“DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. EBB

| : “be wit out nterest to you; abd: as, in my y private letter |
of date August 2, | a iliar and sincere way my latest impres-
sions of cisatlantic pelitice; I have nh hing special to say about them to-day.

I would, then, | in the first. place, i in answer to some of your observations in
despatch No. 77, repeat that it is not primarily nor mainly for the sake of in-
fluencing the public opinion of. Europe that [ desire to be, supplied | with au-
thentic | intelligence by the only vehicle‘which now brings news. It is for my
own information that I require it—speaking of myself as the head of a United
States. legation, and as an Awerican citizen immovable in the faith that our

republic is indivisible, but intensely interested in the passing: events of the 7
| great. revolutionary drama as they reveal themselves | :
‘The American civil war—I care not what may be said on the subject to- day :
in either hemisphere—is simply a revolt of slaveholders against the democratic —
principle. As such the event will be recorded so long as history shall last. —
The slaveholders revolted because the people chose a new set of servants
pledged to restrain slavery, instead of the series of agents who for forty years
had been doing their best to strengthen and extend it. The success of this
attempt to perpetuate by force of arms the slave oligarchy and to annihilate the
American people is impossible, although the struggle may cost more time, mo-
ney and blood before the democratic principle has thorougly re-established itself
over our whole territory.. These essential facts are now accepted by. every
thinker in Europe. They are also instinctively but dimly perceived and firmly —
__ believed in by the great unrepresented, voiceless mass of humanity i in Europe; |
the toiling millions, whose part in life, according to the European: scheme, i is to
be governed, and to hew wood and draw water for those who govern. Those ©

   

 

  

 

to believe that it has ceased to exist.

The thinkers of Europe, accordingly, so far as I know, without a solitary e: ex-
ception, and the laboring classes, wish success to the American republic. The
dominant classes—with individual and illustrious exceptions—together with the
idlers, who are unwilling or unable to form opinions for themselves, desire the -

influential minority in regard to the American war are manufactured for them

‘by their public preceptors who make up what is called the Bablic: ‘opinion of ay

Europe. | ,
Now there was a time when this tribunal was regarded by! us almost with -

a ‘the result of a final analysis of that opinion is simply. this:
- [tis desirable that the great American democratic repablig: shionld be de--

Benen possible way. : 7
— No syllogism can be plainer. Tt would, therefore, be beneath the dignity’ ‘of.
ae the American government publicly to combat. these sentiments, or to offer any
| reply to the stale commonplaces about the “‘causeless war,” “the miserable '
war,” “the hopeless war,” with which our ears have been stunned these three ~

 

= day it will be discovered whether it was wholesome philosophy and philan- -

 

.. dign sympathizers. So long as we are under a cloud we shalt be subjected to ©
calumny, insult and wrong. “When the commonwealth has re-established her-—
. -gelf she will again be respected asthe “grand republic ;” and her friendship
|. will be duly prized by those who at present most ostentatiously parade their -
“neutrality” between her and her assassins, and who exemplify that neutrality _
ih so many astounding Ways. In Europe, to be powerful is ta be venerated—

 

 

 
 

‘whose future is so deeply interested in the preservation of our republic refuse a

success of those who are attempting its destruction. ‘The opinions held by this -_

reverence. That day is, I trust, gone forever. In regard to American affairs, are

| ae stroy ed; an energetic and admirably organized domestic insurrection is attempt- Q °
ing its destruction ; therefore, that insurrection should be encouraged i in every, wee

 

years. This crambe repetita is food made by those who feed upon it. One

 

throphy, or childish jargon. We have now only to do, not to argue. Every . ee 8
blow upon the head of. the rebellion: tells. with still greater weight upon its for- = *