Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-10-25

The DIPLOMATIC FLURRY-The N. Y. Journal of
Commerce. one of the earliest and most potent friends
of Tayl"r. the 10th inst. publishes long and very
ably written communication, which, the Journal
says reviews with much clearness and ability, the
correspondence between MIR. Clayton, the American
Secretary of Sate and nj. Poussin, the French Min
lister. recently published and comes to the conclusion
that the fault Of the rupture rests with the former
quite much the latter. He shows that the man.
in which tie complaints of the French Minister
were treated by Mr.. Clayton was calculated to irri-
tate rather than convince; that Mr.. Clayton misap-
pretended or evaded the precise points which the
French Minister wished to make; that those points
were well taken, and probably tennLe, &c.
The concluding paragraphs of the article which
would make four five columns in our paper are as
follows, aud the preceding facts and arguments nd
vanced by the writer, demonstrate that these conclu-
siOEs Just and true
at has been said at the beginning of this paper,
that Mr.. Clayton bad compromised tie dignityof the
government, and had left it in that If Mr..
Poussin had really insulted the American government,
it was the duty of MIR. Clayton to dismiss him at
once, and refer his conduct French gov
eminent. After the latter government had declined
to reprOve lis minister, Mr. Clayton declares This
government is the guardian Of its own honor" and
proceeds to dismiss M. Poussn. He should have
thought Of that before The remedy is now applied
late! When the conduct Of Mr.. Poussin de-
cared by Mr.. Clayton to be insulting, aud was there
upon referred TO The French government and not dis
approved by them, the act of Mr. Po1ssin became the
act of his government Henceforth it is affair be-
tween the principals, and the personal punishment of
the agent is insufficient redress. Yet Mr.. Clay
ton, adopting the uncourageous course of taking
geance upon Mr. Poussin, expresses to Mr. Toque-
vile sentiments of reiterated and elaborate concila
Al zl-.:, IL
ernmenis Mr.. Clayton may possibly suppose that
the imputa'ions of MIR. Toqueville against the
tesy of the American part of the correspondence
Mr.. TOcquevIle's I" recrlmlnations," he terms
them-are paid off by the round Seeding which he
gives him in his letter of September 8; but the act
done aud the altitude assumed by the French govern
men, in sustaining MIR. Poussin in what the Ameri-
government had declared they considered in
sultlng to hem not only remain unresenied. but have
been met with the demonstrations Of fawning cour-
tesy.
II may be added also, that both the subjects of
correspondence between MIR. Clayton and Mr.. Poussin,
still stand open aud unsettled Mr.. Clayton never
replied to Mr. Pou>slns letter of April 1S on the
subject of Mr.. Ports claim He had rested the whole
defence against that claim upon the ground of the
claimants fra I'D and that ground, every candid mind
will admit, is entirely swept away by Mr.. Ponssin.
When the subject is renewed, government cannot
keep its ground with success, cOncede IL with Dig
nifty. In regard the affair of Commander Clrpen-
der, when that correspondence is opened and Mr..
Clayton is made for the first time TO understand the
case, bow he either stand still, go forward, or
go backward, go on either side of the impossible
position into which he has stumbled! Whatever
opinion the unbiased reader of the correspondence
may form other points. or about other persons,
there remsin no doubt in his mldd of Mr.. Clay
tons total incapacity, point Of intelligence and tenn
per- to conduct ach Propriety The diplomatic relations
Of the United States"