St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
A WISE AND NOBLE LORD.
Earl Dunraveu Deprecates the
Delay in Appointing Sackville's
Successor.

LONDON, Dec. 22.-In the house of
lords last night tine Earl of Dunraven,
speaking of the Sackville incident, said:
81 do not propose to go into details.
The sooner the episode is buried, to my
mind, the better, but | must express
regret that the papers have not been
presented to parliament. | trust that
this will be done before parliament is
prorogued. Whether the circumstance
is correctly described by the prime min
lister is an episode in election
eering, whether our minister
he technically or unintention-
ally committed blunder, whether the
| United States government was justified
under any circumstances or by the
peculiar circumstances of the moment,
are all matters beside my point, which
is whoever is TO blame or whether any
one is to blame. Surely it would have
been more dignihed on our part and
more worthy of our position to have
taken no notice of the matter, which,
as the prime minister early remarked,
is no matter affecting the two nations.
In the case of some foreign powers diff
ferent considerations would affect us.
but our relations with the United States
are peculiar. We use the word foreign
toward them because there is no other
suitable expression, but L am loath
to use the term toward the great
republic. The United States is
automatically speaking, foreign
power, but she can never be a foreign
land to us. Her citizens are mainly men
selves, having the same names, speak
ing the same tongue, worshipng under
the same form of religi and living
under the same common law. Their
institutions, though differing, are very
similar in their integral respects to our
own, and are founded on the
SAME LOVE OF LIBERTY
and law. and capacity for self-govern-
ment. 1t is impossible to look upon
such people as foreigners. though one
is obliged to speak of their country as
a foreign power. OF all the civilized
nations we alone can understand the
United States. and she alone can under
stand us in respect to the difficulties ir-
reparable from the system of party gov
eminent. Any misunderstanding arts
ing between us would be held to
be most deplorable by a vast
majority of all thinning men on both
sides of the Atlantic. | fear that
SItUhluS VI lliC OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES dS bC-
longing TO the history of electioneering
may have had an irritating effect upon
public opinion in America. Be that as
it may. it is certain that any longer de-
lay in filing up Lord Sackville's place
is liable to be misunderstood by the
American people. | hold it to be our
first duty to avoid the possibility of
anything that may lead to want of
sincere friendship between this mother
country and the colonies. and after that
| consider it our second duty to avoid
any such possibility between the
United States and ourselves. Before
long another minister Will be accredited
to the court of st. James. All who
know Mr.. Phelps personally, and all
who recognize the
DIGNITY AND COURTESY
with which he has discharged his duties
will anticipate it with regret. If we
hesitate and delay 10 accredit minis
ter at Washington the United States
may retaliate by delaying to accredit
minister to us. Two great international
questions are awaiting Solution-tiShery
ana eXtradition-and these we cannot
hope to settle except under conditions
of real friendship between the two
countries. Therefore | ask the prime
minister whether the government in
tends to appoint a minister TO succeed
Lord SackVi!le at WaShingtOn?'