The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-04-05
The Policy of the Adm. i.nistration.

1uU OAlOy Va ehS null .illSJTaIlOn,
1t is bard to tell what rs the policy Of tho
Administration in regard to tho seeded
States, or what will be tho final result Of
our national difficulties, We hope for the
best, but fear the worst. Strange and start
ling rumors arc a1oat, to the effect that
Secession has come to DO regarded in high
places, as fixed fact, &c. A special dis
patch to tho N. Y. Herald says:
WASHINGTON March 30, '6I.
There is no real ground for any appre-
bepsions Of civil war, at least not as far as
the agency Of the administration will 20.
Fort Sumtor is about being evacuated.
High authorities assert that no order has
been issued to reinforce Fort Pickens. not.
withstanding the statements OF tho Now
York organ. No attempt will be ip.ruediatc.
ly made to collect the revenue ip Tho sece
ded States by men, -of.war. In fine. nothing
will be done likely TO precip' ate a conflict,
Tho belief in voluntary return of the
seeded States to tho Union has boon aban-
doned, and tho impracticabi!ity of forcing
them back recognized by the administration.
The executive and his constitutional ad-
Vsers well know that the assertion of the
supremacy OF the federal laws, vi cL drmis.
within the robeilious States, would inoyita.
bly, involve tho federal authorities in a war
OF subjugation, in which they have no desire
10 engage. They are anxious rot to place
any obstructiDns in the way of what thoy
now consider tho only bloodless solution of
the Southern imbrogio-peaceabl separa-
tion. can state positively that such de-
nouement is now considered unavoidable by
all the administration aud that it will afford
key to oil the executive acts bearing upon
the Southern question. Tho very section
alism exhibited in the selection of Northern
material exclusively for the leading diplo.
matte, Territorial and other Offices, means
nothing less than preparing for the impend-
ing formal disintegration of the Union, and
the fact that even tho bordor slave States
were all but overlooked in dispensing the
federal patronage, only goes to provo that
the possibility of retaining them in the I'm
ion is not by any means firmly believed in
by tho administration.
bloody internal strife can only be
brought on by direct aggression of the revo-
lutionists, or by demands, the fulfillment of
which the constitutional obligations of the
administration will not allow. If tho revo-
lutionary authorities abstain from either
until the proposed National Convention, or
Congress will have opened tho way to sep.
ATdttUu, UlUUu VIII outu, uuIceb uH-
reasonable terms should be insisted by the
South upon the fnal settlement
This sounds strangely enough, and coming
from the Herald, is, perhaps, wholly unre-
liaolo. But similar story is told by the
following special dispatch to the Cincinnati
Commercial:
WASHINGTON, March 20.
Tho ghastly spectre of civil war is not
likely to haunt tho public mind much longer
There ia no flavor of saltpetre in the whiffs
of intelligence from the White House. The
drift of the Administration is evidently
towards peace. upon tho basis of q peaceful
separation. No coaxing nor compelling the
secaders. Tho idea OF being able to coax
the seeded States back into tho Union is
entirely abandoned, and still loss is there
disposition TO attempt to drive them back
at the point of the sword and bayonet.-
The Administration of course cannot take
the Initiative in the premises, but will con-
time O pacific attitude until either the pro-
posed National Convention or Congress will
take such action as VIII bring about hnal
parting on good terms. Ihe revoiutionists
alone can plunge the country iuto civil war,
either by aggression or unreasonap,S ue-
mands upon the Federal Government, o.
on terms consonant with the interests Of all
concerned.
The loyal North has been outraged and
humliated enough during the last months
of Buchanan's administration, and it cannot
we'll be blamed for expecting a vindcation
of the honor and dignity of the Federal au-
thority from the Republican regime-but
tho arm of the Government is completely
paralyzed, and it could not strike even were
1t 30 disposed.
THE REVOLUTION MUST DE RECOGNIZED.
It can no longer treat the doings of the
secessionists as rebellion, but has to recog-
pize successful revolution in thom. Any
attempt to retake the forts and other public
property now held by the robels, or to rein.
forco Forts Sumter or Pickens, or blockade
the Southern ports for tho collection of tho
revenue, would Immediately open civil war,
and without doing the least practical good,
cause loss of life aud property far outweigh.
ing tho advantages that would possibly be
gained.
Aspecial dispatch to the same paper of a
later date, gives, We trust, truer version of
tho policy Of tho Administration
son Saturday evening last, three mombers
of Congress, ono of whom was from Ohio,
called on the President. They found him
engaged in looking over number OF maps
OF tho gulf coast. A conversation ensued
about tho disposition of the Southern posts,
in the course of which the President gave it
co be understood, in unmistakable terms,
that even though the evacuation OF Fort
Sumter should be determined upon, the
other forts yot in possession of federal troops
will be hold to tho last. He furthermore
limited rather moro plainly at the intention
of the government to blockade tho Southern
ports, and collect tho rovenuo with men of
war. This is authentic, aud can bo i'm.
plcitly relied on by your readers"