New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-13
Highly Important Developments.
Mr.. Daytoa's Letters to DrOuyn de LhuyG
THE lATreR's RESPONSES TO Tie FORMER.
HI. Stewards Instructions to Wr. Dayton.
WAsgIyaroy. Thursday. Feb. 10. 1855

To TIC Prs.tt.ntofme United S,asai
The Secretary Of State, to whom was referred tho
resolution of the Senate of the 10th instant request
ing the President if not in his judgment ncoDpatibls
with the public interests TO lay before the Senate any
correspondence which has taken place between this
Government and the Government Of France on tho
subject of mediation or other measures looking 70
the termination of the existing civil war, has tho
honor TO lay before tue President copy Of the cor.
respondence called for BY the said resolution.
ReDr ectfally submitted, WILLIAM Il. SEWARD.
| Department. u stass, Feb 70. 1853.
Mr.. DAYTON TO mR. Seward.
PMS, Nov. 49, 1894
SIR: Herewith ! inclose to you the cvpy of
communication just made 10 Drouyn dc Lbuys.
| su. Sir your osedie.t ,ervsnt
Mr.. DAYTON TO MR.. DGoUYN DE LNUys.
s- ~ PARIS, Nov. 70, 1862.
| MONSIEUR LE MIsIsTER: In recen, ;verss.
ton had With your Excellency, Yen askCd son'e
questions in relation to the population Of the South
err States Of the United Staes and The pcsiiJn Of
,he several divisions Of our army. Tbs 10 cennec.
ton with statement in your oispatcn OF the 30th Of
October To bis Maiesty's Embossed rs at Loudon
and ST. Petersburg, officially published, induced me
TO mn ke TO you this communication
Although that dispatch was not addressed 10 me
or TO my Government ye, il go Intimately CONCERNS
the later that am cure sball be excused if refer
to il IN connection with the subject matter OF your
conversation. do this, not with view to any
criticism or the exposition OF any opinions beyond
those already given by TIE, bat 70 corrcc, 60 uuch az
can what see ns 10 inisapprehenson OF iacts.
do this in the hope that Should the question pre-
cent itself for consideration in the future, your Ex-
oellency may be induced TO revise your OPINIONS ~
to tAe strength of the parties Involved III the war
now existing in the United Stares. YonI Excel
lency says there has existed between tue Dei'gsr-
en;s from the very outset Of the war an eqaciy Of
strength which has been almost constantly fnain-
,aiued ever since; aud after so mnca bi9ots,ed
they are in this respect very really u, the saass
uotition as at firs.. Nc.hlnz jWifes the expee.as
ton Of any more de,iied military operations at an
early day. :.
In answer to your questions in ous conference u
the IA inst. eudeavored With the aid "a map,
10 poiat out the districts Of country OccIploI zh
present by the severa! divisions Of army. II yoer
Eycel,ency can. from memory, recall tEefs cues
tiops and compare them with the condition OF things
az the very odtse OF tae war or even rs u hs been
within the past year, you will tiud cause, am erre,
for grave doubt as 10 the acc iracy OF oplLlon ok
pressed in the above extract. little more tan
wear AGO the whole of tine Slave States south OF The
Potomac, and almost to the Mississippi thirteen in
all were in pos essiou OF tie insurgents, eEceps
only n small locality 10 Virgins opposite 10 Warn
ingun; tract o. country IN tho same State 20 the
wet of the Alegany Mountains, III which TIERS
rs mixed posseasion; the northern parts OF hen
tucny. and perhaps OF Missouli-wiin these eXeep-
tons they had andisputed sway OF Iae entire eOan'
try OF the Soun
Arsenal IL Harrers Ferry ard the vast naval arse
mails ard docky ards at Norfolk ana Pensaeo2-
They had lkewise possession OF the eastern shore
of the Chesapeake Bay, which, IN connection WIZ
the commauI Of the Potomac, gave theia conlfci
over the access bv water 10 Washington, The capital
of the nauon. They have losr daring tie year tae
eastern shore Of the Chesapeake apd the commla
of tie Potomac; the city OF Norfolk with is @rse'
mails and dockyards, and the nrignoofhg country,
and the dockYgr9s Of Pensacola. They have lost
all Virginia west Of the Aileghanlss, Kentucky and
Missouri aud part Of Tennessee, comprising among
other ponte, Nashville, the capital, and Memphis
lis commercial port on tie Mississippi.
They have losr every port haroor snc icrifceticr
on the Atlantic coast OF any ye,reihoye II Charles
ton clone escepted-from TIE month 81 to- Ctesa.
peale IL the southern point of FLORIDA, and thci,ca
around @ the Calf coas. TO pensseo.s. Bat more
Important even than thi--they bGys within he
year Igt Hew.OTleans,. ,ths elsat co1Aas ;s'i
metropolis Of tae So9tr, vi ire numerous icrin.i-
tioas esabl; he'd ror Il. detep.e. 1ney haye hewse
lost The Mississippi, with every leland and nv:r
iortiaca,ion save that a,&'icksburs, by which ;s
was defended. This river, which drains tle eh'ira
Valley Of Tie West and cuts in two ~ Slys
foal the naves of The worll which can yei'h,r be
iordel nor bridged, must forever separate nc foar
slave States and thcir contiguous territories its
Yves, size fFors those Oh the east.
Toe loss Of the river WAS more Injurious &c the
cause OF fhe insnrrcctionsis than the oss If nany
butties. Cons ,ous that this would 10 70, j. Was
fortified your Exceliency VIII remember, Not olly
at its mouth ana below aud at New seans bu. At
cveiv ayssbie point upward; ye,, with its many
fo.afcalions, Vcksburg alone eXoeptei hss within
the year been lost TO tie South. The Tennessee sad
Cuaoerind, great iuteriyr rivers Of the West with
their detenses and tortiGcations have Likewise ,een
taken, after hari struggle, by the armies of the
Cnion. IL a word, The Insurgents do Lot low hold
u loot OF ~Gnd which they did no, hod ea,ly Ia
the war, While the flag OF the Union has been cons
sianty advancing, and now floats somewhere on the
soii, or over the torieaious Of every Slave Sate,
save one. Iheir armies have IN the mean time been
davenfron an area o. couatry, embracing ia the az.
sregate, not less than l0O 100 square mes and &C.
eapied by population ranging fiom 100000 70
~VVV wv OF people Bat IN war, equality Ia strength
consists not In these things only.
. fetmit me, therefore, To remiud your Exce!lency
that while all the incipient efforts on tue part
south TO create navy have been defeated and her
vesseb destroyed, the navy Of the United States bas
Within the year grown from very small to very
eat powerclosing vii the ports OF the South, pre-.
GLIDING, save with our consens, all entrance ~ OK
Ext from them, unless ~ stealth or aeeidsn'' ih
power, which the South has Little 10 meet III aimoss
the growth Of the year, ana on our own
,oasts AMI in the ports harbors, and rivers OF the
SOUTH il csuuot bi be in the future most efficient
means OF attack or defense.
,ne,iaIIy require consideration--men and money.
me ARMIES VI the South have been large beyond
,xanos az compared with the extent Of population
rom which they have drawn. 10 raiss Them ia
heir present standard, the consumption law OF tbe
,outh has embraced all from the age Of IL 10 As
ears. iheir armies, IKE our own, waste away by
he casualties OF war, anu there can 10 little force IN
eserve to supply tue dram. An examination of the
renninAry repo.t OF the census of 1860, Of which
ave had the honor to transmit you a copy, will
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