Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-15
HISTORY REFUTES HAY
Isthmian Position LiIaened to that OF the
Confederacy


,race6ent and parallel directly appli'
cession, rebellion and civil war.
if is needless to say, Secretary Hay
did not quote in his attempted apollo
ev for the high=handed action OF the
Tinted States at the isthmus, are to
be fo,1nd in the archives of this gov
ernment covering the period OF Sc
cession. rebellion and civil war.
How completely President Roosevelt
has reversed the attitude Of his Re
nublican predecessors in 1851 is
shown by the records cited below.
which will soon be made the subject
of discussion in congress.
Beginning with the secession OF
South Carolina on December O 1850
by February /, 1861, seven states nal
seeded from the union, either by III.
rect vote of their people or through
their respective legislatures.
February 4, 1861, six of those states
had organized a government called
''The Confederate States OF Moth
America
February IS. 1861. Ja"erson DAVIS
was inaugurated presidcn, of the new
government, which within few days
was in full operation.
Position Stronger r:1sn Parama's.
From that time until May 10. 1861,
when England issued her prcclana'
ton of neutrality. recognizing the Sc.
ceded states as belligerents (but not
as a nation), the so-called Confeder
ate government was acknowledged aud
obeyed by all the people throughout
those six states, and had ,akcn pos
session of all the pubic btu linss
property, arsenals, forts and every
thing belonging to the United States,
Will liC CA1CPtiOli vi - " 'N' iA'
Its flag hoated everywhere. in pace oe
the stars and stripes.
The secretary of state. NJ. So ya~d,
in his instructions to our new minister
to England, Charles Francis Adams,
under date of April 10. 1861. presented
OF uth bn
land should net recognize the Confed
crate states as a government
Gist Of Seward's Argument.
Among other things he said: I'VE
freely admit that a nation may ami
even ought to recognize a new state,
which has absolutely and beyond
question effected it's Independence
and permanently established it's SOY
ereignty, and that a recognition in
such case affords no just cause OF
otfense to the government of the
country from which the new state has
~ UCctlAHCN lloCil Vii lilC OtllCI iidiitl
we insist that nation that recog-
niZes a revolutionary state with a
view to aid its effecting its sovereign
ty and independence. commits a great
wrong against the nation whose in
tearity is thus invaded and makes it
Golf II lo
redress.
He further said that the disunion-
lists will appeal not to the justice
or to the magnanimity, but to the stu
pidity and caprice of Great Britain.
To recognize the independ-
ehce OF a new state and so favor, pos
sibly determine, it's admission into the
family of nations, is the highest pos
sible exercise of sovereign power, be-
cause it affects in any case the well
fare f two nations, and often the
peace of the world. Senr in
.ie light III tnlS principle, the several
nations of the earth constitute one
great federal republic. When one of
them casts its suffrages for the adj
mission of new member into that
republic it ought to act under a pro-
found sense of moral obligation and
be governed by considerations as
pure, disinterested and elevated as
the general interest of society and
the advancement of human nature"
The action of the English govern
ment up to May 13, 1861, had been
confined to the queens proclamation
of neutrality, which recognized
state uyar