THE

UNITED STATES AND SPAIN:

A SERIES OF LECTURES, SPEECHES, EDITORIAL ARTICLES,

AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS, ON THE POSITION

ASSUMED BY THE REPUBLIC OF CHILI

IN THE PENDING WAR WITH

SPAIN.

CONSIDERED UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE

PRESENT FOREIGN POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES,

BY

DANIEL J. HUNTER.

NEW YORK:

PRINTED BY S. HALLET, No. 60 FULTON STREET.

1866.

PREFACE.

Several publications have been lately made in Washington and New York upon the actual war between Chili and Spain. But as most of these papers are official documents, interesting only to a limited number of readers, we have considered it useful, for the more general in- · formation of the people, both in the United States and in England, to reprint from the daily journals some pieces of a more popular character.

We have, consequently, given preference for this purpose, to the lectures and addresses delivered on several occasions by Mr. Vicuña Mackenna, a public writer of Chili, and to some of his essays published in that country, and which bear directly on the political intercourse maintained by that country with the United States.

In accordance with this idea, we publish in this pamphlet the following papers :

I. A lecture delivered by Mr. Vicuña Mackenna at the TRAVELER'S CLUB OF NEW YORK, on the night of the 2d December, 1865, on the "Present Condition and Prospects of Chili," which gives a general idea of this country so little known abroad, and introduces in the proper place the pending conflict with Spain.

II. A letter addressed by Mr. Vicuña Mackenna, in his private character as a citizen of Chili, to the Editor of

the " Epoca," a leading journal of Madrid, and which was published, with some editorial comments, on the 2d December, 1865.

III. An address delivered by the same author at a public meeting in Panamá, held on the 9th of November last, and intended to explain the origin, character, and probable issue of that obnoxious question.

IV. The proceedings of a general mass meeting which took place in New York on the night of January 6, 1866, and was got up with a view to exhibit the sympathies of the American people for the South American Republics, and especially Chili.

V. A short description of a political banquet offered, on the 6th of December, to the Press of New York, and to the Spanish-American diplomatists residing in this city, together with some remarks made by Mr. Vicuña Mackenna at the monthly meeting of the Union League Club of New York, on the night of the 14th of December, on the Telegraphs of Chile; and lastly

VI. A short biography of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, written in Chili, with the purpose of exhibiting the feelings of the Chilean nation towards the United States in the hour of her most critical trials.

In the form of an Appendix, we publish some other ⚫ documents relating to the main subject of this pamphlet.