The daily union., 1854-11-16
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND MR. SOULE.-OPIN-
IONS OF THE PRESS.


IONS OF THE PRESS.
With the view of enabling our readers form correct
estimate public judgment conveyed through the me-
dum of press in regard to the action of the Emperor
Napoleon towards Mr. Soule continue extracts, as
will be seen from the prominent journals published
in the Union.
From the New York Tribune
sThe right Of government declare the presence oil
particular agent another dstastefu ana re-
quest other person be accredited IN his seaa m
questionable 1t may be exercised wanony anu
bat this does not invsdae the right SARDINIA aeeea
receive Forest as Genoa and we while deeply
the result acquesced in the principle asserted
So Mr. CLAYTON home NJ Poussin the minister hrst nc
credited to Washington by the French republic oi le4o
and though think our Secretary OF state not nave
done this had the Maine law been at the time in full force at
Washington vet France quietly submitted to the exclusion
and sent minister instead of NJ Poussn II LOUIS
Napoleon notify government that the presence
General Paris disagreeable to him, ana not
likely to promote good understanding between the TWO
we should expect President to withdraw
Mr. NJ and send new minister in his stead without hesita
tion offence.
Rut the case of NJ Soue at all like these lie is
not accredited at the French court and that court has
been nowse asked to approve OF his appointment lie Is
simply of these United States of the highest
grade known laws who in the discharge OF his duty
to his own wishes pass through France and
abruptly refused the privilege OF SO doing by Louis Napo
act every appearance Of studied insult The French
er knew perfectly well that NJ Soule would naturally pass
through France his from England to Spain ana might
have notified his minister at London to withhold ms
vsf and privately tell NJ. Soule that the Emperor de-
cned to admit him again into France Then our ambassa
dor might taken English steamship for the coast OF
Span avoided the appearance OF rebuff and insult But
NJ Soue was permitted to return TO the French coast ex
presy that be should be driven thence with studied insult
and gnomny 1t not enough that he should be put to
serious he must be nsued in the full view
Of Europe by Of those acts of blended tyranny and mean
ness by which the master OF France proves ms
ship Napoleon the great Thsis case by ITSELF Tor which
we can scarcely remember parallel
The Evening Post takes different view of the matter, as
folows
"We do not by any Means agree with those who at
tempting to exalt this affair into insult offered BY the
French to the United States Mr. Soule
was not in France in any official capacity he was not ac
credited to its he did not in any manner repre-
an American citizen The stopping Of Mr. Soue the from
tier no insult to nation than he had been
Paris to secure patent Who this Mr.. sonle about
whom big words utered In Spain he is the Amer
1ar If our po, friend John kands
born, who claims to wear the triple character Of poet
.aa did NOT
vented from entering France would that bs national insult
worthy to bring the relation, o. ne ~o ob
dis to maintain it the last extremity neither should
that Of Mr. Soue No aristocrscal distinctions should De
Whether i bc Mr. smith Of Mr. Soue who is thus treated
an American who i journey to SPAIN where be happens
to be the accredited minister American who is in
search work journeymlp watchmakerthe case is the
1t frequently happens That Americans are stopped BY
the police in European countries and turned PACK in their
Journey with less probably than there was in the
case Of Mr. soue strikes that these cases ought to be
first despatched by our government
"sf Mr. Soue had other way of proceeding to Spain
from London through France the would be clear
We 1ud ss d
Spain without coming in sight OF France The voyage Is
performed with great despatch and he might have had his
guese What official necessity takes him into France,
Mr. Mason at Paris, with regular credentalsY
awe think the Post upon further consideration will modify
its view Of the affair." If there other way to Spain
but through France the Post would fight for the right OF
way Then, there such right for the Post would not
fight for what il deemed imaginary pretended right.
But in what possible there be other way of pro-
ceeding? Suppose it Switzerland to which NJ Soue
was fastening his diplomatic functions and the
despoms which encompass her soil to combine
cude him might Louis Napoleon acting in their behalf
say I'VE only forbid your travelling over our roads but
YOU are psrecty welcome to seek your destination in bal
LOOM if you sec al Would be satisfied with that alter
native? Should we? suppose 1t were Thibet to which NJ
Soue envoy, and Grert Britain, Russia and
China were tell him. You welcome 10 60 thther by
the Northwest passage around the north end of America but
not othersse would that be civil? Yet is not mpos-
sble to reach Thibet by that route and nation may
turn the ENJOYS of another FIVE days journey out of their d
rect desirable why not FIVE hundred? II it
doom him needless seasckness in the Bay OF scay why
not to a winter in the Arctic circle?
awe cannot the Posts position with reference
to NJ Soule that lin France he is plain
more lie bears abundant credentials, showing that in
France wherever be may be- he is charged with
important functions by the OF the United States
Perhaps is the test to be charged but that
business, not Bonapare Perhaps he not where
public servant he ought to be but that also is af
fair and will trouble the French Emperor to attend
to it, suces for the present that he fastening to
Madrid when arbitrary edic from the Tueries stopped
and turned him back For augh he Louis Napoleon knows
legitimaely know it may be OF ncse Importance
to our government that he should reach his destination in
the shortest possible time. BY what right is he made to
wait the pleasures and endure the insults of monarch OF
whom he asks only to be let alone II any of citizens
have been abused let their be duly attended to but
here our the sufferer and is humaed in tho
eyes all Europe May it prove itself equal to the
gency."
The following is copied from the Public Ledger of Phil
adepbi paper said have the largest circulation of
any ourna published on either side of the Atlantic The
Ledger is Independent ID politics, and numbers its daily
readers by hundreds Of thousands
"THE FREScH GOVERNMENT Mn. SouLE. The
French has taken the very extraordinary step Of
refusing allow Mr. Soule the American minister to Spain
pass through France his back from the conference
had with tie ether American ministers in Belgium The
London Times calls this unusual but not unwarrantablc
STEP but the American ministers to England and France
Buchanan and Mr. Mason consider IT both unusual and
unwarranabe and have formally demanded explanations of
the French for its strange and singular conduct
From tho of the article in the London Times it is ey
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