The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-08-21
MISCELLANEOUS.
From The London Mo'n;ng Chronicle 2lsf 1u'y'
,s,ne American Delegate and Lord
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mediateIv from thai t''ae.l lse
reasons here for INV corrSc, because, from what
saw, Judged that they would not bc worth
the paper on which the might be written.
reserved them, therefore, for my own Govern
mcnt. After waiting awhile to sec what com
ments the papers would make upon the open
ing scenes of the Congress, commenced my
dispatch to my Government; but a friend, i'll
whose opiuol:s have great confidence, said
he though Int ought to address the people here
in vindcaton OF myself Upon this intima-
ton flor it was rather an intirnation than conn
sell sat down and, amidst thousand doubts
and interruptions, wrote the snhoincd com
munication. | was just bringing it to close
for the press Yesterday (Ihursday), when | re-
ceivct the information that, at the opening 0.
the meeting on the day previous, Lord Brough-
am had explained his remarks at the first meet
ing, as would see in paper referred to, and
the information came with the request that |
would return to the Congress. | read the ex-
planation in that paper and two others. They
only differ in their reports of it, but they all
concur in making his lordship disavow any III
tention to show any disrespcct to the AmGri-
can Minister or the United States; and they
make him say that hc mere y meant to call to
notice an interesting or statistical fact, viz !:
that there was negro in the assembly.
Now, found myself in very ticklisl pre-
dicamcnt 1t was MT his lordship's remarks
so much as the reception they met with by all
my associates OF the Congress, that determined
me to leave it. The signs were infallil'lc that
in that body | could not be received rs an
equal, either in country or in character, while
the negro was received with open arms. They
understood his lordship as | did. All the pa
pers understood him in the sam: way, and
some of them glory in the exposure Of the
American Minister, and promise themselves
rich treat when the President shall discover in
what contempt his Minister is held here. All
this remains precisely as it did before his lord
ship's explanation. or course, therefore, cali
not return to them. They would receive me
courtcousIy no doubt-possblv, now, with
pIaudits hut why? Not from personal re-
spcrt to he or my country, but to avoid schi<m
in the Society-to preserve its popularity. !
am only three years removed from an English.
man q date from the birth ofmy Govcrnlncnt,)
and | have too much English spirit in me to
thrust myself into any company upon charity.
Had the Delegates received his ordships
remarks with silent smile Gll-timcd as they
were,) and DR.. Delany's response in the same
wav, never should have left the Congress
But the pIaudits came like tempest of hail
upon nv half English spirit. Nothing, then, in
the piece needs qualification but what refers to
his lordship's intentions. Learning these from
his own lips, | sat down to correct it III all that
imputed to him, directly or implicitly, wrong
ana wrong feelings; but | found
that they were so often referred to i'll vast
variety of ways, so often interminglcd with sen-
timcnts void against the principal, but good
against the cndorscrs, and i'll all respects good
against the leading spirits of Europe and the
Congress, and so essential to the harmony and
grammatical construction, that if undertook
to correct generally, shoulG hardly leave it
printiblc or readable. And vet the piece must
now appear; for if not, it will go forth to all
Europe that the United States Delegate took
offence, pro-savcry like, at an old mans play
ful remark, left the Congress at its beginning,
and that neither explanations nor cntrcatics
could bring him back.
have neither time nor patience to remodel
it, much less to rc-writc it. | am called away
to-day; should have been off from London
before. In my dilemma have concluded to
publish the piece just as wrote it; not now
as fairly representing his lordship, but as cx-
actly representing my understanding of him
when left the Congress, and the reasons.
am at the bar now, and am to be judged Of
bv the rcasonahlcncss o: my interpretations,
and Of my conduct founded on them. hrs