The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-27


The New York Evening Post publishes some
extracts from the letter Of special cores
pondent writing from Spain, that are decided
ly odorous. They have sole reference to the
career of sickles, by whose appointment as
minister to that country the seal Of infamy was
affixed to the Grant administration. This cor
respondent writes as follows:
sIcKLEs FALLS STILL LOWER.
General Sickles has certainly made haste to fall
thoroughly and pitiaby, and he has produced
ment. which General Grant and he might just as
well have avoided. None OF the stories sbout
General Sckles' past life had been published mere,
and the Spanards were 80 little pleased with Mr..
Hale that IL operated in favor OF his successor,
who was welcomed with unusual honors and
marked cordialty. In fact, the feeling OF the
Spaniards towards the United States had never
been so friendly since have known them
+-- uIs IGNORANCE -ARD-tsfs BLshDERs-
General Sickles seems to have fallen into the
same error with most OF our public men who come
out here TO try their hand at G!nlomacy In SPAN.
Perfect ignorance OF this people, q compact set OF
erroneous notions about spain ana Spanlaros'
and total want Of diplomatic instinc: or previ-
ous training to the business, lead them all oy tne
same road whenever they attempt to DO any
thing. Those who attempt nothing, and simply
lie down to eat their salaries OF course 40 not
make their mistakes so conspicuous. They all
seem to imagine that there 8 some strange VIZ
tue in diplomatic note-that something can be
done by o diplomatic note. But never yet knew
anything to be done by adlplomatic note.
| BIS UTTER MEPF1cIENcY AND UsELEsssRss. =
international business could be 80 transact.
ed, what need Of diplomatic agents' why mot
IRE on the notes direct from the State Depart
ment by mail2 They wonld be all the more iorc-
ible and effective In that way. In fact, minis
ter who has no other means or resource lor oolng
international business than diplomauc notes s
nth wheel In o coach, Of no sort OF use What-
ever and besides useless, positively prejudicial
Men Ike like Soule and Sickles-men not content
stone wall, or get themselves into an inextricable
snarl very quickly.
BE MAKES ALL EUROPE LAUGH At TIE UNITED
STATES.
The impression made on Europe by the herolsm
and grandeur OF our war; the successlul enort 10
Spain to rid themselves OF the Bourbon dynasty;
the aspiration Of this people to found Feoeral
republic; the sustained eIor: OF the Cu6ans Tor
freedom; the steady payment OF four or flve mt-
lions Of dellars every month towards sthered1ction
OF our national debt whilst q monthly deficit OF
about as much is wringing the vitals OF Spain-all
the motives for admiration and popular sympathy
towards as were 80 great, that seemed 70 me
anything-anything, no matter wnaEcouiso Is oe
done by the United States In Spain ct this time;
and 1t was 80. We had only TO take hold OF the
means at our disposal, know what they were and
how 10 use them, and do anything we pleased
here, and laugh at Europe What mistaken
choice OF an agent at home-what ignorant, mis-
guided, and perverse energy hereto change all
this In month, unite all parties Of Spaniards In
one storm OF indignation and antipathy 10 us,
and set all Europe outside OF Spain Laughing az
rs
He MUST BR RECALLED.
5ickles has ruined the business confded TO
lip and made 1t impossible, at least temporarily,
ana ruined himself for the transaction OF any
business whatsoever with Spain now or herea1ter.
He has got himself into bad odor WITH the people,
and at the same time into such ridiculous anu
pitiable diplomatic position, that any business
put into his hands hereafter or connded 70 MS
advocacy, must fail, simply because ne mas nold
ment Is of no avail with them; reason Is an artl-
Gle they use rarely. They either like you or they
don't; and II they DON'T II you were to of1er them
mamma from heaven they would not take II from
your hands; and again, II they like you, you can
lead them almost anywhere. Violence Is OF no use;
threats are always productive OF preclsely tne
opposite effect from that intended. IT you under
take to crush them after they resist no longer
they viii lie down, and let themselves be whipped
and kicked, but they will not yield. You can get
nothing out OF them by that process. Long aiter
you are tired out and are gone about something
else they will spring up and come back on you,
as unyielding and as unreasoning as ever fon
must know this people; know the springs which
move its government and move Its newspapers
and its clubs, and know how to produce lts lavor-
them is hopeless.
HIS DIPLOMATIC NOTE DOES IRRETRIEvABLE MIS-
CHIEF.
And Sickles has put his foot in 1t. The lndlSna-
tion he has managed to excite all over Spain IS
strong and genuine and its first results is to str
this people up to a genuine hearty effort against
the Cubans. They were tired OF that Cuban IN
surrection respondent, divided amongst tncm-
selves, indisposed to any great eXertion 10 save
Cuba; newspapers published articles under the
titles of "Cuba Is Lost" "Loss OF Cuba" &C,
&C., every morning; they were already familiar
General Sickles steps upon the scene, fires OF
diplomatic note, puts the American Government
in false position towards revolutionary Spain,
wounds their pride and their patriotism, and
rouses against himself and us all that feeling
which produced the first defeat of NapOleons
armies in Europe and carried the Spaniards
| through the war Of independence.
sICKLES IS GEOGRAPHICALLY DEAD.
Twenty thousand good soldiers will have sailed
for Cuba by or about the time you get this letter,
frigates and smaller craft will have sailed, supe
ror In strength to the forces put into those
waters. Ten thousand men 60 to-day from Cadiz.
Meantime the general has put himself personally
into sucn position as no diplomatist can stand
up under. send you slips from the ministerial
newspapers received here within the past three
days. don't know whether you at home can ap-
preciate what the occurrence OF such facts or the
appearance such paragraphs signifies in Spain.
1t means diplomatic death. Sickles is done here,
already. Nothing resuscitates him-nothing can
get him on his feet again-nor give him any
chance Of usefulness after this.