pecu-
liar influences. In every instance, the
only question that has disturbed the in
tervening powers, the report continues,
has regarded neither the right nor the
policy so much as the time and mode
Of action.
''The only difference between Euro
pean and American practices was that
the United States aimed at the moderat-
ing or the restricting, the extreme license
of European intervention, and this was
the difference which brought the United
States nearly into collision with Europe
in 1861 and 1862.
Lords Paimerston and Russell. as we'll
as the Emperor Napoleon and his minis
tiers entertained no doubt of their right
TO intervene, even before our civil war
had actually commenced, and, according
w rppNorizQd los or toe hal
Hgerents in May, 1861, although no legal
question had yet been raised requiring
such decision. The United States gov
eminent never ceased to protest with the
utmost energy against the act as pre-
mature and unjust, and this last and
most case of interference, in which the
United States were concerned as an OBJ
Ject of European Intervention, revealed
the vital necessity of their American sys-
TEN, at the same time that it revealed
the imminent danger Of its destruction.
The report then gives the circumstance
under which the Southern Confederacy
was recognized, tracing in detail the dip |
lomatic correspondence.
COMING DOWN TO CUBA.
Under the sub-head of Cuba" the
report concludes as follows:
Into this American system, thus Gre
htNN bs -hOL4Ot, III lo----O, anu SUlDTdC- |
ing then, besides the United States. only |
Buenos Ayres, Colombia and Mexico, |
various other communities have since |!
and most cases have received, !
admission, until it now includes all South |
America except the Guianas; all Central |
claimed, and in most cases have received /
Honduras; and the two black REPUBLICS |
of Spanish Santo Domingo and Hayti in |
the Antilles.
No serious question was again raised |
With any European power in regard to
he Instruction or independence of their
American possessions, until, in 1869, a
'ebellion broke out in Cuba, and the in
after organizing government
md declaring their independence, claim
ID recognition from the United States
The government of the United States had
Always regarded Cuba within the sphere
II ats most active and serious interests.
AS EARLY AS 1925.
As early as 1925, when the newly recog-
lized states of Colombia and Mexico
we're supposed to be preparing an expe-
uticn 10 revolutionize Cuba and Porto
Rico, the United States government in
its friendly offices with those
governments TO request their forbear-
nee. The actual condition of Spain
eemed to make her retention of Cuba
impossible in which case the United
states would have been obliged, for her
wn safety, to prevent the island from
alling into the hands OF a stronger pow
r in Europe. That this emergency did
ot occur may have been partly due TO
he energy with which Monroe pronounc-
d our right and our power to prevent
:, and his determination TO use all the
leans within his competency, to guard
gain and defend it,
This right of intervention IN matters |
alating to the external relations of Cuba. |
sserted and exercised seventy years ago &
as been asserted and exercised at every {
risis in which the island has been in c
Owed.
INTERVENTION IN 1869.
when the Cuban insurgents in 1869
ppealed TO the United States for recog- .
ltion, President Grant admitted the JUS :
&c Of the claim and directed the minis :
II OF the United States al Madrid TO in :
'rpose our good offices with the Spanish
oernment in order TO obtain by a friend =
arrangement the independence of the /;
land. =
The story of that interention is familiar
every member of the senate, and was
ace the basis of its resolution last SEES =
on, requesting the president once more y
D interpose his friendly offices with the /
oanish government for the recognition ! z
the independence of Cuba y
The resolution then adopted by con-
'ess was perfectly understood to carry n
in it all the consequences which neces- 3
.rily would follow the rejection by Spain | =
friendly offices. On this point the stu. | a
ion needs no further comment. The 4
,tion taken by congress in the last ses- n
on was taken. 'on great consideration II
Id on just principles. on a right of in f
rvention exercised twenty-seven years Y
90. and after a patient delay unex- II
npled in history
CLEVELAND UOTED.
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