The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-16
PARIS. HOTEL MAURICE,
October %, 1866.

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good deal in Europe during the last
year, and had occasion to see some
thing of our Ministers and Consuls
in various countries.
a large majority Of those whom l
met with were bitterly hostile to you
and your administration, and cx-
pressed that hostility in so open and
offensive manner as to nStonish
American travellers, and to leave
very bad impression on Europeans
who were present. This was particu-
larly true Of those from the New
England States, Of whom 4 large ma
iority Of our foreign representatives
seem to be composed, and Il very in
different set they are, Individually
and collectively.
Mr.. Motley, Minister at Vienna,
does not pretend to conceal his ''dis-
gust as he styled it elegantly, at
your whole conduct.
Having been appointed exclusively
by Charles Sumner, he applauds him
and his revolutionary doctrines, dc
spises American Democracy, and pro-
claims loudly that an English noble
man is the model Of human perfec-
ton.
There is not in all Europe more
thorough turnkey or q more un-Amc-
rican functionary. he tells every
traveller that Sumner is entirely JUS
titled, and that You have deserted
your principles in COMMON with Mr.
Seward, who, he says, is hopclcssly
degraded.
At Frankfort, the Consul Murphy,
who is said to have cleared more than
500, 600 through his Office, declared
repeatedly that the threat of his
friend, Zach. Chandler, would be
made good, and ought to be, by your
impeachment, and this is notorious
and public scandal. The fellow him
self is vulgar, ignorant and unwor-
thy, and is one Of Chambers tools.
Hall, at Madrid, condemned your
course i'll a malignant manner to va
rious Americans, and so did Morris,
at Constantinople. Some of nv
friends who went to Morocco, heard
McMoth, at Tangier, rail violently
and shamefully against you, saying
he was ready to retire from such a
concern.
y L
sive in his language. There are
many others in the same boat, and it
is time that better men were appoint
ed-men who ut least respect the
President and the dignity of his
Office.
Radicalism, of the worst sort,
makes war on you and your friends
under every preteXt, and yet the in
struments of that faction are blatant
all over Europe in condemnation Of
both. 1t is a shame and stigma to
permit this longer. Massachusetts,
seems to monopo,ize a lions share of
the consulates, and Boston has no
less than three first -Messrs.
Adams, Burlingame and Motley.
Is no other part of our country to
be considered worthy Of notice?
Must General Butler, Phillips and
Chandler, and the like, engross all
the honors for their satellites? ]
want nothing at your hands of any
sort; but tit and decent men should
be sent abroad who will not SANDER
the Chief Executive and the Govern
ment
The Consul at Geneva is common
drunkard, and a disgrace to the
country. When sober, he abuses the
President in the hearing of every
body. Respectable Americans are
very much mortified by the presence
| of snch unworthy persons iii places
Of trust and responsibility, and few
like the task of letting the experience
be known, as [ have done. There
are hundreds who know more, but
prefer to remain silent.
GEO. w. McCRACKEN,
Of New York.
The radicals in Congress are highly
indignant with Mr. Seward, the Sec
retary of State, who, on the above
representation, called Motley to ac-
count for his language and conduct,
but who affected to be quite an in
jured man and resigned. His bro
thcr radicals in Congress called on
the State Department for informa-
tion in this case, and the foregoing is
the reply. Truly our country must
be miscrably represented abroad by
the above men, Minister Fitzpatrick
;,ul others Of the radical family, who
got these aDDOintmcntS NOT h1- rao