The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1861-10-12

lhe Russian Minister recently nau an au-
dience with the President, and read the fol-
lowing dispatch:
Sr. PETERSBURG, July 10th, 1861.
NJ. De SroEcKL, &c.-Sir: From the be
ginning of the conflict which divides the
United States of America, you have been
ernment the deep interest with which our
august master was observing the develop
ment of crisis which keeps in question
the prosperity and even the existence of the
Upion. The Emperor profoundly regrets
to see that the hope of a peaceable solution
is not realized, and that American citizens
already in arms are ready to let loose upon
their country the most formidable OF the
scourges Of political soclety-a civil war.
Fer more than eighty years that thas
existed. the American Union owes its indel
pendence, its towering rise, and its progress,
to the concord Of its members. concentrated
under the auspices Of its iIIustrsous founder
by its institutions which have been able to
reconcile the Union with liberty. This Union
has been faithful it has exhibited to the
world the spectacle of prosperity without
example in the annals of history. 1t would
be dpplorable that atte" SO conclusive an ex
perience, the United States should be hur,
rie into a breach of the solemn compact,
which up to this time has made their power.
In spite of the diversity of their Constitu
tions, and Of their interests, and because
even of their diversity, Providence seems to
urge them to draw closer their traditional
bond, which is the basis of the very condi
tions of their politca existence In any
event, the sacrifice which they miggt impose
upon themselves to maintain it, are beyond
comparison with those which dissolution
would bring after it. United, they perfect
themselves; isolated, they are paralyzed.
The struggle which has unbappiIy arisen
can neither be indefinitely prolonged, nor
lead to the total destruction of one of the
parties Sooner or later it will be necessary
to come to some settlement, whatever it may
be, which may cause the divergent interests
now actually in conflict to exist. The Anne
rican nation would then give proof OF high
political wisdom in seeking in common such
useless effuson of blood, barren squan.
dering of strength and of public riches, and
acts of violence and reciprocal refusals shall
have come to deepen an abyss between the
two parties of the Confederation to end,
definitely, in their mutual exhaustion, and in
the ruin, herh; p, irreparable, of their com
mercal and political power.
Our august master cannot resign himself
to admit such deplorahle anticipations.
His Imperial Majesty still places his con-
fdence in that practical good sense of the
citizens of the Union who appreciate so
iudiciously their true interests. His Majesty
is happy to believe that the members Of the
Federal Government and the influential men
of the two parties will seize all occasions,
and will unite all their efforts to calm the
effervescence Of the passion. There are no
interests so divergent that it may not be i'm
possible to reconcile them by aboring to
that end with zeal and perseverance, in spite
of Justice and moderation
If within the limits of your friendly rela-
tons, your language and your councils may
contribute to this result, you will respond,
sir. to the intentions of bis Majesty the EN-
peror, in devoting to this the personal influ-
ence which you may have been able to ac'
quire during your long residence at Wash
ington, and to the consideration which be-
longs to your character as the representa-
tive of a Sovereign animated by the most
friendly sentiments towards the American
Union. The Union is not simply in our
ewes an element essential to the universal
political equilibrium; it constitutes, besides,
\ nation to which our august master and all
Russia have pledged the most friendly in'
terest, for the two countries, placed at the
extremities of the two worlds, each IN the
ascending period of their Development aap'
near called to natural community OF IN