Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-10-06
Some Interesting Facts Cath.
cred From History by the
Citizens Correspondent
why CUBA WASN'T TAKR
BFORE OUR CIVIL WAR
Contest OF North and South over
Slave Territory too Strong
For American Patriotism.
Special Corroapondonco.

Washington. ID. c., September IS
Cuba is the finest OF ~ the possess
sions Spain planted IN the western
hemisphere. Containing with contigu
Gus isles. above $4,000 square miles
IN area. Il Is the sentinel that stands
guard over the Gulf of Mexico. 10 has |
great variety Of soil and much versa
tility of climate. In mineral reauurc- |
o. q Is richly endowed. and they are |
yot almost virgin The forests are |
abundant In valuable woods and cA /
tonsivo IN area There Is mo- other
,erritory on the globe u like extent !
capable of more enormous production |
nut the republic we have set up
down there. Instead of raising sugar.
tobacco. indigo troplc fruits and gar
den vegetables. which can be produC-
ed IN prolific abundance: instead Of
getting the limitloaa wealth out OF
the mine and gathering the enormous
wealth of the forest, must needs pro-
coed 90 raise that he'll that. among
the peoples OF Latin America ~
thought patriotism, aud that sirang-
ers call revolution Thus Cuba o. H.
he else than Cuba was under Snain.
The present insurrection viii be pat
down. doubtless, but lt viii not stay
put down. and by and by the United
States viii WEAR of Il and step In
and take charge That Is what q Is
coming 10.
We have the Plat amendment, the
invention OF a Connecticut senator
And what Is the Plat amendment
Nothing IA the world but the "Ostend
manifesto" what was the "Ostend
manlfesto?" Nothing in the world
bat manifest destiny" as they called
ii then. and % was "a rather good name
for e. And thus time works its mir
nclos The "Ostond manifesto mas
Quorading In the garb of the "plait
amendment" o. become the law OF
the land and the settled policy of the
party OF Abraham Lincoln. Charles
sumner William PITT Fossendcn SAL
mon =. Chase. Joshua r. Giddings,
Thaddeus stevens. Gerrlt smi,h and
John Brown.
The story of the OHend manifesto
rs one OF the most entertaining chap
tors IN our history. This was q re-
public then, not D uati0u-inr from
the empire % has become. This was
people just In the stage of Adde'S
cence. and short of its oxuliant and
eNuberant young manhood What was
called the slave power" had long re-
solved 20 annex Cuba, and the Young
America Of whom stephen A. Doug
las was a. lol. WAS red-hut for H.,
and TO that end flllbuster expeditions
had been set on foot The Little CT
ant" had Cuba IN his mind when he
made the eloquent npustruphe 90 "tho
ocean bound republic The south
coveted Cuba 10 balance the rapidly
accruing political power of the anti
slavery north. and but for tho fact
that In the earlier COS the only time
In centuries Spain had a wise ruler.
/ the spanish war would have come
when Franklin Pierce was PRESIDENT
instead OF being deferred until VIII
Ham Mckinley was president Tn this
we see The hand Of destiny now APP
parent 20 all the world
Pierce was president. aud the south
made him president Buchanan Naa
minister 10 England. John y Mason
WIS minister 10 France aud Pierre
sOule was minister to Spain. Bu-
chanan went 90 England hocnuae he
had abandoned hope of the proalden-
cyl and yet that venture made him
president. four years later Mason
was Sent To- France TO give "a promin-
ems man job He was hre old
man, a baron Hradwardinc q Squire
Weatorn and set of very considerable
native capacity 4 thorough Amer
lcan. be- was "a Thorough democrat
with little "a" and a thorough dem-
ucraf with a big ID" in che senate
ho had held MS own. in Che cabinet
be was efficient a downright old
/ Virginia gentleman from skin 90 mnr-
row, Old Tom hontOa said Dec was
never quite happy unless bis belll
WIS fun of oysters and whisky, hil
mouth iuu OF tobacco and his hand.
fun of cards. As "a free American
citizen the Hon. Mason was delight
fnl; as @ diplomat Of tho Talleyrnnd.
Meitefnich school he was simply im.
possible
Soule was one OF the most brilliant
men OF that epoch OF brilliant men
a native of France, romantic tradi-
zion had b thar be was natural Hof
OF the great Napoleon. and possibly
% grew out OF the fact that there wa,
) marked physical resemblance bet woef
the two. ln feature. az least Soul,
Was an orator oi eloquonce and a de
natter of force. and had o. wonderful
command OF The English tongue. Al
a lawyer he WIS IN the front rank. ~
nn advocate De rlyalo1 Frouilaa him'
self Az o practical statesman bis won.
J ldcriul speech on our merchant ma.
. rlno made when ho was senator from
Louisiana. is evidence
whether be was appointed Tor the
purpose or not. soulo went 90 dpaiI
~ make a war. and h ho had met win
a Woyler, 0r tho traditional spanisl
minister ho would have succeeded
Fate was his ally and fixed the thln'
io bis purpose An American ahiI
had hoen fired on BY a Spanish cruis
or The ueuai way 0i settling auCl
matter according 90 Spanish GUS
tom. was diplomatic correspond
, once. covering a poirod Of twelve
~ 1ntha and after numborleas dla
patches had been exchanged. thei
/ apology was given, aui 81 any pecu
nlayy indemnity was oEGcted
That was TOO tedious work fO
Pierre Huulr Sac demanded lmmndI