Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-02-04


"The note of Secretary Pereira, dated
January 25th, TO the American minister
in Chilli" said the Hon. Thomas F.
Bayard through THE GAZETTE this
week, seems to me to leave nothing
that can be reasonably or Justly asked
Tor by the people of the United States
1t Is frank, manly, self-respecting and
explicit, and at the same time thoroughly
respectful and even dsferential to the
people Of the United States. The same
thing may be said of the note of Mr.
Montt, written in Washington on Janu-
airy 23d and addressed to the Secretary
of State. 1t would seem impossible that
any pretext for further menace against
Shili could now be found, and it is to
pc trusted that the public mind will not
pe asitated by rumors of an unnecessary
war"
In these few admirably chosen words,
Mr.. Bayard has, we feel confident, ex-
pressed the sentiment of the American
people at large All that remains to be
done, now that Chili's conciliatory
answer has assured the re-establishment
of amicable relations, can be readily ac-
complished by the New York Tri5uae's
"two gentlemen across a table" When
everything has been satisfactorily set
tied, Mr.. Blaine will doubtless see his
way clear to supersede the mephitic
Egan with diplomat and gentleman.
In congestion with President Harri-
sons electioneering message Of Monday
last, the diplomatic correspondence, the
correspondence with the naval officials,
the inquiry into the attack on the Balti.
more's seamen and the San Francisco
investigation into the case of Patrick
Shields-the whole making volume of
1854 pases, much Of it fine print-have
been printed by the government and
distributed all over the land. We might
comment on the completeness and
,lpromptness with which all this matter
Was been prepared and disseminated,
,but We advert to this just now merely
TO say:
: That Mr.. Bgan's correspondence with
the state department shows unmis-
! takably that the two missions most
finfuentially and Importantly carrying
on commerce with Chilli were those of
Great Britain and Germany; that Mr..
Egan would have nothing to do with
eitheF of these. powers and would not
cooperate with them in their efforts 10
bring about reconciliation between
Balmaceda and the Constitutional party.
but selected the ministers of France and
Brazil as his only associates in medi-
alton. 1t is plain that Mr.. Egan threw
whatever weight he had, and that of the
government he represented, in favor of
Baimaceda and against the Constitu-
tional party. The result Of this was.
that when the Constituencies over
threw Balmaceda, the German and
British representatives were recog.
nized as the friends of the successful
party, and that the Constituencies
concurrently assumed that they owed
nothing whatever TO the American
envoy and the government which he rep
resented, but had succeeded withouttheir
aid and against their sympathies. This
is clearly established by the fact that
Mr.. Egan's residence instantly became
hesanctuary and asylum of the ministers
and agents of Balmaceda, who fiocked
thither TO the number OF eighty we are
told-agents who had most cruelty exc
cuted Balmaceda's behests in his bloody
attempts 10 overthrow constitutional gov.
eminent III Chill. These facts need no
further proof than is furnished in Mr..
Egans own dispatches to the Washing
ton government To understand the
popular irritation they must have pro
duced, let those of US who remember
the passions engendered by our own
civil war, try to imagine what would
have been the popular feeling in this
country towards Great Britain had the
Mason and Slidell episode and the
privateering depredations Of the Ala
bama and Florida eliminated in the
escape Of JEFF Davis and other leading
rebels to the sanctuary of the British
ministry in Washington at the close of
the war