New York Tribune, New-York, Wednesday, December 22, 1869 ""Our Spanish Relations""---Origins of the Spanish American War

New York, NY: The Weekly Tribune, 1869. 48 x 64 cm. This whole paper is filled with spicy, tart commentary. Lengthy story furnished by member of the Cuban Junta�Secretary of State Hamilton Fish proposes good offices of the United States to effect settlement of civil war in Cuba. Captured Confederate Ram Atlanta, renamed Triumph, has been ostensibly purchased by Hayti (Haiti), but maybe by Cuban insurrectionists in order to attack Spanish warships. Blistering exchange of letters in this issue between General Benjamin Butler and Publisher Horace Greeley takes up about five long columns of type. Butler is for stringing up the leaders of the recent Rebellion; he calls West Point graduates (like R.E. Lee) and members of Congress from the South who fought for the South, ""Traitors"". Greeley eloquently opposes that, and suggests that Butler may have sought to curry favor with prospective negro voters. Text of Lecture on Pisciculture (Fish-raising) by Prof. Louis Agassiz. Nearly a full page is devoted to the Opening Celebration for the Suez Canal, Port Said and its harbor, M. Ferdinand de Lesseps, and description of trip through the canal. Description of the Royal Procession: the Princess of Holland with cort�ge of Dutchmen in orange cockades; Archbishops, Moslem Tokkes and Ulemas, Khedive, Pashas, the Empress of France, the Emperor of Austria, Crown Prince of Prussia; many tongue-in-cheek remarks by correspondent, ""G.W.S."". Comment on phenomenon of female lecturers, focusing on Miss (Anna) Dickinson. ""She thought of her subjects, but did not think them out."" Newspaper, pages uncut, very good. . Catalogs: Civil War/History.