New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-22
SECESSION IN DIPLOMACY.

OBJECT OF tue stlling vi lnc NnshFHc HUH
Charleston for Europe, was not to carry
Slidell and Mason as the ambassadors of the
Confederacy to London and Paris. but to con-
yey to the shores of England and France a
cargo of Commissioners accredited from the
Department of State at Richmond to the
Sheriirs of the counties Of Great Britain, Ire
land. and the Isle of Man, and to the Projects
of the Departments of France, including Corsica.
For the rule of diplomacy laid down by the Rebel
State Department is this: if we cannot secure
the notice Of national powers, which have re-
cognized relations with other nations. we will
turn to the subordinate authorities ruled by
those powers, and try to coax, or flatter, or
where We dare, to bully them into taking some
notice Of us.
And so feeling the terrible aud pressing
necessity of being recognized BY somebody or
something, they accommodate themselves to
circumstances. In France failing to obtain
the slightest nod from Louis Napoleon, Yancey,
and Co. have turned their attention to such
individual Frenchmen as are too polite to re-
fuse them audience. In England, failing to Sc
cure even the recognition OF q rebuff from the
Government, the Secession agents iorin niu-
tuai-reeognizinS soccer! WIN i"' .'"'ao" -"'y
Finding no favor in the eyes Of the Spanish
Government, they 90 first to the Governor
General Of Cuba, and, unsuccessful with him,
to the Governors of some of the smaller ports
of that island, again 10 be unsuccessful. Dis
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corres,ondance and s,,,;nc tho, h. s.,rs no
o,.h, no, 90 baro on+orod into ,ho nooo,;o,;on
hnt ,ta. tbo Inconvenience. which v,ould have
resulted from answering plainly that he had no
authority in such matters, were too great to
be disregarded, especially as the communication
from the Confederate Secretary spoke of peace
and security on the frontiers, and at the same
time complained that an armed Invasion Of
Texas was projected in the State of Nuevo-
Leon and Coahuila, complaint to which he
thought it indispensably necessary to reply.
lie concludes by requesting the Supreme Gov.
eminent to approve bis action. No. 2 is a
dispatch from D. A. Quintero, the Confederate
Commissioner, to Vidaurri, in which he refers
Yidaurri for information concerning the state
of affairs in the United States to that which
has been already communicated to the Central
Government at Mexico, by special envoy OF
the Confederates. He makes suspicious haste
to say that the Confederate Government en-
"tirely renounces that idea oil invasion ana