Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-07-10

against Mr.. Champion, and the concession n, ~,
Central America question involved in the ,, I'M
ingness to entertain offer of arbitration VII,
has heretofore been snmariy rejected. the III
rnissal If an ambassador could still be- rep.rdaa
in no other than hostile aspect. were it no, Gu
the weight of the facts and arguments bea,;a'.
upon the official conduct of Mr. Champion him.aS,
in this affair.
..For ourselves. while cxcnlpating,as Mr. H.
cy does in his letter, own Government F..
the charge of intending to violate the L. sta,'
law we have all along felt that 1t was imp,ss;tts
10 answer for what the acts of an individual Off
al in a complicated and distant transaction Mil,
have been. II appears from Mr.. Marcy's lpSn,tcL
that Mr. Champion has not been wholly f,nltlos1
that he certainly seems to have taken an ao,;,.a
part in proceedings which were pronounced ;l,o
aaI by the United States Courts;and wbat i In
more unfortunate, persisted in CONTINUING tn,
proceedings even after this decision ayaio..
them"
The Times. in Subsequent articles, goes mora
fully into a discussion of Mr.. Crampton's c,nr.a
and ofhis general competency ASA diplomatist
and comes tn the conclusion that he was not &,
for the place which he occupied in this Country
In an article on the subject of the inefliciency
of the English diplomatic service generally which
ineificency the Times says is glaring and noto
rious--The following references il made To NJ
Champions i'll luck in the United States:
"What picture has Mr.. Champion drawn Of
himself! Two mighty nations are on the eve of
quarrel, perhaps of q war Neither will re-
cede step. Each confronts the other with in
vincible pride and the world trembles for the re
suit sudden thought strikes an able and CON
cientious Minister. 'What if we refer the matter
to arhitration!" No sooner said than done;a dps
patch is written and the offer made; but the des
patch might as we'll have been unwrtten andtb
| offer unmade, for Mr.. Champion cannot take the
trouble to read the despatch through to the end
|. "Some he reads and some he skips," as they saw
at school; but unfortunately, that which he skps
is the last expedient, except his own disgrace,hat
| remained for preserving two continents and two
oceans the scourge of an internecine war
| Take another instance We wish to. recruit
| in America without infringing her law: all that
was needed was publicity; at least, all that could
be done with safety or propriety; and our
| diplomatst contrves matters SO i'll that as it
now appears, the distribution of money for the
purposes of enlistment is actually traced to his
| hands j"
The Times regards the nomination of Mr.. Bu.
chanan for President as demonstration against
the "anti- English adherents of Mr.. Pierce" and
| says:
| 1--WE venture 10 regard as an indication of less
pronounced hostility the demon>trative prefer
they have given to the civil diplomatist over
the martial aud bellicose President. =
| Although this selection is not indeed, so ndica-
tive of pacific and inohensive policy as could
be desired, it Mt all events prove that the whole
people of the United States not inspired by
! that hatred of Great Britain which animated the
counsels of Mr.. Pierce and his cabinet. OF the
two men proposed for their selection they aie
! better plea sed with the clrverness of Buchanan
! than the open hostility 1T Pierce. Buchanan
has done the Britsher; Pierce would eat him
bones and all"