The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-18
FROM our 0WN eoRREsPoNDENT.

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Because worthy tiend Beverley Tucker ate din
ner la hoaarl Of the we'll Known Iiycgpool chaEits
THE Frends OF Foreigners in Distress at liz last De
oember meeting and because la his speech on that
oasion he did not tell the assemblage that he the
most accomplished the wises aud most learned Of
siis, the New York Tribune OF yesterday devotes
than ooamn Of it, precious space to sarcastic expoai
ton Of fuckers complete unitness for the place Of Uni
ted States consul 1t Iyepoo aud OF tic inyarable habit
OF the 'pso slavery democmcy never 70 put the light
man IN the right place 1t may be true that Beverley
fuckers principal fault- indeed il can be esteemed
mnlt-s excessive modesty am prepared 70 agree with
the Tribune that he most materially underrRted his ca
paoty and requirements at the above mentioned dinner
and that Ia 50 grave speech he Tbunes report proves
that lt was very solemn and formal oraton he ought
TO have mastered his ruling detect sufficiently have made
some aiusion TO his power "to whip all creation, or
at all events, to his conviction that he was about the
martest commercial of his country that
the worthy burghers OF Liverpool had the felicity 20
behold The Tribune's report Of Mr.. fuckers speech
shows that ii was received with Cheers " daughter"
renewed laughter, roas of laughter and other
signs Of marked appreciation and mrtlt but the Til
bunc editor says that sit undoubtedly left upon The
minds OF the practical English of business feeling
OF establishments II might do with propriety, 4
should express strong doubts whether 1t left any such
feeling on the minds Of the said practical English men Of
business - fs f,or - s5ses 4siT - = 80, se8s1
Although an essentially modest, retiring man al
ways believed that Beverly Fucker was popular and gem
orally esteemed as "the prince Of good fellows"
could not understand, therefore, why the Tribune
should assail him, or ruthlessly expose his only
falling, But as the pith of lady crossed and re-
crossed letter is contained in the postscript the
intent and object of the Tbunes article contained in The
closing paragraph quoted from the teegphc correspond
ence from Washington Of that Journal q Mr. Beverley
Tucker, our consul ut Liverpool is here seeking in
Of salary He does not propose to resign" This
is the head and front of his offending He does not
propose TO resign and has the audacy to ask for in
crease of salary happen to know something about the
Liverpool consulate, its expenses, and the utter INSULT
cheney of the salary. Nomnaly, the consul receives
81 n but reaV his familv in ~
the most expensive towns in England maintain the dig
nifty of his position and meet the thousand and calls
bis purse and hospitality made by the crowds of his
countrymen who visit Liverpool going to or returning
from Europehe has very little than SO, 900. The
act Of Congress of 1856 ho most stupid, ill-dgested
piece of legislation the satute-books) fixes the
salary of tho present consul at 81 500, which is
less than half Of what his predecessors received;
provides that he shall return all fees to the United
States government; that he shall not engage in any
trade business aud forbids him to receive the
seany remuneration paid newspaper correspondent,
by distinctly providing that he shall correspond with
any newspaper periodical His compensation shall
be ST 800 and not cent more. But does he receive
this sum He positively does not He obliged to pay
his clerks salaries, which amount to 81 600 year The
immense business of the Office requires the consul to
poy five clerks and messenger and he is compelled to
pay them the above amount, which, compared with
salaries here in Washington for the quality Of
clerks it will be easily is exceedingly moderate
Mr. Tucker is the first Incumbent Of the Office since the
reduction by the act of 1856. Mr. Hawthorne resigned
because OF the insuticiency Of tho compensation un-
der the proposed reduction therefore Mr. Tucker is
the first who tested the practical working of the
new consular law. i by means astonislled
that after fifteen months experience, Mr. Tucker should
lind that he needs increase of salary to enable him to
live Any who knows the expenses of living in Iv
epool has any adequate idea Of the duties
and numberless charges which consul in Liverpool
has to bear viii think ii very natural that he should be
unable to i've commercial representative in the
greatest commercial port in the Old World ought to live,
900 year 1t is but fair and just not to speak of
national dignity and good government that ponsnls
should be adequately paid that the clerks should be
paid by the government in whose service they labor or
rather out of the funds which their service has earned
for the government and that the consul should receive,
4 free from ali deductions. the scanty allowance 70 t
! - ue,leye InaL this is all
that Mr. TUCKER asks He does not want any ..increase
of his salary, but he simply demands TO be paid the
81 500 which the act of 1856 generously awards the Uni
ted States consul at Liverpool Although Beverley Tucker
! Is "yifgnia gentleman" the Tribune will not deny
that he entitled to his hire like any other laborer and
that not only Is it not generous but it is not honest
require that out of his salary he should pay the entire
pense of the government service of the consulate Let
the Tribune grant the fairness of this plain position aud
will almost undertake that Mr.. Tucker, at the next
dinner of the Friends of Foreigners in Distress will be
less dident to his capacity and win elbow little
than he did the occasion which the Tribune ortiz
czed so severely. a ADsUM,
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