New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-10
RRvERDr JOHNSON.


ICA.-When the Senate sent Reverdy john
: son to the Court OF st. James it committed
the terrible mistake of supposing that he
would represent the Government of the
: United States. Mr.. johnson has shown that
he entirely misunderstands his mission He
believes that he is sent to represent the
Southern Confederacy and to protect the
rebel interests in England; and what he be
lieves is executing most faithfully.
Servility, obsequiousness, treachery,
could not go much farther than Reverdy
johnson has carried them since he stepped
upon the English shore. 1t was Sir Walter
Raleigh who threw his cloak in the mud be-
fore British Queen; but Mr.. johnson in
paying the same compliment TO the worst
enemies OF America, has used the American
flag. The Wharncliffes and Roebucks and
Lalrds walk over it, and owe their triumph
to the sycophancy of the American Minister.
he has licked the boots of every English
man which he could reach with his tongue;
and has, in short, done more to disgrace
his country than any representative sent
abroad during the past four years. In all
the records of diplomacy, we recall no in.
stance of betrayal as deliberate and
shameless as his. If merely his personal
disgrace were involved, we might let the
matter rest, but it is tar more than that:
vast pecuniary interests are being ruined by
Reverdy johnson. and the honor of the |
United States is stained.
Let US review his record. A Republican |
Senate confirmed his nomination as Minister |
to England, trusting that out of the coun. |
Try he might be more patriotic than he was |
| in it, and believing that the ordinary sense |
| of duty and honor would keep him a re.
spectacle if not an efficient representative
! during the few remaining months of this
Administration. He held his peace, and
az cepted the trust, intending, no doubt
from the first to betray it; for before he left
Washington the plan had been determined
| upon which he is now doing his utmost to
accomplish. He had no sooner reached |
England than the men who had hated the
| Union most, and labored the hardest to
destroy it, gathered around him,
and were welcomed as his best
friends, His popularity was ex
traordinary, and it grew out of the utter
IN American feeling he displayed from the
first. Mr.. Roebuck, the defender of the
Southern Confederacy in Parliament, who
moved its recognition as an independent
government, insulted the Uuited States in
Mr.. Johnson's pres nee, and was repaid by
the warmest protestations of friendship |
The evidences of Mr.. Johnson's kindness
Mr.. Roebuck says he shall remember to his
dying day. Even the English people are
astonished at the easy way in which the | !
American Minister fraternizes with the enc. a
mics Of his country. The London Ddiiy {
NewS, in reference to the Liverpool
banquet, and before it took place, said, 9
Its seems almost incredible that the
gentlemen Of Liverpool should not 2
Laird on such an occasion must be an i'm l
mediate and tlagrant violation of its neu- n
trality, in any possible sense in which such e
a banquet can be said to be neutral It Il
was meant to be friendly welcome to the II
ambassador of friendly nation, but the n
Daily NetrS is astonished at the insolence 81
OF introducing to that ambassador 1.-THE Sc
most active enemy his country had in this CT
country during the war, who IS at this mo- W
nent being prosecuted in the American S.
courts tor the part he bore in the destruc.
ton Of the property of Mr.. Reverdy John.
sons constituents, one who drove their ql
from the seas, and was mainly
Instrumental inlprolongiug to four years a | p,
var that might otherwise have ended in | al
,Wo or three Well may this English pa ssi
Der eXclaim, ''At such a BANQUET the e.
lag of the Alabama and the Stars and Bars ~
hould be seen replacing the Stars and AZ
Stripes" But did Reverdy johnson feel O.
my delicacy Of the kind? Not much. He fa
.ttended The banquet, met Mr.. Laird, and h,
n his speech actually said that ''such a W.
meeting was most gratifying to him, be- 81
suse it was an assurance that former differ Ta
nees had been forgotten" Is it any won. ="
er that the American Legation is rendez.
GUS for Southern rebels, who are ashamed fr,
r afraid to come home, or that Reverdy IN
ohnson,s opinion that Seymour will be
lected should be publicly quoted in Eng !
and, Loyal Americans in London turn in
rom the representative of their country pc
is friends are all our foes. FC
That man with such sympathies is not TIE
I to be trusted with the settlement of the wi
normous claims against England, growing ha
ut OF the ruin of American commerce by Gu
UGH men as Laird and Lord Wharncliffe, is he
lain enough, and the plan ReVerdy John
On has agreed upon with Lord Stanley is
keeping with his general conduct. This ]
rotocoi, providing Tor a mixed commission,
n 49,
reat Britain and eight by the United sell
tatts to sit in London and finally decide | -
II claims, while questions of international W
w are to be referred TO the Emperor of Fir
ussla, IS The 7eorst form Of betrayal tor
.5n'eftcdn interests. To permit Great SAT
the destruction of a thousand
illions Of dollars of American com. J
eIce, by the payment OF some six or seven prt
illions of adjudicated claims, would be Re.
ad enough, but even this is not to be al IS {
WED. Even those paltrY sums are to be the
olen from American merchants by eight hal
lch fellows as Sam Ward and Perry Fuller son
nom Mr. Seward and ReVerdy johnson a i
III select. These eight appointments, sell
18th their secretaries and clerks, are doubt. rul
S. 10 De used to purchase the United lat
.ates Senate to accede to this yillaipous of ]
'oposal. And as they are to sit in London, of
lie last difficulties will be removed that re. is '
ain in the way Of selling the rights OF our er
)untry with facility. fail
The appointment Of the Emperor of Rus ls6
a to decide the questions of international iut
W, deliberately abandons in advance, our leti
ain complaint against England for her
ltimely concession to the rebels of bellig-
'ent rights Russia, in common with every
her monarchy in Europe, followed that wa
famous example, and yet Reverdy John the
IN Is ready TO allow the very powers we &C. ma
use Of violating International law to decide he
hat the law is, or whether there is any me
w al all fire.
We have always regarded the advocacy. hal
certain American journals, of prompt pri
emand on Great Britain for the payment lie
the Alabama claims, as specious mode We
surrenderlng our rights of retaliation. mu
0 exchange for few millions, which would fro
OF amount to the sum of .hree DAYS OF our for
lternal revenue, such an Arrangement wa
'ould give up a principle essential to the bet
lture safety and honor Of the Republic. It hde
our opinion that the United States should mo
ppoint home commission for the a5iudi. s
anon OF these claims, and should paw our SEX
lerchants who have suffered BIZ the depre- enc
atoms OF British pirates, by an order IN ere
ur own Treasury. The United States shonl3 bur
hen abide reimbursement By England ana hi
lch other satisfaction as the General ininrv ge;
} our commerce and insult to our national the
onoF demand. This plan would secure al
lstlce; It would surrender no principle. trIi
o miserable mixed commission would then sou
etermtne the payment of debt owned bys for
lie United States The nation would then Ioc
DID the power of compelling peace here lit,
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