Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-05-14
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Washington. Nav 4. 1851.

SIR: The dispatches Of your predecessor,
Nos. III, ll9, and 100, have been received.
The latter, acknowledging the receipt Of cur
letter OF recall, and announcing his Intended
return, requires no special notice. No. llT
bears the date Of 9th Of April last. Il con-
tains only an exposition Of Mr.. Faplkner's
views Of the policy which this Government
ought to pursue in regard TO the disturbed
condition Of affairs at home, but at the same
time gives us no information concerning the
state OF affairs in France. i-aaa --oG 3G
The instructions heretofore transmitted to
you viii show you the Presidents views on
the subject Nc. Faulkner has discussed, and
these will be your guide, Notwithstanding
any different opinion yom predecessor may
have expressed or lett on record at Paris. In
No. ll9. bears date OF the 10Th April last
and contains a report Of an official converse
ton, and also OF an unofficial one, held be-
tween Mr. Faulkner and II. ThOuVenel. IN
the former conversation n. Thouvenel asked
Mr.. Faulkner whether theirs israot some
diversity Of opinion ia the Cabinet Of the
President as TO the proper mode Of meet.
ing the difficulties which now disturb The
relations OF the States and the General Gov.
ernmeut- Mr. Faulkner, in reply, said that
be bad no information on the subject. The
matter IS OF no great mOmVnt yet it is de-
sirable that llhere be no Misrepresentation
OF the true state Of the Government in
the present emergency. You may there
tore, recall that conversation to a.. ThOuve-
nel's memory, aud then assure him explicitly
hat thereis no difereneeo opinion Whatever
between the President and bis Constitutional
advisers, or among those advisers themselves,
concerning the policy that has been pursued
and which is now prosecuted by the Admin
istrstion in regard TO the unhappy disturbances
existing in the co lngry. The path Of Exc
cutiTe duty has thus far been TOO plainly
marked out bystern necessity to be mistaken,
while the solemuity OF the great emergency,
and the responsibility ID inFolYRd, hGve ex-
tingnished in tie public councils every emo
tion bnt 1hoss otloBAltY and paEietismI
is not in the hands OF this Administration
that this Government is to-cOn me TO an end
at all, much less Tor want OF hsrmOny in de-
Yotions . the country. N. ThouYenals dec
l~aration that the United States may rest well
assured that no hasty or P~recipitste action
will betaken on the subject OF the apprehend-
ed application of the insurrectionists for q re-
cOgnition Of the undergraduates Of the s~o,called
Confederate States is entirely satisfactory,
although it was attended by q reservation o!
views concerning general principles applicable
10 cases thst need not now be discussed. In
the official conversation Mr.. Faulkner says
that be himself expressed the opinion thai
force would not be resorted to o eoerce the so
called Seeding States into submission 70 the
Federal authority, md that the only solution
. of the difficulties would be found in sucl
notifications Of the Constitutional compac
, as would invite the Seeding States back in
to the Union, or a peaeeable aequiescence il
, the assertion of their claims to a separat
: sovereignty.
The time when these questions had an.
: pertineney Or plausibility has passed away
h The United States waited patiently Will
their authority wa deheS in turbulent as
: semblies and insidious preparations, willin
i 70 hope that mediation, offered on all side
a would conciiiate and induce the disahecte
& parties to return to a better mind, bat th
%aSe IS now altogether changed. The iuspl
e have instigated revolution with opel
seh@ deadly war, to compel the Unite
Migrant ~quiescs in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
states to a. re United States have ccepte
~ Union. l. = inevitable necessity. IT
TINS civil war as a. - for all the complain
constitutional remedI.. u open to them, ar
OF the insurgents are sta. other hand, Il
will remain so. But on the Union ha,
land and naval lorces OF the = FEEDER
been put into activity 70 restore th e.!
authority, and to save the Union from
ger,
You cannot be too decided or too explicit
in making known 70 the French Government
that there is not now, nor has there been,
nor viii there be, any-the least--idea exist
ing in this Government Of suffering a disso-
luton Of this Union to take place IN any way
whatever. There will be here only one ma
ton and one Government, and there viii be
the SAM Republic and the same c~onstitu-
tional Union that have already survived q
dozen national changes and changes of gov
eminent in almost every other country.--
These viii stand hereafter, as they are now,
objects of human wonder and human afec-
ton. You have seen, on the eve of your de-
parture, the elias icity of the national spirit
the vigor of the national Government and
the lavish devotion of the national treasure
to this great cause. Tell N. Thouveasl, then,
with the highest consideration and good feel
ing, that the thought Of q dissolution Of this
Union, peaceably or by force, has never en-.
tered into the mind OF any candid statesmen
here, and il is high time that it be dismisseC
by statesmen IN Europe.
am, Sir, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
.r-s WV. Il. SEWARD.
To WILLIAM L. DAYTON, Esq, &c, Sc.