Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1854-11-23

The French Emperor has takenthe very ex- |
traordinary step Of excluding in fact expell- |
ing, an American Minister PIenipotentiary
from the soil Of France! Mr.. Pierre Soals,
our minister to Spain, on landing last month |
ct Cslais on his way from England to Mad |
rid, found himself stopped by mandate
from Paris and turned back to England
again. Our minister ut Paris Gen. Mason,
Immediately demonstrated against this insult
in energetic terms, but to no purpose; mean.
while Mr.. Soule returned per force to Eng
land, and is still forbidden TO cross the French
territory on his way to the only place at
which his diplomatic functions can be dis
charged-and which BY the way he ought
not to have quilted.
Our habitual readers are quite aware that
we esteemed the the appointment Of Mr.. Soule
as minister to Madrid most un~ise one,
and that we have seen abundant reason since
to confirm our original impression. But
Mr.. Soule's faults, whatever their extent or
character, are not such as should snhject
him to discipline at the hand Of Napoleon Ill.
by the grace of Unreasonable perfdy and
scoundrelism Emperor Of the French. Mr..
Soule was never his subject though he was
formerly a Frenchman, which nationality he
has deliberately surrendered. He is now an
American citizen, and entitled to all the
rights Of American citizenship, in France as
elsewhere. The London Times, in assum-
ing that Louis Napoleon has right to deal
otherwise with him, than with native-bor
American, assumes what our government
can never concede without compromising the
personal rights of Three Millions Of our peo-
pie. This will not be done.
Let US not be misunderstood. We admit
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Government to determine what foreigners,
shall or shall not be admitted into France.
But if the French despot has right to ex-
clude, without reason that he is not asham-
ed to give, representative Of our govern
equally perfect, to withdraw our ambassador
from Paris, and request Napoleons emissary
here to take himself out of the United States
If the Emperor has a right to sdo what be
likes with his own,' our government has an
equa. right, on receiving fragrant insult, to
decline further intercourse with the author of
that insult. There surely is nothing in the
character or career Of Louis Napoleon which
should render familiarity with him partic-
ularly desirable.
The London Times has some true and some
not so opposite observations on Mr.. Soule's
conduct and bearing in Europe, and on the
folly OF our sending notorious Fillibuster
IS our Envoy to the Spanish Court. But
these afford no justification for the insult in
question; and it is not wise in an apologist
for Louis Napoleon to provoke "reminiscences.
For what has the French Emperor himself
been for the better part of his adult life, but
an adventurer, an agitator, and conspira-
tor. How came he to be emperor, but tbro'
a successful revolution first, and successful
usurpation afterward? Does 1t become the
champions of the hero Of the Boulogne and
Strasburg demonstrations to rcproaeh US with
sending an agtator to Europe? Shall the
defenders of that Louis Napoleon who was
known in this city, and still better in Lon
don, rebuke our functionaries, for keeping
loose political company 1t is not the busi-
ness OF French monarch to select associat es
for American ambassadors, nor does the fact
those associates, because they as conspirators
are as yet unsuccessful, authorize the lucky
and crowned conspirator to treat this coun-
try with marked inciyility.
We await with anxiety the response of
Gov. Marcy to this insult. We trust it will
evince equal dignity and spirit, and will
prove by its calmncss and obvious justice
that the attitude therein taken will be aban-
doned. We are not required to spill French
blood because Of this freak Of despot; but
until he shall have learned to treat our ma
tional representatives with comfy, it would
be well to relieve him wholly of their pres
ence. If he should thereupon see fit to add
commercial to diplomatic non-intercourse,
so much the bettcr.-N. Y. Tribune.