The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-02-27

have made Of The North and the South one
whole federal state, and have borne them
on to 40 high degree Of prosperity, are
not moro powerful than the causes which
have placed arms in tho hands Of the two
populations" The suggestion i. not Al
extraordinary one, and it may we'll hav.
been though. By tho Emperor Of the
French in the earnes,nsss Of HE benevo-
lent desire for tho restoration Of peace q
feasible ono
Blu. when NJ Drouyn Dc Lhuys shall
come 10 review it in the light in which i,
must necessarily be examined in this coun-
try. think he can hardly fail to perceive
that it amounts 20 nothing less than a
proposition that, while the government is
engaged in suppressing An armed insurrec
lion for the purpose OF maintaining the
constitutional national authority and pre-.
serving the integrity Of the country, it
shall enter into diplomatic discussion with
the insurgents upon the questions whether
that authority shall not be renounced, and
whether the country shall not be deliver
ed over to disuniou, TO be quickly followed
by ever increasing anarchy, If it were
possible for the government Of the United
States to comproms. the national author
lily SO far As TO enter into such debates. it
is not easy to perceive what good results
conId be obtained ty them. The commits
sioners must agree in recommending eth>
or that the Union shall stand, or that it
shall be voluntarily dissolved, or else they
must leave the vital question unsettled, TO
abide at least the fortunes Of war.
The government ha. not shut out know.
ledge Of the present temper, any more
than Of the past purposes Of the insurg>
ens. There is not the leas. ground to
suppose that the controlling actors would
be persuaded. at this moment BY any ar
suments which national commissioner
could offer, TO fcreso the ambition that
has impelled them to the di.loy~l position
they are occupying. Any commissioner
who should be appointed by those actors,
or through their dictn,ions or influence,
must enter the conference imbued with
the spirit and pleged to tho personal for
tunes Of the insurgent chiefs. The loyal
people in the insurrectionary states would
be unheard, and any offer of peace by this
government Oh the condition of the main
,ensnce of the Union mus. necessarily be
| rejected.
On the other hand, as l have already
minated, this government. has not the
leas, thought Of reIinquishing the trust
which has been coufided to it by the na>
ton under the most solemn Of al poi,i
cal sanctions; and, if it had any such
thought. it would have still abundant rea
son to know that peace, proposed at the
cost Of dissolution, would be Immediately.
universally, and Indignantly rejected by
the American people. 1t is a great mis-
AXE that European statesmen make if
lhev suppose the people are demoralized
Whatever, IN case of an insurrectin11 III.
people Of France. Or great b.
'""'' " 40 Netherlands, would
- co cave their national existence, no mat
Ter how the strife might be regarded BY
or affect foreign nations, just 80 much
and certainly no less, the people Of The
United States will do. i necessary, to save
Tor the common benef. the region which
il bounded by She Pacific and Atlantic
coasts. and by the shores of the Cults 0,
St Lawrence and Mexico, together with
the free and coinmon navigation Of the
Rio Grands. Missouri, Arkansas, Mississip.
pi. Ohio. St. Lawrence, Hudson, Delaware
Potomac, and other national highways
By which this land, which to them is a,
once n land OF Inheritance and land OF
promise, is opened and wstered.
Even If the agents Of tho American peo-
pie, thus exercising their power should,
through f9ar or faction fall below this
height Of national virtue, they would be
speedily, yet cons.i:utionally. replaced bv
others of sserner character and patriotism
must he allowed to saw, also. that NJ
Drouynde Lhuyseers in his description of
the parties to the present conflict. We
have here, in political sense, no North,
! no South-no Northern no Southern States.
We have an insurrec,ionsry party which
i. located upon, and is chiefly adjacent to,
the shores of the Gulf Of Mexco, and we
have on the other hand, Iovsl people,
who constitute not only Northern States.
but Easteren, Middle, Western and South
ern States. have so many occasions
| heretofore, submitted 10 the French gov.
eminent the Presidents views of tho in>
,eresta, and ideas which lie at the bottom
of the determination of the American gov
eminent aud people to maintain the feIer
al Union. The President has done the
same thing in his messages and other pub
lie declarations. | refrain, therefore, from
reviewing tina: argnmen: N connection
with the existing question.
NJ Drouyn &c Lhuys draws TO this aid
The conferences which took place between
! the colouies and Great Britain in our re-
voulionnary war. He will allow me to
answer that action, in the crisis Of a ma
tion, must accord with its necessities, and
therefore can be seldom conformed to
precelents. Great Britain, when enterin o
on that negotiation, bad manifsstly come
TO entertain doubts OF Ter ultimate sue
cess, and it is certain that the councils of
the colonies could not have failed to take
new courage, if not to gain other advan,
tage, when the parent state compromised
SO far as to treat Of peace on the terms Of
concediug their independence. 1t is true
indeed, that peace must come some time
and that conferences must attend If thew
are no. allowed to precede the pacifcation