The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-27
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tanned, it's resolutions formed, and its pol
icy established.
'"While there has been much difference
of popular opinion and favor concerning
the agents who shall carry on the war, the
principles on which it shall be waged, and
the means with which it shall be prose-
cuted, M. Drouyn De L'Huys has only to
refer to the statute book of Congress and
the executive ordinances to learn that the
national activity has hitherto been, and yet
is: as efficient as that of any other nation,
whatever its form of government, ever was
under circumstances of equally grave i'm
port to Its peace, safety and welfare. Not
one voice has been raised anywhere, out of
the Immediate field of the instruction, in
favor of foreign intervention. o- meG:ation,
or arbitration, or Of compromise, with the
REIMBURSEMENT of one acre of the national
domain, or the surrender of even one con-
stitutiOnal franchise. AT the same time, it
is manifest to the world that our resources
are yet abundant, and our credit adequate
to the existing emergency"
OF the proposition of the French de-
spatch, he next says:
"When M. Drouyn De L'Huys shall
come to review it in the light in which it
must necessarily be examined in this coun-
try, | think he can hardly fail to perceive
that it amounts to nothing less than q
proposition that, while this government is
engaged in suppressing armed instruction,
with the purpose of maintaining the con-
stitutional national authority and preserv-
ing the integrity of the country, it shall
enter into diplomatic discussion with the
insurgents upon the questions whether that
authority shall not be renowned, and
whether the country shall not be delivered
over to disunion, to be quickly followed by
ever-increasing anarchy.
eff 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 commissioners must agree in
recommending either that the Union shall
stand or that it shall be voluntarily dis
solved; or else they must leave the vital
question unsettled, to abide at last the for
tunes of the war. The government has
not shut out knowledge of the present
temper, any more than the past purposes
of the insurgents
"There is not the least ground to sup
pose that the controlling actors would be
persuaded at this moment by any argu-
ments which a National Commissioner
could offer, to forego the ambition that has
impelled them to the disloyal position they
are occupying. Any commissioner who
should be appointed by those actors, or
through their dictation or influence, must
enter the conference imbued with the spir-
it and pledged to the personal fortunes of
the insurgent chiefs. The loyal people in
the insurrectiOnary States would be I'M
heard, and any offer of peace by this gov
eminent on the condition of the mainte-
nance of the Union must necessarily be
rejected.
son the other hand, as have already
intimated, this government has not the least
thought of reilnquishing the trust which
has been confded to it by the nation I'M
der the most solemn of all political sane
tions; and if it had any such thought, it
would have still abundant reason to know
that peace proposed at the cost of dissolu-
ton would be Immediately universally and
Indignantly rejected by the American PEG
pie. 1t is 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 national existence, no
matter how the strife might be regarded
by, or affect foreign nations, just so much,
and certainly no less, the people of the
United States will do, if necessary, to save
for the common benefit the region which
is bounded by the Pacific and Atlantic
coasts. and by the shores of the Gulf of
st. Lawrence and Mexico, together with
the free and common navigation of the
Rio Grands, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississip
pi, Ohio, ST. Lawrence, Hudson, Della
ware, Potomac, and other national high
ways, by which this land, which to them
is at once land of Inheritance and land
Of promise is opened and watered.
Even if the evil agents of the Amer
lean people, thus exercising their power,
should, through fear or faction, fall below
the height of national virtue, they would
be speedily, yet constitutionally, replaced
by others of sterner character and patriot
ism. | must be allowed to say, also, that
M. Drouyn De LIIuys errs in his descrip-
ton of the parties to the present conflict.
alt is true, indeed, that peace must
come some time, and that conferences
must attend, if they arc not allowed to
precede the pacification. There is, how
ever, better form for such conferences
than the one which NJ. Drouyn De L'Huys
suggests. The latter would be palpably
in derogation of the Constitution of the
United States, and would carry no weight,
because destitute Of the sanction necessary
to bind either to the loyal or disloyal por-
tons of the people.
"On the other hand, the Congress of
the United States furnishes constitution
al forum for debates between the aliena-
ted parties. Senators and representatives
from the loyal people are there always,
fully empowered to confer, and seats are
also vacant inviting the senators and rep
resentatives of the Disconnected party who
may be constitutionally sent there from the
states involved in the Instruction.
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