of the United States. Suppose that the Grand Seignior, after accrediting these commissioners, had. sent them to the Seven Towers, must not everybody admit that the honor of this nation would have obliged it to resent the insult offered to itself by such Oakley Sunglasses an indignity to its representatives, protected, as they would have been, by the public law? Or suppose that any of these commissioners had been bribed, or had been guilty of any other high crime against their faith and the duty confided Nike Shoes Australia to them. Does any one doubt that they might have been impeached? And yet, forsooth, they are not officers of the United States, but mere secret agents, like the bearers of despatches or newspapers, who, as we all know, receive as little consideration at home as they are entitled to expect abroad.The honorable Senator from Maryland, notwithstanding he affirms this to be exactly like the Panama case, and therefore clear, yet endeavors to distinguish it a little, in order to make it clearer than that, if possible. He tells us that one of these commissioners, Mr. Rhind, was regularly appointed consul at Odessa, by the President, acting with the advice and consent of the Senate, given at our last session.That he being thus an officer of the United States, the President might charge him -with whatever instructions might seem necessary, even to negotiate a treaty with Turkey. It is so common in this country where the thirst for office is insatiable to continue the titles of Governors of States, and militia officers, to those who have once filled such places, not only wherever they may be, but so long as they live, that I am Nike Air Max not surprised the Senator from Maryland should feel disposed to enlarge Nike Australia this custom a little; Nike Air Max 90 especially when a barren name may be made the fruitful parent of so much executive power as he thus claims for it. Henceforward, we must not only say, I suppose, that once a consul, and always a consul, but, also, that once a consul anywhere, and always a consul everywhere. Nay, if it be true that this consul to the Russian port of Odessa may, tirtuts officii,be metamorphosed by the mere instructions of the President, or rather of the Secretary of State, into a negotiator at Constantinople of a treaty with the Ottoman empire, it will be very difficult to find a limit to consular functions. Thus, that thing called a consul, the lowest in the diplomatic scale, without pay, power, or privilege, may be converted into the most important functionary the United States can have abroad. Sir, it would have been a North Face Outlet Store subject worthy of Hogarth's pencil, I imagine, to have represented the interview between Mr. Rhind and the Reis Effendi, the proud representative of his haughty sovereign, if, when they first met to exchange their powers, the christian dog had presented to him a consular diploma to Odessa, as the equivalent of his full powers. It would gratify me much to North Face Outlet hear from anybody what would have been the state of the negotiation, if, pendente lite,the Russian autocrat had revoked Mr. Rhind's The North Face Outlet exequatur,and so terminated his functions as consul at Odessa. But suppose we might thus justify Mr. Rhind's appointment, what is to be said for Biddle? He was no consul to Odessa, nor anywhere else; nor did he bear any diplomatic authority, save what this commission conferred upon him. It is true that he bore, and gallantly bore, the commission of a post captain in the navy of the United States; but surely it will not be contended that a naval or military officer may, virtute officii,be transformed into a diplomatic functionary of the highest grade, by the mere instructions of a Secretary of State, or a simple order of the President alone. The officers, I am sure, ought to object to this; for if so little ceremony is necessary in the one case, as little would be The North Face Outlet Store