The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-16

of receiving you as the accredited Minister of
| this Government near the British Court. I'm
der these circumstances, your continued resi-.
| dence in London is neither conducive to the
| interests nor consistent with the dignity of
| this Government, and the President therefore
| requests that you withdraw with your Secre-
tary from London"
Having made known to your Lordship on my
arrival here the character and purposes of the
mission Entrusted to me by my Government,
have deemed it due to courtesy thus to make
known to the Government of Her Majesty its
termination, and that SHALL as directed. at
once withdraw from England. have the
honor to be
Your Lortlship's very obedient servant.
(SignedO j. NJ. MASON
COMMENTS OF THE REBEL ORGAN. &
On this the Inder makes the following
comments Supposed to be ''inspired, y.
setting forth several reasons for the with
drawal, which are not embodied in Mr..
MAsoNs letter:
Mr.. Slidell. we understand, will remain in
France as Special Commissioner to the Govern
ment. Nor is it all contemplated to terminate
that mission; and yet France, equally with
England, has SO far RETAINED from entering
into any international relations with the Con-
federate States. All England will admit that
the Government of those States is in the hands
OF able, experienced and judicious statesmen;
and we are sufficiently cOnversant with South
ern circles and Southern men to know that,
with other marked differences between the sec
tons North and Sou4h, in America, there eX-
lists thls-that in the South the general feeling
to England has been one of goodwill and re-
spect.
There must be, then, some overruling cause
for the difference thus made between France
and England, in the termination of one mission
and not the other. To those at all conversant
with what is passing in the Southern States,
this is no mystery. Mr.. Slidell has been re-
ceived and uniformly treated by the govern
ment OF France with every mark of considera-
ton and respect for the government he repre-
SCENTS. There may be grave reasons regarding
Policy or public law why France, like England,
may not deem it incumbent as yet to recognize
those States as an independent political
power but their representative has been freely
admitted to every form of intercourse with the
Government 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 in
deed seem but an ordinary courtesy to a gen.
tleman in his positions the refusal of it would
seem more than discOurtesy-it would be an
actual indignity to those whose representative
he is.
In England Mr.. Mason has been held by the
Government in the very opposite position
His correspondence with the Foreign Office
laid before the Congress at Richmond, we
know from the Southern Press produced q
feeling OF deep and universal indignation. 1t
showed that with the exception of single
and formal interview with Earl Russell on his
arrival, appointed at his residence, and not at
the Foreign Office, he had been admitted to no
intercourse whatever.