The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-04-15

from our minister to Spain of the 26th ultimo.
| contained the statement that the Spanish mi1s
! lister for foreign affairs assured him positively
/ that SPAN Will do all that the highest honor
! and justice requires in the matter of the Maine:
| The reply above referred TO on the 3lst ultimo.
| also conta ned an expression of the readiness of
| Spain to submit to an arbitration all the diff
! ferences which can arise in this matter
| which is subsequently explained by the note of
| the Spanish minister at Washington of the 10th
| s.As to the question of fact which springs
! from the diversity of views between the report
| of the American and Spanish boards, Spain
! proposes that the rAct be ascertaihed by an i'm
| sion Spain accepts in advance" To this l have
President Grant Quoted.
| President Grant. in 1875, after discussing the
| phases of the contest as it then appeared and
Its hopeless and apparent Indefinite prolonga-
| tiOn, said:
In such event am of the opinion that
other nations will be compelled to assume the
| responsibility which deVOlYeS upon them and
to seriously consider the only remaining meas
| ureS possible, mediation and intervention.
| Owing, perhaps, to the large. aexpanse of water
| separating the island from the penin-
sulai the eOntending parties appear
! depository of common confidence to suggest
| wisdom when passion and excitement have
| their sway, and assume the part of peacemalxer.
In this view, in the earlier days of the contest
! the good offices of the United States as a medi-
aQV
selfish purpose, in the interest Of humanity and
| in sincere friendship for both parties. These
! were declined by Spain with the declaration,
nevertheless, that at q future time they would
/ be Indispensable: No intimation has been re-
| ceived that in the opinion of Spain that that
! time has arrived.
dread horrors and all its injury to the interests
| of the United States and other nations. Each
! party seems quite capable of working great in
! jury and damage to the other, Us well as to all
the relations and interests dependent on the ex-
| fstence of peace in the island; but they seem
! incapable OF reaching any adjustment, and both
have thus far failed of achieving any success
| whereby one party shall possess and control
the island to the exclusion of the other
Under the circumstances the agency of others
either.by mediation or by Intervention, seems to
be the only alternative which must sooner or
strife
CIeveland's Last Message Quoted.
In the last annual message of my immediate
predecessor, during the pending struggle, it was
said:
when the inability of Spain to deal success
fully with the insurrection has become mani
fest, and it is demonstrated that her sovereignty
Is extinct in Cuba for all purposes OF
lawful existence, and when hopeless
struggle for its re-establishment has
degenerated into a strife which means nothing
more than the useless sacrifice of human life
and the utter destruction Of the very subject
matter OF the conflict a condition will have
been produced in which our obligations to the
sovereignty of Spain will be superseded by
higher obligations which we can hardly hesi-
tate to recognize and discharge"
The December Message Reverted To.
In my annual message to congress, in Decem-
Der last speaking to this question, said:
The near future Will demonstrate whether
the indispensable condition of righteous peace,
Just alike to the CubanS an dtO Spain, as well as
equitable to all our interests so intimately IN
Volved in the welfare OF Cuba, is likely to be
attained If not, the eXigency of further and
other action by the United States will re-
main to be taken. When that time comes, that
action Will be determined in the line of indiS-
putable right and duty. 1t Will be faced, with
oDll2atIon TINS government owes to itself, to
the people who have cOntded to it the prOtec-
tton Of their interests and honor, and to hu-
manity.
Sure of the right, keeping free from all Of
fense ourselves, actuated only by upright and
patriotic considerations, moved neither
by passion nor selfishness, the govern
ment Will continue its watChful care
over the rights and property of American citi-
Zens and will abate none of its efforts to bring
about by peaceful agencies 4 pea which shall
be honorable and enduring. If it shall here
cations to ourselves to civilization and hu-
manity to intervene with force, it shall be
without fault on our part and only because the
necessity for such action Will be so clear as to
command the support and approval of the civil
lied world"
Spain's Efforts Have Proved Futile.
The long trial has proved that the object for
which Spain has waged the war not be at
tained. The fire Of InsurrectiOn may fame or
may shoulder with varying seasons, but it has
not been, and it Is plain that ii can not be, eX-
tinguished by present methods The only hope
of relief and repOSe from condition which can
not longer be endured is the enforced paCitica-
tiOn of Cuba In the name of humanity in the
name of civilization, in behalf of endangered
American interests, which give US the right and
the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba
must stop.
In view of these facts and these considera-
tiOnS, 1 ask the congress to authorize and en-
power the president to take measures to secure
a full termination of hoStilitieS between the
government of Spain and the people of Cuba,
and to secure IN the island the establish
ment OF a stable government capa-
bic of obtaining order and Observ-
ing its international obligations, inSuring
peace and tranquility and the security of its
citizens as well as our own, and to use the
naval and military forces of tue United States
as may be necessary, for these purposes and in
the interest of humanity, ana TO aid in pre-
serving the lives of the starving peo-
distribution of food and supplies
be continued and that an apprOpria-
tion be made out of the public treasury to sup
plemeut the charity of our citizens. The issue
is now with the congress. It is solemn re-
spOnSibility. 1 have exhausted every effort to
relieve the intolerable condition of affairs
every obligation imposed on me by the consti-
tuition and law, l await your action.
Spain's Armistice Decree.
Yesterday, and since the preparation Of the
foregoing message, official information was re-
ceiVed by that the latest decree by the
queen regent of Spain directs Gen. Blanco in
order to prepare and facilitate peace, to pro-
claim suspension of hostilitieS, the de-
tails of which have not yet been
COIlluuulCdJeu 70 me 10lS IdcG WIN
every other pertinent consideration,
will am sure, have your just and careful at
tentiOn in the solemn deliberations upon which
you are about TO enter. II this measure at
tainS successful result, then our aspirations
a Christian, peace-loVing people will be re-
allied. If it fails it will be only another justi-
tcatiOn of our contemplated action.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
Executive Mansion. April IL.
The Last to Leave.
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