Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-12-11

A long dispatch from Secretary Sewer.
to VIM. L Dayton, our Minister to France,
is published, which is full Of interest but
two long for our columns. Mr.. Seward In
forms Mr.. Dayton that the French and Ens-
lish Ministers had called upon him to read
an important dispatch which they had been
directed to present. Mr.. Seward required
first TO be informed of its contents, and learn
ing that It indicated purpose to recognize
the Southern States as belligerents, and to
hold communication with their Capital at
Montgomery for certain objects, he promptly
declined TO receive it-and In this letter sets
forth bis reasons for so doing, in very able
and digniRed language. It had been ascer-
tanned some time previous, that England
and France had determined to pursue one
and the same course regarding the troubles
Of this country. The Secretary immediate
" instructed the Ministers at London and
Paris, that it would be understood that this
Government would deal with each power
separately, and that the agreement between
them would not at all influence the course
we should pursue. The dispatches Of
ferred to Mr.. Seward, and above re-
fered to imply that the United States
are not one sovereign power, but that thii
nation consists of two parts, of which the
Federal Government is one. The United
States will not suffer themselves to debat,
the question Of sovereignty with Francs o.
any other power. The Government insis
that the United States are one whole un6i
vided nation, especially so far as foreign IA
tions are concerned, and that France is no
a neutral power between two soversignt;es
but friend of the United States. It is er
rOneOus, as far as foreign nations are con
cerned, to suppose that any war exists in n
United States, and where there is no war
there can be no belligerent powers. There
is here, as there has always been, one politics
power, namely, the United States Of Aneri
ca, and there is none other, either n fac
or recognized by foreign nations. t is t-1s
there is armed sedition and rshsllion, bu
this cannot constitute a war, in the esti
nation of foreign nations.
The Secretary closes with the following
eloquent passage:
The case, as it now stands, is the simple
ordinary one that has happened at all times
and in ali countries. A disconterted domes
tic faction seeks foreign intervention TO over
throw the Constitution and the ESerties Q
his own country. Such Intervention,
yielded, is untmely disastrous to the caus
it is designed to aid. Every unccrrupted ma
ton, in its deliberate moments, prefers it
own integrity, even with unbeareble evils, L
division through the power or influence O
any foreign State. This is so in France. /
is not less so in this country. Down deep il
the heart of the American people-deepe
than the love Of trade, or OF freedom-'eep
er than the attachment to any local OF sec
tional interest," or partisan pride CT inoivid-
ual ambitiOn-deeper than any other senti
ment-is that one out of which the Ooasti
tuition of this Union arose, namely, Aneri
can Observation-Disclosures Of all for
eign control, alliance, or inhusnce. Mex
above it lies the conviction that neither psac
nor safety, nor public liberty, nor prosperity
nor greatness, nor public hberty;nOr empire
can be attained here with the sacriSce OF tn
uuity Ofthe people OF North America. Thos
who, in frenzy of passion are building ezpec
tatiOns on other principles do not know Wha
they are doing. Whenever one part OF tn
Union shall be found assuming bonds Of de
pendence or of fraternity towards any FOR
eign people, to the exclusion of the sympa
thies of their native land, then, even if no
h0fnsa- that znirit will ha reaWaEaned Pgbicl
istence, and which will preserve them unite
until the common destiny which it opened t
them, shall be fully and completely realized.