Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-07
AMBASSADOR BAYARD.
A Worthy Successor Of Illustrlous
Predecessors.

Zone of tho Most Favorable Specimens of
American Citizenship That the Great
Republic Has Ever Sent Across the At
Iantic."
London Daily Telegraph Of May 10Th.
In few days well.merited honor
will be rendered to the American naval
officers at present amongst us-most of
all, perhaps, to that brilliant writer who
first taught US the influence of "Sea-
Power" upon history, Captain A. T.
Mahan. He and his comrades have been
invited to banquet in ST. James Hall,
and Lord Spencer, as First Lord of the
Admiralty, has been asked to take the
chair. 1t is not only, however, the occa-
sional visitors who cross over 10 our
shores from the other side of the At
lantic whom we delight to honor in this
country; VIC arc equally proud and
happy to make at home amongst US the
official representatives who, from time
TO time, are accredited BY the United
States to the Court Of st. James Ameri.
can Ambassadors during their official
residence in this country occupy
unique and specially privileged position
Ever since the gracious reception ac-
corded on June LIST, 1888, by George III
to Mr.. John Adams, down TO the present
hour, they have been regarded with
special favor By the sovereign, the gov.
eminent and the people of England.
Indeed the honor about to be lavishcd
by this country upon his official
successors was foreshadowel in the
graphic account given by Mr.. John
Adams in letter to Mr.. Jay, of his
first interview with George Ill, whom
he addressed in the following respectful
words "rhe appointment OF minister
from the United States to your maicsty's
court will form an epoch in the history
of England and America. l think
myself fortunate in having the distin.
guished honor to be the first American
to stand in your maiesty's royal pres
encc III diplomatic character, and
shall esteem myself the happiest of men
II can be instrumental In recommend
ing my country more and more to your
royal beneyolence, and of restoring
esteem, confidence, and affection be-
tween two people with the same
language, religion and blood" Mr.
Adams further remarks that the king
listened to every word that he said with
evident emotion, and answered without
moments delay: "Sir, the circum-
stances of this audience are so extra
ordinary, the language you have held is
so extremely proper, and the feelings
you have discovered so Justly adapted
to the occasion that | not only
receive with pleasure your assurance of
the friendly disposition OF the United
States, but am very glad the choice has
fallen upon you to be their minister. AS
| was the last to conform to the separa-
ton, so am | now the first to accept the
friendship Of the United States as an
independent power, and shall checrfully
exclaim with you, Let the circum.
stances of language, religion and blood
have their natural and full effect
10 what extent these softening and
harmonizing influences have exercised
their beneticcnt sway is attested by the
scene witnessed whenever the American
Ambassador rises to address an assem-
bly, Of Englishmen on some public occa-
sion. Ii all the diplomatic representa-
tives of the United States in this coun-
try had emulated the example of Mr..
Richard Rush Of Philadelphia, who re-
sided in London in that capacity from
February, 1919, when he had his first
interview with Lord Castlereagh at his
private residence in st. James Square,
down to April Goth, 1920, when he
attended the levee and informed Mr..
Canning Of his recall to Washington,
whittier he had been summoned by
President Adams to preside over the
Treasury department, their memoirs"
or diaries" would have been as enter
| tanning as those of the Venetian Am.
bassadors, whose dispatches furnish
mines of Information to the historians
| of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
1t has been the practice of the Great
Republic during the whole of its exis.
tence to give priority over statesmen to
literary men or sympathizers with litcra-
ture in selecting the Ambassadors sent
from Washington to London. Among
them have been included two Adamses,
Mr.. Edward Everett, Mr.. james Buch.
anan, Mr.. Motley, Mr. James Russell
Lowell, Mr.. Phelps, and Mr.. Bayard,
and more interesting and instructive
book it would be impossible to conceive
than collection Of the speeches deliv-
cred by these accomplished and SYM
pathetic Americans during their official
residence in this country. England has
never failed to exercise magnetic in.
tluence upon its "kin beyond sea" who
have represented the great nation across
the Atlantic, as to which Mr.. Rush pro.
phesied in 1924 that il would one day be
the proudest boast of this country to
have been the mother of such datgh.
ter. The late Mr.. James Russell
Lowell was said to have been
more or less cold, and even
hostile, towards the inhabitants of
these islands when he first took up his
| al A
How completely his sentiments were
changed before he returned to his native
country is attested by the warmth and
sympathy of his speeches on literary
subjects, such us the memorial offered
by Cambridge University in honor of
the poet Gray. Wiser and witter, per.
haps, than any of his public speeches
was the remark once made by Mr..
Lowell that his best thoughts and hap
plest phrases were conceived and uttered
as he returned home in cub from some
public dinner, and, again, his saying, on
the same occasion, that it was all very
well to talk about the advantage Of
speaking on "the spur Of the moment"
but that depended good deal upon the
sort of animal you had TO spur. In
recent times no more,falicitous valedic.
tory speech was ever delivered than that
which fell from Mr.. Phelps lips when,
at the Mansion House, he babe farewell
to his host, the Lord Mayor, Sir james
Whitehead, and to an unusually bril-
liant assembly of English guests, after
passing four years in this metropolis.
Mr.. BaYard, who, on the defeat OF the
Republican party in 1852, succeeded Mr..
Robert Lincoln as American Ambassa-
dor, has already proved himself a
worthy successor of such eloquent ora