The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-24

We publish a brief telegraphic dispatch, explain
atory Of the Of offence for which our Govern
ment has refused to hold further communication
with the French Minister, NJ Poussin. We have
added fuller paragraph or two, from the Plea
yune's dispatch Of yesterday which purporls to
be the substance Of an editorial article in the Ma
tionaL Intellgeneer and Of SEINE official eorrespon-
denee 10 The Washington Republic.
Presuming on the accuracy of this report the
words of M. Poussin are extremely offensive, such
as 40 Government could tolerate with dignity or
self-respect For words of similar import, Mr..
Madison in 1902, within the first year Of his ad.
ministration refused to have any official intercourse
with Mr.. jackson, the British Minister, and the
latter was consequently recalled by his own Gov.
eminent, without remonstfance or complaint to ours
Some reference to the particulars of that case
may not be uninteTesting, inasmuch as the offence
for which DIR. Madison sent off Mr. Jackson con-
sisted in an mputation upon the sincerity Of the
diplomacy of the preceding Administration, in
which Mr.. Madison had been Secretary Of State
Great Britain had disayowed The Erskine arrange
ment, and recalled Mr. Erskine. la his place she
sent Mr.. Francis J. Jackson, often known by the
name of Copenhagen jackson, from his oonnec.
lion with the celebrated affair at that Capital
Mr.. Jackson, in iuslfying the disavowal by his
Government of the treaty negotiated by its agent,
referred to dispatches containing instructions to Mr..
Erskine, which he said we're within the knowl-
edge of this Government, which showed that Mr..
Erskine exceeded his powers. He was warned
against repeating the insinuadOn, but in a second
letter he renewed the assertion, argumenlatively,
upon wbichtthe Secretary of State, Mr.. Robert
Smith, of the State of Maryland gave him i'm
mediate netce Of a suspension of intercourse with
IL ~ Il Al
for a while the channel Of formal communication
between the two Governments, but with no diplo
matte powers. The difficulty occurred in Novem-
Der, 1909. In January, Mr. Pinckney, then Ameri-
can Ministerin London, laid the facts before the
British Ministry, with request that Mr. jackson
be recalled Lord Wellesley, then Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, in his answer complained thatthe
usual course had not been pursued of making COM
plant to the Government of Great Britain; that
explanations might have been offered and season.
able redress given and stated that Mr. Jackson
had forwarded the most positive assurance that he
had not meant to give offence to the Govern.
ment of the United States. He nevertheless, in
=" attention TO the wishes and sentiments" Of the
United States directed the immediate recall Of Mr..
Jackson-adding however, that the Government
Of Great Britain would not mark the conduct OF
~ go WIN any expression ol uis pl5dsllle3 az
heapPeared to be innocent Of the offence imputed
10 him.
There Is this much of a parallel in this case
and that of M Poussin, that both Governments
declined to censure the act complained of IN their
diplomatic agents. In both instances the sym.
pathies OF our own people are with their Govern
meht Every admins ration will be sustained. in
exacting from foreign agents, the most implicit and
punerlious respect, in all their relations with us.
We 60 farther Than some, and are willing to COZ
cede something 20 like sensibiities of others.
Therefore We did not join in the howl of resent.
ment raised not long since against the Spanish
authorities Of Cuba, beFause they treated it as al
indignity TO be summoned 10 answer for an afro
ci0us crime, on the evidence Of newspaper para
graph, filled with the most violent denunoiatlon
against them as proved criminals.