Luis de Onís y González-Vara

Luis de Onís González y Vara (* 1762 in Cantalapiedra, Salamanca, Spain, † 1827 in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish politician and diplomat. He was also the author of the famous Manifesto of Ceballo.

Career

Early years

Luis de Onís González y Vara was born in 1762 in Cantalapiedra, Salamanca Province, Spain. He studied at the University of Salamanca and entered the message service. He was a member of the Spanish Legation in Dresden, where his uncle José worked as an envoy. He remained some years in Dresden and married Friederike Mercklein Grell. His offices were those of the embassy secretary and commissioner for trade. During this time he traveled the courts of Berlin and Vienna as well as various destinations in Central Europe. In November 1792, he was transferred as " Oficial de la Primera Secretaría de Estado " in the state administration to Madrid, Spain.

Political action

Luis de Onís González y Vara worked until 1809 in the Spanish Ministry of State, as Napoleon Bonaparte invaded on the Iberian Peninsula again. The Supreme Junta of Cadiz thereupon appointed him Minister to the United States. The President of the United States, James Madison, Onís but refused to recognize the grounds that the Spanish crown was disputed. At that time, the American government did not want to speak out clearly in favor of one of the warring parties. Nevertheless Onís remained in the country where he was for his government from the great services. He maintained contact with Spanish America and forwarded to the governors, and commanders in those countries arrangements. After the return of Ferdinand VII in 1814 to Spain, Onis was in December 1815 finally in Washington, DC recognized. He then renewed the earlier protests against the American seizure of Pensacola.

Mobile, a part of Florida, as well as the accompanying expeditions to the self-employed from South America in Baltimore and other parts of the Union gave evasive and opinions contained in the available further complications gave no hope for recovery of Florida. He did his utmost to achieve an advantageous treaty for the cession of the territory to the United States in exchange for the abandonment of American claims against a severance package and the fixing of the boundary between Louisiana and Texas.

At that time he negotiated with the then Secretary of State and later President John Quincy Adams Adams - Onís the Treaty, to the February 22, 1819 in Washington, DC was completed. In the Treaty, Spain ceded Florida to the United States, but renounced the United States on claims regarding Texas west of the revised boundary at the Sabine River. In addition, the further boundary of New Spain was set up to and including the Rocky Mountains and west to the Pacific Ocean. In return, the United States took over all existing claims residents of transitioning to it 's territory against the Spanish crown up to a total of $ 5,000,000.

After conclusion of the contract Onís returned to Spain to promote the ratification of this treaty by his government, but this was delayed by the machinations at the court until 1821. Meanwhile Onis was the Spanish, general minister plenipotentiary ( ministro plenipotenciario ) in the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily and then appointed in England, whence he was recalled from 1823, when the absolute power of King Ferdinand was restored.

Luis de Onís, was known despite his loyalty to the monarch, for his liberal settings. Some historians attribute to his personal influence as well as his political connections that during his tenure in the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily the revolution broke out.

Luis de Onís González y Vara died 1827 in Madrid.

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Between 1810 and 1812 Onís published under the pseudonym " Versus" in the United States, satirical letters, in which he attacked the actions of the U.S. government to Spain. He also wrote the " Memorias sobre las Negociaciones entre España y los Estados Unidos de America, que el causaron tratado de 1819, una conteniendo estadistica del ultimo pais " (Madrid, 1820; English translation, with notes by Tobias Watkins, Baltimore, 1821).