New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-10

which has given Mr. Motley distinguished position
,np ,g OF the views presented in then recent
debate in the Senate and abounned ~ me-,
appropriate TO tho calm discussion OF GraFo ILL.,
national difference ard niue e ,l,ae Ter Mai@sty Gov
eminent TO lend patient ear to the presentation " o
American case.
THE SECRETS OF TIE SENATE DTyULGED.
Royond the objection its general tone anu syo vi
sson This paper appeared the President to be OBJ
ectionabe in other respects. IL assumed 10 Sa'o "
had pagsed in the Senate in its secret seSsio M" INC
motives which had acuated the members OF tia' pou''
II has always held that the debates IN etSr it
~ Tongress Ike the communications Of the fIesiuene
10 either Of those bodies, are not subjects ior
cusslOn with foreign Powers op9n They are
purey internal and delberatiNe, ana are lo artca
hrcJ Win and engaged in the formation OF the agere
gated and official expression OF the puDO ar into
GiScHssjon To have Laid before Of those Powers te
action of the other than its maj )4dHie,t, a.
have undertaken to explain the, motives fauhs W
ndgment wond have been an Unauthorized assumption
inconsistent with the Independence OF that oouJ anu
H@ain Mr. Notley's memoir" if adopted, would
have assumed to express the yle%yo e ne Prrsirnt
the main questions at issuc whereas the - ~
thought it wise, and in the interest of peace % U '
nnsfnono any presentation Of his views upon the man
issue beyond those which were subsequently, eApfoS;oea
which had been aroused in England by an, tne
rejection of the treaty and by thG ,ea afuess
speech made upon It had exhausted lnen9eiS i
There was nothing oxceptonabe in the manner IN Wlg
these views of Mr.. Motley were brought 10 te d ~
Inc Goyernment nor any undue tenacity eXihDltcd IA
their maintenance He presented them IN an @
form aud manner free from any cnniidered and we're
thought to he neither sound nor polite s and
tons were framed in different view OF the Itt aIt
duties involved IN the questions upon when tio TWO
Governments were mt issue.
mr. MoTLEY's INSTRUCTIONS.
TWAS not doubted whom he left the United States for
his post that would cordially accept and carry out the
views OF his Government according to these Instructions
even when they differed from those which he himself
entertained That such the duty of public Minis
ter deputed TO represent his Government there VIII DC
course @Sns 10 must gu''' be admitted by every candid
and impartial person. who compares ms u ] H.
account Of his interview with the Earl of Clarendon on
the 10Th Of June, that year The tone teinPet anu al
euage OF the Instructions were cOnclaOry Inc occt
Vas 10 postponc discussion and avoid further irrta
ton. This Government had rejected the convention
| measure of redress which Great Britain had Deen
| willing to accord consequent dlsappolntnent
| which the President thought should be allowed
To subsde before the two GOVERNMENTS cou 10
resume the discussion with reasonable expectation vi
an amicabe and satisfactory solution lie tneie!Vo
only abstained most cautiously from any lIIitating
expressions also from discussion OF the main issue
Reasons assigned why the rejected convention ha
not proved satisfactory without entering into argument
The positive Instructions to Mr. Motley as to what he
| must say were limited to two points: !,
| this Government in rejecting the recent convention
abandoned neither its own claims nor tnose OF Is vi
settlement Of the questions pending between the Two
Seeond He was further instructed that In his private
and social intercourse rs well in his official converse
TONS when II should become necessary he shOu PacQ
the Of grievance Of the United states agins
Great Britain, not much upon her Issuance OF INC
recognition OF the insurgents state OF %n nj '
II was left discretionary with Mr.. Motley to touch upon
certainly expected that he would
20 beyond the cautiously guarded expressions OF that
paper main nolpt o, difference between the riows Of tho
President and those advanced in Mr.. Motleys memoir
| WAS "A
upon the time the manner, and the rightulness,
d the BY %s 81 & g1s by
Britain The Presde,. held. in accordance with the
doctrine OF the Best writer's upon international law, ana
with the precedents of history and as logical
result from the fact Of national sovereignty that 1t Is the
right OF every Power, when civil conflict has arisen
within another state, and has attained sufficient COM
pexity magnitude and completeness to defend its own
the parties to the conflict, so faT as the ad
bE H IT, Mr. Motley was instructed that such the
Presidents views which he was to present II ne referred
70 THE point m the question ana ad ts STnpe eS Of the
original concession Of bcigerency by Great Britain as
me Ca ony so far as shows the beginning and the
anauS that of conduct which resulted so DIS
much in ITSELF in that it foreshadowed subsequent
events That it not TO he treated "a the Qrdra-
| m,n OF the complaint the instructors made
more clear by their reference TO tho ct that there
other Powers, that were cot~mporaneous with Great
| gland only had the concession been followed by acts
resulting in direct damage to the United States. Mr..
Motley expressly instructed, in his social and pri-
waite Intercourse and conversation, as well as when 1t
might become necessary to do so Officially to adopt these
intercourse with representatives OF other Powers, which
that the United States made such recognition by them
| ground of complaint This was regardless OF the time
Of any supposed prematuTity OF such recognition.
| HOW THE TRUST WAS FULFILLED.
Mr. Moey's dispatch OF the 18th Of June already re.
ferred TO- shows how he fulfilled the trust committed to
| him. The determination of this Government not TO
abandon it, claims those OF its citizens stated
| parenthetcoly, and in such subordinate way not
necessarily attract the attention Of Lord Clarendon
and OF expressing the hope entertained by this
Government that there would be early satisfactory,
and friendly settlement OF the questions at Issue, he
volunteered the unnecessary (and, from the manner
ment that the United states Government had no in
instructions he confessed despondent feeling some
times a. TO the possibility Of the two nations ever
this present moment OF their looking into each Others
| hearts. He repeats, almost In the identical
explcves the singing illusions and the cutting obser.
yaions which had been submitted in his 'memOr, re-
thorzed by his Instructions. He said that bad been
instructed to give the reasons whyn the opinion of the
President the treaty signed the 18th January last had
been rejected while no such Instructions had been given
him. He volunteered tie Information that the rejection
| OF the convention not in the slightest
degree an affair OF party lie talked Of the gravity OF
tht t h,,nua 70 rnlIe and festep ~ "nnds
that DE prDbed" of the intensity of opinion"
&c The whole tone OF these remarks In entire yar
ance with the tone and spirit of his Instructions. More
than once he went To the verge of admissible dip
| lomac suggestion, in abiding, without any authority
| in his Instructions for such menacing threatening
limitations, to the contingencies which would depend
negotiations concerning such vital questions that tho
President concurrcd i'm the action OF tho Senate
he wished hoped for unfrendy relations
that he wished brief in the negotiations, before
calmly reviewing the situation, and looking
the between the countries with all their dincu
ties dangers and contingencies, steadily in the face
ENGLAND THREATENED.
THE contingencies of war or peace! Neither the letter
the spirit Of his instructions authorized express
sions with which his remarks abOunded much less did