Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-10-20
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be classed the efforts OF Kossuth and his co.
laboCng refugees in England, TO make very
great public man out of Mr. Geo. Sanders, ex-
Consul to London, whose chief practical
achievements, az far as the public have the
means of knowing, are the excellent dinners
| lie is credited with giving, from time to time,
| to those parties who seem SO bent on putting him
into political notoriety. With all due respect to
Mr.. Sanders, hing can be more ridioul as
| than their efforts to make him, as clever as he
is in the Southern sense of the term, a r,an 81
Importance in American public affairs, Kos
su'h is the regular London correspondent of
The New York Dalty Isnrss, and rarely writes
to that journal without embr acine in his letter
some puff of Mr.. Sanders, which reads ridicu-
ious 10 those who know that gentleman polit.
l'al anteeedents and position at horne. The
rest of the hoSsuth gang are evidently SINH
! larry engaged through the Columns of the En-
gish papers. Itlooks as though they must be
| encouraged in the work by MI S himself
from his late letter to the authorities of the
! Swiss Republic, volunteering to them his ad
wee with reference to their duty to the mes,
d refugees within their limits, who, for naanv
years past, have kept them in bot water h.,
'helr perSe'ering efforts to embroil Switzer-
| land with neighboring Governments. That
| memorable letter was written in a tone vb;oh
created in the minds OF those lin Eurone, who
| did not know better, tho tnomentarv ;mn-o.
SION that MIR. Sanders was acting for the
uoVernmano OF the United States, in thus vol.
unteerlng his advice to the Swiss Government
AS matter OF course, that advice was. that
| the half-crazy views of kossuth & Co. shonld
be carried OUT Indeed, the letter reads as
| though hoSsouth, or Louis Blanc, or some other
L the demented aud bejeviIed band had guided
the hand OF Mr.. Sanders in tracing it's sen-
tences. acts such as that made il The Inner.
alive duty Of the Senate of the United States
to reject the nomination of iir. Sanders, IN
1883 Wlliingt to have the United States enbroiied
| Ia the difficulties Of other Powers, by the un-
authorized ald i'm prudent int arferencs OF an
Officer VI our Government in matters wholly
foreign Q the legitimate duties he was son,
abroad TO discharge. In truth, his cour. as
consul at London was in fair keeping with the
course OF the Democratic Revieu. during the
short time 1t took him To smash that concern
UP py DIS violent assaults upon ali the time
hoAorsd fathers OF the Democratic party. 1t
will be remembered, by-the-by, that the late
thomas Dssin REILLY was the real author of
the esratlc papers, by publishing and thus
tailoring which Mr. Sanders SO soon de-
ssroyed the Rerlsw. Except the letter to the
Swiss Governments, and the equally mata7,
ropoS letter to the New York Herald, over hi.
own name, wherein he dictated the propor
course of the Government of the United States
with reference to the future iabors of Kossutb
i Co, the appearance of which }orcsd the
TO Senate to decree his supersedure from the
LoldUn consulship, Dir. Sanders is wholly.
unknown to fame as q political writer.
We are isduced to make this plain state
ment of facts by ths appearance of the follow
ing par agraphs, in a recent letter to the New
York ItM' S, from Kossuth S imrudent pen
MIR. Sanders thinks OF going home On the
list OF November. He is preparing to take q
very active part in the struggles of the day,
and II Is Lot unlikely that those who con-
trived TO deprive him Of his pos, in London
Will have reasons to repent the success of
their contIvance Without entering into the
line of policy to ue embraced by our late
Consul, l nave great pleasure and the test a~-
th0rtty for stating the following:
Europe has proved the touchstone of
American Democracy among eur dipIomats
iriop IL,
ders 20 associate him, Is Is still done. with
Judge Douglas, at least since the latter Wis tied
LONDON, where he could not find kossuth, and
St Petersburg where the Gar found him
Sanders has be as faithful to Democracy In
Europe 81 1t home, while the Judge, who was
III great measure supported by Sanders on
account OF his then apparently warm devotion
10 the liberia! Gauge OF Europe, proved, on
trial, only Cottman the FRS, in his flexible
admiration ofthe russian Emperor, so soon as
he had felt the Establishments OF d royal nod
sanders, the thorough American Republican,
cannot be the supporter Of the pro- Russian
Douglas
There is fun in this paragr aph-rich fun,
indeed. Why X. announces by authority
the intentions Of Mr. Sanders, as though they
are Of as much Importance to the future CT the
world. as an ukass of Nicholas or a decree of
Louis Napoleon, proolaimiDg the end Of the
Eastern war, would be, Judge Douglas must
be in bad way, poor fellow, to be thus un.
tremendously deserted by Mr. Sanders. Now,
in sober earnest, it strikes US thht if Mr. s.
had thus publicly washed his hands of the
Judge about three months before the meeting
of the last Baltimore National Democratic
Convention, carrying off with him all the
fshy and unkey Democrats notorious for seek
ing special favors at the hands Of Congress,
the Judge would have been the nominee of the
party" for the last presidential race. 1t is
we'll known to those behind the curtain, that
the evident determination of thar class of
politicians, most Of them fresh from the
Taylor ranks, to use him, if possible, to
carry through their schemes OH the Treas
ury, defeated his prospects. The econO
Inists of the party turned their backs On
him In the Convention only because these
parties insisted upon standing IN the front
rank of his supporters The judge and his