Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Part 2
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Part 2
United States. Dept. of State
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The undersigned does not hesitate to cite in confirmation of his opinion the diplomatic history of all nations, feeling assured that in analogous cases all have acted iu accordaoce with tnis principle ; and that no other can exist for governments which, like that of Spain, have the mission of always leaving in the most honorable position the name of a great country. The undersigned viewing the base of the proposition which the diplomatic corps resident in Santiago has been plea^ to address him ...in a different manner — nor being permitteu to do otherwise by the instructions of his government, his regret in not being ' able to accept that proposition is likewise natural, founding (his declination) in that the nature of the offences committed against Spain by Chili might, perhaps, have admitted arbitration before arriving at a rupture, but hostilities once commenced, that is to say, a country having once undertaken to defend its honor, it is not allowable for its chiefs to transfer this sacred right to another, without, for this reason, ceasing to appreciate at their full value and to feel grate- ful for the good offices tendered with that object There exists, moreover, in the case of Spain and Chili, the fact that the government of ber Catholic Majesty, even before the occurrence of a rupture between both countries, considerrii it a duty not to accept thd mediation of a friend as sincere as respected ; and this circaui* stance, as the public ministers to whom he has the honor to address himself will comprehend, is also of the greatest weight in imped^g the undersigned to accept their own — above «U« Digitized by VjOOQIC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE.
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