The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-07-31
WASHINGTON, July "a, 1868.

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Foreign Relations, Etc.
WASHINGTON, July "a, 1868.
The movement under the leadership
of Mr.. Seward, having for its object the
offer of liberal concessions to the insur-
gents and the ending of the present war,
has received an impetus from the news
which has just reached here from our
foreign minister in London and Paris.
1t is now admitted by the most sanguine
members of the administration that nev.
er were our foreign affairs in so mena.
cling state. England-so the official
adViceS indicate-hns determined to fur
nish the South with an iron.clad navy,
including ships, guns and seamen. 1t
is equally certain that the Emperor of
France has made up his mind definitely
to interfere in our domestic affairs.
With these indications before them,
and with the unofficial dispatches of our
ministers and consuls abroad, Mr. Sc
ward and the President are convinced
that this is the most critical time, so far
as regards our relations with foreign
Powers, that we have had since the com.
mencement of the war. We cannot af-
ford to permit England to destroy ou!
commerce, nor allow France to pursue
her Goings on New Orleans This State
of affairs has made the President and
Secretary of State anxious to settle up
our present quarrel. They see very
clearly the straits of jeff. Davis and the
rebel goVernment-indeed, their abso.
lutte despair-as is shown by the call for
a leavy en- n,aSSe of the fighting popula-
ton ofthe whole South; and they believe
that proper measures taken now would
restore the Union and put an end to the
present unhappy war From what l
am inclined to believe that measures are
now on foot looking to this end, and
that it is not responsible that we may
see a sudden charge of parties in the
United States within the next month
that Governor Seymour, Vallandigham,
and the odds and ends ofthe democrat
ic party, and the conservative repubii.
cans may be found to be the warm sup.
porters of President Lincoln and his
able Secretary of State; while the re.
publican presses and orators-the Sum-
ners, Phillipses, Wilson's, Wades, Chand-
lerS, with the Tribune, Times, Post, and
all the agency of the radicals-will be
brought to bear in an opposition party
against the reunion that will be propos-
ed by the President. OF course the
whole Shoddy interested in the war; and
the enormous sums interested in the
moving of armies, will be bitterly op.
posed to any adjustment. But the pros.
pect of peace, North and South, will, it
is believed, rally the bulk of the people
Of the North to the standard of the ad.
ministration, provided it will decide up>
on some such course.
OF course, reunion at this stage of the
war will involve the necessity of the ad.
miniStra:ion changing its abolition pol.
icy. The programme is, that the Ter
ritories, as decided in the recent Con-
gress, shall remain free forever, thus pre-.
venting the extension fslavery. Slaves
freed by the march o. our armies will
remain free. Missouri is to become a
free State, as she has chosen to be, and
Maryland and Deleware may also be free
if they should SO decide. But the other
slave States are to retain such of their
slaves as will be under the actual con-
troll of the masters at the end of the war.
Mr.. Seward argues that slavery has re.
ceived blow in this country from which
it can never recover, aud that it would
be better to leave the natural causes at
work to end it than 10 convert the South
into desert by depriving it of its labor.
ing population. 1t is understood that
this plan will not suit the radicals, and
the embarrassment of Mr.. Lincoln now is
not to bring about reunion so much as
to know what to do with his party in
case he should consent to peace.