Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-10-21

MIR. Adams and MIR. Bayard at ~. Pc.
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After John Quincy Adams Withdrew from the
United States Senate, in 1903, President Madi-
son appointed him, the following year, to be
Minister to ST. Petersburg and arriving in that
city in October 1909 he remained there until
April, 1914. In the meantime, our quarrel with
Great Britain over questions of the sea ripened
into war, and echoes Of tine contest reached him
at intervals in the Russian capital, though, at 30
long distance, they were almost drowned in
the nearer and infinitely more terrible thunder
Of the Napoleonic conflicts that conyulsed all
Europe. President Madison, however, was but
an Indifferent warrior and when the Emperor of
Russia rendered his good offices to assist in se-
curing peace between the United States and
Great Britain, he lost no time in sending of
Albert Gaatin, his Secretary of the Treasury,
and his staunch party friend, in company with
Senator James A. Blyard, Of Delaware, his pro-
nouneed party opponent, with commissions to
associate themselves with Mr., Minister Adams
and to negotiate, if possible, satisfactory terms
Of peace. To st. Petersburg they came, in
August, 1873, bag and baggage, with their "full
powers' signed and sealed, and All attendant
company Of Secretaries and attaches Colonel
Mligan. Major Dallas, Mr. Callatn Jr.,- such
as the thin and economical Mission to st. Pet
ersburg had never before boasted.
This arrival Of the two Commissioners, their
stay in the Russian capital for several months,
and the final gathering Of the negotiators at
Client, in June, 1874, are described by Mr.. Ad-
ANS in the second volume OF his journal, as
elitel and just published by his SOM There
was much delay in getting the negotiations in
form. The Emperor Alexander protested the
most friendly anxiety to mediate, but he was in
the field, day and night, with all the forces hii
own brain and body possessed and all the powel
his Empire could contribute, engaged in those
desperate and brilliant campaigns which includ
cd the catastrophe at Moscow, and closed will
tue fall Of Paris. His Thigh Chancellor,
Count Romanzoff, with whom the relations Of
Mr.. Adams had been of the friendliest character
gave them every apparent attention, but still
their business Jagged, during all the month
from August to January. The Commissioner
themselves pulled together toerably well BIr
Adams, if his Diary may be accepted to the let
ter, deferred to his colleagues in every unessen
tial particular. in order to smooth the way Mr.
Gallatin exhibited, quickly, his tact, his CONVEX
aance with the questions to be settled and hi
ability TO handle them and Mr.. Bayard war al
ways concerned ar to the manner Of proceeding
even in the smallest particulars, for, as he sai'
to Mr. Adams, from the composition of thu
commission, the people Of America would hay'
high expectations Of their work
There is abundant evidence in the Diary tina
there was no greater congeniality between Mr.
Adams and Mr. Bayard, while in st. Petersburg
than there had been in the United States Senate
-The life Of John Quincy Adams, Edited b
Chas. Francis Adams. Vol. II. Philadelphia
]. B. Lippincott & Co.