The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-05-14
The Right Doctrine.


re- Hon. WIN. H. SEWARD, Secretary
of State, in his instructions to Mr.. Day
TON, minister to France, uses the follow
ing language, which fully sets at rest any
doubts that the people may have had,
relative to the intentions of the govern
ment concerning the division of the con-
federaey. Mr.. SEWARD says:
"You cannot be too decided, or too explicit, in
making known to the French government that
be, any--the ledst-ided eristing in this 9orern-
ment, Of suffering dissolution Of this Union to
take place in any ,rGy ,chaterer. There will be
here only one nation and one government, and
there will be the same republic and the same
constitutional Union that have already surviv-
ed dozen national changes and changes OF
government in almost every other country
These will stand hereafter, as they are now, OBJ
jects of human wonder and human affection
You have seen, on the eve of your departure, the
elasticity of International spirit, the vigor of the
national government, and the lavish devotion
of the national treasures to this great cause
Tell NJ. Thouvenal then, with the highest con
sideration and good feeling, that the thought OF q
dissolution Of the Union, peaceably or by force, has
nerer entered into the mind Of any candid states
man here, and is high time that ii be dismissed bs
statesmen in Europe"
That is the position. The fact is pat
ent that the interests of this whole Unior
are too closely connected-are too nearly
identical-to permit the separation of the
States. There cannot be two rival and
competing governments within the lin.
its of the present Union. The Mississip
pi cannot be divided by an east and wes
line. The commerce of the Ohio and
the Missouri must not pass into the juris
diction Of another nation as soon as j
reaches the Mississippi. The fortified
tons of the Gulf must not be in hand:
hostile to the shipping interests of the
North. Kansas, and the territories be
vond, must not have their eastern Quite
through a hostile confederacy of which
Missouri shall be part. Northwestern
detestation of slavery precludes the pos
sibility that this great section of oul
country can ever join with slavehold
ing nation. And it demands, therefore
that the Mississippi, the Missouri, and
the Ohio shall be continued under its
exclusive control. 1t demands, and the
North demands, that the Union, in all
its present fullness, shall be handed down
to those who come after us. 1t is for
this that the great outpouring of the pop
ular heart has taken place. 1t is for this
that the hundreds Of thousands of men,
and the millions of treasure, that have
been placed in the kands of government,
have been profered. They have been
given it to fight no halfway battle. The
people demand that the rebellion shall
not be temporized with, but shall be
crushed out. Demand that the idea at
first entertained by many, of separa-
ton of the cotton states, shall become
obsolete, and that the war shall be one
for National Unity. Demand that the
glorious old flag shall float, as hereto
fore, from Maine to Florida, from Min
nesota to Texas, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific that not a star shall be erased
from its field that not an inch shall be
eubtracted from the area of this great ma
ton.
And we rejoice that the adminissra-
ton SO understands the people. Not the
least idea, says Ne. SEWARD, has ever ex
listed in this government, of suffering a
dissolution to take place. There shall be
only one nation and one government with.
in the area Of the United States, and
those the old Republic and the old Con
stitutional Union. The administration
and the people of the North ant
West are then in perfect accord. They
have the nsen, money and marine to en-
force the doctrine. One nation and on,
government is therefore the watchword