Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-07-03

administration OF the United Star may oe
accused Of snbmissiveness in transactions
| will, the British Consider some recent
particulars--the official letter from Mr..
FPinkuey 70 the marquis Wellesley, under
| date Of tt,e2d Of Jam. 1910, and the same
Mr.. Pinkaey's diplomatic exhibition, at the
|SomervilIe show of sheep about the begin
ming Of March, withshe answer Of theA1 18th
Iof March from the marquis, as followed
Iby Mr.. Pinkney's acquiescing silence. I.
! Nor 10 the. accusation discountenanccd by
the fact Of president sMadison's approving
in Official form, the Legislative resolution
(called Mr.. CHESS which applauded the
presidents own conduct, and gave a so.
| iemnfaced pledge to stand byhimself, while
il discharged a mixture Of coarse invective
against one foreigner. The manner of that
resolution, indicates so little of the delicacy
of honorable principle, it is so different
tfronrevery thing which president Washing.
ton ever recommended, sora approved, that
you might BE led 70 infer the influence ola
submissive spirit, in some of the secret IN
struc:iops to Mr.. Pinknry, if it were clear.
ly ascsrtained that the cabinet sent him'-in-
structions of different sorts with reference
10 the same affair some public--sones Sc
cret. Instructions as published here Tbe-
fore crossing the Atlantic, might be scxhi-
bited for stage effect on the american thee
atre, where some temporary applause could
be obtained for the ,adri1inistrat ton, if APP
pearing upon stills, and seeming tor ethe
moment to assumed post of Mars.
To be staggering at home, and tosbe
sneaking abroad, are different notifications
of characteristic littleness.
Of the foreign contempt fer executive
proceedings and staggerings and recedings,
we want 40 stronger proof, than'the neglect
of the French government to return any
answer whatever to official communications
of gen. Armstrong in the year 1903, the
peremptory dogmatism Of Champagny's
note, dated at Altenburg in 1909, and the
dicta:oria combination of absurdiy and>in-
suit, in the note from the same Champagny
as duke OF Galore in 1910, together with
various British publications in, addition 10
the date and tenor Of the answer TO Mr..
Pinkney's letter of the Cd Of January.
That letter of Mr.. Pinkney gives evidence
of other instructions beside those com.
municated to Congress, at the session which
commenced on the fourth Monday Of Mo-
vember, 1909: For on some of the parti-
culars, he speaks of being instructed in
terms. which are not found in any of ,lle
state papers laid before Congress. From
that correspondence viewed in cornexion
with the1show Of British sheep, and Amc.
rican diplomacy, you car Judge Of the sub
tic manner that might be employed inc.
Britain, while the official strut could be as.
sumed in the US.
And is it now for encomiasts of the adj.
mIDistratlon, to be whining before the pub
lie, about the want of respectful attentions
from foreign powers The spirit of Wash
ington@no longer presides in the govern :.
ment.
Let not the 6aay Of Congress be con.
de'nned forshe Deficiencies q tie cabinet! ).
. Whose duty was tito attend especially
to our foreign concerns, and to recommend
systematic measures for legislative consi.
derat'on! II strong partisa1s, and weak
politicians in Congress, were habitualIy dis
posed to wait tor an executive nod to de
termine their votes, was it to be expected
that they would propose any system of mea-
sures instead of The executive! The phr. J
nomer1on would implya reversal Of scharac-
ters.
A different course, indeed, from what
has been actually witnessed, might have
been for the welfare ofthe public, but would
not have been according to the POLITICAL
fashion Of the day. The state of our 70.
reign relations, might have been communi-
Gated, and the measures Judged necessary.
or expedient, might have been recon- aopnd,