The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-03-22
ora roRUreS RELATIONS.

III Ft'ptCL TO t0lh question: "nhl - W " /
our foreign policy under the new Admins
trntionl
Several days ago the Diplomatic Corps In !
Washington, In full court costumes, called |,
on the President to pay him the usual clvill-
ties. Baron Won Gerolt, the Prusslau Min
lister, made the speech Of cougratulatlon, and
the President replied In q neat and apprc-
pirate address, thanking these gentlemen,
AMI said that Il would be his endeavor TO
maintain relations Of peace with all nations,
such as the United States now enjoys.
No one doubts the purpose of General
Grant to carry out fully the wishes Of the
American people, which is to observe friend
ship and amity towards all foreign Powers.
There will be no passionate action on the
part of either the new Secretary Of State,
Governor PIsk, or the President. Their pol
icy, well defined, will be to do nothing wrong
nor to submit to anything wrong.
We apprehend no trouble In any quarter
nor any disturbance in our foreign relations,
excepting, perhaps, our existing difficulties
with Great Britain, arising out OF the Ala
bama embroglo. Just here, our Government
may experience some difficulty with the com
plicatlons which have been rather muddled
by the course of Minister johnson.
Some days ago 1t was given out In high
political circles in Washington that Mr..
Sumner, the chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Relations In the Senate, was about
TO make speech, in which he charges Eng
land with not only the crimes which English
men committed through the agency Of the
pirate Alabama, which crimes were con-
nived at by the English Government, but
that our commerce was driven from the seas
by the course which the people of Great
Britain and their Government pursued to-
wards us, and also that they protractcd the
war for more than a year beyond the time 1t
would naturally have continued.
When this rumor was brought to the notice
of Mr.. Thornton, he Is said to have declared
''this means war" "So," said Mr.. Ber-
thcmy, the French Minister, sit means ter
ritory !" All that Mr.. sumner will say from
his place In the Senate In respect to the
course and the policy OF Great Britain to.
wards this country during our late civil war
he will prove; but 1t is not the intention OF
either Mr.. sumner or Of the Administration
Of Gen. Grant to menace England with any
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The pcrplcxitics growing out of our rea
lions with England at this time arc matter,
of grave importance.
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