Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1859 — Effect of the President's Message in Cuba. [ARTICLE]

Effect of the President's Message in Cuba.

The Spaniards in Cuba are exceedingly indignant at the proposition of President l’uchan'an to purchase Cuba. Meetings were 'called itnrnediateJygupon the receipt of the j news, and resolutions passed expressing the utmost reg ird for the Spanish Government! - i abhorrance at the idea of being under the control of the United States. The papers are boiling over with indignation at the proposition. One of them exclaim-s: “Purchase the Island of Cuba! The Cabinet of Washington well knows that there is ! nobody to sell jt, trtid there is not money •sufficient tp pay for it. This was the thought i of the Spaniards and those .the sentiments ! of all the sons of this soil from the moment thot, for the first time, this idea lootrted in the tendencies of the politics of the North. Therefore, when a minister of the crown i declared in the midst of the national repre- j sentatives, on an occasion similar to the I present, that selling the Island of Cuba ' would be equal to selling the honor of Spain, ' those words found tin echo in all parts of the 1 monarchy as the unanimous cryofall Spainhearts, and from that moment they were re- i garded as the clearest and most precise ex- ■ pression of the answer to be given when- ] ever such an absurd project should be renewed.”