The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-30
MIR. soULE AND HIS cALUMNIAToRs.

MR. SOULE AND HIS CALUMNIATOkS.
We have hitherto RETAINED from noticing the recent
exceedingly scurrous attacks against the American
lister at the Court Of Spain based upon certain inerenta
charges preferred by leading journal of Madrid as wen
as Inv the correspondents of several London and Paris
newspapers 1t is seldom that have noticed misrepre
o,,a,;ons of a more studied and malicious character
They afford significant evidence of the light in which Eng
land and Frapcethe two totering trembling seleonst-
tinted guardians of the liberty and civilization of the nine
tenth cenuryare disposed to regard men OF enargeu
views and liberal sentiments and
longcontemplaed visit the Pyrenees has been convert
ed into an gnominous fight while the wel-known DEM
ocratic sentiments which distinguished minister mas
never hesated to promuge and defend all proper oc
casions have been the for charging him with pehg
concerned in plots against the government to which he
accredited II was even asserted that during the late
republican enee in the streets of Madrid Mr. soue was
the barricades and that his money was ee us
tbuted among the insurgents strengthen their pockets
if their faith in the revolutionary movement IN "hich
they were engaged We have the of ascertain
ing with any degree of precision the cost OF reVouons III
Eprone MS we on this side of the Atlantic have only in
duged in luxury of the kind and at time when the
money currency of the world enhancngly dis
urbed by golden discoveries but we cannot beeVe 'ha
even if minister had appropriated an entire years sal
airy for the benefit of the fighting patriots would nave
enabled the Spanish republicans to overthrow their gov
eminent and change dynasty which had taken root since
the great of the succession
iswith feeling almost bordering o. Humiliation that
we state that the English and continental journals were
not alone manufacturing and circulating these very silly
but still very mischevous stories INSCRIPTIONS presses III
this country many of which conducted by persons
who claim exclusive possession of all the American feeling
which soil has produced, or can produce, have not
hesaed to adopt endorse and disseminate the alsehoods
of the foreign forgers accompanied by such comments in
regard Mr. Soult and the administration as their unre
lentng hostility to the democratic party would naturally
suggest They could not wait to hear from their absent
and distinguished feow-citizen they could not even
wait until their foreign nstgators had fully made out
adorned and embelshed their supposed Of Amer-
can demagogism interference, poltroonery, and flight
Int with praises of the infamous Queen Christina on
their lips and audatons of that conservative spirit which
is now armng half of Europe flowing freely from
every pen they assail Mr. Soule with the ridicule OF
folly and with vuperatveness of spirit which nothing,
save total want of regard for national honor, dignity
and respect can account for One paper, published in
New York. in the height of its malicious absurdy went
so far as to lay claim to the mantle of prophecy by repub
fishing an editorial literally studded with predictions
Those predictions have been fulfilled according to the
counts which have appeared in the journals already al
mded to- but unfortunately for the honors of prophecy
claimed by the New York editor, the English press will
not stick the story which they first told pausbly as
it was nut together The advices from Europe inform
us that the London Post totally acqus Mr. Soule of al
completely in the late disturbances at Madrid and in
other column will be found brief pointed letter from Mr.
Soul6 himself addressed to the editor of the Diaro Epa
MOL which entirely relieves him from suspicion
the imputatons attached his departure from Madrid b,
his calumniators at home and abroad
The accusation made against Mr.. Sout, of intriguing
with ncendiary democrats against the government o
SPAIN comes with i'll grace from the ministerial organ
of France and England. French intrigue made imbc
Gle the husband of Queen Isabella and Orleans Prime
the husband Of her sister; while French counenance
aid were given all the infamous acts of the Queer
mother. 1t through English influence that Queer
Christina escaped from the punishment due her crimes
and while the correspondents of the London Times
Justify against the republican proselytizing proclives
the American minister Lord Howden uses Espartero il
moulding the new government according to the pecua
| institutions and interests of his country If MI
Soue had been less honest in his political convictions il
in his intercourse with high officials he had forgotten tina
he was the representative of great principle well a
a great nation and if, for example he had adopted tn
despotic views and acknowledgement and dear
cherished they areof the Paris correspondent of tn
Washington Latelligencer suspect that he would be
warmly commended he is bitterly assailcd by tn
enemies of freedom on both sides of the Atlantic.