New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-22
MR, GEORGE P. MARSH.


deliberate peryerson OF my views when compel
one 10 reour to the subject l trust those VINO
and this discussion dssgreeAble viii note the
6Acts.
7 ob;ected 10 the nomination OF Mr.. Marsh be-
FIRE IL was made, as / have since objected 10
Il. because | hold that the interest OF Human
Freedom requires that our Government should
nov b. represented at the Itahsn Court BY an
earnest undoubtiug champion Of Liberty and
Progress. and believe George 2. Marsh to be
ola different school, My convictions on this
point were formed during tbs second session Of
the XXXth Congress in tb Winter OF 1901
sad have been strengthened by his almost un-
aroken silence during the political struggle OF the
last asven wears. The fsct that | did not know
De was or claimed to b. Repubhcan until
learned that he was candidate for hrst-ciass
Mission may not amoJnt to much the TACT thst
IA has been an ediOTial writer for journal
shich did not ever pretend to be Republican
prior to LincolnF election, and one OF whose
staff wrote to South Carolina that no editor OF
that paper votea for Lincoln and Hamlin, may
OF may not oTerbalsnee my confessed ignorance
on that point The Tunes, Dir. Marsh's other
.sulOEist, has repeatedly argued, within the last
Two years, lat the Republican party was blum
der. and ought to surrender its distinctive princi-
Ole or abandon its organization; but no matter:
I win agree that Mr.. Marsh Is about as Repub-
scan a. are, in the average, The World and
The Times, and let that pass. 1t WAS with ref
srence to the interest of Liberty in Europe rather
shan in America that l demurred 10 his ap-
POintment.
The Times intimates that Mr. Marsh was dis
sasted, while we we're together in the House, by
my Efforts TO reform the Mileage bills OF Con-
4ress, whereby Members are Cor at least
syere) paid for constructive" Journeys they
never made, paid by all manner Of cireuman-
bieot routes, and some Of them paid thousands
Of dollars each for rapid journeys that did not
coat them 10 many hundreds. do not doubt
chat such was the fact, though l DeVer sl!l now
had any direct evidence of il. Mr.. haFsb, Gun
eaAlise, naturally aud honestly regarded al such
stsorts as paltry mud contemplate can aPPre-
eiate has view Of the matter: can he and his
sympathizers be equally just to NE and mine
The fact that never introduced nor promoted
y.rv IA Sf other measure hooking to Iefrench'
Jnent of Mileage goes for nothing dtd cause
70 DO prepared and pubh.hed tabular statement,
letting the People know just what the charges OF
Members for Mileage actually were. That was
the length and breadth Of my offending ID the
premises: i can see how it must have oeeh
ioethe5 BY George +. Marsh.
Nv difference with Dir. Marsh is in no degree
aorsonal I am not aware that be ever did OF
soueht to do me harm. No word, no look, Iu-
plying dislike on either SIDE ever passed between
a. have borne prompt aud cheerful testimony
TO bis integrity, ability aud personal worth. But
he Is radically q believer in liberal salaries mu-
nifcent allow anees, and all the natural Incidents
of strong and splendid government, While as
drmly bold the opposite view. believe thai sal
aries and government expenses generally must
some at last mainly out Of the pockets Of those
wbO aro glad Of the opportunity to earn q dollar
per dag, and that they should in no ease exceed
the lowest rates at which competent and trusty
raeu can be induced TO perform their duties. /
believe that the heart is beng eaten out on our
republican institutions by universal lust OF and
scramble for Office, and that the main cause Of
es is the fact that official service is better paid
ia the average shan other useful work requiring
equal capacity aud diligence. SO believing,
must act accordingly, at tho cost of the Ii
epiRion Of Mr. March and his editorial friends.
was casually cOnyersing but yesterday with
90 h0nered merchant of thin city, well known 10
the editor Of The Times, who recently spent an
boar in social cousOrse with Dir. Marsh The
general drift and parport Of hr. MS rernafkf
vas disgust with America, and with democratic
institutions, AID Q determination TO return 50
coon as possible t6 Europe, there to spend, *
far a. practicable, the residue of his days. u
cannot but depOre the fact that gentleman
sincereb cherisbing such views IL TO represent
~ 81 this jancture in Italy.
The World stigmatizes my suggestion that our
Minister IN Italy might and should, in the pres
eut plastic, formative state Of Der institutions,
exsrt % influence in favor Of Liberty, rs one
that " caps the climax Of absUrdity." / meet
tbs dictam with q fact; In 1854, Il heading
rnSmbsr Of the Sandman Ministry complained 20
our Minister, the Hon. w. b. Kinney, that our
Government while prOfessedly and By postion
favorable to liberty, sent diplomatic or consul
sr aeefts to italy men whose sympathies were
identified with reaction and deppolsm. Such
selection, he urged, was grievance TO his Gov.
ernln'nt aud damage to the Liberal cause.
And be nauled some Of the men L, whom this
complaint especially referred.
Why, what can our Minister at foreign Court
y asks 10 substance The World. Must be- MT
a,rupulOusIy refrain from interInedadng with the
politics of the country to which he is accredited
answer, When q nation is reconstituting her.