The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1861.

" rnent will carry conviction to the whole world. '
"Five years will not have rolled around before
"the Northern people will consent for slavery to
"go to the Canada line, if by it they could get us
"back lute the Union. They do not understand
"this matter. Let us, by our example, brush
"away the clouds of ignorance which now so befog
"them."
Now, all this is simple and coherent enough as
a theory. It cannot be carried out; for compul-
sory labour is not and cannot become sufficiently
productive to supply for all the white men in the
society where it prevails those wants which modern
civilization inspires. And if it could be done,
affrighted Christendom would recoil with horror
before the spectacle of a state founded on
principles essentially Pagan. But as a
scheme it is intelligible to transparency,
and it is far leas astonishing that it should be
proclaimed in the Slave States than that anybody
reared amidst institutions of popular freedom
should hail its proclaimers as champions of liberty.
tVhen we read that the seceders of to-day are but
carrying out the principles of WASHINGTON, .lEl+-
11:R80N, and PATRICK moray, the explanation is
at hand, that a man may invoke those venerable
names without knowing very accurately what
those who bore them thought about Slavery. But
Englishmen who do not write can tell, without the
aid of Pislviicx, the difference between liberty and
an arrogant lawlessness, and we ask our friends in
the Free States of America not to believe that
because their struggle is hero and there mis-
represented for party purposes in England, the
English people do not thoroughly understand the
nature of the contest in which they are engaged.

administration in reprd to the unhappy disturbance* exisli-
ing in the country.

The path of executive duty has, thus far, been too plainly
marked out by stern necessity to be mistaken, while the
solemnity of the great emergency and the responsibility it
involves, have extinguished in the public councils every
emotion but those of loyalty and patriotism. It is not in
the hands of this administration that this government
is to come to au end at all, much less for want of harmony
in devotion to the country. M. Thouveners declaration
that the United States may rest well assured that no hasty
or precipitate action will be taken on the subject of the
apprehended application of the insurrectionists for a recog-
nition of the independence of the so-called confederate
States is entirely satisfactory, although it was attended by •
reservation of views concerning general principles applica-
hle to cases that need not now be discussed. In the un-
official oinversation, Mr. Faulkner says that he himself ex.
pressed the opinion that force would not be resorted to to
coerce the so-called seceding states into submission to the
federal authority, and that the only solution of the difficul-
ties would be found in such modifications of the constitu-
tional compact as would invite the seceding states back into
the Union, or a peaceable acquiescence in the assertion of
their claim to a separate sovereignty.
The time when them questions had any pertinacity or
plausibility has passed away. The United States waited
patiently while their authority was defied in turbulent
assemblies and insidious preparations, willing to hope that
mediation, offered on all sides, would conciliate and induce the
disaffected parties to return to a better mind. But the case
is now altogether changed. The insurgents have instituted
revolution with open, flagrant, deadly war, to compel the
United States to acquiesce in the dismemberment of the
Union. The United States have accepted this civil war as
an inevitable necessity. The constitutional remedies for all
the complaints of the insurgents are still open to them, and
will remain so. But, on the other hand, the land and naval
forces of the l'nion have been put into activity to restore
the federal authority and to Nave the Union from danger.
You cannot be too decided or too explicit in making
known to the French government that there is not now, nor
has there been, nor will there be any—the least —idea ex-
isting in this government of suffering a dissolution of this
union, to take place in any way whatever. There will
be here only one nation and one government, and there
will be the same republic and the same constitutional
union that have already survived a dozen national
changes and change, of government in almost every
other country. These will stand hereafter, as they are
now, objects of human wonder and human affection. You
have seen on the eve of your departure the elasticity of the
national spirit, the vigour of the national government, and
the lavish devotion of the national treasures of this great
cause. Tell Y. Thouvenol, then, with the highest considera-
tion and good feeling, that the thought of a dissolution of
this union, peaceably or by form, has never entered into
the mind of any candid statesman here, and it is high time
that it be dismissed by statesmen in Europe.—l am, ■ir,
respectfully, your obedient servant,
(Signed) Wit. H. Bzwann.
To William L. Dayton, Esq., lie.