The national Republican., 1866-12-12
wEpNEspAY MORNING DECEMBER II, 1885,
THE RESPECT OF THE WORLD.

THE RESPECT OF THE wORLD.
There are several salient and gratifying
features 10 the suRRArr affair, but none oi
them are more 80 than the disclosure that
the honorable Secretary Of State has man
aged our foreign affairs oil through the
stormy vicissitudes of the war, when other
statesman Of great ability even might have
led Or left US in trouble with some Of the
Governments, with such consumrnate skill
that the Government Of the United States
now commands the respect Of all the Powers
in the civilized world. Nowhere, except, per
haps, IN the interior Of Africa or Asia, could
SuRRArT have gone without being liable to
arrest and, extradition to the United States
Being Of the Roman Catholic faith, he nat.
urally enough fed to Rome and enlisted in
the Papal Zouaves; but he was immediately
detected and identified; and although we
have no formal extradition treaty with that
Government his Holiness readily caused his
arrest, no doubt, SO far as he was concerned,
with the intention Of giving him up. SuR-
RATS escape from the Cardinals guard Of
six men will undoubtedly be explained The
Government of Italy signiied similar dis
position; and the Pasha Of Egypt intsrposed
no obstruction. It is more than likely that
the secreta,y's own high reputation in that
part Of the world, and his personal acquaint-
ance with Pope PIus had some influence in
the premises; but the dignity Of our grest
Government among the 6rst-class Powers,
to whatever causes It may be attributed, is
the prominent and gratifying feature. or
no other Government under the sun can this
be truly said. .. r. .f.
Row striking is the contrast between the
dignifed courtesy Of those Governments and
that of the House OF Representatives in
calling for this correspondence. In those
countries a suitable Chesterfeldian propriety
between officials Of Government is carefully
observed 1t used to be SO here But there
has been wondaFful departure from that
line Of conduct BY; and the tone Of Mr..
BoUrwEIL's resolution calling for this cor
respondence is one Of these exceptionable
specimens. We regret to say that It was
neither courtly nor digni6ed. There b an
other feature Of this disclosure which will
not fail to arrest attention. Like all the rest
Of his diplomacy, it shows that the utmost
diligence and skill of the Secretary were
seasonably devoted to the capture Of the
fugitive. 1t was not incumbent upon Mr..
SEWARD to arrest SURRArr at all. The busi-
ness of capturing fugitives from justice usu-
ally belongs to the law department Of the
Government in time of peace. Mr.. SEWARD
endeavored, ii appears, as soon as he learned
that SuRRArr was in Liverpool, to urge At
torney General SrExp to move in the matter.
but he did not. Mr.. SEWARD then endeavored,
as soon as he learned that SuRRArr was in
Rome to have the Secretary Of War send an
agent there, but he did not. The Secretary
Of State finally did the business himself
How unjust it was, therefore, for anybody to
have even limited that the Secretary was in
attentive or tardy in his duties. VIII hi
revilers now have the manliness to make (
retractionf We shall see.