The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-02-19

The following is the letter on which
Mr.. Seward forced the resignation OF
Motley
Pans, Hotel Maurice, Oct. %, 1865.
Mr President: | have travelled Il
good deal in Europe during tho past
year, and had occasion 70 sec something
Of our ministers and consuls in various
countries. A arga majority Of those
whom met with were bitterly hostile to
you and your administration, and ex-
pressed that hostility in 50 spen and Of
.easiye manner as to as.olish Amcri-
can travellers, and 50 leave q very bad
impression upon Europeans who were
present. This was particularly true oil
those from the New England States, of
whom large majority Of our foreign
representatives seem to be composed
and a very indifferent set they are, midi
yidually and collectively Mr.. Motley,
Minister at Vienna, does not pretend to
conceal his disgust, as he styles it ele-
gantly, at your whole conduct.
Having been appointed exclusively by
Chas Sumner, he applau0s him and his
revolutionary doctrines, despises Amer
lean democracy, and proclaims loudly
hat an English nobleman is the model
Of human perfection. There is net III
all Europe a more thorough turnkey, or
a more un-American functionary. He
tells every traveller that Sumner is en-
tirely justified and that you have de-
serted your pledges and principles in
common with Mr. Seward, who he says
is hopeessly degraded. At Frankfort,
the Consul, Murphy, who is said to have
cleared more than 100000 through his
Office, declared repeatedly that the
threat ofhis friend Zach Chandl,r,would
be made good and ought to be, by your
impeachment This is notorious and a
public scandal. The fellow himself is
vulgar, ignorant and unworthy, and is
one of Chambers tools. Hale, at Mad
rid, condemned your course in malig-
nant manner to various Americans, and
50 did Morris at Constantinople Some
Of my friends who went to Morocco,
heard McMath at Tanger, rail Valiant
~ and shamefully against you, SAYING
he was ready to retire from such a con-
Germ.
Perry, at Tunis, was equally offensive
in his language. There arc many 9TH
ers in the same boat, and IT, is time that
better men were appointed; men who
viii at 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 instruments of that faction are
blatant all over Europe in condemnation
of both. 1t is a shame and stigma to
permit TINS longer. Massachusetts,
seems TO mon0pohze lions share Of
the consulates, and Boston has no less
than three Of the best missions Messrs.
Adams, Bulingame and Motley. Is no
other part Of the country to be consid-
cred. or worthy Of notice? Must Sum
ner, Butler, Phillips, Chandler and the
like engross all the houors for their sat
elites want nothing at your hands
Of any sort, but fit and decent men
should be sent abroad who win not SLAM
der the chief executive and the govern
ment. Wheeler, Consul 1T Genoa, is a
common drunkard and disgrace to the
country When sober be abuses the
President in the hearing Of everybody
Respectable Americans are very much
mortified by the presence Of such IN
worthy persons N places Of trust and
respectability, and fcw like the task Of
letting their experience be known as !
heye done There are hundreds who
know much more, but prefer to remain
silent Most Respectfully
GEo. ". McCaACgEs, If New York