The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-14

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The death of Mr.. Wright, for the second
time American Envoy at Berlin, leaves us
without diplomatic representative in Ger
many, and this, too, at moment when it is
decidedly more important than it can be said
commonly to be, that the Government should
have in that country accredited agents, able
not only to watch over our great and in
creasing interests there, but also to keep the
powers at Washington enlightened as to the
progress of the vast change which is working
itself out in the political constitution of the
German people.
In lS48, when that German unity which is
now fast becoming an accomplished fact'
assumed a shadowy and evanescent outline,
we made haste to reinforce our diplomatic
corps by special minister, thus giving our
selves at one and the same time no less than
three ENJOYS of the first class in Germany
one at the capital Cf Prussia, one at the
capital of Austria, and a third accredited to
the Reichsverfasser, the Archduke John, at
Frankfort. The Grrman immigration to
America was at that time less than one half as
great as 1t has since become, and our CONNER
cial intercourse with the countries which were
comprised within the space of these three Ger
man missions was considerably less impor-
tant than our trade with the single monarchy
OF Spain. But all this has been profoundly
changed. In the ten years from 1S4l to 1850,
there arrived in the United States 422, ATT i'm
migrants from Germany against S48, 366
from Great Britain and Ireland. In the ten
years from 1851 to 1860, on the contrary, there
arrived in the United States 907,7S0 immi-
grants from Germany, against 297, 59S from
Great Britain and Ireland. So, at least, says
the preliminary report on the eighth census,
which, though it can hardly, we regret to say,
be regarded as entirely accurate or solidly
authentic, may at least be accepted as approx
imately correct. The increase of our trade,
meanwhile, with Germany has fully kept pace
with the swelling of the tide of the great west
ward exodus of the German people In the year
lS6l-62, for example, Interpretations of Ameri-
can produce to the States of the German Zoll-
verein amounted to $l2 672, GAG, against an
expectation of but $ll 900, 600 to Spain and her
colonies. These figures, however, striking as
they are, afford but a very inadequate notion
OF the enormous extent Of our present rela-
tiOns-social, financial, and commercial-with
the forty millions of Germans between the
Alps and the Baltic. 1t can hardly be eXtrava-
giant to assert that these relations have more
than doubled during the last six years.
Though Austria has lost, to all appearance for
ever, her pTetensiOns to be regarded as the
| first of German powers, still, even with the
German dominions which are yet subject to
the House of Hapsburg, we have direct and
| varied intercourse at least as important as our
trade with Holland or with Portugal while,
both as matter of political interest and by
reason of the rank which our national securi-
| ties now hold in the continental markets, it is
| quite as important that we should be properly
| represented at Vienna as at Florence or at
Constantinople. That we should be property
represented at Berlin is much more important;
as important fully as it is that we should be so
represented at Paris or St. Petersburg. But
the radicals of the United States Senate have
made this in both cases difficult if not i'm
possible, to be done.
The legation at Vienna was vacated by Mr..
| Motley, as those who call themselves oddly
/ enough his "friends' now seek to make the
country believe, in a fit of passion and of
wounded selfesteem. The proposition that a
Minister of the United States could have made
a sham resignation his opportunity for de-
nouncing the policy of the Chief Magistrate
under whom he held office, is of such nature
that, if it were to be taken for true, it would
satisfactorily show that Mr.. Motley is by no
means the sort of person who ought to repre-
sent the United States abroad. II NAV be
treated, however, we presume, as an iniudi-
cious invention of politicians, eager only, il
possible to prevent the President from filling
any public Office whatever. Be this as it may,
we have now no Minister at Vienna, nor are