The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-03-03
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country, think he can hardly tail to per-
ceive that it amounts to nothing less than
a proposition, that while this govern
ment is engaged in suppressng an arm
ed Instruction, with the purpose OF
maintaining the constitutional national
authority and preserving the integrity Of
the country, it shall enter into diplomat
ic discussion with the insurgents upon
the questions whether that authority shall
not be renowned, and whether the coun
try shall not be delivered over to disun-
ion, to be quickly followed by ever in
creasiug anarchy, If it were possible
for the government of the United States
to compromise the national authority so
far as TO enter into such debates, it is not
easy TO perceive what good results could
be obtained by them. The commission
ers must agree in recommending, either
that the Union shall stand, or that it shall
be voluntarily dissolved, or else they
must leave the vital question unsettled,
TO abide at last the fortunes Of the war.
The government has not shut out knowl-
edge of the present temper, any more
than the past purposes of the insurgents
There is not the least ground to suppose
that the controlling actors would be per-
suaded at this moment by any arguments
which a national commissioner could Of
fer, to forego the ambition that has i'm
PEELED them TO the disloyal position they
are occupying. Any commissioner who
would be appointed by those actors, or
through their dictate or influence, must
enter the conferences imbued with the
spirit and pledges to the personal fortunes
Of the insurgent chiefs. The loyal people
in the insurrectionary States would be
unheard, and any offer Of peace by this
government on the condition OF the main.
tenance Of the Union, must necessarily
be rejected. On the other hand, as |
have already intimated, this government
has not the least thought of relinqush
ing the trust which has been confined to
it by the nation, under the most solemn
of all political sanction, and if it had any
such thought, it would have still album
dant reason TO know that peace proposed
at the cost of dissolution, would be i'm
mediately, universally and Indignantly
rejected by the American people.
Il is a great mistake that European
statesmen make, if they suppose this peo-
pie are demoralized. Whatever, in case
of an instruction, the people Of France
or Great Britain, or Switzerland, or Of
the Netherlands, would do to save their
datonal existence, no matter how The
strife might be regarded by, or effect
foreign nations, just so much, and GER
tainly no less, The people Of the United
States will do, Unnecessary, to save for
the common benefit, the region which is
bounded by the Pacific and Atlantic
coasts, and by the shores Of the gults Of
St. Lawrence and Mexico, together with
the free and common navigation of the
Rio Grande, Missouri, Arkansas, Miss
issippi, Ohio, St. Lawrence, Hudson,
Delaware, Potomac and other national
highways, by which this land, which 10
them is at once land OF inheritance and
land Of promise, is opened and water
ed. Even if the agents Of the American
people, thus exercising their power,
should, through fear of faction, fall be.
low this hight of national virtue, they
would be speedily, yet constitutionally,
replaced by others of sterner character
and patriotism.
l must be allowed 10 say, also, that NJ.
Drouyn d'Lhuys errs in his description
of the parties in the present conflict. We
have here in a patriotic sense, no North,
no South, no northern, no southern States.
We have an discretionary party, who
is located upon, or is chiefly adjacent to
the shores Of the Gulfof Mexico; and we
have on the the other hand a loyal peo-
pie, who constitute not only northern
States, but eastern, middle, western and
southern States.
have on many occasions heretofore,
submitted to the French government, the
Presidents views Of the interests and
ideas which lie at the bottom Of the de-
termination Of the American government
and people to maintain the federal Union.
The President has done the same thing
in his messages and other public docu
ments. refrain, therefore, from review.
ing that argument in connection with
the existing question.
NJ. Drouyn d'Lhuys draws to his aid
the conferences which took place between
the colonies and Great Britain in our
revolutionary war. He will allow me to
answer that action in the crisis OF a ma