New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-14

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ted 10 return to the French coast expressly that
he should be driven thence with studied insult
and ispomipy. II was not enough that he should
be- nut 10 serious Inconvenience; he must be in
suited in the full view Of Europe, BY one Of those
acts of blended tyranny and mesnuess by which
the present master Of France proves bis kinship
TO Napoleon the Great This is case BY itself
for which we can scarcely remember parallel.
The Ersning Post takes 8 different view OF the
mAtser-as follows:
avs do not by any means agree with those who
are attempting to eIal this affair into an insult offered
by the French Government 30 that Of the United
S;stes Mr.. soule was no; in France in any official
cspscity; he was not accredited TO its Government
be did not in any manner represent country with
in ifs limits; in fsence be was simply an American
citizen. The stopping Of Mr. Soule at the frontier
was no more insult TO OUT uation than IL he bsd
been tire inventor OF q sewiug machine. who Wa TAX
irg il out 10 Paris to secure patent for It. Who u
this Mr. Soule about whom such big words are Ut
tered In Spain be ia the American Minister but in
France be is plain JonathaD, nothing more. IL eur
poor friend John Lands Pennsylvania born, who
claims TO wear the triple character Of post painter,
and prophet were TO be stopped at Calais, ard, for
some reason which the police did not choose to re-
veal prevented from entering France, would thai be
a naionsl insult worthy TO bring the pescefu rela,
,iops Of the two countries to close Ii We would
not take up the cause Of John Lands to man,hn II
to the last extremity, neither should we that oil MI
Soue. No aIistocrstieal distinctions should be made
in regerd 10 the rights OF Amecs citizens abroad.
Whether it be Mr.. Smith or Mr.. Soule who is thus
tire ated-a an American who is on journey to epatn,
where he happens to be the accredited Minister or an
Americ ~ who is in search Of work as journeynan
wstcbmhker-tbe case is the same. Ii frequently
hsppens that Americans are stopped by the police IN
European countries and turned back in their journey
with les reason probably than there was in the case
r n IL III mt hosa nm rhtf IN
be FIRST dispatched by our Government
"If Mr.. Seule had no other way OF proceeding to
Spain from LONDON but through France, the case
woulc be clta We would fight for the RICH!
Of way. But the Southampton steamers offer most
convenient method of reaching Spain without coming
10 sight Of France. The voyage is performed with
great dispatch and he might have had biz choice OF
dozen lsnoing places on he Spanish or Portuguese
coast What official necessity takes him into France,
that we should insist upon his going thither Have
we Mr. Mason at Paris, with regular credentials
We think The Post, on further consideration,
will modify its view of the affair. II there were
no ether way to Spain but through France, The
Post would fight for the right Of way" Then
there is such right, for The Post would not
fight for what it deemed an imaginary or pre-
tended right But in what possible case can there
be DO other way Of prOceedIng' Suppose it
we're Switzerland to which NJ. SOule was has
tening to resume bis Diplomatic functions, and
the despotsms which encompass her soil were to
combine to exclude him, might not Louis Ma
poleon, acting in their behalf say, 1--WE only
forbid your travelling over our roads; but you
"are perfectly welcome to seek your destination
sin balloon if you see fit" Would we be sat-
iifed with that alternative Should wei Sup
pose it were Thibet to which NJ. Soule was sent
as Envoy and Great Britain, Russia and China
were to tell him-"You are welcome to 60 thither
"by the Northwest passage around the north
lend Of America, but not otherwise would
that be civil Yet it is not impossible to reach
Tibet by that routes and if one nation may turn
the ENJOYS of another FIVE days journey out Of
their direct and desirable course, why not FIVE
hundred If it may doom him to needless sea
sickness in the Bay of Biscay why not to win
ter in the Arctic circle
We cannot assent to The Posts position with
reference to NJ. SOule, that sin France he is
"plain mountaineering more" lie bears
abundant credentials showing that, in France or
wherever he may be, he is person charged with
important functions by the Government Of the
United States. Perhaps he is not the fttest msn
to be so charged; but that is our businessmen
BonapaIte's. Perhaps he is not where, as pub
lie servant he ought to be; but that also is our af
fair, and we will not trouble the French Emperor
to attend TO it. 1t sufiices for the present that
be was Fastening to Madrid when an arbitrary
edict from the Tuileres stopped and turned him
back For aught that Louis Napoleon knows or
legitimately can know, it may be of immense i'm
pOrtance to our Government that be should reach
his destination in the shortest possible time. BY
what right is he made to wait the pleasures and
endure the niults of a monarch of whom he asks
only to be let aloue' If any of our citizens have
been abused, let their cases be duly attended to;
but here our Government is the Sufferer, and is
huniliated in the eyes of all Europe. May itp1ove
Itself equal to the emergency.