Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-09
The American Questionable, MasOn's
withdrawal.


The London organ of the secessionsts pub-
fishes the text of the letter in which Mr.. Ma.
son announces to Earl Russell the termination
of the rebel mission to England.
MIR. MAsoNs LETTER
No. "a Upper Seymour ST., Portman
Square, London, Sept. 2l, 'G3.
The Right Hon. Earl Russell, Her Majesty's
Secretary Of State for Foreign -4fai,s =
My LOrd-In dispatch from the secretary
OF state OF the confederate states of America,
dated the 4th day of August last, and now
just received, | am instructed to consider the
mission which brought me to England rs at
an end, and | am directed to withdraw at once
from this country. The reasons for termin-
ating this mission are set forth in an extract
from the dispatch, which | have the honor to
communicate herewith. The president be-
leves that the government of her majesty
has determined to decline the overtures made
through you for establishing by treaty friend.
~ relations between the two governments,
and entertains no intention of receiv-
ing you as the accredited minister of
this government near the British court
Under these circumstances your continued
residence in London is neither conducive to
the interests nor consistent with the dignity
OF this government and the president there
fore requests that you consider your mission
at an end, and that you withdraw, with your
secfetary, from London Having made known
to your lordship on my arrival here the char
acter and purpose of the mission entrusted to
me by my government, l have deemed it due
to courtesy thus to make known to the gov
eminent Of her majesty its termination, and
that shall, as directed, at once withdraw
from England. have the honor to be your
lordship's very obedient servant,
j. M. MASON.
TIE REBEL OFFICIAL LAMENT.
On this the Index makes the following
comments, Supposed to be ''inspired,') set
ting forth several reasons for the withdraw
al, which are not embodied in Mr.. Mason's
letter.
MI Slidell, we understand, it says, will re-
mail in France special commissioner to
that government, nor is it at all contemplated
to terminate that mission; and yet France,
equally with England, has so tar refrained
from entering into international relations with
the confederate states. There must be- then
some oyer-ruling cause for the difference thus
made between France and England in the ter
mlnatIon Of the one mission and not of the
other. To those at all conversant with what
is passing in the southern states there is no
mystery. Mr.. Sidel has been received and
uniformly treated by the government of
France with every mark of consideration and
respect tor the government he lr.epresssnlsy
or pnblic law why France, like Eng
land, may not deem it incumbent, rs
yet, to recognize those states as an
independent political power, but their
representative has been freely admitted
to every firm of intercourse with the govern
ment OF France, to personal interviews with
the emperor whenever he has asked for them,
with immediate access to all or any of the
ministry at first request. This would indeed
seem but an ordinary courtesy to IA gentle
man in his position. The refusal Of it would
be more than Il discourtesy. 1t would be an
actual indiguity to those whose representa-
tive lie is. In England Mr.. Mason has been
held by the government in the very opposite.
His correspondence with the foreign office,
laid before congress at Richmond, we know
from the southern press produced feeling of
deep and universal Indignation. 1t should be
stated that with the exception of a single and
formal interview with Earl Russell on his ar
rival, appointed at his residence, and not at
the foreign office, he had been admitted to no
Intercourse whatever.