The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
CJBA---HER MANIFEST DESTINY
BY sAvOYARD

by the United States will weary of 1t ana step in and take charge. That Is
 what 1t Is coming to-
 We have the Platt amendment. the invention of a Connecticut. senator.
 Nothlnsn in the 'ns World a but shs ostend
 manifesto.. What was the "ostend
 manifesto7s Nothing in the world but then, and 1t was a rather good name l Tor it. And thus time works It's mira cles The "Ostend manifesto" mas
 amendment,a v is become the law of the
 of Abraham lincoln. Charles Sumner. | Chase. Joshua k. Glddings. Thaddeus
 Stevens. Gerrit Smith and John Brown. The story of the Ostend Manifesto
 ters in our history This was a repub- lie then, not a nation--far from the
 empire 1t is become. This was peo-
 and short of its exuitant ana exuber- ant young manhood. What was called the 'slaye power" had long resolved to of whom Stepnen A. Douglas was the 1 idol. was red hot for it, and to that end filibuster expeditions had been set on
 his mind when he made the eloquent apostrophe to "the ocean bound" re- public. The South coveted Cuba to
 power power of W the ra antisslavery ave- W North. Rdi and but for the fact that in the earlier
 ,50's--the only time in centuries-spain
 Moud hsys wse wbeh the pee
 ferred unfll william Mckinley was of destiny, now apparent to all the world.
 Pierce was President, and the South x.a<. 4x N. .tw-. fr..- -t A.-k Nl..-
 Minister T to England. John Y. Mason was Minister to France. and Pierre Soule was Minister to Spain. Buchanan doned hope of the Presidency and yet years later. Mason went to France to
 sn ae oid ma Baroi an Bfadwardins s0G @a
 siderable native capacity. A thorough
 AitS itie e Gss and n0fiSg togTouEh 1em ocrat with a big @D.S In the Senate he
 had held hts own, in the Cabinet he
 nia as nflsan frow sRn to oia Old Tom Benton said he was never quite happy unless his belly was full or whhisnsy S ana b oysters ms f1 mouth M rS
 As free American citizen the Hon.
 Mason was delightful; as diplomat of the and-Metternich school he was simply impossible.
 Soule was one of the most brilliant
 men of that epoch of brilliant men. A
 native of France, romantic tradition
 the great Napoleon, and possibly 1t
 grew out of the fact that there was q marked physical resemblance be- Soule was an orator of eloquence and a debater of force, and had wonder
 ful command. of the. English tongue. as an advocate he rivaled Prentfss
 himself, As a practical statesman, his
 wonderful speech on our merchant ma rine, made when he was Senator from
 -Iisiana, is evidence.
 Whether he was appointed for the purpose or not. Soule went to Spain 10 make war, and if he had met with Minister. he would have succeeded. to his. purpose. An American ship ha1 usual way of settiiHg Hisa such ' a matter, tns according to Spanish custom, was a diplomatic .correspondence, covering q numberless dispatches had been ex- changed, then apology was given, and, | if any, pecuniary indemnity was ex- acted.
 That was too tedious work for Pierre Soule He demanded immediate | and ample apology. on the instant. or | his passport. Weyler. as Ava of old. | would have followed. and Cuba would | have been ours. Not so the fine old | statesman then the ruler of Spain. He | sent the apology. l believe Soule had | a duel with some Spaniard about 1t, | or something else, while he was Min | ister. Later he bad duel of words | If he had been Minister to Franco. he | might have more nearly got his gov srnment into war for Cuba than ne
 But to get back to the Ostend Man lfesto. Buchanan, Mason and Soule me met ertaat, at os;ten1d 1;na1. the town made rm- laid to It more than two centuries ear Her. and sat on the case of Cuba. All the the,r chsncelIeries hSsS Of Europe ubbed Buchanan wrote the document, and 1t made. made him President of the United sary, in political sense, the United States would siege Cuoa, and if au- would annex Cuba. It was our North-that is, the anti slavery North was enraged. and at once created the Republican party, The subsequent ln- cision was not so virulent as the then wrath against the Ostend manifesto. If one would read as fine a specimen as the world of parliamentary politics can show. let him read the speech of John B. Thompson, of Kentucky, in the subject of Cuba.
 Time came on apace and the inci- dent of the battleship Maine was a more fragrant case than the one . Soule had to work on. That brought war, conquest, and the Platt amend nent. The result was free Cuba. Free Cuba is now revolutionary Cuba. Rev Cuba means annexation
 Here Is what 1t means-"Manifest Destiny" It is written: And 1t came to pass after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had vineyard which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace or Ahab."
 That settles it. How powerIess are men and nations in the grasp of Des- tiny!