Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-09-02
Enclosure In No. IL
DIR. SEWARD TO Mr.. ADAMS.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
Enclosure IN No. IL
DIR. sEWARD TO Mr.. ADAMS.
i WAsHINoroN, May 20, 1869
STA: Your dispatch of the 9Th OF May has
been received.
There 10 statement In the public journals
that ihirty vessels which had LETT British ports
with a common design to run our blockade,
have gathered OF Nassau, and that they are
now remaining there awaiting the relaxation of
the blockade at some of the Southern ports
which the President has permitted to take place
on the Let Of June, preferriug to avail them.
selves of that lawful privilege rather than per.
severe In their prohibited operations. think,
therefore, that we may congratulate ourselves
upon having advanced TO new stage in our
Intercourse with maritime powers, affecting the
present troubles 10 the United States, a stage
at which motives of sympathy In foreign coun.
tries with the insurgents, derived from the
pressure Of the blockade, will disappear
This stage Is also marked by another i'm
provement of the case namely, the with,
draWal from the ocean Of the pirates who have
occasionally sought shelter and protection in
friendly ports, while committing depredations
on American commerce. De-
Under the Pfesident's instructions, desire
to improve the position thus obtained, to con-
fer, II our representatives abroad eball think IL
discreet, with the friendly nations, upon the
prospects OF the war, and heir future course in
regard to 1t.
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 permanent, of all mari
time nations, including this country, require the
preservation of harmonious relations between
them, and that the same interests demand that,
60 far as possible, peace shall prevail through
out the world, and especially In the United
States and upon the American continent.
In explanation of these views, set forth the
opinion that the industrial system Of Western
Europe and the United States, including theiI
agriculture, manufactures and commerce, are
10 some respects, to be regarded less as distinct
national systems than as one general combina.
ton of agricultural, manufacturing and com.
mercial agencies, in which jar in one country
necessarily produces ditturbance in all others
90 that serious dsorganization Of the mschin.
cry employed in production here cannot fai
to result in arrangement, probably in disaster
everywhere abroad.
There are now some painful evidences tina
these speculations we're not unsound. There
distress among the peasantry of Ireland, in tn
manufacturing towns of Belgium, and the win
presses and elk looms in some parts OF Franc
seem to be coming to dead stand. All Oh
su6erers-lw will not stop TO inquire how justl
trace their mislOrtunes to the civil war of th
United States.
1t is manifest that what the European nation
want is an END of that war as speedy, and leav
ing the industrial system of this country as littl
disorganized as possible. Ii would seem impos
sible for any considerate person TO doubt tha
this is the very consummation which the Unitet
States government must want even more thai
it can be desired by the European States. Thi
government has expressed that want earnestly
decidedly, sometimes, perhaps, even impatient
ly. Nevertheless, the war has continued 6
whole year, against the wishes of Europe 81
we'll as Of America. A new campaign is ever
beginning. In order to determine whether it il
likely to reach the desired end, it will not b,
Improbable to consider the causes Of its pro
loDgation to the present period. This govern
ment at the beginning assumed, and It ha
constantly insisted, that the Union could, must
II and should be preserved.
On the other hand, the European nations
when they saw the storm burst upon the country
either doubted, or actually disbelieyed the pos
sbiity or that great aalvstion. Europe had bu
a subordinate and indirect interest in the grea
problem, and 1t supposed that il the Unite
States could be only convinced that the Unio
could not in the end be preserved, they woul
at once forego the contest, and consent to
national dissolution, which it was erroneousl
thought would be followed by peace, while W
knew that 1t would only be the beginning Q
endless war. Thus, European opinion ba
practically favored the insurgents, and encour
aged them with ephemersl sympathies, an
unreal expectations of foreign intervention
and has thus protracted the war to the preser
time.
Certainly the Government and the America
people are even more confident Of the preservs
tion Of the Union now than they were yea
ago, and are, therefore, even less likely no,
than they were then, to accept peace, with th
inconcevable pains and perils Of dissolution =
Can it be presumtuous, then, for US 70 ask Eu
ropean statesmen to review, in the light OF tn
events of the war. the opinion which they form
ed at so early . stage of it, tina. the opinion il
self might, perhaps, properly be deemed q pref
udice2
OF course, in such O review the observe
would not overlook the contrast between tn
position which the Federal Government held
year ago and Its present situation. Then IL ha
been practically expelled, with all its authori
ties, civil, military and naval, from every Stat
south of the Potomac, Ohio, and Missouri rivers
while It was held in close siege in this capital
cut off from communication with even tn
States which had remained loyal.
Now IL has virtually retaken all the position
1t so early lost on the seabord; 1t possesses tn
Mississippi and oil the great national Highways
!. and has forced the insurgents to battle 10 th
most inaccessible part of the insurrectionar
district. The forces and the resources of th
= Government are unexhausted and increasing
Those of the insurgents are diminished and b.
s coming nearly exhausted.
No one, either here or in Europe, now col
tests these simple facts. The only argumel
opposed to them, is that the insurgents ha,
determined not to acknowledge the author
of the Union. The evidence OF this Ia certa
resolute and defiant tone maintained by the
organ.
Certainly so long as the insurgents have al
hope Of ultimate success, they could not be Q:
Mt pected to discourse otherwise than In such
ly tone, nor will they fail to cherish such hol
90 long as they fnd willingness to meet
with sympathy in Europe. The very last a
vices which came from that quarter previo
: TO the arrival Of news of the fall OF Ne
&. Orleans and Norfolk, were full of speculatio
" about some newly conceived form Of interve
tion.
But 10 must be remembered that the insu
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