The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-28
RETERDY JOHNSON.
The American Minister in England
Radical Howl about his "Anglo-
Rebel'' Friends.

The London correspondent of the New York
Tribune is very unhappy about the English
civilities to the Hon. Reverdy johnson. Under
date of October 10th he writes:
do not know what men compose the Amer1-
can Chamber Of Commerce at Liverpool but
I do know that they ought to be invited to
take the word American off their came. Ii, as
I suppose, they are merchants interested IN
American trsde, they must comprise the block
ade-runners and pirates who, during the war,
manifested their interest in American trade III
a manner we are not likely t. forget. They
are manifest lg it now in another way. They
have invited Mr.. Reverdy Johnson, the Amerl-
can minister, to dinner on the I'D INST: Ihey
have Invited u number or unoDJcctlohaDie per
sons to meet him, and until this morning the
dinner was supposed to be such Accomplishment
to an American minister US body OF friends
to America might desire to pay. But it IS an
nounced, this morning, that among the guests
whom Mr.. johnson is TO meet IS Mi. Lard, Sl.
P, the builder Of the Alabama
You may suppose this Is intended as stud'
led insult to MIR. -Reverdy johnson. do not.
IL is time to tell the truth about our minister,
truth which heretofore Ihave hesitated to be-
leve, but which becomes only tco plain day by
day. His extraordinary popularity is not due
to the fact that he is an American minister,
but to the fact that he is aSoutherner. we
expected him to resent Mr. Roe4ucks insults,
but he did not, because they did not touch
him. They were levelled st the North, and Mr.
johnson is not q representative OF the North.
The Roebucks and Wharnclihes were not long
in finding out on which side Mr. Johnsons
sympathies lay. They liked him because his
associations and personal relations were oil
with the defeated South. He liked them be-
cause thew we're the partisans Of the Lost
Cause. Mr. Adams was conservative enough,
but the Lairds and Beresford Hopes did him
the honor to turn their backs upon him, be-
cause he was loyal. Why is that crew flock
ing about Mr.. Reverdy johnson, unless be-
cause he and they are kindred spirits Mr..
Roebuck described the North as "pase'
corrupt, cowardly and cruel" MIR. John
son describes Mr.. Rosbuck as his
friend, and shows him such marks OF
personal affection as MIR. Roebuck says he shall
remember to his dying day. Lord Wharn-
cliffe was President of the Southern Associa-
ton Of blockade runners and pirates. Mr.
johnson says Lord Wharncliie's name ought
to be dear to every American. DIR. Laird Is
the builder of the Alabama, and MIR. johnson
accepts an invitation to meet him at dinner.
We may suppose he will call him his friend,
and show to him, as to Mr.. Roebuck, such cvl-
dences of kindness as Mr.. Laird will remember
to his dying day. Do you charitably imagine
that Mr.. Rcebuck and MIR. Laird are repentant,
and that they traternize with Reverdy johnson
as an evidence of their repentance? BY no
means. Neither of them ever uttered ono
word Of regret for any word or act Of h hostility:
They hate MS to-day as they hated at us during
and and of openly procaiming their consistency;
Thew The have fraternized with no Northerner5,l
hope there was no Northerner that would
touch the hand Of either.
If vou care to save the country from further
humiliation. summon home it's recroant minis,
ter. II you care to preserve so much good
will as exists between England and America, IaSHS1
summon him home. Mr.. Reverdy johnson
has done more in the last six weeks to es-
TRANCE the two countries than he can undo by
q dozen treaties. He has disgusted America
by the debasement Of his Office and the pro-
testations of such o spirit OF forgiving meek
ness at home as do not and could not be felt in
America toward England. He has ahena!ed
the regard of English Liberals by his assocla.
tions with the Roebucks and Lairds. Summon
him homo, and sand over here man who will
represent something besides sympathy with a
dead Confederacy.