Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-11

The Russian minister, Mt. De Stpcki
had an audience with the President on Sat
urday, and read to him the following dis
patch:
TRANSLATION
ST. PETERSBURG, JulylO.
Mr.. De .StgckI, sc. SC.
SIR. From the beginning of the conflict
which divides the United States Of Ameri-
ca, You have been desired to make known
to the Federal Government the deep inter-
est with which our august master was OBJ
serving the development of a crisis which
puts in question the prosperity and even
the existence OF the Union. The Emperor
regrets to see that the hope of n peaceful
solution of the difficulty has not been re-
allied, and that American citizens already
in arms are ready to let loose on the coun-
try the most formidable of the scourges of
political society-civil war. For the more
than eighty years that it has existed. the
American Union owes its independence, its
towering and its prgresS, to the concord OF
its members. consecrated, under the au-
spices of its illustrious founder, by inStitu-
tions that have been able to reconcile the
Union with liberty. This Union has been
faithful, Ii has exhibited to the world II
spectacle of a prosperity without an exam
pie in the annals of history. 1t would be
deplorable that, after SO conclusive an eX-
perience, the United States should be hur-
ried into IA breach of the solemn compact
which, up to this time has made theirpow-
err. In spite of the diversity of their Con-
situations aud of their interests, and per-
hans even because of this diversity, Prov
idenee seems to urge them to draw closer
the traditional cord which in the basis of
the very condition of their political exist
ence. 1t any event. the sacrifice 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
paraiyzed,
The struggle which unhappily has just
arisen eau neither he indefinitely prolonged,
nor lead to the total destruction of Que of
the parties. Sooner or later it will he ne
cessary to come to some settlement, what
soever it may be which may cause the di-
vergent interests now actually in conflict
to ec-cxist. The American nation would
then give 81 proof of high political wis
dom in seeking in common such settle
meut before n useless effusion of blood.
barren squandering of strength and of
public riches, and acts of violence and re-
ciprocal repristls shall have come to deep
the confederation, to end, definitely, in
their mutual exhaustion, and in the ruin,
perhaps irrcphrabe, of their commercial
and political power.
Uuraugust master cannot resign himself
to admit such deplor.ble hnticiphtions.
His Imperial Majesty still places his
confidence in that practical good sense of
the citizens of the Union who appreciate
so iudiciously their true interests. His
Majesty is happy to believe that the mem
bers OF the federal government and the in
fiucn.ial men of the two parties will seize
all occasions, and will unite all their efforts
to calm all the eirervescence of the pas
sOns. There are no interests so divergent
that it may not he possible to reconcile
them by lnboring to that end with zeal and
perseverance, in n spirit of justice and
moderation.
If, within the limits of your friendly re-
lations, your language and yonr counSels
may contribute To this result yOn will re-
spond. sir. to the intentions Of his Majesty
the Emperor, in devoting to this the per-
sonai influence which you may have been
able to acquire during your long residence
at Washington, and the consideration
which belongs to your character. as the
representative of u sovereign animated by
the most friendly sentiments towards the
American Union. This Union is not sim
PLY, in our eyes, an element essential to
the universal political equilibrium it
constitutes besides nation to which our
august master and all Russia have pledged
the most friendly interest; for the two
countries. placed ut the eX;remitics of the
two worlds, both in the ascending period
of their development: appear called to
natural community of interests and of SYM
pathies, of which they have already given
mutual proofs to each other. do not
wish here to approach any of the ques-
lions which divide the United States. We
are not called upon to express ourselves in
have no other object than to attest the
lively solicitude of the Emperor in the
presence Of the dangers which menace the
which his, Majesty entertains for the main
tenance of that great work so laboriously
raised, and which appeared SO rich in its
future.
1t is in this sense, sir, that desire you
TO express yourself, as we'll to the members
of the general government rs to the influ-
entail 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 august
master, during the important crisis which
it is passing through at present
Receive, sir, the expression of my very
deep consideration.
(Signed,) "GoETscHAKoFE.
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