The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-09-04

Mr.. ADAMS TO EARL RUSSELL.
Received June 2I.
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,
LONDON, June 90, 1869.
My LORD: | have the homer to traus-
NIT to your lordShip a copy OF the dis.
patch from the Secretary Of State TO me
Of the 28th ult., which l desired to read
to you in my interview Of yesterday. but
which | found | had accidentally left at
home. Renewing, &c. .a
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
Enclosure in No. 1.
MR.. SEWARD TO MR. ADAMS.
WAsmEGroN. May 90. 1862.
SIR: Your dispatch Of the 9th of Nav
has been received.
There is q statement in the public Jour
mails that thirty vessels which had left
British ports with common design 10
run our blockade, have gathered at Mas
sau, and that they are now remaining
there awaiting ths relaxation of The block
ade at some of the Southern ports which
the President has permitted to take place
on the lst Of June. preferring to avail
themselves Of that lawful privilege rather
than persevere in their prohibited opera.
lions. l thing, therefore, that we may
congratulate ourselves upon having ad.
vanced to new stage in our intercourse
with maritime Powers affecting the pre-
sent troubles in tha United States, a stage
a. which motives Of sympathy 10 foreign
countries With the insurgents, derived
from pressure OF the blockade, will dis
appear.
This stage is also marked by another
improvement oil the case--pamely, the
Withdrawal from the ocean of the pirates
who have occasionally sought shelter and
protection in friendly ports, while com.
hitting depred atoms on American com.
merce. .~ us ,sI.
Under the Presidents instructions,
desire TO improve the position thus OBJ.
tanned, to confer, if our representatives
abroad shall think it discreet, with the
friendly nations. upon the prospects Of
the war. and their future course in re :
gard to it.
By way of Introduction, l beg to recall
to your recollection the facts that, at the
earliest proper moment, set forth most
distinctly the opinion of this Government
that the mutual interests,present and per.
manent, Of all maritime nations. including
this country, require the preservation OF
harmonious relations between them, and
that the same interests demand that's far
as possible, peace shall prevail through
out the world. and especially in the
United States and the American cont.
nent.
In explanation of these views, l sci
forth the opinion that the industrial sys.
TENS Of Western Europe and the United
States, including their agriculture, man.
ufactures, and commerce are, in some re
spects, to be regarded less as distinct ma
lional systems than as one general com
bination of agricultural, manufacturing
and commercial agencies, in which jal
in one country necessarily produces dis
turbance in all others, so that serious
disorganization OF the machinery employ
ed in production here cannot fail TO re
suit in delangemeat, probably in disas
ter, everywhere abroad.
There are now some painful evidence
that these speculations were not unsound
There is distress among the peasantry o
Ireland, in the manufacturing towns o
Belgium, and the wins presses and sill
looms in some parts Of France seeming tt
be coming 10 dead stand. All the suf
lerers Il will not stop to inquire hoy
Ijustly--trace their misfortunes to the civi
war of the United States. 1t is manifss
that what the European nations want
an end of that war as speedy, aud leavin!
the industrial system Of this country a
little disorganiSed ss possible. 1t woul
seem impossible for any considerate per
son to doubt that this is the very consum
nation which the United States Govern
ment must want even more than it can b
desired by the European States. Thi
Government has expressed that want earr
esily, decidedly. sometimes, perhaps,eve
impatiently. Nevertheless, the war ha
continued whole year. against the wish
es of Europe as well as OF America. !
new campaign is even beginning. In oil
der to determine whether it is likely I
reach the desired end, it will not be III
profitable 10 consider the causes Of the pre-
lousatiou to the present period. Thi
Government at the beginning al
sumed. and it has constantly insisted ,ths
the Union could, must, and should 10 pre-
served. On the other hand. the Europea
nations, when they saw the storm burr
upon the country, either doubted, or az
tually disbelieved the possibility Of thu
great salvation. Europe had but sui
ordiuate and indirect interest in the gre'
problem. and il supposed that il the Uni
, ed States could be only convinced that I'll
Union could no, in the end be preserved
they would at once forego the contest, an
. consent to National dissolution, whic
; il was enormously thought would be 70
} lowed by peace; while we knew that
: would only be the beginning Of endle'
war. Thus, European opinion has prac
: tically favored the insurgents, and er