The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-25

f0n s0fne time phsl, 10 fatt since We
question ~ mpfIsouing lfshhmefitan
suspects IN oroat Britain, arose numerous
and vigorous have been the cifohi Of cef-
tain parties ~ this country TO secure The fo.
call " MINISTER LowEtt, from the court Of
~ James. With all due Difference to the
opinions Of the parties who have been ana
Who are yet indeed seeking this end, we
must say that the proposition Is one
Of the most monstrously absurd which
has been made public for the
past twenty years. Fortunately some Of
the more influential public prints take such
view of 1t, and ridiculc the idea Of recall
ing, and thereby politically disgracing a
recognized great man, simply because he
fails to develop the warlike proclivties, land
give expression to the Observation-Disclosures
sentiments of one of the smallest factions
or classes of our 100000 Of people. Mr..
LOWELL is one of the foremost names in
our history, ripe in scholarship and all the
graces and attainments, socially and
intellectually, necessary for the dis
charge of his ministerial duties, and 1t Is
an honor to the United States to be repre-
sented abroad by such a man. To recall
him therefore because he does nothappen tc
be of the Fenian cast Of mind or choose to
complicate himself or.his government by
foolish intermedding in the local disturb
ances of England would be shameful. 1t is
not often that we get good man
abroad faithful type of both
cur independence and culture and
who can reflect credit upon us. Andthe eff
fort to retire sucha man and send to for
eign courts in his stead, some num-skulI
who would act in childish obedience to the
dozen or so Land leagues in the United
States and create serious misunderstand'
ings with perhaps our best European
friend, is about as irrational and absurd Q
demand as we can well conceive of. Mr.
LOWELL only offence is the declaration that
it was impossible for him to secure the re
lease of Irish-American agitators who go'
themselves into English prisons by viola-
ting local English statutes. For this sensi
bic and statesmanllke expression few
journals and perhaps one-twentelh of the
extensive population of these states think
Mr.. LOWELL should be recalled. Even the
New York Herald, so great journal as
that, becomes as Incorporate and ridicu'
lOus on the subject as Fenian orator
would in offering resolutions at an indigne-
ton meeting. Recently Mr.. BENNEr's big
paper remarked editorially as follows: "We
think it is expedient that the United States
should put another minister at
London, and we should not be
surprised if that were also the
opinion of Mr.. Lowell himself. Justly or
unjustly, he does not possess the conf
dence of the great body of American citi-
zens of Irish descent in matters of his charge
in respect to which their sensibilities are
uncommonly acute, and to such a morbid
degree is this the case that even his compli-
ments to England and to English institu-
tons which America inherits expressed with
diplomatic courtesy, at artistic and literary
dinners, are misconstrued into political
significance or woefuily misrepresented."
Some people seem always to forget the
fact that this is not an Irish country, or Ger
man, or English, or African, or what not,
but the home of all peoples and kindred,
and when our ministers are sent abroad
they do not go as the representatives of any
special class, but for us all, and with the
principal and really only special purpose of
maintaining our neutral and friendly rela-
tons with foreign governments. Under
such circumstances, therefore, the demand
Tor the recall of Mr.. LOWELL is not only
ridiculous in the extreme. but, if listened
to, would remove from European court cir
cles the only man vino is. by reputation and
ability, capable of properly representing
both the culture and development of this
new world.