National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-01-30

CuldCrOu government by INC United States. If,
unfortunately, he should be mistaken, and such q
motive be nvowcd, your duty will be a brief one.
He was then directed, if he found that
Chilli had seized Calderon in spirit of
resentment toward the United States, to
proceed as follows:
You viii say to the Chilan government that
the President considers such proceeding as an
intentional unwaTanted oilense, and that you
Will communicate such an avowal to the Govern
ment OF the United States with the assurance that
II Will be regarded by the government as an act of
such unfriendly import as 10 require the imme-
diatc suspension Of all diplomatic intercourse,
You viii inform me Immediately OF the happen
ing ofsuch contingency and instructions will be
sent to you.
These last-quoted words have since
been revoked ina letter of instruction to
Mr.. Trescot dated January . and signGS
by Mr.. Frelinghuysen. lie was-tt1S Sscer-
tain, as before directed, whether ofTense
had been intended ,bhf he was not to act
upon the inspN This it was to be re-
served ISffhe Government at Washing
IoSTo deal with. This seems very far
from a change of policy. Does anybody
suppose that if Chilli had avowed the
purpose Of offending the United States in
her dealings with the Calderon govern
ment, upon no matter what pretext, the
President would have eaten leek? Be-
cause the President withdrew from Mr..
Trescot the authority to express, upon q
named contingency, the displeasure of
this Government, who will imagine that
therefore we were to pocket an insult if
any had been intended?
Chill has disavowed all intention of of
Tending, and therefore the whole ques-
ton is settled The instructions written
by Mr.. Blaine to Mr.. Trescot in Deem
ber are in full operation, except as to the
few lines last above quoted. The junket-
ing trip home by way Of the South At
lantic and the visitation of other govern
ments appear only as an afterthought
communicated in separate letter. That
has been abandoned under more recent
instructions.
1t is over this that pother is raised in
certain journals and the country threat.
encd with pronunCiamento from Mr.
Blaine setting forth his South American
policy. We hope it will come. 1t will al
ways be iG.5s,, ting TO read Mr.. Blaine's
produc.ehs'' ''1iie language of his instrrc
tions to Mr.. Trescot is like growl for
peace. Itis impossible to find in it any diff
erent doctrine or policy from that to be
found in the later instructions framed by
Mr.. Frelinghuyseu but ore cannot fail to
see in the latter more harmony between
what is said and how it is said than in
the former. Mr.. Blaine makes peace
with Il warlike front, and seeks to per-
suade by menace and to sooth by buster
In what he may say to the country
he should not omit to state his opinion
of Hurlbut as paciicator or of Calde-
ron as protector of Peruvian interests
against the rapacity of adventurers
"The alter Cgo of President Calderon'
had better opinion of Mr.. Jacob II. Ship.
herd than Mr., Blaine appears to have
and he plaintively complains that his
friend was seized just as he had arranged
for a conference with him in the interest
of the Peruvian Company. How un-
fortunate it would have been if by any
mistake the United States should have
held Peru down while she was being
plundered, all in vindication of a whilom
de .factO government, which had lost
power by Il renewal Of hostile acts. II
the Chili-Peru business is to be discussed
let us have the real question. That
question is not how this Govern.
ment could best have resented an insult
which it is now proven was never given
but what are the limitations to our in,
reference with peace negotiations be,
tween the two nations? Upon this ques
ton the letters of Mr.. Blaine and Mr.
Frelinghuysen are entirely agreed, differ
ing only in the way of saying the same
things. Mr.. Frelinghuysen offers to aid
in bringing about peace as though he
greatly desired it, while Mr.. Blaine does
the same as though he rather hoped fol-
failure.
Both Secretaries appear to have acted
under the same instructions. The stress
laid upon the paragraph revoked is greatly
out of proportion to its consequence. II
shows no change whatever in the policy
adopted by President Arthur from the
first.