Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-16
MINISTER BELONG AND TEE
CHARGES LAID AGAISsT Hin
Ry THE s-NES YORK 1h.-
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cany of which Jo,.raGi il before us, 10
exhaustive Article defending Hon {.
f. D.iong. our Minister to the Court Of
Japan, from the charges preferred against
him in the New York Tribune of late
date. The defensive article takes mp the
charges seria!im and replies t" them cir
cun,st.ntially and satisfactorily. Here
is summary of the said defsns-:
First, in reply TO the charge that hr.
D.Long doe. not reside at the Capital.
the writer in the Gazette says, That
The facts are, that the American.
British, Russian and Spanish Ministers.
all live i'll Yokohama, amply malnfain-
ing Legation Offices in Yedo. to which
they resort when business calls them.
The German. and italian Representa-
tives. have within the last few months
taken up their residences in Yedo. but
formerly they also lived in Yokohama.
They are unmarried gentlemen. and are
able with less preparation than the
others, To move there.
Secondly. The charge that DeLons
has presented to the Japanese govern
m~nt and procured therefrom the liqni-
dation OF. certain unjust claims, is fully
denied and the accuser is challenged to
the proofs.
Thirdly. reference j. directed TO the
Books of the Legation and the State
Department both. in refutation of the
charge that he has recommended Ameri-
can. to off iai stations under the jap
2nese Government.
The fourth charge. that Of DeLong's
being defender of the coolie trade As
e1empli6ed by the part which he took
in the Muria La. affair is denounced as
wholesale falsehooi. Says the defense:
The whole scope and extent of Mr..
Belongs action IN the Maria Luz case
was simply this: He took no action until
the cuoli-s were released. and then
knowing that the Peruvian Government
would expect him AS its representative
to forward record of what had been
done, he obtained the record from thu
Japanese authorities and transmitted it
to Perm. Enemies of his, known. the
great xensitivenfss of the mind of the
American public npon this question.
seized npnn this action ~ An oppcrtun-
isy to place NJ. DeLong in false posi-
ton. and injure him bv insisting that he
undertook to protect this traffic.
The fifth charge, That DeLon: sym
pathises With the Tyeoonate is tiouted
as an absurii,y too manifest to be seri
ously considered-especiall in face Of
the fact tina: the Mikado himself
through his Prime Minister, went so far
as TO ask the Government of the United
States. as a valued favor, that it make
Mr.. belongs appointment IL permanent
one.
Az original draft of the letter from the
japanese government requesting him to
accompany the japanese Embassy on
its tour in the United States is a suffi-
eient answer to the very mean accHsi-
tion that Mr.. DeLong took himself
alon. with that depu,a'ion nninvited.
Moreover, the fact is mentioned that at
late drawing room reception given iy
the Emp re ss, an present ut which were
the Russian Minister ami his wife and
Mrs D Long. the Emperor in person
took occasion to thank Nr. DeLony for
the attention he had shown the said
Embassy in its travels.
One and all the accusations of tn.
Tribune are met and demolished; and a.
to their author, he is denounced as IA
drunken fellow who had been harbored
at the American Legation until his
haii.s became So offensive that he could
no longer he tolerated. and who wrote
this budget of accusations TO the Tribune
out of mere personal spite. The spirit
of this defense il well and strongly set
forth in the following, which is an ex-
tract from the e1ordium:
To the intelligent foreign community
Of Japan. and more esp-cislly of Yoke
hama. it would seem work of snp-ror-
CATION, to reply to these sd called
charges. Mr. D-Long is we'll and most
favorahly known in this Empire, both
officially and socially. and when it is