The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-14
nin1omntic pIrt-EatIng.

Mr.. Thaokeray, "what do you think in Eng
land of Mr. Tupper p' "Sir, !" responded the
great novelist, Gin England, we don't think of
Mr.. Tupper at ALL" Mr.. Seward, when he
wrote, under the seal of State to all our en-
voys and plenipotentaries, consuls and am
bassadors in Europe, in Asia, and in Africa, to
know what the inhabitants of those parts
thought of Mr.. Johnson, was more fortunate
in the responses which he ELECTED, and which
his official and afIectionate soul desired. The
LIGHTS large and little, of the legations came
TO time with praiseworthy promptness and
precision. BY a sort of humble instinct, like
that which characterizes the he and she
Aunkeys of the kitchen and the pantry, the
servants of the State OWNED the franklin
cense which would be agreeable to the lead
ing nostrils in Washington, and sent home
answers perfumed with praise and apprO
baton.
The Senate, pained that these precious des-
matches should waste their sweetness in Mr..
Seward s musty closets, called last January,
by resolution, for this beautiful batch of let
ters and, having received, has now printed
them for the appreciation and admiration of
the world, to say nothing of the edification of
those who think that the proper study of
mankind is man. From the frozen cline of
Russia, from the venerable and historic haunts
of Rome, from busy Brussels and from pol
ished Paris, from Opulent and teeming Lon
don, and from fair and smiling Florence, from
the city of Constantine and from wintry
Copenhagen comes documentary evidence
that "My Policy is lauded in every latitude,
and eulogized with polyglot unanimity. The
cousiderate Ministers send nothing but their
md hat pf
bors.
Even conversions are not uncommon. On
the 29th of October, 1865, Mr.. Cassius NJ. Clay
writes from st. Petersburg (and this despatch
seems to have been volunteered that he
favors suffrage universal, without distinction
of color or sex, as condition of the restoration
of the Rebel States. On the 7th of February,
1866, a change has come over the spirit of his
dream. He is still in favor of manhood suf-
frage, but he isn't half so strong in his opinion
as he was before. He is willing to have the
Rebel States come in without it. EdcitiS de-
SceRSuS AUerni! On the 18th of March he
writes to say that the veto of the Freedmen's
Bureau bill has filed him with pleasure, and
to oStentatiously put himself upon the record.
'I stand by the President" says Mr.. Clay,
and he italicizes the declaration. So it seems.
Russia is famous country for soap, and our
Minister there has become acquainted at least
with its metaphOrical uses
All the letters are one way. In Rome the
Pope admires Mr.. Johnson, according to Mr..
Rufus King. In Brussels Gas Mr.. SandfOrd
sends word) Mr.. Johnson was toasted as a
wise and moderate Christian patriot. Mr..
Bgelow sends from Paris eight pages of news
paper putfs, and every puff is in honor of Mr..
Johnson, except one from the ultramontanc
lie Monde, which blows him up (singularly
enough) for his ''radical and philanthropie
theories" Mr.. Adams (June Il, 1860 re-
ports that the policy of the President is more
warmly admired in England than it seems to
be at home; and we think that Mr.. Adams Is
right. In Florence (according to Mr.. George
p. Marsh) the veto of the Freedmen's Bureau
bill was universally approved; while the 'wis-
dom" and ''dscretiOn" of the President have
cheered the exile OF Mr.. Il. Joy Morris, who,
under the shadow of the mosques and minarets
af Constantinople, read Mr.. JOhnson's Message
and was proudly glad.
We can imagine the cOntented complacency
with which Mr.. Seward perused these letters,
and congratulated himself upon his well-dis-
ciplined and obedient band of diplOmatists.
Alas! there is no pleasure in this world upon
the perpetuity of which mortals can safely
reckon. There was "a citizen of the United
States" in Paris, who had been peeping and
smelling about the different legations, and who
had written to Mr.. Seward that our Ministers
abroad didn't reverence Mr.. Johnson half so
heartily as the contents of their despatoh-b
ceiving this lacerating information must have
been a dreadful one, and the feelings of the
Secretary, we can easily imagine, were a sort
of compound of the cravings of the serpent's
tooth and the operations Of ipecacuanha
Without losing a moment, he constructed q
circular letter. He asked Morris at Constantine
pie, Murphy at Frankfort, Hale at Madrid, Perry
at Tunis, and McMath at Tangiers--he asked
each of these gentlemen if they could possibly
have been so lost to all sense of decency, dig
nifty, gOdliness, propriety, virtue, patriotism
and prudence, as to speak disrespecttully o
Andrew Johnson. Honest John p. Hale wa!
the first to answer from Madrid, with tn,
bravery and bluntness of a Spanish bull
giving Mr.. Stewards Peeping Tom the lii
direct, and counting and soliciting the very
fullest investigation. Mr.. Murphy at Frank
fort pleads not guilty, and sends an affidavit Il
back up his plea. In the extremity OF his dis
tress he forwards supplementary letter to Mr.
f. W. Seward, asking that mercy of the sol
which he might fail to obtain from the mex
orable sire. Mr.. McMath, at Tangiers, is quit
oriental in the fervOr Of his disclaimer. MI
Perry. at Tunis, says, with simple dignity, 81
is enough for me to declare my loyalty to tn
Government and my uprightness as a subor
dinate officer under the President" Than
YOU, MIR. Perry We were getting lttl
dualmish and your reply is inylgorating
Morris at Constantinople vindicates himself
tells, with tears in his eyes, how he has d'
Tended the President in the LeUam Herdit
and gives a speech which he made to depl
tation. in which he declared Mr.. Johnson
he ga man of exemplary habits and HE
''of striking propTiety of demeanor ana col
duct"-''possessed of extraordinary enere
and fortitude of fspirit''-"equal TO any eme