The Paris Constitutional publishes the following in a letter from its Madrid correspondent:
“The great drama now in progress in the United States of America, is the text of all conversations in the political circles of Madrid. The opinion is, that two countries, England and Spain, are specially interested in the revolution in the Western Republic. In a commercial point of view, American events will affect the interests of England more than those of any other nation; but in a political point of view, Spain is the country which a radical change in the social and political conditions of the American people, and the eventualities flowing out from such a change, concern the most. The Anglo-Saxon race, settled upon the soil discovered by Columbus and conquered by Spaniards, increases in a threatening ratio, and holds Damocles’ sword not only over the West Indies, but also over all the American countries where the language of Cervantes is spoken.
The troubles now threatening the existence of the American Union are not subjects of grief to the people of Spain. Her political integrity, her interest of race, of religion, and her policy, require that a stop be put to the progress of this swelling population; if it were proper to be pleased with other people’s misfortunes, Spain would, perhaps, have reason to rejoice at what is happening on the other side of the ocean. Meanwhile the Spanish Government intends to watch closely the Spanish provinces of America, not that they are now exposed to any risk whatever, but because a Government must look to future events even when they are still far distant”
Weekly Standard, Raleigh, NC