Daily national Democrat., 1861-05-26

.ortant to American readers, showing, as
Mar M do. the fixed determination of the new
DEMONSTRATION to listen to no propositions
hra dismemberment of the Union, be the
~ D"as0ouences what they may. Mr.. Seward
.'ho great statesman of the Republican par
.nd would not retain his position in the
49, w. Donartment unless his views accorded
Nth those of the President He states the
ho,, case when he says; "The United
WIS WIS have accepted this civil war as an in
ovitable necessity:
,cprTARY SEWARD TO Mr.. DAYTON.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, !
Washington, May 4.
u Vm. L. Dayton, Esq, etc.
~ ~ THE dispatches of your predecessor,
M 1l9 and l20 have been received.
Nts me- ,otter acknowledging the receipt of our
i.'ors ine of recall and announcing his intended
Ie.',, ,.n reouirs no special notice. No. III
tesrs iesrs the date of 9TH of April last 1t con.
.o;ns only an exposition of Mr.. Faulkners
,jews of the policy which this Government
onght TO pursue in regard to the disturbed
Co4lition of affairs at home but at the same
lime. giyes us no information concerning the
state of affairs in France.
The instructions heretofore transmitted to
Won will show you the Presidents views on
ihe subject of Mr. Faulkner has discussed, and
these will be your guide, Notwithstanding
any different opinions your predecessor may
have expressed or left on record at Paris
No. li9 bears date of the 9TH April last
and contains report of an official conversa-
tion and also of an unofficial one held be-
tween Mr.. Faulkner and NJ Thouvenel. In
tbe former conversation M. Thouvenel asked
Mr.. Faulkner whether there is not some di-
yersity of opinion in the Cabinet of the Pres
ident as to the proper mode of meeting the
difficulties which now disturb the relations
of the States and the General Government.
Mr. Faulkner, in reply, said that he had no
Information on the subject The matter is
Of no great moment, yet it is desirable that
there be no great misapprehcnsion of the
true state of the Government in the present
emergency. You may, therefore recall that
conversation to NJ. TIougenel's memory, and
then assure him explicitly that there is no
difference of opinion whatever between the
President and his constitutional advisers, or
among those advisers themselves, concerning
the policy that has been pursued, and which
isnow prosecuted by the Administration in
regard to the unhappy disturbances existing
in the county. The path of executive duty
has, thus far, been too plainly marked out 10y
stern necessity to be mistaken, while the So
lemnity of the great emergency and the re-
sponsiUility it involves, have extinguished in
the public councils every emotion but those
Of loyalty and patriotism. 1t is not in the
hands of this administration that this gov
eminent is to come 20 an end at all, much
less for want of harmony in devotion to the
country. NJ. ThouvencIs declaration that
the United States may rest well assured that
10 hasty or preepitate action will be taken
on the subject of the apprehended appca
ton of the insurrectionsts for recognition
Of the independence of the so-called Con
Tolerate States is entirely satisfactory, al
though it was attended ly reservation of
views concerning general principles applica-
Lle to cases that need not now be discussed.
In the unofficial conversation, Mr.. Fauib-
ner SAYS that he himself expressed the opin-
ionthat force would not be resortcd TO, TO
coerce the so-called seeding States into sub
mission to the Federal authority, and that
the cnly solution Of the difficulties would be
found in such notifications Of the cous,i,U-
tonal compact as would invite the, seeding
States back into the Union, or a peaccnhlc
acquiescence in the assertion of their claim
10 seperatc sovereignty. The time when
these qucstions had any peruncucy or plausi-
blhly has assedaway. The United States
waited patiently, while their authority was
dehed in turbulent assemblies and insidious
preparations willing to hope that mediation,
offered on all sides, would conciliate and in
dnce the disaffected parties TO return to a bet
ter miud. The insurgents have instituted
revolution with open, fagrant,- deadly war,
10 compel the United States TO acquicsce in
the dismombermcnt of the Union. The
United States have accepted this civil war as
an inevitable necessity. The constitutional
remedies for all the complaints of the insur-
gents are still open TO them, and will remain
so. But on the other hand, the land and ma
val forces of the Union have been put into
activity, to restore the Federal authority and
save 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
win there be any, the least idea existing in
this government of suffering dissolution of
this Union TO take place in any way whats
ever. There will be here only one nation
and one government, and there will be the
same republic the same constitutional Union
that have already survived dozen national
changes and changes of government in al
most 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
o. the national spirit, the vigor of the nation
al government, and the lavish devotion of
the national treasures TO this great cause.
Tell NJ. Thouvenel, then, with the highest
consideration and good feeling that the
Thought of dissolution of the Union, peace
ably or by force, has never entered into the
mind of any candid statesman here, and it is
high time that it be dismissed by Statesmen
in Europe.
| am, sir, respectfully, your obedient sell
want, WIN. II. SEWARD.
OUEs a SpUNGY GENERArloN-Ou gener-
alton (more perhaps than any which went
before i) is characterized by ajsorption
lhe Times, and other fountains, well forth
their daily waters, and the nation suck them
ln. Squeeze an individual on any subject,
and he will give out the water he absorbed
sometimes diluted and always dirtier. 1t
IS SO cheap, this thinking by proxy, that
man no more thinks of eXcogitating for him
sell than he thinks Of walking to London.
Ahe steam engine will carry him over the
ground at the rate of penny mie-why
they walk? The press will furnish him with
opinions at penny q sheet-why then
think So he doesn't think. 1t is question
whether this literary mania will not, in de-
eeade OF two have run its course and be fol-
lowed by a re-actiou Two of. the brightest
eras in the history of human progress fol-
lowed barren but lf-thinking ages-the
age OF the Sophists in Greece, and of the
9chooimen in Western Europe. 1t is not i'm
probable that this generation of representa-
i've thinkers may be followed by genera.
''Sn oil no thinkers at all.-EngiiSA Paper