New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-09
FOREIGN MEDIATION.

fOREElsN
The n. \. Times. noticing q statement in
one Of our Washington dispatches thai Mr..
Vallandigham would soon address the House in
favor of foreign mediation in our Civil War,
thus comments:
We glad to hear H. The matter will be In good hands
and & may do without mpertineDce. We beg I'm
TRBusE to leave there That journal has ntly sdSo
Gated the mediation Of come olnteested oresn Power pre-
fcning Switzerland between Government and the Con
fcieracy Of Rebel States We hope will not persist In
ing In any way avopg this mode OF settling e present
National trouble Let Mr. Yssndigham and liz Associate.
take the entire credit and responsibility OF &c.
AT The very outset the Rebellion Mr.. Seward osk the
ground that Whatever else ugii happen, should never
tolerate the interference Of fofssn Power 10 this contro
vey 1t the right GROUND then, aid s tho hight ground
There has be.u tu-, ,nd We do not believe
TIE time will whom IT would be oons'lent with
national honor. national safety. or when I, would
promote the real Interests nee' the pubt sentiment OF
either section Of the country TO permit foreign Govern
dictate decide the which ths contest sh.
De adjusted 1t IL purely and exclusively domestic quarrel
Il. origin and ts resu,.th- motives out OF which grew
tie principles which invove and the eorseduenees which
will follow ss thoroughly American No foreign Power
can 90 appreciate or undsSd them to become coupe'
tent ,ber and any ses which sDy such Power might
dictate or bag about would OF necessity ignore much
t sb.ouely essential TO right d.o'ion. 20 be utterly
Isclinz IN u.ors weight and permanent stability
~ The whole con,fovey nsrrowed down TO qi~s.ion Of
force /, Just not Gle slightest odd. VIA, the
soath may demand nor whst the North my be willing
give -b.crse rsl:be. w he svee3h by ihs; consideration
Both have sppeied % fro, In f. present ,isTe q trial
qf,,, g Of military .6gof and until tis i''us hes been
decided distinctly and to th. s.sfse lou Of tO,A, neither
viii sjml; auy othor."
Having thus given place to the gist of The
Illness article, We proceed 10 consider il,
and will thank our neishbor to render Ehc
hospitality to our yicw of the matter;
/. Tie Rebel agents who oyerrun Europe
prescnt our great struggle in this phase THE
North is strong rich. grasping rapscous, and
largely enriched at our expensr by means of
high tariffs aud a monopoly Of our coAsiing
trade. We are tired of this, aud want to row
our own boat. We don't want TO fgIt-wc
want peacc-but the North compels us to fight
or submit to liz unchecked supremacy in oil
things. We want 10 buy yow fabrics and pay
for them in our staples; but The North, by it,
tariffs IN pence and ia blockades in war, for
bids. We impiore Intervention to stay the del
uge of bloojshod and misery; but the North re
pcls all interposition-w i'll abide no arbitration
but insists on the ordeal OF the sword alone
People Of Europe! we Are relatively few and
poor, but we arc ready to die for our indie
liberty to trade freely with and
enrich you--and we have n right TO your ac-
tive sympathies. And We happen to know
that thcso representations have great weight,
even with men who, ii the question were one
of European politics, would be too wei ill.,
formed to be dupcd BY tcm.
IL. Now, then, we "a! to Europe, These
Of the Rebel Stakeholder. are
unlair and unjust We do, indeed, repel sach
US has been proGorcd or threat
ened-that, namely OF France and Great
Britain-beeaAse those TO.rers hare plainly
eri,eed partiaiify for he SIDE q orr 'aemies.
The various ouigigiugs Of Lords Palmorston
and Russell, Mr.. Gladstone NJ. DrOuyn Dc
Lhuys, ard Of the Press Of either country 10
sympathy with IFS government aud governing
classes, beiray az unInistakabo desire that the
Saychodcrs' Rebellion should become II Reyo.
luton, rcudlng our country into two or more
Jealous if not hostile COnlederaces. bearing
HE seeds OF indefinite division aud disinicgra-
ton. We cannot, therefore, accept the mcdI-
alton Of Governments radically hostile TO our
institutions, and which have prciudgcd and
condemned az; but should any impartial and
mutually friendly Power interpOsc its good
Offices for n termination OF our quarrel, md
,s intervention be nccedcd TO by the Rebels,
We shall be disposod TO receive 1t III the spirit
which dictated the protler, either heartily ac-
cop,ing nud abiding ,bc arbitration OF tho me.
diAiIDg Power, OF suggesting some alternative
equally acceptable aud effective" Such oil
attitude we hold tuht our Government might
safely and wi.ey take, to the imnense M
lroycmeHt Of our position ia the e!eo .. The
civilized world,
III. HE lines, We are confident, gee
quite too far, in asserting that Gov. Seward
repclled ut the oDisct " the interference Of any
/ foreign Po,ecr IA this controversy" As
NO Ie.p.iect his language, 1t ropelicd
oply that OF any European mOna1ehy The
wisdom of even 50 IgallFed n rejection
of good onees which Lad got been ten
de,td we will not here discuss. Few met.
can have lived half century without realizing
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