The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-12


tonal view Of the needs Of the country, 1t
will secure an impregnabls position before
the people; and in order to make
Its triumph sure, it must ratify its expression Of
national sentiments by nominating man wor.
thy to represent these. 1t Is only by avoiding
a nomination procured by clique influences,
and conferred upon some small politician, who
is counted on TO reward some particular school
of partisans, that II can obtain the confidence
of the vast conservative vote which will be
brought out in the coming campaign. The
delegates to Charleston should remember, how
ever, that the conservative feeling of the coun.
try is not to be secured by windy professions,
gaudy banners and noisy parsdes. Its rising
comes from the sense of danger, and its sup
port can be obtained only through the argu.
ments of truth and reason, logically presented
and maintained.
Should the Charleston Convention fail in the
high duty expected of it, by South and North
alike, the country will look to the Baltimore
Convention for the point of safety around
which to coalesce. The proclamation of
ultra views, and the nomination of an
extreme partisan at Charleston, will awaken
more lively sense of danger and
a more violent reaction in the South
than that which has been elected in the
North by the destructive tendencies of the
position and conservative leaders to watch and
listen for the first echoes from Charleston
Let them prepare to seize the vantage
ground which the proclamation of ultra theO-
ries by the Democratic Convention will leave
unoccupied. The conservative appeal Of the
Riveses of Virginia, the Crittendens of Ken
lucky, the Bells of Tennessee, to the Southern
States, backed by the Everetts of Massachu-
sets, the FiIImores of New York, and the con-
sentative host of the Central States, would
cause the disintegrated and discordant demo-
cratic party to dissolve in the South, as well as
dream The sense of danger from the ultraists
of both extremes would be greater, and there
fore more lively, in the South, and its effect
would be all the more rapid. We are in the
midst of greater dangers and more sudden
changes than the intense selishness of mere
politicians can comprehend, and it beh0oves
every conservative man to watch the course Of
events during the next three weeks.
THE JAPANESE AT SAN FRANCIsCO.--We print
ed yesterday very interesting account Of
the reception of the auant courier of the Japa-
nese mission, who arrived at San Francisco on
the 18th of last month, and was received in a
very handsome manner by the authorities of
the Golden State. We give to-day, in full, the
official correspondence relating to the embassy,
and our readers will find that it will amply
repay perusal.
We direct especial attention to all the details
concerning the Japanese embassy, because it is
quite new thing in diplomacy, and because it
affords one of the very few instances where
there is something practical at the bottom of
all the fuss and parade and nonsense which the
effete usages of the old-fashioned govern
ments have engrafted upon official inter-
--o4innal intercourse Usually when we seHa
Minister abroad he is person who is
packed off because he might be politically
troublesome at home He knows nothing of
the languages nor of the usages of courts, and
does nothing Of any significance except take
his salary. Our Minister at Japan has accom-
plished something more than this. He has sue
cessfully combatted the Dutch influence; he has
negotiated fair commercial treaty, and has
succeeded in inducing the Emperor to send to
Washington some of the very highest personages
in the realm. 1t is now the duty Of our officials
to put themselves on their best behavior, and re-
ceive the embassy as the accredited representa-
tives of great nation, from which we and
our descendants will receive material benefits.
the East barbarians; but in their personal
habits they are far more civilized than the ma.
jority of Americans or English, and, high or
low, the Oriental is always well bred gentle
and courteous in his demeanor The lowest
Lascar water carrier is more of gentleman
of Congress.
Such are the barbarians'' whom we are to
entertain. May all the gods in their calendar
shield them from the New York Aldermen, who
shocked the Turkish Admiral by rendering
him the flesh of the unclean animal in the form
of the Apician sandwich, who spat in the pre-.
sence of an efendi, and cursed Allah with
many oaths within the hearing Of a chosen
servant of the Commander of the Faithful.
May the Japanese be shielded, also, from the
ruffians and bullies, the Lovejoys and Pryors
in the House, and if they are to be shown
suggest that some of the cleanest and most re-
spectacle looking members (some who can
manage to get on without spittoon for quar-.
ter of an hour) should be selected to receive
them, having been first duly put through a
course of mannersby some competent person.
In all seriousness, great deal depends upon
the proper reception Of the Japanese Embassy.