The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-05
TWO sNUBBINGs.

Sitting Bull REFUSES tne prOHefS Oh the
United States commissioners, and refuses to
accept their terms and return to the United
Htates and settle down on the reservation
assigned to him and his followers. He even
turns deaf ear to the admonitions and So
licitations of the British officials in Canada
TO abandon their soil and go where he prop
erly belonged.
s. b. tiourishes his tomahawk and says
No Americans in his
This is snub No. 1.
And now we have second case of an awful
8nubbing Of the representatives of our proud
republic by the Grand Turk through that
10ng -haired humbug, Maynard, Minister of
the United States to the Grand Porte.
It happened thus. Mr.. Schuyler, an over
zeaIous " humanitarian of the Yankee
school of Intermediates with other peoples
business, who Is Secretary of the American
Legation at Constantinople undertook to
Investigate and report. in the form of letters
to American and English newspapers, highly
sensational and extravagant reports of Turk
ish atrocities In Bulgaria. Constantinople
Journal took up, in regular American STYLE
IN. Schuyler and his letters, and put them
Through pretty severe course of rasping.
This legitimate journalistic freedom gave
great offense to Mr.. Maynard and his secre-
tary. Whereupon he pranced into the arena
with letter to Safvet Pasha, Turkish Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, complaining that La
Itvqaie had published an article rejecting
unkindly upon the Secretary of the Ameri-
can Legation and indicate towards the le-
grafton itself, ending by discourteous allu-
sion TO the government of the United States
The whole article, said Mr.. Maynard, is Of
fensive In tone and inexact in statement; and
his evil genius urged him on to ask the Turk
aSh government to take steps In the matter I,
The result Of this formidable missile to the
Grand Turk is happily related by the London
correspondent of the New York World
Safvet Pasha's reply was fatal snub, adj
ministered with delicious dexterity We
have all read Of the expert headsnan who,
with one sweep of his scimitar, decapitated SO
neatly prisoner that the prisoner never
knew that anything was wrong till he took a
pinch Of snuff, and on sneezing his head fell
of. Just such blow as this Safvet Pasha
administered. He said:
1t is true that that article contains Sc
have obtained for Mr.. Schuyler some no
y tDriety In regard TO the events of the Bulga-
Eian insurrection, and which have whether
rightly or wrongly, alienated from him pub
lie sentiment in our country. But I have
vainly tried to discover in the expressions of
that article, as well as in the thoughts which
promoted 1t, the least offensive intention
against the official character OF Mr.. Schuyler,
1nasmuch as this was not In question at the
time Of his peregrinations in Koumelia; and,
doubtless, 1t is not In that capacity that he
has addressed to foreign newspapers cor
respondence which did not spare In the least
our national susceptibilities. Neither have
perceived that the article referred to made
any improper allusion calculated to wound
the Legation of the United States at the
Sublime Porte nor the Federal government
Itself; and 1t Is evident that taken as whole,
that publication could not have the offensive
character which you deem proper to attribute
to it, and which would render it subject to
exceptional provisions of the law.
we have nothing more nearly ut heart, M.
Ia MiniStre, than to exhibit toward YOU, as
representative of government whose friend
snip we appreciate to the highest degree, such
consideration and regard as should testify
our sincere and constant attachment for the
which tha have sstWays desired
the present case, we must regret our inability
20 share with you the idea that there could
have been on the part of the newspaper La
1kFquie any injury inflicted upon the official
character OF the secretary and consul general
OF the American mission, or that we should
be authorized in deviating in this instance
from the ordinary provisions of the legisla-
ton In force.
IF Mr.. Schuyler believes himself offended,
either in his reputation or in his honor by
the imputed article, we are ready to aid him
with the legal means, in order to obtain the
redress which he might have the right to ex-
act from the newspaper La Ttrqaie under
the protection OF the law which regulates
offenses OF that nature; but we should be mis-
Judged by the American people, who, on all
occasions. show themselves 50 nobly Jealous
OF their liberties and prerogatives, if we were
to consent to assimilate the case which forms
the object Of your communication to an extra
legal question in which the honor and the
dignity OF the American mission were en-
Kaged
II, therefore, NJ lie Mnistre, deeply regret
my inability to satisfy the request you have
done me the honor to address me- otherwise
than by remaining within the limits pre-
scribed to me, as well by the sincere desire of
being agreeable to you as by the obligation
of satisfying the requirements OF common
law relating to press matters.
It seems strange that in two such old States
80 Nnu York and Pennsvlyania the ha,,ndarv