Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-05-22
For the Standard,
DOCTORS WILL DIFFER.


Extract from the letter of Mr. Russell to the Lon
don Times, dated Washington, April 1st 1861:
From all that have seen and heard, my belief
is that the Southern States have gone from the
Union If not forever. at least for such time as will
secure for their Government an absolute independ-
till it be terminated by war; or, If their oppo.
nents be right BY the certain processes Of internal
decay. Whatever may be the
result of all these diverse actions (within its llmits
the great republic is gone The shape Of the frag
ments is not yet determined any more than their
fate They may re-unite but the cohesion can never
be perfect"
Extract from the instructions Of Secretary Sew
ard, to Mr.. Dayton, Minister at Paris, dated Wash
ington 4th, 1861.
You cannot be too decided or too explicit in ma
king known to the French Government that there
is not now, has there been, nor will there be,
the least idea existing in this Government of suffer-
ing dissolution of this Union to take place in any
way whatever. There will be here only one gov.
eminent and nation, and there will be the same
constitutional Union and the same Republic that
have already survived dozen national changes and
changes of government in almost every other coun-
try These will stand hereafter they are now. OBJ
jects of human wonder and human affection. You
have seen on the Of your departure, the elastic
ity of the national spirit the vgor Of the national
government and the lavish devotion Of the national
treasures in this great cause. Tell NJ. Thouvenal,
then with the highest consideration and good feel.
ing, that the thought Of the dissolution of this
Union, pcaceaby or by force has never entered into
the mind of any candid statesman here, and it is
high time that it be dismissed by the statesmen in
Eurpe" g.. p.
Those who dream of q continuance Of "The
Union" or of reduction of North-C Carolina to the
authority of its late General Government, would do
we'll to consider the following sentiment from a
speech by Count Cavour, in the italian Parliament
on the 25th of last March,
"Since 1889, Governments have reposed upon
the consent, expressed or tacit of the people,
Russia approaches It, at least no longer repes it
as the Emperor Nicholas did. A po,oer sohich does
not rest upon this basis sshieh maintains an abso-
lutte antagonism betsceen the people hch it gorerns
and itse has no longer tho possibility of existence
The contrast between these deliveranoes is very
striking. The first is made by an intelligent, indie.
pendent, impartial stranger, renowned through the
world for his skill in selecting those features of an
event which determine its true character and for
portraying them that he is now regarded as one Of
the most accomplished annalists alive. The other
is made by partizan, one Of the principal archi.
tects Of the ruin that he attempts to ignore If he
blinds his own eyes and deafens his own ears. why
should he instruct Mr. Dayton to tell the French
Minister of foreign affairs the falsehood which the
last sentence of his letter contains! Not TO men.
ton those North of Mason and Dixon's line. who
must rise up and contradict the disingenuous Sec.
rotary, those South of the Potomac who are moi
Of our own State. does Mr.. Seward exclude such
men as Judge Rutin and Gov. Morehead from the
list Of statesmen? Have Gov. Graham and .Jude,
Biggs no candorf Has the thought Of dissolution
Of the Union never entered the minds Of Senator
Bragg and Judge Badger On the contrary. II II
not true, as Mr. Russell writes, that the great Re-
public is gone into fragments whose cohesion car
never again be perfectf -ssrs Eqs.e @.