The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-29

heart, and which never had q lodgment in
the bosom of the coarse-grained school in
which our President was reared. We mean
grateful recollection Of the past; sympathy
founded on gratitude to the French people,
not their ruler; lingering meuory of what
in the hour of agony, when we were an infant
nation, they or their ancestors did for us; a
thought of him, eour friend, and the dear
friend of Washington, over whose modest
grave in the Rue de Picpus the invader
must, if triumphant march, clreless of the
"great inhabitant below. If we we're
to hear of the President assisting to
lay the cornerstone at Elizabeth (where
he has a cherished kinsman) TO the
memory of the gallant Bruuswickers aud
Hessians who murdered Mrs. Caldwell,
or of Rail at Trenton, or of Donop at Red
Bank, we should not to be altogether sur
prised. But sympathy for the land of Lafay-
ette, and Rochambeau, and Lauzen, and
Chastellux, and Fleury, is not to be looked
for. Even the Gallo glow of his friend Mr..
Borie is, we fear, cold, and Badeau's French
blood is not thicker than water. General
Grant probably never knew (for, thanks to
Bancroft, who reads of the Revolution now p
that a young Frenchman stood closest to
Wayne's side when he led the storming party
at Stony Point hauling down the British
flag amidst the firing, and that Washington
and his staff (think of this, Protestant Puri
tan of to-day y attended mass in honor of
the French alliance. He never heard of the
gay and gallant Du Portal, or of the good,
simple-minded Able Robin.
Idle we admit it to be nowadays to talk or
write about sentiment or sympathy. The
age of chivalry has gone with a vengeance,
and we stoop from the realms whittier fam
ciful memory has lifted us to a practical
difficulty which, we suggest, is fatal to the
mediatorial scheme of the Times. We hear
from our special telegraphic correspondent
that Mr.. Gladstone and Earl Granville are
in council at Walmer, receiving hourly intel
ligence, and ready to pacifcate or intervene
at a moments notice. At Paris and Berlin,
and everywhere, England is adequately repre-
sented. So is every neutral power; while
the United States at this juncture has not
trustworthy representative Counting out Mr..
Marsh, whose litery leisure is undisturbed at
Fiesole or Arcetri) on the continent of
Europe; and the English mission, whence
alone could emanate good offices, is left
vacant, to be filed, perhaps, by the highest
bidder, and actually, as we see, solicited by
needy advertisements in the newspapers
Bancroft is known not to be in favor at Long
Branch, and would have been brought home
but for the blGckade in the North Sea. He
is not the nurse to minister soothing syrup
| to so rugged baby as Bismarck Wash
burne has his hands full with his
protectorate and house of refuge in Paris. 1t
may be (and this the scandal of the long
vacancy in London makes plausible) that our
President relies on purely military agency
for his diplomacy, and intends running the
machine" with Badeau and Sheridan and
Sickles-men of his own type and after his
own heart If this is not the case, and the
final catastrophe of bloody war is so near that
no fresh American mediator could reach the
warning hosts in season, we suggest to our
amiable neighbor that the chance of this
mode of pacifcation is slender indeed.