The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-22
Mr.. Stewards Diplomacy.
From the Tribune.


Mr.. Stewards friends assert that the recent
batch of Mexican rumors were set on foot by
personal hostility to Mr.. Seward. They do not
seem to comprehend the fact that whatever Gre
dence might be given them arose from the want
of principle, consistency, and truth which have
been exhibited in the diplomacy of the Secre-
tary and his subordinates. Those unhappy
characteristics, displayed again and again
throughout the voluminous correspon dence of
the Department, have impaired, if they have
not utterly destroyed, the confidence Of the
people in this branch OF the government, and
they are consequently lett in painful doubt
whether the extlavagant rdmors in relation to
speculative jobs about 10 be accomplished by
our national diplomacy may not have at least
some basis of truth. IL became Bnown that the
return of the French troops from Mexico had
been ordered by the Emperor, not in couse-
quence of any manly and decisive protest by
our Minister at Paris, speaking the unanimous
sentiment of the American people against the
bastard empire of Macmillan, but for the reason
that Mr.. Blgelow had voluntarily rendered to
NJ. Drouyn de Lbuys our recognition of Maxi
milan as a bribe for the departure OF the French
'orces. No tale could thereafter be invented
halt so incredible, or involving larger sacrifice
OF the national dignity, more wanton insult to
the American people, or more disgraceful
cringipg to foreign power, under circumstances
of premeditated wrong and menace.
The shutting policy of the State Department
in the whole business is thus far without expla-
nation. Why did Mr.. Seward attempt to ward
of the just suspicious and alay the patriotic
fear OF Mr.. Corwin, our Minister TO Mexico by
assuring him that the scheme of an Empire and
an Austrian Prince was abandoned, at the very
moment when it was progressing rapidly to
completionS Why did he make SO marked
difference in extending custom-house facilities
to the agents of France for the shipment OF
material of war-facilities which were denied
TO Mexico IN manner that called forth the in
dignant protest of Senor Romero? Whv after
the Senate and tbp HnuSp had 0nplornd their
invincibe repugnance TO the Empire of Maxi
milan, and their determination to recognize
only the Republic of Mexico, did Mr.. Stewards
agent in Paris voluntarily tender a recognition
OF MaXlmilian? Why, more recently, did the
Secretary himself, after pledging the Govern
ment 10 the st1ictest neutrality in the affairs Of
Mexico, violate that pledge by ordering or ap-
proving the arrest and imprisonment of Senior
Ortega? These are questions which have been
repeatedly asked, and to which the country re-
ceiyes 10 reply, and this is one OF the occasions
when We are disposed TO regret that our Minis
tiers have not seats in Congress, where they
might be held to just responsibility. H.
One principle that governs MIR. Stewards
oreign policy we have definitely ascertMned,
which is that our foreign policy is IN 'de entirely
subservept to the partisan and personal views
OF the Secretary i'll re erenCe to politics
at home. This was memorsbly shown in his
assurances 10 Europe, at the besinning OF the
Rebellion, that slavery had ohing to do with
the war, and in his subsequent admission that
this assurance was absolutely untrue, and that
he had pursued this Machiavelllau and most
fatal line Of policy-it was met, as the world
knows, by q recognition of the Rebels as belli-
gerents, and by their wholesale piracies on the
ocean-simply because he hoped to conquer
the Rebels by Conciiation, and was thereon
unwilling to expose their weakness in regard to
| slavery.
| Mr.. Stewards present position towards the
| Rebel States towards Congress, and the RepUb
| lican party, is well defined; and possibly his
utterances during the Presidential tour (when
! he did his utmost TO betray the great party OF
the Republic to whom he owed his elevation,
and when, with his usual success, he predicted
| its downfall in his native State by majority oil
| 40000l may assist US in understanding his
crooked policy towards Mexico. He represented
the adoption Of the Constitutional amendments
by the Southern states as "tumblng them in
the dirt" and ''eating the leek." He described
the President as having by his advice given
pledges to those States for their return
| ard declared that though heaven anC
earth might pass away, those pledges must bC
fulfilled; and then he declared incredible as i
may seem-'the people want war with SpaiI
and q war with Brazil and he urged the i'm
mediate restoration OF the South on the ground
that be could not conquer all the nation witt
one lame leg. Despite the assurance of Mr.
Seward, "the people, do not want war; ant
however much the Democrats, the Rebels, ant
Mr.. St ward may want war, Congress shoult
see 10 it that they are dsappolntel IN their anti
cipation that they can defeat the Constitutions
amendment and stay the restoration OF ou
national peace by any further complication wit
the Mexican question