Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-26
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signifed 10 me IL the following terms
the ordes 81 His Majesty. T
The Emperof, said be, wishe.
that you should proceed in this mattel
with the most scTupulous impartiality
III, in right, or even in eqzity, weoWs
anything, whether a dollar or a million
of dollars, we ought to pay without hest
Eating; buff this Is an attempt at ex'
~tortiOn, destitute of any just basis, We
tmust not lend ourselves 20 It despite
our desire TO be agreeable to the Fedora.
Government" AASt
1t was in this disposition that the
Commission Of Inquiry was set to work,
Tmust add that, for my part, i brought
10 il q sincere desire toflHd some way Ol
resolving amicably Rnraflair which
foresaw would bring about grave diff
eulties in the accomplishment Of my
mission.
The labors Of the investigation ended
In the eyidentdemonstration of the com
plete inanity OF this claim. i
Ny instructions prescribed TO me in
consequence to explain to the Cabinet at
| Washington, in categorical though
friendly terms, the reasons which made
it impossible for the Imperial Cabinet to
satisfy the pretended Perkins claims o.
to submit it, in the absence Of any just
ground for it, to an arbitration.
On my arrival at Washington Mr.. j.
Il. Stewart and his partner, Mr.. Il. Tas-
sitro, demanded an Interview with me,
alleging as the ground Of their request
" their desire to produce new proof in
support of their claim =" and complaining
of having never been understood by my
predecessor. This / could not refuse.
A few days after, Mr.. Stewart pre-
sented himself at my house. Without
presenting any new proof, he tried to
convert me to the idea of a compromise
in saying 4" that the support of the adj
ministrati0n was gained to their cause,
that Judge Dent, the br0ther-in-law OF
the President, was interested in it, and
thatif / made too much opposition they
would find means to break my neck.n
l received with the same indifference
these offers of compromise and these
menaees.
8 = . > >
The day after Mr.. J. B. Stewart sent
me a so-ealled affidavit of the inter-
view, in which he attributed to me pro-
pOsals that / hadnot made, and which,
if made, I would have recognized the
validity of the Perkins claim.
Knowing with whom | had business, l
had taken precautions. A person placed
in thenextroom had taken a note of the
conversation, and Mr.. Stewart, forced to
submit to the truth, saw fit to withdraw
his false affidavit.
After this / forbade to the advocates
Of the widow Perkins aeees to nay
house, and / answered none of their
written communications.
Five months after, that is to say the
fourteenth Of March, 1870, 1 had a conf
Dental interview with Mr.. Hamilton
Fish, of which I have rendered an ac-
count to the Chancellor of the Empire,
Prince Gortschakof, in a report of the
tw~enty-first of March, given below in
the appendix.
1t appears from this report
That Mr.. Stewart had sent back to the
President, by the mediation Of Mr..
Dent, the brother-in-law of General
Grant, dispatches which had been at
tributed to me.
That, in the faith of a false Geographic
rumor, spread at this time in the United
States, announcing the retirement of
Prince GortsehakOf and his replace
ment by Ge.eral Ignatief, these pre-
tended dispatches, of an inadmissable
tenor, and which had been exchanged
between the Minister of Foreign Affairs
and myself, were placed under the eyes
of the President, with the end of preju-
him against the Russian Minis
ter; and, in short, that the Secretary Of
State, while recognizing the apOehry-
phal character of these dispatches, was
not willing to begin suit against the
authors Of these wrongs, Sin order to
scandal and under the pretext
Of the legal impOssibility Of being severe
upon them.
At last Mr.. Fish told me some days
after that he had had Messrs. Stewart
and Tassistro before him in order to in
5errogate them on the manner In which
The dispatches had been procured, and |
hat they had affirmed that they held
hem from the First Secretary of the
imperial Russian Legation.
l protested theoretically againt an as
ertiOn so calumnious. 1 said to Nh.
Fish that it seemed to me inn
possible that people even Of that charac-
er should dare to attribute to an en-
whose honor had always been I'M
such an act. / demanded of
Tim, indeed, if he had not made a mis-
axe, and if it was not some other indi-
'idual bearing the same name that had
zen designated.
"No, no." replied Mr.. Fish, ait is
cry certainly Of the first secretary OF
our legation that they have spoken, for
hey have said that it has been in order
o succeed you that he has betrayed
Informed Immediately by myself Of
be fact of this odious imputation, the
irst secretary of the imperial legation
resented himself with two lawyers at
he house Of Mr.. Tassistro and obtained
him a formal re~traction.
A similar step was taken with the
asne result with M ]. B. Stewart.
| transmitted the afidavits of these
interviews to She Secretary of State,
While praying him in a letter IA copy of
Thieh is given in the appendix to
everely punish the eulprits.
Under different preteXts Mr.. Fish de-
lined all pursuit and all inquiry.
sEncourged by impunity, the advocates
the Widow Perkins and their pro-
ectors had these false dispatches printed,
fter having eliminated from them the
lost improbable passages, and distribu-
I'd them among the members of Con-
ress in order to provoke a sentiment in
of this enterprise.
This is the beginning and the middle
nd the end of the great Catacazy con-
oversy, Out of the facts above stated Z
rev the dispute which even more than {
le shameless course pursued by this }
toward Eengland, has tended Z
make American power contemplate
nd to prove that American honor has
D representative in the administration I
Washington. We regret that our !
,ace forbids us from publishing the /
ltire statement of the Russian Diplo- I
Il proves clearly and conclu- \
vely that the Grant administration, [
incapable of dealing with great 1
.ternational questions, is capable Of 7
ling fraud, SANDER and malice to ae- I
'mplish the petty ends Of our petty 6
lers at Washington.
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