The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-11

sst heen concluded have no right to speak for
the nSg sof late i
and to which We reported from time to time, as
faithfully as we could every step In the progress OF
at such time AZ 1t may think right its own
acts and those OF It's diplomatic agents, done In
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action which is now pending. shah refrain, there
fore, absolutely, from adding word TO what has
and nom attempting word Of comment on them.
II was suggested to me yesterday by . friend that
Oraton-s,s parapsesesiass No; that Is TAI kind Of
Grafton which on our part cannot be made now.
ARE THE NEaorIAToRs TO BLAMEi
have sometS Sns &c 70 s say but Il Gam and
q the negotiations. the true rue and proper
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orders he acts. He IL responsible II he falls either to
execute those orders TO the best Of his ability or
know. But his Judgment may be overruled ana his
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ments which he wholly or partly dfsapproves. Yet,
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tial part Or A. and for the treaty Is whole, am
mttsd 70 observe in passing. before taking leave Of
this part Of the subject, that treaty IL an nstru
oonveysncer's chambers, nor Commit to knot
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nations has 70 b oonsulted, and discusaion must
ment to scosps finished o. even less accurate
rate one, and which must be construed literally and
reasonably according TO what appears to be the
true intention Of the contracting partiss In all this
defence OF suOh antiquities can be founded on 1t.
But Of apparent faults Of expression, has often
There are several things which would willingly
say u there were time for them, and one or two
servations which naturally occur to q person who
for the nrst time has been called upon to take an
pa Is ana % ss ana s lion
with that country. &sN& er~tt7H ~.
THE DIFFICULTIES AND DELAYS OF NEGOTIATION.
such as they are arise In great measure from the
fact that the true princpais-the parties really
to face with each other. The envoy represents his
government; the government, either directly or
through an Intermediate responsibility to repre-
Authority thus delegated through successive hands
Is exercised under series Of restraints, and the
pediments as punctilousness (Which is national
pride exhibiting itself In detas. the fear Of
possible bargain, and the other motives which con-
duce to promote the process vulgarly called bag
Cling. The uncertainties Of negotiation and the
restraints which popular institutions impose
in the United States. There are in the United
taintv which exist nowhere else. arising from the
singular force OF party influence and the unceasing
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tween the President and his Ministers and the Sem
ate, the composition OF the Senate ITSELF aud fur
Of Observation-Disclosures in respect Of the Subjects
which runs through the American character.
YOU TREAT IN AMERICA WITH PENSIONS
who consider themselves less the representatives
OF the President or his government than of The
Senate body Of more than seventy men, IN which
the smallest State count for much those of the
greatest; body Of which the Secretary Of State.
AFFAIRS, Is not member, to which, therefore, he
cannot personally explain his policy, and which he
regards Parliament, but as q separate and external
power, to be managed through the fundamentally
Of others, convinced and persuaded whore this is
necessary. have ventured to say that there Is In
the American character certain vein of unreason-
ableness on matters Of foreign policy which Is easy
Intoxicating effect Of rapid and prodgtous growth
and almost boundless prospects, coupled with the
dence which nation may naturally feel when 1t
has not merely an island but almost q continent to
past, America almost exclusively OF her future, and
ns ideas Of tSs Of MEMS
SHAH sRSs be without Example IN ne the 'u past, are
ess ssuses think the eou1ea with neq
haps an excessive appreciation Of the merits of
. good bargain, have produced In people which
placable as any in the world some tendency in
their foreign relations to that which the Greeks
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ton between the United States and England Is
such as exists between no other two countries In
the only country towards which the United States
have any old traditions Of hostility the only coun-
She is" is also the only considerable Power besides
themselves remaining on the American continent.
But, Notwithstanding, and together with all this,
there is In America, there ia In England the sense
Of
A REAL UNITY,
two nations unity Of race LANGUAGE literature
social habits and habits OF political thought and ac
ton, as well as Of general and substa9Fal inter.
can do on either side, and which no quarres, no re-
sentiments, nor even war ITSELF can destroy. It Is
s s no al ar6itraSs between ourselves and YOU
the y With you are too close Is ssGsr the ntsrvsn
two nations arg after all two, and must be con
tent so to regara each other; and arbitration s
weTs gs man a n%
constituted who, either there or here, has not
some sense OF 1t; and II influences in various ways
not only the bearing OF America towards England,
towards the American Yet this consciousness sp Of
unisv--Or o. near relationship ii you Willis COm-
patible-it is indeed more than compatible, espe-
cially in people OF ytyacious temperament and
with the strong English sense OF JUSTICE, with yehe-
ment resentments where there has been real or
''R rue HRksasrIIENr FELT IN THE UNITED STATES
toward England at the close OF the civil war was
more general and much more deep and fervent
than most OF us were aware of, and more so than
any Of us, who knew how little we had really done
to deserve 1t, were able to realize. There was
throughout the whole country q universal convic-
ton that England had been both ungenerous and
unjust toward America, and this conviction has not
been entirely removed, though the pognancy OF the
feeling has been allayed by time. On the part OF
the government this had been evinced by more than
one act Of what to us seemed very like peevshness;
and the government followed what IL knew or be-
lieved to be the sentiment Of the people, II there
be one lesson which history teaches us with espe-
cial clearness 1t Is that national resentments are
long lived, and that It is very imprudent to think
lightly Of them. The special mission OF last year
was generous advance on our part for the sake Of
q thorough reconciliation. Generosity is q word
with which IL Is easy to point sarcasm. 1t Is out
OF place, we are often told, between nations. There
Is kind OF generosity, no doubt, whiches always
out OF place. IT.
FOR THE SAKE OF A RECONCILIATION,
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