The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-29
Another Radical Outrage.


James L. Harvey, United States
Minister to Portugal, wrote an unoffi-
oial letter, last March, to Mr.. Seward,
thanking the Secretary for the speech
he made in New York early in the
year, and taking occasion to express
his appreciation of the President and
Secretary's course. In that letter,
Mr.. Harvey, among other things,
wrote:
'"The folly and madness of some of
our so-called friends astound and
mortify those who are removed from
the hot atmosphere of passion and
interest. They make wilful war upon
the man who, like all others, chal-
lenges, from exceptional causes, re-
spect, admiration and sympathy for
his noble conduct, and who has made
more sacrifices for the great princi-
pies which have triumphed, than
those self-constituted leaders, backed
by their admiring followers, have
done all their lives, or probably would
do, in presence of such dangers as he
incurred for their defence. Tried by
the sternest tests to which human
endurance could be subjected, he has
exhibited grand and imposing fidel-
lty, which stands out in striking re-
lief to the cheap professions Of re-
vilers, who shouted loudly enough for
the cause when advocacy involved
no personal peril, and when zeal was
not without the promise of reward. :"
When the consular and diplomatic
appropriation bill came up in the
Senate, the other day, it was disco
vered that the usual appropriation
for the Minister to Portugal was
omitted. Mr.. johnson, of Maryland,
was surprised. and made the inquiry
if that mission had been abolished?
The reply came from Sumner, who
said the proposition had come from
the House to abolish the mission, and
added:
'1nstead of undertaking to abolish
the mission, the appropriation for
the mission during the coming year
was taken out, and an express provi-
sion inserted, to the effect that the
present incumbent should not be paid
for any further service out of any
fund whatever. If the Senator (Mr.
Johnson) wishes to know why that
was done, shall not go into any
statement, but shall content myself,
If the Senator requires it, with send
ing to the Chair letter from Mr..
Seward, covering letter which has
been printed from the present minis
ter there. That correspondence dis
closes tho origin of the determination
on the part Of the House to which
the Committee on the part of the
Senate finally yielded.
''The representatives Of the people
in the other House felt themselves
justified in taking steps, so far as
they could, to remove that function
ary from the public service. They
felt that the writer of such letter as
that ought not to be in the public
service at this time, and especially
when that letter had found its way
into print through the agency of the
President and the Secretary of State. :"
We thought the radicals had filled
the cup of their iniquity to overflow
ing, but still there was room for this
last election Of rancor and spite.
Finding they could not lawfully abo-
lish the mission in the way the House
proposed, they determined to punish
the incumbent-what for? Simply
for endorsing the Chief Magistrate of
the Union! The atrocious deed was
consummatcd
What spectacle to present to the
people OF Europe. To leave at one
OF their courts u regularly accredited
minister, and with an overhowinp
Treasury, refuse to pay him for his
services. Even some of the radicals
in the Senate-Wade and Fessenden
protested against this atrocious
piece of legislation. May God save
the country from the continuance of
such rulers over her, should be the
prayer, backed by appropriate efforts,
of the whole people. AS these Jaco-
bins have made the precedent, we
should not be surprised to see them
stop the pay of the President himself,