New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-19
MIR. DANA'S REJECTION.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS ABANDONED REGARD
ING THE NEXT MINISTER.
iFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSE.l
LONDON. April Eve have the news OF Mr..
Danas rejection. 1t appears that we are not to be
allowed the luxury of regarding with respect any
department or branch of the Government high
degree of virtue, we do not doubt animates the
breasts of both the Executive and the Legislative or
Advisory branches at times. But unhappily. the
manifestations of it do not occur at the same mo-
ment in each. The President and Senate have agreed
in appointing many rascals too1ice. When an honest
and honorable man is nominated, the usual harmony
between the two factors of the appointingpowcr sud
denly yanshes When the foreigner sees this-sces
concord in favor of rogues and dscOrd about nOm-
inee of high characterize SCOTS. 1t is my business
to record the fact that he SCOTS, but am far from
supposng that to such high-souled patriots as Cam
eron and Morton the opinion of Europe can seem OF
the least consequence | will do them the justice to
say that there is little similarity between the mo-
tiyes which appear to actuate them. and those by
which the best public men of England are habitually
governed.
shall state what believe to be the feeling of
Englishmen on this matter, but wish to make no
conceament of my own feeling. 1 regret the rejec-
ton of Mr.. Dana on every ground-perSonally, as
we'll as for public reasOns-and it is open to anybody
TO qualify my comment on it az much as they Ike
for that reason. | share the opinion Of everybody
whom meet English and American alike, that The
action of the Senate is discredtabe TO the Senate
and To the Senate alone. THE Senate appear to
lhink,7 remarks The Daily Nccs, that the pubic
men and institutions Of America do not at present
labor under a sufficient stigma, and that the Bah
cock Belknap Schenck and other scandals, deserved
or unmerited are not numerous enough" and pro-
cecds:
o1ao ufofn fIaVg ulpo
t. II. Mob dy ut home abroad viii think me
worse Of Mr., Dana for bis rejection by the senate
body Will tnlnN the OF that body Which has
hitherto been regarded as the SAVING Institution OF
tie American Republic, enabling men oil chaTac-
Ter aud education, uch rs lind tnelr way INTO pubic
lie IN other untfIes, 10 take part III ponies
In refusing To submit his literary ard personal honor to
be adjud.catcd upon by any or body Of men, Mr.
Dau;. did what gentleman similar circumstances
mus nave "or, anu en, T " mnst APPROVE
nim having done l. s satisfactory 10 mad from tne
subject American aud English opinion coincide
Let me say in all sincerity that, agreeing as do
with every word of this, it is bitter thing to have
to read. Bitter because 1t is just condemna-
ton of a once august body, and bitter because no
American. De his private sympathies what they may,
can rejoice 10 the American Senate thus held mp
to deserved rcproach by one of the three or four
leading journals Of Europe Ii is impossible to see
1t without humiliation and anger.
IL does not appear that, although the names OF
Cameron and Morton are connected with the act the
rejection of Mr. Dana is due to political corruption
by money. II hardly have been needfnl for any
body of their school Ia bride or be bribed to vote
against Mr.. Dana. A vote on the side of virtue
might haze 10 be paid for but the pleasure of dong
a base action is IT. own reward. Messrs. Morton,
Logan. and Cameron are content with he fierce joy
of making the Senate of the United states the in
strumcnt of Mr. Buffers personal malice. The jing
NOT .fsIf help
ihat-wel, honor is the poets worl-honor feels. |
can even conceive Mr.. Butler himself working in
this cause without a fee.
This performance, then, is not classified here I'M
der the head Of political corruption. IL Is classified
as an act of political ruilInlsn. The Senate mas
only adopted with modification the well-known
principle of action associated in history with Donny
b. 1k Fair "when you an honest head, hit IT."
Our information, of course is not yet very COM
plete, but there seems reason To believe that
the pretext which Republican SEN
ators have defeated the nomination of
Republican Minister by Republican
President is supplied by Mr.. Dana's letter. Ger
tainly that was not n polite letter 1t was not an
oce-soekers letter, not the kind of literature with
which Mr.. Cameron and his colleagues in tins matter
are familiar. Yet their intelligence was quick
enough to see its meaning at once-to read between
the lines the feeling which his gooI-breading and
respect for the Senate it was, kept MIR. Dana
from expressing in words. The injury they had
done him ranked in their breasts Their resentment
against the appearance of gentleman III
that political life which they believed they
had secured against such intrusions, was
natural-pcrfcctly natural. 1t was little
,ncautiously expressed, indeed, because the cont
mnity scarcely share their prejudices on this point
and had not yet made up their mind that good man
ners ought to be III all cases disqualification for
high office. Men of the ability these men have
shown may succeed i'll the end. They may graft
barbarism upon dishonesty There is, they think,
no reason why people which submits to be robbed
should not submit to be- bullied-to be attacked in
the dark IA Mr. Dana His manly protest
against the introduction of garroting as Il means of
political action has nlamcd the ferocity of the gar
rters and he has fallen victim To their fury. But
the public has had fair warning Of what it may ex-
poet
II was found necessary Of course to drop the
charge Of literary piracy. Ii becomes ludierous to
dabate a question of morals Oh which President
Woolsey takes one side and Mr.. Butler the other
After Mr. Butler and Mr.. Lawrence had been
publicly convicted of dishonesty III the statement
they submitted to the Senate Committee. their
accusation could only be persisted in by yery reck
less or very foolish partisans. 1t is nothing to say
that such veterans in political intrigue az Dir.
Cameron and Mr. Morton did not believe the charge.
They have climbed to power by arts whIch-what-
ever else may be said of them-sharpen the faculties
sufficiently to enable them to detect the impudent
fraud which Mr.. Butler and Mr.. Lawrence per-
petrated.
But how happens it, asks everybody here, that
Mcssrs. Morton and Cameron were found voting
against Mr.. Danaf We were assured not long ago
that the President was supporting Mr.. Dana sim