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Russia and the Rebellion.

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Russia and the Rebellion.
Desire Of the Gar for Adjustment Of our
Difficulties. ..--,.,.... ...-
WASHINGTON, Sept. s.
The Russian Minister, NJ. De Stoeckl, had
an audience of the President on Saturday,
and read to him the following dispatch:
TRANSLATION.
'.ST. PETERSBURG, July 10, 1861.
an De SroEcKL, &c--Sir: From the be-
ginning Of the conflict which divides the
United States Of America, you have been de-
sired to make known to the Federal govern
ment the deep interest with which our au-
gust master was observing the development
of crisis which keeps in question the pros.
perity and even the existence of the Union.
The Emperor profoundly regrets to see that
the hope of peaceful solution is not realized,
and that American citizens, already in arms,
are ready to let loose upon their country the
most formidable oe the scourges Of political
society-a civil war.
"For more than eighty years that it has
existed, the American Union owes its indie
pcndence, its towering rise, and its progress,
to the concord Of its members, concentrated
under the auspices of it's illustiious founder,
by institutions which have been able to re-
concile the Union with liberty. This Union
has been faithful It has exhibited to the
world the spectacle of prosperity without
example in the annals of history. 1t would
be deplorable that, after so conclusive an ex-
periencc, the United States should be hur.
ried into breach of the solemn compact,
which up to this time has made their pow er
In spite Of the diversity of their constitu-
tions, and of their interests, and perhaps
even because of their diversity, Providence
seems to urge them to draw closer the tradi-
tionsl bond, which is the basis of the very
conditions of sheir political existence Inany
event, the sacrifice which they might impose
upon themselves to maintain it, are beyond
comparison with those which dissolution
would bring after it. United, they perfect
themselves; isolated, they are paralyzed.
"'Thc struggle which unhapnily has arisen
can neither be indefinitely prolonged nor
lead to the total destruction of one of the
parties Sooner or later it will be necessary
to come to some settlement, whatever it may
I'D
be, which may cause the divergent interests
now actually in conflict to co-exist. The
American nation would then give proof of
high political wisdom in seeking in common
such settlement before useless effusion of
blood, barren squandering of strength and
ofpublic riches, and acts of violence and re-
ciprocal reprisals shall have come to deepen
an abyss between the two parties of the Con-
federation, to end indefinitely, to their mu-
tual exhaustion, and in The ruin, perhaps ir-
reparable, of their commercial and political
power. -
"Our august master cannot resign himself
to admit such deplorabe anticipations.
ellis Imperial Majesty still places his con-
fdence in that practical good sense of the
citizens Of the Union who appreciate so ju-
diciously their true interests: His Majesty
is happy to believe that the members of the
Federal government and the influential men
of the two parties will seize all occasions,
and will an ite all their efforts to calm the
effervescehce of the passions. There are no
interests so divergent that it may not be pos
sible to reconcile them by laboring to that
end with zeal and perseverance, in spirit of
justice and moderation. .s.......--
''If, within the limits of your friendly re
lations, your language and your cousels may
contribute to this result, you will respond,
sir, to the intentions of his Majesty the EN-
peror, in deyoting to this the personal in
flueuce which you may have been able to
acquire during your long residence at Wash
ington, and the consideration which belongs
to your character as the representative of a
Sovereign animated by the most friend
ly sentiments towards the American Un-
ion is not simply in our eyes an element es-
sential to the universal political equilibrium :;
it constitutes besides, nation to which our our
august master and all Russia have pledged
the most friendly interest; for the two
countries, placed at the exfremities of the
two worlds, both in the ascending periods Of
their Development, appear called to natu-
raj community of interests and of sympa-
thies. of which they have already given mu-
tual proofs to each other.
81 do not wish hereto approach any of
the questions which divide the United
States. We are not called upon to express
ourselves in this contest. The preceding
considerations have no other object than to
attest the lively solicitude Of the Emperor in
the presence Of the dangers which meance
the American U Mon, and the sincere wishes
which his Majesty entertains for the main
tenapce Of that great work so laboriously
raised, and which appeared SC rich in its fu.
ture. astH 4 a -
i'"It is in this sense, sir, that desire you
to express yourself, as well to the members
Of the general government as to the influen.
tial persons, whom you may meet, giving
them the assurance that in every event the
American nation may count upon the most
cordial sympathy on the part of our angus,
master during the important crisis which il
is passing through at pre- sent.
"Receive, sir, the expression of my very