Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-05-18
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
Cnion if not forever at least for such time will
secure for their Government 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 (withn its lrmits)
the great republic is gone. The shape of the frag
ments is not yet determined any more than their
fate They may e-unitc, but the cohesion never
be perfect"
Extract from the instructions Of Secretary Sew
ard, to Mr.. Dayton, Minister at Paris, dated Wash
ngton 4th, 1861.
''You cannot be too decided or too explicit in ma
king known to the French Government that there
is not now, nor has there heen. 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.
crnment and one nation, and there will he the same
constitutional Union and the same Fe1ublic that
have already survived dozen national changes and
changes Of government in almost every other coun-
try. These will stand hereafter they now, OBJ
jects Of human wonder and human affection. You
have the Of your departure, the elastic
ity of the national spirit the vigor 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 pcaceably 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"
Those who dream of continuance Of "The
Union" or of reduction of North Carolina to the
authority of its late General Government, would do
we'll to consider the following sentiment from
speech by Count Cavour in the Italian Parliament,
on the 18th of last March:
"Since 17S9 Governments have reposed upon
the consent expressed or tacit, of the people,
Russia approaches IT. at least no longer repels it
as the Emperor Nicholas did. 4 p0ner tohich does
not rest upon this basis, ohich maintains an abso
lutte antagonisn bettoeen the people which it gorerns
and ITSELF has longer the possibility Of existence"
The contrast between these deverances is very
striking The first is made by 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 so
portrayins them that he is now regarded one of
the most accomplished annasts 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 contains2 Not to men,
ton those North of Mason and Dixons line, who
must rise up and contradict the disingenuous Sec
retary nor those South of the Potomac who are not
of our own State, does Mr.. Seward exclude such
men as Judge Rufin and Gov Morehead from the
list of statesmen? Have Gov. Graham and Judge
Biggs no candor? Has the thought of dissolution
of the Union never entered the minds of Senator
Bragg and Judge Badger? On the contrary is it
not true, as Mr. Russell writes, that the great Re-
public is gone into fragments, whose cohesion can
never again be perfectl Q.