The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-05-18

N. SEWARD TO N. DAYrox.


DxfAErxxxY o. Sr.rs.
/ WAsHIxGroS. May 4, 1851.
/ Sn: The dispatches Of yonr predecessor
Nos. liz, ll9 and 100, have been received
The lstser acknowledging the rseeip. Of 0 a,
letter OF recall, and announcing his inten.
ded return, requires no special notice. No,
liz bears the date Of 5th April last. Il con-
tains only an exposition of Mr.. Faulkner
views Of the policy which this Governmenl
ought to pursue in regard to the disturbed
condition Of affairs At home, bat At the came
time gives no information eoneernipe the
state Of Affairs in France.
| The instructions heretofore transmitted
to you will show you the Presidept', yiev,
on the subject Mr.. Faulkner has discussed.
ana these viii be your guide. withstand-
ing any different opinion yonr predecessor
Paris. N -
No. ll9 bears date Of the l5sh April last.
and contains a report of an Official conver.
sation, and also OF an unofficial oae, held by
Mr.. Faulkne, and NJ. Thouvenel. In the
former conversation, NJ. Thouvenel asked
Mr.. Faulkner whether there is not eome
DIVERSITY OF opinion ia the Cabinet Of the
PRESIDENT IN regard to the proper mode OF
meeting the difficulties which now disturb
the relations Of the States and the General
Government. Mr.. Faulkner, 10 reply, said
that he had NO information on the subject,
!he matter is not of great moment, yet it is
desirable that there be no misapprehension
OF the true state Of tho Government in the
present emergency. You may, therefore
recall the conversation to NJ. Thouvenel's
memory, and then assure him explicitly, that
there is no difference Of opinion whatever
between the President and bis constitution
al advisers, or among those advisers them
selves, concerning the policy that has Teen
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 far been
too plainly marked out by stern necessity to
be mistaken, while the solemuity of the great
emergency, and the responsibility it involv-
ed, have extipguished in the pu blic councils
every emotion but those of loyalty and pat
riotism. 1t is not in the hands Of tho Ad.
ministration that this Government is to come
to an end at all, much less for want of har.
mony OF devotion to the country.
NJ. Thouvenel's declaration that the Uni.
ted States may rest we'll assured that no
hasty or precipitats action will be taken on
the subject Of the apprehended application
Of the insurrectionists for recognition of
the independence Of the 90 called Coufeder.
ate States, 10 entirely satisfactory, although
it was attended by q reservation Of views
concerning general principles applicable to
cases that need not now be discussed.
In the unofficial conversation, Mr.. Faux
ner says that be himself expressed the opin-
ion that force would not be resorted to to
coerce the so-called seeding States into
submission to the Federal authority, and
that the only solution of the difficulties
would be found in such notifications Of the
Constitutional compact as would invite the
seeding States back into the Union, or
peaceable acquiescence in the assertion of
their claim to separate sovereignty. The
time when these questions had any pertinen-
cy or plausibility has passed. The United
States waited patiently while their author
ity was de6ed in turbulent assemblies and
insidious preparations, willing to hope that
mediation, offered on all sides, would con.
ciliate and induce the dsaffec.ed parties to
return to better mind, but the case 10 now
altogether changed. The insurgents have
instituted revolution with open, fragrant,
deadly war, to compel the Uoited States to
acquiesce 10 the dismemberment Of the Tn.
ion. The United States have accepted this
civil war as an inevitable necessity. The
constitutional remedies for all the COM
plants of the insurgents are still open to
them, and will remain so. But. on the 9TH
er 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 ex-
isting in this Government, of suffering dis
solution Of this Union to take place in any
way whatever. There will be here only one
nation and one Government, and there will
be the same Republic and the same consti-
tu,ional Union that have already survived
dozen national changes and changes Of gov
ernment in almost every other country
These will stand hereafter, as they are now,
objects of human wonder and human affec-
tion. You may have seen, on the eve of
your departure, the elasticity Of the nation
al Government, and the lavish devotion Of
the national treasures to this great cause.
Tell NJ. Thouvenel, then, with the highest
consideration and good feeling, that the
thought of a dissolution Of this Union,
peaceably or by force, has never entered To-
to the head Of any candid statesman here,
and it is high time that it be dismissed By
statesman in Europe.
am Sir, respectfully your obedient ser
want,
wM. II. SEWARD.
To WILLIAM L. DArroS, Esq, &C., &c.