Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-10


Mr.. Faulkner &hetheri there is act some d.
versity of opinioa in the Cabinet of the
President as to the proper mode of meeting
the difficulties which now disturb the rela-
tons of the Stairs aud the General Govern
meut. Mr.. Faulkner, 10 reply, said that he
bad 40 information on the subject. The mat
ter is of no great moment, yet it is desirable
state of the Government in the pre-
sent emergency. You may, therefore,
recall that conversation to NJ. Thouve-
nel's memory, and then assure him explic-
lilly that there is no difference OF opinion
whatever between the President and his CON-
stitutional advisers, or amoug those advisers
themselves, concerning the policy that has
been pursued and which is now prosecuted by
the Administration in regard to the unhappy
disturbances existing in the country. The
path OF Executive duty has thus fer been too
plainly marked out by stern necessity to be
mistaken, while the solemniiy of the great
emergency. and the responsibility it involved,
have extinguished in the public councils cv-
cry emotion but those of 10y atty aud patriot
ISM 1t is not in The hands of this Admins
tration that this Government is to come TO
an end at all, much less for want OF harmo-
ny ia devotion TO the country. NJ. Thouve-
nel's declaration that the United States NAV
rest well assured that no hasty or preciptate
action will tie taken on the subject of the
apprehended application of the instruction
lists for recognition of the independence of
the so-cailed Confederate States is entirely
satisfactory, although it was attended by
reservation of views concerning general prin-
cipleS applicable to cases that need not now
be discussed. In the unofficial conversation
Mr.. Faulkner says that he himself expressed
tue opinion that force would not be resorted
to to coerce the so-called seeding States in
to submission to the Federal authority, and
that the only solution of the difficulties would
be found in such notifications oil the Coasti-
tutiOnal compact as wonld invite the seced-
ing States back into the Union, or a peacra-
BILE acquiescence in the assertion OF their
claim to a separate sovereignty. The time
when these questions had any pertinency or
plausioility has passed away. The United
States waited patiently while their authority
was defi=d in turbulent assemblies and insid-
ious preparations, willing to hope that me-
diation, offered on all sides, would cou-
ciliate aud induce the disaffected to
return to better mind, but the case
is now altogether changed, The in
surgents have instituted revolution with
open, fragrant, deadly war. to compel the
United States to acquiesce in the dismember-
meut of the Union. The United States have
accepted this civil war as an inevitable neces-
sity. The constitutional remedies for all the
complaints of the insurgents are still open to
them, and WlltTemalu SO. But, on the DINER
hand the land and naval forces of the Union
have been put into activity TO restore the
Federal authority and to save the Union
from danger.
You cannot be too decided or too explicit
in making known to the French Government
that there is not now, nor has there been
nor will there be any-the least-idea exist
ing in this Government OF suffering a dissolu-
ton of this Union to take place IN any way
whatever There will be here only one ma
ton and one Government, and there will be
the same constitutional Union that have al
ready survived dozen national changes and
changes Of government in almost every other
country, These will stand hereafter, as they
are now, objects of human wonder and hui
man affec ion. You have seen, on the eve of
your departure, the elasticity OF the national
spirit, the vigor of the national Government,
and the lavish devotion of the national treas
ures to this great cause. Tell NJ. Thouvenel,
then, with the highest consideration and good
feeling, that the thought of dissolution OF
this Union, peaceably or by force, has never
entered into the mind OF any candid states
man here, and it is high time that it be dis
missed by statesmen in Europe.
l am, Sir, respectfully your obi. servant,
VIM. Ii. SEWARD.
To WILLIAM L. DAYTON, Esq, &C., &c.