Letter

Cushing to Hamilton Fish, June 29, 1875

No. 538. Mr. Cushing to Mr. Fish.

No. 431.]

Sir: We are, according to all appearances, on the eve of interesting events, military and political, of which report will be transmitted in due time.

A decree of this date, ordering the retaliatory confiscation of the property of Carlists, is annexed in copy and translation, as one of the indications of a new stage in the war between the government of Spain and its rebellious provinces.

I call attention to the circumstance that, in the prefatory exposition, the minister of gohernacion cites and relies upon the example of the United States.

I have, &c.,

C. CUSHING.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.