, 1862-01-04
OUR DIPLOMACY ABROAD.
4 Key to Foreign Sympathies.
State Papers Relating to
Foreign Affairs.
From Our Own ConeEpondent.7

d1as3 Gal1 husstl4a AaIQ Lyons, ETC., ls naCu-
rally the most interesting. The candid read
er Of these pages must confess that, in all
things except q comprehension Of the magni-
tude Of the crisis, Mr.. Seward has acted his
part well. There are those, reputed to be
posted in foreign ahairs, who assert that i'm
portant omissions hive been made in the pub
Gshed dvolume-that dispatches have passed be-
tween Washington and London Of an irrita-
ting character, which have not yet been
printed. This, presume, is mere guess-work
in the quidnunc circles; at any rate, it is no
part Of t4e record. In all matters pertaining
to rhetoric, good breeding, sataeitor in not7o
and such like, the work is faultless. The ar
gument is invariably good, and the friendly
spirit aetuating the Secretary is to be COM
mended. But when we find the rebellion
treated at first as trivial affair." likely to blow
over III few weeks or months, and when we
find this strange and unstatesman1ike theory
| maintained with the utmost obstinacy through
ont, or yielding only an iota here and there.
can it be said that the writer has auy ADEQUATE
| conception Of the posture of public affuirs? !?
| Common people did not need to be informed
| that the battle of Bull Run did not break the
2ANAt.e.t ~ AA4t t+tL*s9 tIl IL Liz AlSkaLEI OI
July 24th, Mr. Seward grayely assures Mr.
| Adams Of that circumstance, He saws :.
..The affair fat Bull Rum will not produce any
"serious injury, The strength 9f tie i,asur-
''7fetio5 Is not b'oken butit notformidable ~
| ~hr. ss"ards disbelief in the formidable na-
| turc q the rebellion was first announced in his
| speech at the Astor House, nearly wear ago,
| in which he mentioned the period Of Eyc
| months as the limit Of the whole controversy.
announcing ct the same time that he loved
sontn 1 Earollna better than any country that
states-south Carolina hnYing then then
| seeded; The same ideas arc presented
at suitable length in the letter of Instructions
to Minister Adams, dated April 10, 1861, in
| which our Envoy Extraordinary is directed to
indulge in no expressions Of harsllness, or
:. .dlsrespect, Or etea impatiencs concerning the
"seceding States, Their agents, or their peo-
pie" The four months, in which the gust
I Of rebellion was to have spent itself had
| passed away, when, on the 21st Of May, Mr.
seward wrote to Mr. Adams: "Great Britain
! has but to wait a .Jeao months, and all her
| "present inconyeniences will cease, with all
| our OWL troubles" On the Goth of July the
| unportant announcement Of what the battle
| OF Bull Run had not done to the rebels was
made, as already quoted. On the 18th Of Au-
! gust, Mr. Seward writes: "The elections
~ show that reaction against disunion has be-
"ssgnn in the revolutionary States, anttwe NAV
confidently look for 4 restoration Of the na-
'tlonai authority throughout the Union. If
- our foreign re1ntions 7Ferc once promptly re-
Established on their former basis, the disun-
~. ION sentiment would languish and perish
within year" On the eth Of August Mr
F. ": Seward, Assistant Secretary, pursucs
the theme, but less 1ucidIy than lis father.
HI tells Mr. Adams that there are to be ycry
"many fluctuations Of opinion in Europe
'eoncernlng our affairs before the Union will
tbe in danger from any source p This
means that the Hmm hnS hoo, -,
danger-that is, if it means anything. "The
tnlon armlcs,' continues Mr.. F. " s., .are
preparing for movements which will, in
- few weeks, remove the war from the present
frontier" The frontier teas removed shortly
after the date Of this dispatch, but it was to-
wards Washington, and. not towards Rich
mond. Mr. F. ". s. concludes: 1.-THE scnti-
:" ment Of dlsunion is losing its e1pdnsitc force,
- and every day it grows weaker as a physical
power" As this was exactly four months
the physical power Of disunion must be very
homeopathic, or that very poor use is being
made Of our armies. The latest allusiou. in the
dispatches toMr. Adams, concerning the charac-
terand proportions ofthe struggle, is found in
the one dated Sept 25th, where Mr. Seward
insurgents made theil ,:rst unnatural appeal
" to the sympat1lics and aid Of foreign pow
"ers for the overthrow Of our Government,
- has been sufficient TO draw out all their
strength, and exhaust IN soHe measure their
passion" That is, they don't hate us now
as badly as they used to. III Mr. sewurd's dis
patch to Mr.. Adams, datcd Nov. 30th pub
llshed in connection with the Mason and Sill
Dell affair, the former says: You spoke the
simple fact when you told him TPalmerston1
1hat " M the life OF this insu!rection is sustained
my its hopes Of recognition in Great Britain
and France. It would perish in seinetv days
If those hopes should cease.''
Still harpfng on my daughter! The cart
still before the horse. The rebellion to be
put down By diplomacy rather than war. Is it
the rebels scn continue to hope for foreign rec
ognition as long as they can maintain their
ground and keep the Federal armies back, and
conversely, that they will cease to hope for
foreign recognition the moment their armies
are defeated and dispersed?
1t is perhaps an ungracious task to find fault
with any nun, be lc Cabinet Minister or citi-
zen, for entertaining high hopes for his couu-
try, even though they be exposed to constant
disappointment, and though they expose both
him and hls country to the ridicule Of foreign
powers. Yet the feeling cannot be reprcssed,
| that if Mr. Secretary Seward really believed
what he wrote concerning the dimensions Of
the rebellion, he was not the man to advise
the President concerning the ways and means
Tor putting it down. Il he really deemed it .
eight days after the battle Of Bull Run, that it
was mot formidable much Of the paltcring
which has been noticed in the management Of
the war is readily accounted for. The true
philosophy Of our foreign relations, aud
especially Of our relations with Eng
! by Mr. Adams in page 81 81, in his dispatch da.
| ted London, July 2l He says: s'Neither
ssparty lin England] would be so bold as to
"declare its sympathy with cause based up
ION the extension Of slavery, for that would
Il at once draw upon Itself the Indignation Of The
ri
how vast an advantage have we III tile cycs OF
the world if We only hold up before the Coy
ern1nents and people Of Europe the fact that
this is Shareholders rebellion, and that every
| cfectual blow We strike is a blow at the horrij
head Of slavery Is not this tho true key o1
! our foreign as well as our domestic policy
Mr. Adams, consciously or unconsciously, ad
nlits that it is, but Mr. Seward tells all GU,
Ministers to keep it out Of view. So the En-
peror OF Russia tells US, in plain, emphatic
MWo;ras, uttered @ in tn; the Pa3aee Of Peterhoa te
Mr.. Clay's dispatch Of June 2fst ought to be
printed in letters Of gold, or>of fire. and hung
up in every Department, in both Houses O
Congress, and in the Executive mansion.
"The Emperor received me standing, advancing
re Sre Tie usoa 1ee
speeches. adding that ycnturcd, By the orders O
ny Gorelnment, to say that the President OF the
profound sympathy and admiration upon the grea1
reforms which he was attempting in his empire
BY which; without considering Tho philanthropit
class, he would add more to the physical power q
the country than did Peter the Great By consolida
tion and extension: and that the success Of hil
enterprise would, in the estimation of western rs
tions. place him eyen above that great ruler.
THE Emperor seemed much gratifed and reaN1
mored BY this last remark. which he saw was iron
us real appreciation Of his great undertaking
and not an nnmeaning compliment Hc then sail
he ewouldrespondt through the Prince IGartchacofF; !;