New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-26

instance. being free, treats our ne" P"''PO,
,v.,an,';n,t a. Il has always treated the oid
European passport system. European
ence, say these writers with proofs III manu. n"e
shown that passport system is an ihelncien'
mean. for ts intended purpose, but an enec'''0
.nroyonce 10 peaceful travellers for pleasure OF
hns;ns... in our case they think it is like to
serve az dixie to turn the tide OF European
emigration from United States to British Ameri-
can ports The singular discourtesy shown Dy
Mr. Seward to Ministers of foreign Courts resi-
dent at Washington, in publishing the regulation
respecting passports in newspapers before notying
il 10 them, is much remarked upon, not IN very
fierce spirit of anger nor yet IN very sorroWiui
spirit but in q yet other and less complimentary
spirit Please observe that am not ceDsurlng TINS
or any other act or member of our Government;
but have no right not to record the fact that such
ceusure does more and more abound of late IN these
European parts as faith il the capacity OF our
Government and ia the will of our people TO iulhu
our sometime loudly declared purpose OF triumph
ing over the insurgent South does less ana less
abound. My own poor opinion is that this great
general, disagreeable fact, with It's numerous de-
tails of particular disagreeable facts had better DC
looked at fairly and calmly in its whole length ana
breadth, and so, like every studied, understood fact
be turned TO profit. l waive to your better JUG
ment of what our Government and countTyinen can
bear to read and learn in this critical stage OF our
history.
You will not fail 10 notice, what is much noticed
here and in England, very positive denial IN me
London Morning Star of the statement recently
made in New-York papers, that our Minister
Adams had written home that the British Govern
ment would soon recognize the independence OF the
Rebels. The authoritative tone OF the DENIAL
which of itself has, / am sorry to say, somewhat
more weight in English than in American journal
ISM gains additional value in the case from the sup
posed intimate relations of The Morning Star with
certain high shining lights of the English political
armament The still better authority of the denial
| rests 10 nv thinking on the imprObability OF the
original statement-say rather Interpretation of the
| Adams note in our newspapers. That Mr.. Adams
did write something like such note 10 Mr.. seward
is not more unlikely than TINT Nj. ThOuyenel wrote
something about the American blockade to the En-
glish Foreign Office 1t strikes folks IN these parts
rather oddly that subordiuates in our State Depart
ment and in the Foreign legations at Washington
should communicate the text Of such notes to news
paoer correspondents. That some mixing OF the
contents of either note may have been vouchsaied
to intelligent and imaginative gentlemen connected
with the press by suggestive head shaking gentlemen
subordinately related TO high official gentlemen, is
not SO odd. Among these second class gentlemen,
as all know
are sbrewd onesj
For when they hold them you would swear directly
Their very noses had been councillors
To Pepin OF Coihsrus, they keep state So"
Now. Mr. Adams need not have gone to Downing
street TO learn what his cabman If OF ordinary in-
teliqence, could have told him, namely, that the
British Governments future recognition OF the
c. s. A. was only "questiOn OF time and c0ur-
tesy." That he learned or reported anything more
than that, is not at all likely. II ia exactly what
Mr.. Rost, one Of the Board Of Commissioners for
the c. s. A. foreign missionary enterprise IN
Europe, learned from Lord Palmerston, and let be
misnterpreted exaggeratcdy in his favor two three
months ago. "Ony question of time :" OF
course, only that. Same remark applies to the Cen
eral ConAaTstiOn Of course, England, France,
and the rest of the world, the u. S. A. inclusive,
will, ought, must, recognize the independent exist
ence of the G.. S. A. whenever the Z. y. A. shall
sufficiently prove its existence. Ii is our business
TO break the chain of proof. The mystery to most
thinking folks in these parts is that we do not begin
by breaking the chains of black Slavery. Please
observe again. do not presume TO censure or crlii'
cise any person or any persons acts Keep within
the limits of fact and reporters duty.
As humble reporter quite shut out from break
hst-table familiarity with Cabinet Ministers, not
bonored with the acquaintance Of waiting servant
ON the breakfast table of Minister, removed by
distance and taste from key-hole observations, H.
telectnally incapacitated ffom seeing more than
half through q milestone lacking the imaginative
ouality that makes the other half daphanOus-it is
still rot hazardous for me to venture partially sat
isfaetory solution TO this "questiOn OF time"
That in real time the question Of recognition or
nonrecognition has advanced three months nearer
TO solution in the last ninety days is mathemati.
caly certain. That either the French or English
Government has in all that time Overpassed tire loose
boundary of international law Southwark or North
| ward is not proven; that either Government has
| within q month taken positive advanced step
toward recognition is not proven nor probable; that
| both Governments have by the events OF the past
month been placed in circumstances more favorable
than hitherto to making such an advanced step is
| unduestionable. Disagreeable but true; indubita-
by true per contra that the practical decision OF the
"auestion of time is left by these Governments in
our hands, and will be left there so long as we show
ourselves capable of holding it-no longer. The
price of national glory, of human liberty, is in our
! hands, Shall we :" get WISDOM" or have We Z" no
heart to it9" That is the question, to which the
time question il subordinate. As we settle one, SO
| will European Governments settle the other.
| Some months ago / declared the statement of
Paris correspondent of one of your city journals.
| to the effect that the general tone and spirit Of
| French journalism was favorable TO the South was
erroneous and supported my declaration with abun-
dant proofs. If such statement were made to-day,
am sorry TO say that it would be- though still far yet
not nearly so far away from truth, and that counter
proofs are less abundant. 1t is worse than foolish
would in your reporter be criminal, to deny or dis
guise the apparent fact that French public opinion,
so strongly drifting all in our favor three months
ago. is latterly swaying toward the South. Whether
well advised or i'll advised, is another question:
speak of the fact. Here are some Of the reasons
for it, presented as they occur to my MIND rather
than in the order of their importance. In the only
two engagements to which this military people grant
the name of battles, the North has been beaten;
for you will readily understand that American