Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-07


extracts from documents accompanying the
Presidents Message relating TO foreign af-
fairs in the course of Secretary Stewards
instructions to Minister Adams. He says
the President neither looks for FOR expects
any actual and permanent ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of the American Union, especially by n line
Oflatitude. The improvement of our many
channels of intercourse and the perfection
of our scheme of internal exchanges, and
the incorporation of both of them into IL
great system of foreign commerce concur
ring with the gradual abatement Of the
force of the only existing cause of aliena-
ton, have carried US already beyond the
danger of disunion in that form. The so
called Confederate States, therefore in the
opinion of the President are attempting
what will prove physical impossibility.
Necessarily, they build the structure of their
government upon the same principal by
which they seek to destroy che Union,
namely, the right of each individual mem
Der of the Confederacy, to withdraw from
it a pleasure and in peace. In another part
the Secretary says: In short, all your ar
guments must belongt to one OF three classes
namely, first arguments drawn from the
principles of public law and natural justice
which regulate the intercourse of equal
states. Secondly, arguments which con-
Germ equally the honor, welfare and hap
pIness of the whole Union. Thirdly, argu-
ments which are equally conservative of
the rights and interests and ever sentiments
OF the United States, and just in their
bearing upon the rights. interests and SEN
iments of Great Britain and all other ma
tions. And again Secretary Seward says,
the President woald regard it rs lEconsis-
tent with his habItually high consideration
for the government and the people of Great
Britain to allow me to dwell longer on the
merely commercial aspect of the question
under discussion. Indeed he will not for
IA moment believe that upon the considera-
ton of merely financial gain, that the gov
crnment could be induced to lend its aid
to revolution designed to overthrow
the institutions of this country and involv-
ivg ultimately the destruction of the liber-
ties of the American people.
The President will not dwell on the
pleasant recollection thnt Great Britain, mot
II year ago, manifested, by marked atten-
ton to the United States, her desire for 81
cordial reunion, which, all ancient pre-
JUDGES and passions being buried, shall be
a pledge of mutual sympathy and interest
forever; therefore, the United States are
not indifferent to the circumstances of n
common descent, lnnguage, customs and
religion, which recommend closer sym
pnthy between themselves and Great Brit
ain than either might expect in its inter-
coarse with any other nation. The States
are one of many nations that have sprung
from Great Britain herself.
1t has been thought by many who have
studied modern history profoundly that
the success of the nations thus deriving
their descent from Great Britain might,
through many ages, reflect back upon that
kingdom the proper glories of its own great
career.
The Government and people OF Great
Britain may mistake their commercial in
tereSts, but they cannot become either un-
natural or indifferent to the impulse of an
undying ambition TO be distinguished as
the leaders of the nations in the ways of
civilization and humanity.