Year: 1866

war with one or more of the great powers oi
Europe, it will certainly not be the fault OF the
radical revolutionary party of the North. "hhe
eur war was going on they did everything IN theT


power to provoke Great Britain and trance-the
former especially-into hoshtiesi with the prl- |
mary object no doubt, ofsecaring the recognition
of the Confederate States and thus rendering the
restoration of the Union impossible, and with o
secondary purpose of preying upon the CONNER
cial marine of those nations with privateers.
since the war has closed the same system Of cap
tious complaint of unreasonable demand, of unjust
aspersion has been steadily kept up requiring all
the wonderful diplomacy of Mr.. Seward to keep
this country out of the actual embodiment of war.


Those who respect the dignity of this country
and feel pride in its character must have been
panied at the recent exhibition which Mr. George
Bancroft made in delivering his eulogy upon ex-
President Lincoln. An occasion of that sort, it
would seem, should have been considered the least
fit Of all others for a TRADE such as Mr.. Ban
croft made against nearly all the European powers
but Russia. There was certainly enough in the life
character and public services of Abraham Lincoln
TO occupy more than the time usually devoted to
obituary discourses; and foreign powers cannot
fail to see in the circumstance, that Mr.. Bancroft
travelled out of the true path of his speech to make
this attack upon them another strong proof of
that radical hatred of them which seeks even the


most inopportune occasions to find vent.


The leading feature of the radical character


that which Is the spring of all their actons-is the


restless and uncomfortable desire to intermeddle


in other peoples business. They are not SATISFIED


with regulating the affairs of the United States, or


attempting to supervise the remainder OF the


North American continent, but they must extend
1 H. and ,I.on


all Europe within the folds of their capacious


philanthropy. That France should dare to inter-


yene in Mexico without humbly begging their per-
4 mission and obtaining their gracious assent, was


an offense not to be forgiven. That Great Britain


should refuse to pay the losses at sea which they


suffered from power which then had recognized


right as belligerent, was, if not oasus beAi the
next thing to it. That Austria should furnish


prince to the Mexican Empire, and Belgium help


to keep him there, was not to be brooked. That


Spain does not Immediately abolish slavery in


Cuba is direct insult to radical sensibilities. In


short, that any nation should refuse to appear be-
fore them with fear and trembling, and gracously
implore permission to know whether any proposed
policy had their sanction or not, goes to show a


strange lack of respect to those who have assumed


the ndefeasibe right to regulate the affairs of the
I
| peculiar tastes. s
| As mark of respect to the memory of dead


President, in compliance with invitation, and in


accordance with diplomatic usage, the represent
atiyes of foreign nations had to attend Mr.. Ban


croft's Grafton. He knew that they would be
there. He knew that they would be con-


spicuousy seated, and that they were gentle


men who would not have the rudeneHs to withdraw


while he was making his speech. Thus he had


them at a disadvantage. Thus he compelled them


to listen to abuse Of their own governments.


Thus these gentlemen, educated in the refined cir


cles of courts, who expected to hear euIogyupon


the dead President were assailed with slanders of


their own sovereigns and statesmen. Thus every


rule of good taste was violated, and the canons of


ordinary courtesy disregarded; and while these
| diplomatic gentlemen were doubtless astonished,
4 the blush of shame must have mantled the cheek
Of every decent citizen of this country who wit


messed the outrageous exhibition. If Mr.. Bancroft
i felt himself compelled to disgorge his bile and to
pronounce the heavy verdict Of his dsapproval
upon the management of their affairs by foreign


nations, there are many presses of the country Of
congenial sympathies, through which he could
have made known his opinions, and many friendly
stumps from which he could have dilated to the
1 pTafdnnno uau gus to his hearts content But,


like the true Puritan that he is he could not forego


the glorious opportunity to intermeddle, even at
| the expense Of good taste and the dignity and


character of the country-and if we are now con-
sidered in Europe but little better than the saw
ages whom we have supplanted upon this continent,


it will clearly not be the fault of Mr.. Bancroft if
the impression be not confirmed and strengthened.
Happily for US, the wisdom of diplomacy has
saved us thus far from inyolyements into which
the radical leaders have been steadily striving to
plunge us. That the United States will never sub
init to any positive wrong is, of course, PROPOSE
ton universally agreed to by every citizen of the
country-but that we should constitute ourselves
the censors of other nations affairs at the risk of
war, is altogether another thing. We have no
right to do it, in the first place, and we are now in
a condition which calls for the wisest statesman
ship in arranging our own affairs, without need
lessly thrusting ourselves into other peoples. We
have new relations Of union to adjust, an immense
public debt to pay, pacifcation of lately con-
ficting elements to be made, country of bound
less extent to develop and an example to offer to
the world of the benefcence of democratic in
stitutions. If these are not enough to give US en-
ploymeEt, we had better remain in passive apathy
than to be continually thrusting our advice upon
the nations Of the old world or Extensively obtrudng


ourselves into the management of matters espe-
cially their own, and with which we have no right
to interfere. @
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