The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-02-09
Special dispatch TO the Baltimore Sun.
The ScUard-YOtley Affair United
states ministers and COnsuls
abroad-A Spicy Letter.

WASHINGTON, February 6.-The follow
ing is the letter sent to the President which
Induced the writing of Mr.. Stewards letter
t, Mr.. Motley, and which was brought out
.a the Senate yesterday, at the instance OF
.Ar. Sumner
Paris, Hotel Nclrtce, October %, 1866
The Presidential have travelled a good
deal in Europe during the last year, and
ave had occasion TO see something Of our
ministers and conSuls in various countries.
4 large majority Of those whom | met with
are bitterly hostile TO you and your ad-
Illustration, and express that hostility in so
open and offensive a manner as to aStonish
american travellers, and TO leave q very
lad impression on Europeans who were
resent. This was particularly true Of
,4o,o from the New England States, Of
whom a large majority Of our foreign re-
..rsentatives seem 10 be composed, and a
very indifferent set they are, individually
AID collectively.
Mr.. Motley, Minister at Vienna, does not
pretend to conceal "his disgust as he
.,ylrs it, elegantly, at your whole conduct.
Having been appointed exclusively by
Charles Sumner, he applauds him and his
evolutionary doctrines, despises American
icmocracy. and proclaims loudly that an
English noblcman is the model! OF human
perfection. There is not in all Europe a
more thorough turnkey or more un-Amer!-
can uuctionary. He tells every traveller
that Sumner is entirely justified, and that
You have deserted your pledges and prin-
ciples in common with Mr.. Seward, who,
be SAYS, is "h0peLeSsly degraded"
At Frankfort, the consul Murphy, who
j.. said TO have cleared more than 500, 900
through his office, declared repeatedly that
the threat Of his friend, "Jack Chandler"
would he made good, and ought to be, by
your impeachment. This is notorious and
public scandal. The fellow himself is
lgnorant, vulgar, and unworthy, and is one
pi Chambers tools.
Hale, at Madrid, condemned your course
in a malignant manner 10 various Amerl-
cans, and so did Morris, at Constantine
PIE.
Some of my friends, who went to Mo-
rocco, heard McMath, at Tangier rail vio-
emily and shamefully against you, saying
he was ready to retire from "such a con-
Germ Perry, at Tunis, was equally Of
iensive in his language.
There are many others in the same boat,
and it is time that better men were APP
pOinted-men who will 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 pre-
text, and yet the instruments Of that fac
ton are blatant all over Europe in con-
lemnation of both. IL is q shame and q
Ntiyu,a l., parpit this longer.
Massachusetts, seems TO m~onopolize o
lions share of the consulates, and Boston
has no less than three of the first missions
Nessrs. Adams, Burlingame, and Motley.
Is no other part Of Il country TO
be considered as worthy Of notice! Must
Sumner, Butler, Phillips, Chandler, and
lie like engross all the honors for their
atellites' | want nothing at your hands
o! any sort but fit and decent men should
De sent abroad, who will not SANDER the
chief executive of the Government.
The consul at Genera is q common
4runkard and a disgrace to the country.
When sober, he abuses the President in
The hearing Of everybody. Respectable
Americans are very much mortified by the
presence OF such unworthy persons in
places OF trust and responsibility, and few
IKE the task Of letting their experience
Ne known, as | have done. There are hun
areds who know much more, but prefer to
EemaiD silent.
Most respectfully,
GEORGE w. McCKAcKEN,
Of New York.
A friend win deliver this note person