St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-25
HENDERsoN's HEAD LEVEL.
We Do in Chilli What We Do Not
Tolerate at Home.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-Ex-Senator
John Is. Henderson, of Missouri. does
not think our government is wholly in
the right in the Chilian cont roversy. In
discussing the situation today, particu-
larly with reference to the right of asy-
lum for refugees, he finds two sides to
it. The refugees sent to Caliao, he
says, are citizens of Chill who, being
guilty. of crime under CHILEAN, law,
Of the United States ~ ministers lister.
Patrick Egan. in order to escape
the punishment due to those crimes.
Those men have not only been shell
tered and protected at the house and at
the legation of our minister resident at
Santiago for several months against the
the protest of the existing government of
Chill, which we have acknowledged,
and with which we claim to he at peace,
but they are finally peaceably transport
ed by land from Santiago to Valparaiso
and there placed Oh war vessel OF the
United States to be safely transported
by the authority of our government be-
yOnd the Jurisdiction of the country
whose laws they have violated. This
is regarded at the navy de-
partment as an indication that
affairs are quiet in Chilli at present.
l think myself after this much of humil-
iation Oh the part of Chilli the further
suggestion that she desired war must be
totally abandoned by our people. Sup
pose that during the late civil war in
this country the English or the French
minister at Washington had given
shelter or protection to jefferson Davis,
to Jacob Thompson, to Gen. Early or
Gen. Beauregard, how long would the
house or the person of that minister
have been respected? To submit the
question is to evoke the answer. AS
MIR. Fish, our own secretary of state in
1875, said to Mr.. Barton, minister to this
country from Hayti:
ut Is not probable that the practice
(of asylum would ever be attempted in
this country. or if attempted could be
tolerated, and the diScontenance which
the United States extends to the prac-
tice is upon the principle of doing to
others as we would they should do unto
no, so that when we acknowledge the
sovereignty of state by concluding
treaties with and by accredIting diplo-
matte officers to its government, we I'M
pliedly at least acknowledge it as a
political equal, and we claim to extend
to it all the present prerogatives and
lmmunltleS which we may claim for
ourselves. We sincerely desire that it
may be universally recognized that
foreign legations shall not here be made
harbor for persons either charged with
crimes or who may fear that such a
charge may be made. Prominent among
the reasons for objection on our part to
giving asylum In legation, and espe-
cially in the governments to the south Of
us, is that such a practice obviously
tends towards the announcement of
OffenseS for which asylum may be de-
sired. There is cause to believe the
instability of the countries where the
practice has been tolerated may, in a
great degree, lead to such federation.
For this reason, if for none other, the
government of the United States,
which is one of law and order
and of constitutional observance, de-
SireS to extend no encouragement to
a practice which it believes to be
calculated to promote and encourage
revolutionary movements and ambitious
plottlngs. Instances, too, have occurred
where an asylum, having been granted
with impunity, has been grossly abused
to the defeat of justice, not only against
political offenders, but also against per-
sons charged with infamous crimes.
Such abuses are plainly incompatible
with the stability and welfare of gov
eminent and society ITSELF"
After quoting further utterances of
Seward, Marcy and Bayard, on this sub
ject, to show that the United States
have uniformly condemned the practice
of granting asylum for refugees, Gen.
Henderson said:
1--WE have no right to interfere with
the civil policy of other nations, and to
make the houses of our representatives
abroad harbor for offenders against
their laws is an insult to them far great
er than the action of unauthorized mobs
can possibly be to us. If we had to 60
to war with every nation the blood of
whose citizens stains our soil from mob
violence, no full years of peace would
bless our land. The Chilians worship
the same God whom we worship. They
believe in the same Bible and accept
our Christian creed as faith. The right
OF asylum is no longer claimed except
in barbarous or heather states. To
assert the right in Chill is to brand the
Chilians as barbarous.
"Chili repudiates all governmental
responsibility for the mob of last Octo-
Der. She claims that it was the sudden
and unlicensed outbreak of drunken
men on both sides. She proposes to es-
tabliSh this fact under the due admins