Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-12-18


The volume of diplomatic correspondence
just issued as public document, contains an
interesting dispatch from the historian Motley,
now representing our Government at the court
OF Vienna. The dispatch was written in 0cto-
Der, and we take from il the following ex-
tracts:
I'm spite of the clamor of a portion of the
English press and Of that fraction of the Brit
ish public which is Incapable of lifting its as
plrations higher than its immediate material
interests, | cannot believe, now that the proc
lamation of Sept % has distinctly defined the
position OF our Government on the great oues
ton of the age, that any English Ministry eau
stand up in the face of God and man, and ex-
tend the right hand of fellowship to new
commonwealth, avowedly based upon the per-
petuaton and extension of Negro Slavery as
its corners stone, until that commonwealth has
proved its existence to be fact which can no
longer be contradicted. That the fact is al
ready an accomplished one would be child
lsh assertion, and no man in Europe deserving
the name Of statesman or a reasoner has
ventured to make it. . E.s
Wise and good men have appreciated the
hesitation of the President to make use of
this tremendous weapon, and to meet revolu-
ton by revolution; but nearly all have fore
seen that tn S was the inevitable issue of the
great onslaught made by Slavery upon the ma
tonal life and on or free institutions. and,
more than all, that as the war went on, eman-
cpation by the Commander in Chief, in the
exercise of his unquestioned right to take all
measures not repugnant to humanity, to over.
come the resistance of the enemy, was really
the only method OF ayerting that most horrible
OF catastrophies-a servile war.
From the tone of the liberal portion of the
English press, and from private cerrespon-
dencee, l am disposed to feel comparatively at
ease IN regard to the feasibility ii immediate
ioioiSh ih'ey ention. OF course, the danger is
an ever-pending Que, and the most vigorous
measures for the prosecution of the war cannot
be too earnestly urged on Government by
those who know the anxiety with which the
struggle is watched in this hemisphere, and
who feel the enmity which the progress
and prosperity Of our great and Tree Republic
have awakened among the possessors OF
privilege and the brlnble servants of those
classes. A# ~ .-s Ess H..
1t cannot be denied that the tendency of
European public opinion, as delivered from
high places, is more and more unfriendly to
our cause. This is to be ascribed, of course,
to the interruptions which the continuance of
the war causes to mate, rial interests, and to the
dislike in Eurol'e to liberal institu-
tons. 1t would be weakness. IN us to expect
from the privileged C. 'asses; but the
people everywhere sympathize ''tn ua, Tor
lhey Know that cur cause is that of .'ree instl-
Iutlons, that cur struggle is that of people
against an olgarchy. They are not dece. wed
BY the relteratlon of the stale commonplace
about the wicked war;" the miserable war;
he "causeless war" Not one of the critics
md prophets with which the world swarns.
md who are so anxious to take the mote from
heir neighbours eye, has ever suggested any pos
aole project Tor the restoration of peace. They
content themselves with denouncing the war.
I would be well for these philosophers to pom
Ter the motto which the State of Massachu-
etts borrowed from Algernon Sydney and
las borne for nearly century on her seal:
"Ense petit placidam sub libertate auietsm."
The time comes to all nations when they
an achieve peace AND liberty by the sword
lone. And when those blessings have been
ecured-as they only can be on our continent
which the hand Of God has Indicated as the
esidence of one people--by the re-establish-
nent of our Federal Union and popular msti-
utions now threatened by the Shareholders
it may be hoped that the Amer
can sword may be sheathed for centuries"