The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-19
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America Needs no Diplomacy.

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and Philadelphia. papers many accounts of
Mr.. MOTLEY, our new Minister to England,
and OF his personal characteristics. Each
writer gives his opinion of the various quail
tiles possessed by Mr.. MOTLEY, and also of
those needed by him to enable him to sue
cessfully cope with British diplomacy. The
articles commend Mr. MOTLEY as an honest,
clear headed man, but doubt whether he. is
enough of ii diplomatist to successfully pro-
tect America against the wiles of the Eng
lish Ministry. Such talk is sheer nonsense.
America has no need ofdiplomacy. If she
has an honest, fearless man to represent her,
she has enough. The demands of nation,
OF forty millions of people, need no diplo-
macy to ensure respectful hearing. In
such cases diplomacy lessons instead of in
creasing the force of the demand. When
America makes demand upen any other
nation, it needs no diplomacy" to be re-
spected, for the power of the nation making
1t is an argument stronger than could be
conveyed by mere words. The power of
country which could put into the field an
army OF over three million of men, as was
done in the late war, and which could call
out army OF double that size in case of need,
has no need of diplomacy to secure justice.
The recuperative powers of America have
created too strong an impression in Europe
to be effaced, and our demands for justice
should be made with the straightforward,
answering steadiness of purpose that is
becoming a great and powerful nation.
Roast beef-devouring, wine drinking ambas-
sadors only serve to lessen the respect Ior
the nation which sends such mis-represent-
atives. @
As to England, We do not fear her diplo-
macy, nor we wish to have any recourse to
it ourselves. She has injured America in
manner for which she can never atone and
to an amount which she cannot repay. Let
no offer to pay individual losses be accep-
ted, for they are but drops in our ocean of
injury. Let no shuffiing compromises he
adopted, for they but compromise our honor
American diplomacy is not complicated
or abstuse science, especially as regards
England. 1t is but the diplomacy of time,
and its professors have only to oait
Wait! 1t is but a small word but to England
and America its significance is unbouunded
and terrible. 1t means the relentless hand of
retribution. 1t means the avenging of past
injuries. The thought to America is sweet,
to England it is bitter as gall. America can
afford to wait far better than England can
afford to have her. Our injuries are of q
kind that do not demand a speedy repara-
ton. One year or twenty, it win make no diff
feIence either in the severity of our retribu-
tion or in the effects. England knows this
and knows in what manner she will be pun
ished. She has seen the destructive effects
she produced on American commerce by
the letting loose of one alabama, and breads
reprisals upon her own commerce. Well she
may! The moment that England is in
volved in war, with any other nation, and
| the time is not far distant, that moment the
retribution will begin. America will be
neutral, but our neutrality will be of the
same quality as that OF England during our
war. Not one, but five hundred, five thou
sand Alabamas will be let loose upon her
devoted commerce, and it will be driven
! from the seas. The once proud boast,
"Brittania rules the waves " will be but a
relic of by-gone greatness Then, and not
until then, will the atonement be made and
the Alabama claims settled. Then America
needs no diplomacy. Her sole diplomat is
time-time that weukens our foes while it
strengthens us-time that brings retribution.