Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-01-07
The Recall of Lord Napier.

IatINe thereto nave ODldiuCu SdhASHSJ
only to be controverted. Whether the
following letter on this subject will meet
with the same fate, remains 20 be seen.
1t is at any rate very interesting docu-
ment, and, if correct in its statements,
most important one, also. The AdOertis-
er, from which we copy it, says the writ
err is in a position to know whereof he
speaks:
LONDON, 10th December, 1858.
The sudden recall of a British minis
ter is an event of so rare occurrence
that it cannot pass without its motives
being fully canvassed. That of Lord
Napier has attracted much attention here,
in diplomatic and parliamentary circles.
When its cause and its consequences are
fully understood in the United States, it
will be a source of real qualification to
every lover of the American Union, and
to every true lover of mankind; for it
removes all doubt as to the position which
the British government intends 70 hold
towards the friends of disunion and the
extenders of slavery in the United
States.
1t is necessary, in order to understand
the position of things, to 60 back some
fourteen years, to the days of Mr.. CAL
houn. At that time the plan Of dis
solution of the Union, and the formation
Of a great slave-holding power, was pre-
scented here by friends of Mr.. Calhoun,
and some words then attributed TO Lord
Aberdeen-perhaps incautiously uttered
by him-aresupposed to have given rise
to the hopes of British sympathy, in
d which Southern polititions have so fire.
e. quently INDUCED.
At various times these projects have
N been broachedt to members Of the British
m governments, and especially in 1851
- when strong deputation of Southern
S disunionists was in London, seeking TO
v aid and comfort from Great Britain. A
~ that time Mr.. Abbott Lawrence wa
n American minister, and enjoyed to al
TO unusual degree the confidence of tn
IN British ministers. The projects of tn
IL disunionists, presented to Lord Palmers
IS ton, then Secretary for Foreign Affair
I'm were by him brought to the knowledg
ny of Mr.. Lawrence, and the Southern en-
bassy, disheartened by the GOODNESS whic
e its disunion scheme encountered-an
!, also by the fate Of the Lopez expeditio
nc to Cuba-returned discomftted to til
!" United States.
ze' These schemes were not however abal
,eu doned, and various attempts have bee
no made here to win favor for them Will
ier the men interested in them have sougl
'0u to produce the beliefin the United Stat,
that the sentiment of hostility to the e
at tension of slavery, so dear to the popul
vas heart of Great Britain, was not share
eu' by the government. During the Ia
{ winter Mr.. Mason of Virginia, on t
8X- floor of the Senate, stated as a fact tn
the British government had changed
r. opinion on this great question. An
= thing said in SO grave body as the I'm
ed States Senate attracts attention, thou!
probably not much importance wol
have been attached to the declaration
49, Mr.. Mason, had it not been for the kno,
intimacy between him and Lord Nap
An early occasion was taken by the Br
ish government to contradict the ass
lions of Mr.. Mason the Duke of Arg
e.. declaring that he was instructed by
e Majesty's ministers so to do.
Il VI Since then British travellers, returni
> from the United States, have spoken W
'g ;, much feeling of the language and cou
'''"' of Lord Napier at Westinghouse t
""" adoption by him, in speaking of the
w publicans, Of the low slang of the Sou
''- ern members-and Of the almost off
i'''- sive manner in which he made him
'J'' the gratuitous advocate of the Lecon
l'''0 ton Constitution, and necessarily the
cry fore, the upholder of the fraud and ,
81 lence in which it was conceived. 7
IL last fact has caused deep, and belle
DIES universal regret, and has led in b
cite quarters, to expressions even of I'M
ling. nation.
two Lord Napier has found able friend
dis sustain him 10 his course, they assert
ID of that he has only followed the popr
and current and taken the strong side.
,g.- the one, all-controlling policy of the p
the ent American government, is that of 5
,hicb cry extension, and that as a mini,
ltted. seeking to maintain friendly relat
with that government, it was exped
man in him to aatter that policy.
Ten, To this the reply has been; that it
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