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Show TELEGRAPHIC MORE OF IT. Biiacroft Duvia Tabes a Hand In the Uraut-l'lliHuiiiur toulrovfrnj-. New York, i.J. 0. Bancroft Divia ban written a four column letter let-ter to the Herald, substantially corroborating cor-roborating the charges matin by aen. Grant iiutj ux-Sccrelary fish io re-yuid re-yuid to the Sumner-Motley a Hair, and particuUrly itiat un treaty which bad been Bnt to the senate during the aeaeinn which lullowed Motltjy'u recall hatl been acted on. He intelligently explains Buuie points heretofore doubtlul. Miuieter Motley was re-removed re-removed fur disobeying hia instructions instruc-tions in connection with tb Alabama olaiuia negotiation. Davis shows that Motley bad a programme ot hia own or rather adopted Sumner's, which was in cuutlict with tho president's and that ol Secretary Fish. i'J 10 president and secretary ba-ed their claims of compensation for the Alabama Ala-bama losaea on the known and au-kuowledged au-kuowledged principles of inler nniional jaw, hut Motley in presenting; to Lord Clarendon a slateuiuut ot hn inotruclions on the subject iugeniouftly 1 interjected certain other and sentimental senti-mental considerations well known to be held by Humuer and which had been oarefully eliminated from the instruction!. in-struction!. The president wanted to recall bim immediately for this in-discretion. in-discretion. Secretary Fish intervened to delay that result. Tlie rcnrd shows that Motley subsequently uytitematically violated bis inn l rue Hum and was recalled for that reaxon uloue. Davis shows clearly the iujuntiue uf charging Mot'ey'a recall to Sumner's opposition to the San Domingo treaty tie shows further that Sumnor'a re moval from the chairmanship of the foreign relations committee waa because be-cause the senate majority was in htarty accord with the president, in tho desire to seltld on an enduring ha-ia the controversy growing out ot the Alabama's depredations to which, however, Sumner wag openly hostile, Sumner on the 17th of January, 1871, having previously been consulted by Fish as to what be thought ahould be the basis of settlement, settle-ment, sent the BecreUry a deliberate memorandum suggesting first, the withdrawal of the British flag absolutely abso-lutely aud forever from this hemisphere; hemis-phere; second, no proposition for a joint com mi anion ought to be accepted accept-ed unless we were guaranteed that the result should be in our favor; third, no discrimination in favor ol the claims for losses through depreda lions by one ship ought to be for a moment thought of by us. His ultimatum ulti-matum was that England ahould give us Canada and all the British possessions posses-sions on this continent, aud that she should agree beforehand to pay us 500,000,000 as damages, direct ai d consequential. As Sumner could not seem to realize the wisdom of coming to an agreement with England, and as no government could accept the terms he proposed, and as no government ought to insult any friendly power by asking it lo consider any such terms, and as it was clear that if Sumner I should be thwarted his indiscretion 1 would defeat the negotiation and compel us to choose between degrada- j tion or war with England, he was re-' moved simply as a measure of necea-1 sary precaution in the national in tereat. |