The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-21
NASHvILLE. TENNEssEE. sATVRDAY. FEBRUARY 2l 1868

lhleuccs the ties OF every klnu WHICH
have mace Of the North and the South
one whole federative State, and have
borne them on TO SO high n degree Of
prosperity, are not more powerful than
Che cause which have placed arms in the
hands Of The two populations.
The suggestion is not an extraordinary
one and il may well bave been thought by
the Emperor Of the French, In the earn.
estness ofhis benevolent desires for the re-
storatiOn Of peace, a feasible one; but when
MDrouyn do pHuys shall come 70 review,
in The light in which IL must necessarily
be examined in this country, think he
can hardly fail TO perceive that II amounts
TO nothing less than q proposition that
while this Government Is engaged in
suppresslng an armed insurrecticn for the
purpose of maintaining the constitutional
National authorities and preserving the
integrity of the country, IL shall enter
into diplomatic discussion with the in-
surgents upon the question whether that
authority shall not be renounced, and
whether the country shall not be deliy-
cred over 20 disunion 10 be quickly fol-
lowed by ever increasing anarchy.
If il were possible for the Government
Of the United States TO compromise Ma
tional authority so far as to enter into
such debates, II is not easy TO perceive
what good results could be obtained By
them, The Commissioners must agree
in recommending either that the Union
shall stand or that il shall be voluntarily
dissolved, or else they must leave the vi
tai question unsettled, to abide at last
the fortunes Of the war. The Govern
ment has not shut out knowledge Of the
present temper any more than Of the past
purposes of the insurgents. There is not
the least ground TO suppose that the con-
trolling actors would be persuaded at
this moment by any arguments which
National Commissioners could offer, TO
forego the ambition that has impeIied
them TO the disloysl position they are
occupying. $3.50 sa a1l o
Any Commissioners who should be ap-
pointed by those actors or through their
dictation or influence. must enter the
conferences imbibed with the spirit and
| pledged TO the personal fortunes of the
insurgent chiefs. The loyal people in
the heinsurrectionary States would be un-
heard, and any offer of peace by this
Government, on the condition of the
maintainance of the Union, must necess-
| arily be rejected. On the other hand, as
/ have already intimated, this Govern
ment has not the least thought of relin-
| gushing the trust which has been con-
fded to il by the nation, under the most
solemn of all political sanctions; and il
il had any such thought, it would have
! still abundant reason to know that peace,
| proposed at the costof dissolution, would
be Immediately, universally and indig-
nantly rejected by the American peO-
pie.
It's great mistake that European
statesmen make II they suppose this peo-
pie are demoralized. Whatever, in case
Of an insnrrection, the people Of France
or Great Britain, or of Switzerland, or of
the Netherlands, would do TO save their
National existence, no matter how the
strife might be regarded by or effect
foreign nations, just 80 much, and GER
tainly no less, the people Of the United
States will do If necessary, TO save, for
the common benefit the region which is
bounded by the Pacific and Atlantic
coasts and by the shores Of the Cults OF
st. Lawrence and Mexico, together with
the free and common navigation of the
Rio Grande, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississ-
ippi, Ohio, st. Lawrence, Hudson, Della
ware, Potomac, and other National high
ways, by which this land, which 10 them
is at once land Of inheritance and Q
land of promise, is opened and water
ed.
EUea If The agents Of the american peopl,
nolO exercising their. .polOer, should droUgl
fear Of faction fall beIolO this height Of thl
national Virtue, they aOoHa be speeliiy ge
co1istitutionaly replaced by others Of sterYie;
character and patriotism.
must be allowed 10 say, also, that M
Drouyn de L'Huys errs in his description
of parties 10 the present conflict we hav,
here in q political sense, no North anC
South, no Northern and Southern States
We have an insurreotionary party which
is located upon, and chiefly adjacent I,
the shores Of the Gulf of Mexico, anC
we have, on the other hand, a loyal peO.
pie who constitute not only Northern
States, but also Eastern, Middle, Western
and Southern States.
l have, on many occasions heretofore
submitted 10 the French Government tb,
Presidents views, and interests and IN,
ideas moro effective for the time than ever
interests which lie at the bottom OF th,
determination Of the American Govern
msnt and people 10 maintain the Fedora
Union. The President has done th,
same thing in his message and other pub
lie declarations. / refrain, therefore
from reviewing that argument in con
nection with the existing questions.
NJ. Drouyn de L'Huys draws to his ait
the conferences which took place betweel
, the Colonies aud Great Britain in ou
Revolutionary war. He will allow nj
TO answer, that action in the crisis of
nation must accord with its necessities
and, therefore, can bo seldom coniorme,
70 precsdents Great Britain when en-
tering in that negotiation had manifestly
come 10 entertain doubts Of her ulIimat
J success and il is certain that the coun
/ ellis of the Colonies could not fail 10 TAX
+ new courage, II not 10 gain other advant
age when the parent State compromised
so far as TO treat fpeace on the terms o
/ cOnoeding their independence. IL 10 true
1 indeed, that peace must como at som
/ timey and that conferences must attend /
!. they are not allowed to prcceds the paci
, fcations there is, however, a better foru
g for such conferences than. the one Whie
= NJ. Drouyn de L.Huys suggests. Tn
b latter would be palpably in derogaiiol
q Of the Constitution Of the United Statoi
: and would carry noiweighb becusae des
o tiiute fthe sanction necessary 10 bin
. either the loyal or disiOyal portions {
4 the people.