Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-04-02
SENATOR HALE ON
CUBAN RESOLUTIONS.
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the United States wait and allow 1t to go
on? That very question was put to the
United States over and over again by the
diplomatists of England and France dur
ing the years Of our war for the sup
preston of the rebellion, and there, Mr..
President, was he real danger line which
the great men who stood at the head OF
our affairs always dreaded. There was no
end to the men that raised; our credit
was ilimitB BILE; our commanders dis
closed and developed tactics and mastery
of strategy in the battlefield that entitled
them to rank with Frederick and Wei
lington and Napoleon; in all these we
had no lack; but the weak point all OF
the time was the danger of foreign in
tervention to recognize the independence
of the Southern coniederacy upon the
ground that 4 condition OF warfare ex-
isted, and that it was the duty of the
United States to suppress the rebellion;
and that, if it did not, these powers
would interfere.
Early and late-I have the volume Of
correspondence here, and it is most in
teresting to read-the foreign offices at
Paris and at London, whenever any re-
verse attended our arms, at once asked
the question which the senator from
Ohio has asked me, whether the news
which had come by telegraph across the
ocean did not disclose a condition OF
obdurate, unconquerable resistance, and
whether the United States was prepared
to sag when 1t would suppress the re-
bellion. This burden, Mr.. President, was
what rested most heavily upon the heads
of those who were at the front OF our
affairs at that time. 1t was this danger
which gave that added stoop to the tall
form of Abraham Lincoln; it was this
that caused the optimism of Seward TO
take on sadder turn than il ever had
before; it was this danger and the vlglis
depending upon it that broke down the
lion hearted Stanton and left him
wreck when peace came; 1t was the
anxiety lest foreign powers, asking the
same question the senator from Ohio has
asked me, would interfere, and the
answer is found in the dispatches that
Secretary Seward sent to the French
foreign office and to the British foreign
office.
/ am not talking about beiligerency
now; am talking about what the sena-
tor suggested by his question, OF the
danger in 1s61-1s65 that foreign powers
would interfere further; and they asked
the same question. The dispatches sent
from the foreign office at Paris through
Lord John Russell and the communlca-
tons with Lord Lyons and Sir Frederick
Bruce and those of the French office TO
its minister here, are full to teeming with
the statements that the war was being so
prolonged and had continued SO many
years, as the senator says about this out
break, that humanity called upon the
European powers to further recognize the
independence OF the confederacy.
What was the answer? 1t is found in
this volume [exhibiting]; it is found in
more than one place; and it amounts to
simply this: The answer that Secretary
Seward made is the answer that | now
make to the senator from Ohio. Mr.. Sc
ward said The United States is en-
gagged i'll he herculeau task OF attempt
ing to suppress the greatest rebellion in
the history of man; It Is able to do 1t. y
But he said further to our minister in
Paris, Mr.. Dayton, and our minister IN
London, Charles Francis Adams: ~ de-
sire you IN the most respectful manner
to communicate TO the foreign once 'n'7
attitude OF the American government
upon this question ne hl'eu states
VIII suppress the fepeiIloh' pu' II mus
do ii III liz own way he he'hou uhaeF
which 1t shall be done must De selected
by us, and no matter what complications
may arise, no matter "ha' dangers may
environ Us from further complications
with foreign powers no io1elgh power
Will he allowed 70 interfere win the