The Weekly Lancaster Gazette

Mr. Soule on the Purchase of Cuba.

The New York Times regards it as silly to suppose that Soule has been appointed Minister to Spain to facilitate the purchase of Cuba, as Mr. Soule is opposed to such a purchase. To prove this, the Times quotes from Mr. Soule's speech, of January last, as follows:

"Sir, I am against purchasing Cuba. Whoever knows anything of Castilian pride must be aware that Spaniards can never be brought to sell Cuba to us. And it seems to me strange that we should persist in seeking to purchase Cuba when Spain says she is unwilling to sell it—when her own Ministers have declared in the most solemn manner that they would sooner see that beautiful possession sunk into the bottom of the ocean than to see it go to any other power. Your tender of purchase, therefore, can effect nothing. No, sir, I have still another objection against purchasing Cuba. There is something there that speaks aloud for those suffering Cubanos who call upon us for assistance. They are proud and would not consent to this purchase. I am unwilling to move their susceptibilities; and thus, as far as a wish of mine can have any bearing upon any policy which might now or hereafter be pursued, the idea of purchasing Cuba has become an obsolete one and must be abandoned."