THE NEW AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 538, 29 June 1869, Page 4

THE NEW AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.

Our brothers in America have chosen for their representative in London perhaps the finest intellect they can send. It is not only as the author of one of the grandest historical works which this or any other century has produced that wo welcome Mr John Lothrop Motley. He is a passionate lover of aud believer in Republicanism. He is a man thoroughly representative of the freedom of the present, as well as a trnmpet-tongued chronicler of her struggles and triumphs in the past. . , . . Through all the earlier reverses, as through allthelaier successes, on to the final close when Richmond fell and Lee surrendered, Mr Motley was true to his cause, unwavering and unfearing. He knows, he exults to know, that the future and Democracy are one. In hia own words he believes that to humanity "the law is Progress ; the result Democracy." He cries to men to adopt and shape the inevitable, and not to oppose it. "The incestuous union of Church and State" he denounces and dooms. Such a man we shall welcome now the more heartily that the whole life of our progress and the set of our national thought are with him. We are tremblingly groping our way to the light in which he rejoices to exist. Let him come assured that, now that a people's Parliament rules through a people's Ministry, he comes to be received with a pride and love which will prove that England and America in their glory in him are but one. Let him come trusted as he will be by the ir'ylity States which send him, We aha.ll

treat with one we, too, can trust, as wanting but right. What he and we think right his country will ratify. Mr Reverdy Johnson's position was a false one. He represented an unpopular President, and not the governing popular will of the American majority. He wished goodwill and talked it. He could do no more. All honor to him for all he has so genially said and striven for. We thank him for his attempt at a friendly settlement of our differences. What he attempted we feel Mr Motley will accomplish. What we can honorably give we wish to give. Neither the States he represents nor their representative will ask for or expect more.