American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-09-04
A Stupid Assumption.

We are solemnly assured that the
Republican party ''has made the name
American respected in all quarters of
the globe" 1t must be held in pro-
found respect in China, where a we'll
known thief was promoted from Con-
sul-General to Minister Plenipotentiary;
where other thieves were quartered in
Consulates and upheld. defended and
protected by our Government. long after
the evidence of their guilt had been filed
in the Department of State.
Oh, yes, it makes our names ire
spected in all quarters of the globe to
see Consul who exposes the felonies
of United States officials threatened
with removal, while the felons whom
he has exposed are assured of protec-
ton.
And it's a glorious thing for our good
name abroad, for our credit ''in all
quarters of the globe" to buy up weak
old mans seat in the Senate with for
eign mission and send him to South
America to represent the honor of this
great Republic by coarse and brutal
treatment of his young wife, and by air.
ing in the streets of a foreign capital the
details of domestic scandal.
The seat of Isaac Christiancy in the
American Senate was bought by Mr..
Evarts, with the approval of Mr.. Hayes,
and the price paid for it was the mission
to Lima. The trade was publicly boast
ed of at the time of its consummation,
as openly as ever a jockey talked of
dicker in horse or mule flesh. And the
old man, thus bought out of his place in
the Senate, was sent to Peru, freighted
with the honor of his country.
So lost to all sense of decency was
the Administration and the party, that
they really saw no wrong in making
seat in the Senate of the United States
and foreign mission the subjects of
swap, like cows, mules or hogs. And
when the old man had gone down to
his post, and his wife, unprotected, had
followed him, and he had set the civil
lied world ringing with the shame of
his family scandal, the Administration
chung to him as it had chung to the
thieves in China-and that's the way
in which the Republican party has made
our name respected in all quarters of
the globe"
Do the English respect a Nation that
permitted itself to be despoiled of So
500, 900 for want of brains in it's Admin
istration? Not much. England has
little respect for such pusillanimity as
we displayed in the matter of the fish
Does Spain respect a Nation that per-
mits filibustering expeditions to be
fitted out in and sail from her ports and
land troops and war material in Cuba?
How much we are respected in that
quarter is shown by the frequency with
which Spain insults our flag.
These are but samples. We could
cite columns of similar illustrations.
The Republican party has done nothing
to inspire respect for this Nation or
=. the name American in any quarter
Of the globe.
We had commercial marine that
loated our flag in every sea. 1t -four
shed before the Republican party came
into power. 1t commanded respect,
for it bespoke an enterprising, pushing
people. That has vanished and the
party that has controlled National
affairs since 1861 has done nothing to
restore our merchant marine. We are
simply a child when we get beyond low
water mark. We are held in contempt,
Is a maritime people, by all other Ma
ions.
We had navy. 1t was destroyed by
hicves under two successive terms of a
Republican President. Does that COM
nand respect abroad?- Washington
Post.