The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-02

he find this in other papersl Does ne state
all this on the "authority of Wing paperse'
1t is evidently original information, and
the Union has been employed as the mouth
piece of the French legation, to appeal in
M. PoUssIy's behalf from the decision OF
President TAYLOR, on the ground that he
has always been friend Of the institutions
of the United States.
Again, did the Union find the following
passage, which we copy from the same
editorial which furnishes our last extract,
in WING paper, or is il original with the
| foreign organ!
" But say that the reason assigned for the dis-
missai Of M. Poussin is too uiinportant to produce
such result, and indicates that there is something
| more important behind the curtain, which caused
| : the action of the Administration"
That is to say, it was not enough that
M. PoUssIH should have written as he did
write to Mr.. CLAYTON, for the PRESIDENT
to have given him permission to withdraw.
The PRESIDENT shol Id have submitted to
the indignity. The foreign organ thinks
this matter of insulting language ''unim-
portant." Here he takes the French ground
again in the same paper:
"And without reference to the subsequent per-
| sonal controversy with the French minister, we
cannot see that Mr.. Clayton gave even respect
full consideration to the complaint of the French
| government. He failed to any legal inves-
gaton of the facts of the case, which his duty to
| his own Government and to naval service i'm
| perativey required him TO make. proper cour-
| tesy to France also required that the complaint
should not be dismissed without even an investi
| CATION
Here we have M. PoUssIN's sentiments,
and nearly his language. 1t would seem
really that the French minister had writ
ten the article with his own pen; other
| wise il is difficult to account for the para.
lelism in the ideas and words. The Union
alludes to Mr.. CLAYToN's "duty to our
naval service;;" M. PoUssIN speaks of his
duty to s'the dignity of your (our) national
| marne.'' In the same article the Union
talks of what Mr. CLAYTON would have
done, chad he appreciated the dignity OF
our naval marine" This is M. PoUssIN's
insulting language over again. The more
we look into this matter, the more likely
| it seems that the entire leading article in
| the Union of the 29th is from the pen Of
M. PoUsslN. Once more we copy from
the same article:
| "Mr Clayton might have taken the ground in
the first instance that he would not entertain
demand to censure naval officer, unless that de-
mand was accompanied by evidence proving that
the officer complained of had been guilty of i'm
| proper conduct. Had he appreciated the dignity
of our naval marine, he pretends now to appre-
ciate it, he would have taken that ground But
he did entertain the complaint of the French gov
eminent without evidence; and he furnished proof
from the files of the Navy Department that the
| French ship Eugene was detained by Commander
Carpenter, of the United States steamer Iris;
: while he virtually refused to discuss with the
French minister the right of a salvor to detain
vessel saved as security for salvage, without re-
sorting to an admiralty court of competent juris-
dicton This refusal ,De cannot think presented o,u
ocn government in Favorable attitude to the ,cord
nor did it treat the complaint Of the French govern
uent ,cith decent courtesy"
Here is the French ground over again
the ground OF M. PoUssIN and of M. DE
TooaUEvILLE; and yet the Union affects tc
deny that it is the organ of the French le
CATION and the French government. What
more could we have from French organ
II eulogizes M. PoUssIN-endorses him
as a sincere and distressed friend-con-
dennis the reason of his dismissal as :" IN
mportant"-denies that Mr.. CLAYTON
deported himself in a manner consistent
with the "dignity of our naval marine,
and alleges that our Government failed tc
treat sthe complaint of the French gou,
eminent Nth decent courtesy" Our Gov
eminent is all wrong, and M. PoUssIN il
all right We have treated, by the Union''
showing, in a manner inconsistent swift
the dignity of our naval marine," anc
without "decent courtesy" "sincert
friend of the United States"-and have
then dismissed him for reasons altogether
unimportant! If the Union is not the or
gan of the French in this matter, whose
organ is it ! 49,
We cannot be surprised, however, al
he denial of the Union. After convictins
it of two fibs of Sunday morning-stupic
fbs, too-it would be too much to expect
it to speak truth of weekday.
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