Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-15
The Policy of the Administration.

The Policy OF the Administration.
The instructions Of the Department Of State t0
Mr.. DAYToS, the new Ministerto 10 France. are the
best indications Of the policy Of she Administlu-
tion in reference TO the present crisis in our public
affairs. Mr.. SEwARD, in his official note to Mr.
DATroS, dated May the 4th referring to a dispatch
received from Mr.. FAULKSER detailing the con
versation at an interview witt n TouvEssrL, the
Fren,h Minister Of Foreign Affairs, upon the an
ticipated application of the ConfedeTated States
for recognition of their Independence by the
French Government thus discusses the questions
at issue:
In the former conversation NJ. Touvenel asked
Ar. Faulkner whether there is not some diversity
of opinion in the Cabinet of the President as %
the proper mode Of meeting the difficulties which
now disturb the relations of the States and tie
General Government. Mr.. Faulkner, in reply,
said that he had no information on the subject.
The matter is of no great moment, vet IL is desi
rable that there be no msapprehensiOn of the true
state of the Government in the present emergen-
cy. You may, therefore, recall that conversation
to n. TOuvenel's memory, and then assure him
explicitly that there is no difference of opinion
whatever between the President and his constitu-
tional advisers. or among those advisers them
selves, concerning The policy which has been pCr-
sued and which ~ now prosecuted by the Admin
straton in regard to the unhappy disturbances
existing in the country. The path Of Executive
duty has thus far been too plainly marked out bv
stern necessity to be mistaken while the Solemnity
of the great emergency and the responsibility il
involved, have extnguished in the public coun-
ellis every emotion but those of loyalty and patriot
ism. 1t is not in the hands of this Administration
that this Government is TO come TO end at all,
much less for want of harmony in devotion 20 the
country. NJ. Touvenel's declaration that the
United States may rest well assured that no hastv
or precipitate action will be taken on the subject
of the spprehended application Of the iasurrec-
tionists for a recognition Of the independence Of
the so-called Confederate States is entirely salts
factory, although it was attended by reservs-
tion Of views concerning general principles appli-
cable to cases that need not now be discussed
In the unofficial conversation Mr.. Faulkner SAYS
that he himself expressed the opinion that
force would not be resorted to 10 coerce
the sO-called seeding States into submis
sion to the Federal authority, and that the only
solution of the difficulties would be found in such
notifications Of the Constitutional compact as
would invite the seeding States back into the
Union. or a peaceable acquiescence I'm the asser-
ton OF their claim to a separate sovereignty.
The time when these questions had any pertinen-
CT or plausbility has passed away. The United
States waited patiently while their authority WAS
paratiOns willing to hope that mediation. offered
on all sides, would concliate and induce the dis
affected parties 10 return 10 better mind, but
the case is now altogether changed. The insur-
| gents have instituted revolution with open. ia
grant, deadly war, TO compel the United States
to acquiosce in the dismemberment of the Union.
! The United States have accepted this civil war
inevitable necessity. The constitutional
remedies for all the complaints Of the insurgents
are still open to them and will remain 80. But.
on the other hand. the land and naval forces OF
the Union have been put into activity to restore
the Federal authority and to save the Union from
danger.
You can not be too decided or too explicit in
making known TO the French Government that
there is not now, nor has there been nor will
there be Rny-the least-idea existing in this
Government of suffering the dissolution OF the
Union to take place in any way whatever. There
will be here only one nation and one Govern
ment, and there will be the same Republic and
the same constitutional Union that have survi, ei
dozen national changes and changes Of gov
ernmont in almost every other country. Thee
will stand hereafter, as they are now, objects ol
human wonder and human affection. You have
seen, on the eve of your departure, the elasticity
of the national spirit, the ris0r Of the nstional
Government, aid the lavish devotion Of the m.
tional treasures TO this great cause Tell M
Touvenel, then. with the highest consideration
and good feeling, that the thought Of dissolu
tion of this Union. pelceably or by force. has ney
entered into the mind of any candid states
man here, and it is high time that il be dismisseC
by statesmen i'm Europe