The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-07-31
Our Historian Representatives Abroad
Reasons for Their Recall.

Reasons for Their Recall.
At frst, the Country regarded with
suspicion the expressed determination of
the President to supply the place o
held by Minister Motley with a different
man. The Minister has held SO high a
station in the world of letters; has been
30 much above all the chickering's of
home politics; SO mild a hammered man,
so generally respected, at home and
abroad, that it was thought impossible
that grave objections could lie against
him as the representative of the Govern
ment at the English Court. 1t was hasty
of the Press to express suspicion that
the President was moved by selfish pur-
poses or narrow prejudice to make the
charge. We confess to having been in
clined to the popular suspicion; though
nothing in President Grants course can
be pointed out, affording a precedent
from which to justly proceed to such
Judgment of him.
Reverdy Johnson was recalled for fall
ing with too facile a grace into the man.
ner of the lordly English. His after
dinnerisms we're more courtly than pro-
ftable, and more pleasing to the people
to be dealt with than those TO be dealt
for. He was recalled as al improbable
servant. He had been as one made
prisoner on crossing tho lines, and
graduating into the full interest of a
born Briton. For like reasons, it now
seems, Minister Motley is invited home,
to refresh his faith at the wash of Ply
mouth Rock.
What may come of the change in af-
fairs, can not just now be predicted.
The Government at Washington was ter
snubbed in the person of the lordly
He presented the bland request
that further negotiation Of the question
of the Alabama claims be conducted in
Westinghouse this Government had
before been to the trouble and expense
of conducting the case in London. Lord
Granville superciliously cut off the sug-
gestion with the remark that Her Majes-
TVS Government could not see it useful
nor expedient to continue anywhere a
controversy in which it seemed neither
Government could hope to convince the
other. Instead of Indignantly demand
ing his passports, and taking down his
sign, or at least promptly asking to be
recalled, the suave Minister meekly
pocketed the insult, and quietly went
his ways-and is charged with affecting
the ways more of a lordly Briton than
those of a democratic American. The
is grave, and in either particular
very serious-affording abundant reason
for his prompt disgracing.
1t seems to us, indeed, hereaway, out
of reach of the Establishments of courtly
customs, that the President, now that he
has selected a successor to the historian,
to send him charged with explicit
demands for a prompt settlement of the
in hand on an American under
standing of their business; and require
the British Government to com up
promptly. without equivocation, circum-
locution or delay, to the settlement
presenting and justifying its offsets, or
offering immediate and tangible satisfac-
ton. The time is suspicious, and a
nation faithful to its people must take
advantage of such circumstances. Eng
land is just now roaring the lion over
the continental prospect. Let us see
that she is herself in danger, and not
in position to disdainfully waive aside
our demands, while menacing her neigh
bors over the channel. 1t is a grand
occasion, and we will be doing no injus-
tice to others by sharply calling for our
own rights.
It is the talk, that Bancroft also is to
be recalled from the Prussian Court, for
too courtly and unAmerican affability.
If the accusation is well founded, it is
well to call him back; and send in his
place some less bland and more demo-