understood at home. There are but two or three modes of maintaining the
rights of a nation, to say nothing of procuring those concessions from
others which enter into the commercial relations of states, and in some
degree affect their interests. The best method, certainly, as respects
the two first, is to manifest a determination to defend them by an
appeal to force; but so many conflicting interests stand in the way of
such a policy that it is exceedingly difficult, wisest and safest in the
end though it be, to carry it out properly. At any rate, such a course
has never yet been in the power of the American government, whatever it
may be able to do hereafter, with its increasing numbers and growing
wealth. But even strength is not always sufficient to obtain voluntary
and friendly concessions, for principle must, in some degree, be
respected by the most potent people, or they will be put to the ban of
the world. Long diplomatic letters, although they may answer the
purposes of ministerial _exposés_, and read well enough in the columns
of a journal, do very little, in fact, as make weights in negotiations.
I have been told here, _sub rosâ_, and I believe it, that some of our
laboured efforts, in this way, to obtain redress in the protracted
negotiation for indemnity, have actually lain months in the _bureaux_,
unread by those who alone have the power to settle the question. Some
_commis_ perhaps may have cursorily related their contents to his
superior, but the superior himself is usually too much occupied in
procuring and maintaining ministerial majorities, or, in looking after
the monopolising concerns of European politics, to wade through folios
of elaborate argument in manuscript. The public ought to understand,
that the point presents itself to him, in the security of his master’s
capital, and with little or no apprehension of its coming to an appeal
to arms, very differently from what it occasionally presents itself, in
the pages of a President’s message, or in a debate in Congress. He has
so many demands on his time, that it is even difficult to have a working
interview with him at all, and when one is obtained, it is not usual to
do more than to go over the preliminaries. The details are necessarily
referred to subordinates.
Now, in such a state of things, any one accustomed to the world, can
readily understand how much may be effected by the kind feelings that
are engendered by daily, social, intercourse. A few words can be
whispered in the ears of a minister, in the corner of a drawing-room,
that would never reach him in his bureau. Then _all_ the ministers are
met in society, while the _diplomate_, properly speaking, can claim
officially to see but _one_. In short, in saving, out of an overflowing
treasury, a few thousand dollars a year, we trifle with our own
interests, frequently embarrass our agents, and in some degree discredit
the country. I am not one of your _sensitives_ on the subject of parade
and appearance, nor a member of the embroidery school; still I would
substitute for the irrational frippery of the European customs, a
liberal hospitality, and a real elegance, that should speak well for the
hearts and tastes of the nation. The salary of the minister at Paris, I
know it, by the experience of a house-keeper, ought to be increased by
at least one half, and it would tell better for the interests of the
country, were it doubled. Even in this case, however, I do not conceive
that an American would be justified in mistaking the house of an Envoy
for a national inn, but that the proper light to view his allowances
would be to consider them as made, first as an act of justice to the
functionary himself; next, as a measure of expediency, as connected with
the important interests of the country. As it is, I am certain that no
one but a man of fortune can accept a foreign appointment, without
committing injustice to his heirs, and I believe few do accept them
without sincerely regretting the step, in after years.
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