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The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Curious position of our embassy to France. (search)
Curious position of our embassy to France. --It is said that neither Mr. Dayton, our newly-appointed Minister to France, nor the Secretary of Legation, Mr. Pennington, can speak the French language, and as our diplomatic law does not provide for an interpreter, the embassy may find itself in a dilemma when it comes into diplomatic connection with the French Government. As the Emperor speaks English fluently, the Minister and Secretary may get along very well at the imperial receptions; but when they come to transact business with the officials of the Government, they will be very apt to find themselves in the position of the Englishman who went over to Holland to teach the English language without knowing a word of Dutch.
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
Sailed for Europe. --The Fulton, which sailed from New York on Saturday, took out a flock of diplomatists; Gov. Dayton, Minister to France; Mr. Pennington, secretary, Mr. Burlingame, Minister to Austria; Mr. Marsh, Minister to Turin; Mr. Pike, Minister to the Hague; Mr. Wilson, secretary of legation; Mr. Putnam, Consul at Havre; Mr. Vezey, Consul at Aix la Chapelle; Mr. Campbell Consul at Rotterdam; Capt. Britton, Consul at Southampton.
The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], France and the Confederacy. (search)
France and the Confederacy. --The Washington Chronicle, of Saturday, confirms the letter of the N. Y. Times in relation to a conversation between the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mr. Faulkner, and says: "The Secretary of State, in a recent letter to Mr. Dayton, our new French Minister, clearly but firmly instructs him in relation to this subject, and wishes him to directly and unequivocally inform the French Government that our own will, in no event, in any way, sanction or permit the separation of the Union--a Union which has not only in the past, but will in the future, confer its benign blessings on the citizens of the United States.--Such, we verbally learn, is but a faint outline of the important correspondence."
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Diplomatic correspondence. (search)
Diplomatic correspondence. An imperfect statement of Mr. Faulkner's interview with M. Thouvenel, the French courier for Foreign Affairs, has been published, the Department of State at Washington has thought proper to publish the correspondence. We have already noticed the decisive instructions of Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton growing out of Mr. Faulkner's letter: Legation of the United States. Paris April 15, 1861. Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State:-- Sir:--I called to-day upon M. Thouvenel, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was promptly admitted to an interview. Agreeably to your request, I handed to him a copy of the inaugural address of President Lincoln, and added that I was instructed by you to say to him that it embraced the views of the President of the United States upon the difficulties which now disturb the harmony of the American Union, and also an exposition of the general policy which it was the purpose of the government to pursue with a view t
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Maryland Legislature. (search)
erefore such men can never again support the Administration of Mr. Lincoln, which has now abandoned the defensive policy of maintaining the Federal Capital, heretofore declared in Mr. Seward's letter to Gov. Hicks Gov. Hicks himself might sustain the Government when it adhered to its defensive policy, but now that it has avowed a policy of subjugation he will be bound, in honor, to occupy himself exclusively with the protection of his own people. Mr. McLane read Mr. Seward's letter to Mr. Dayton, our Minister to France, dated May 4, the day of the Commissioners' visit to Washington, declaring the new war policy of the Government, and acknowledging the radical change in it, and in this connection he argued how widely Governor Hicks was now separated from the Administration, if he remained true to his own professions. It was, said Mr. McLane, a great crisis in his life, and the Governor ought to thank God that he had lost the confidence of the Lincoln Administration, which he c
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Portsmouth (search)
consists mostly of secession sympathizers, who improve every opportunity to harass the Northern volunteers. Fifteen members of an Irish military company at Alexandria to-day came across the river to enter the Federal service. They would not fight under the secession flag. A great urgency has been applied to the Secretary of State to induce his consent to publish his instructions to Mr. Adams, United States Minister at London, but he declined. The recently published letter to Mr. Dayton is well understood to be an Index to the entire European correspondence. The temper, spirit and purposes have been the same in all cases from the beginning of the Administration. It is understood that the Government has received from Mr. Dallas, Minister at London, particulars of his interview with her Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs, and on these the instructions to Mr. Adams are predicated. Mr. Preston's next dispatch from Spain, in reply to a demand for explanations re
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
hat at a recent interview had by Mr. Isaac Moses, of New York, with Mr. Seward, the former told the latter "of the determined feeling in New York to sustain the Government, and that action of an energetic character was expected;" Mr. Seward replied "that the people should not be disappointed, and that he thought they would be well satisfied with what would take place in a very few days." It is added in the Courier and Enquirer that "Mr. Moses spent Sunday evening with Mr. Blair, Postmaster General," and says, "he gave me the programme of the Government, which I think will be effective. Troops will, in all probability, be sent to New Orleans. Mr. Blair thinks the war will be short, but it will be spirited and energetic." The above, when taken in connection with Mr. Seward's letter to Mr. Dayton, which we considered a notification to all Europe of the intention of the Federal Government, will show that the "Premier" is active in all the designs and purposes in reference to the South.
The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], North Carolina. (search)
U. S. Ministers abroad. The representatives to Foreign Courts appointed by the Lincoln Administration, are not likely to create a very favorable impression in behalf of that Government in Foreign Courts. Mr. Adams, at the English Court, is a person of respectable talents, and Mr. Dayton, of New Jersey, who goes to France, a former third-rate member of the U. S. Senate, who can speak very tolerable English. With these exceptions, the rest of Lincoln's Foreign appointments are execrable. Carl Schurz, the atheistical, Abolition, European Red Republican, is sent to the Court of Catholic, Slaveholding, Monarchical Spain. Burlingame, a pot-house, religious, Massachusetts politician, is sent to the dignified Court of Austria; and the political slang-whanger, Cassius M. Clay, who has never distinguished himself by anything but opposition to the institutions of his own South, is Minister to Russia! The foreign world will have a grand conception of the people of whom such as these are
The Daily Dispatch: may 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
had been told that they could not be recognized, are manifestly overrrated. There has been no arrival here later than the one which brought advices that the Commissioners of the Confederate States had not yet been received in London, and had not yet applied to be admitted in Paris. Of the same character is the report that the Seward proposition to accede to the Paris declaration abolishing privateering had been rejected. It is understood that these instructions were sent to Mr. Adams and Mr. Dayton. As there seems to be some sensitiveness in business circles about the recent seizures of telegraphic dispatches in all the principal Northern towns and cities, and a general apprehension that private business transactions may be exposed, it may not be improper to assure the public that there is no danger of any such exposure. Allen A. Burton, of Ky., has been appointed Minister resident to New Granada in the place of Gen. Jones, of Iowa. The belief that the President has de
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], An offer of Mediation from France. (search)
Power the questions which are the causes of the present troubles; but the amicable mediation of France might have the effect of inducing a suspension of hostilities, and enable the North and South to settle their differences without the effusion of fraternal blood. The Emperor said he feared it might now be too late, and that civil strife had gone too far to be stopped by an appeal to the dictates of reason; but, if he could be the means of averting the horrors of a war between American brothers, he would esteem it a high privilege to offer the friendly counsels of France. You may rely upon these important details as perfectly correct. Mr. Dayton has arrived in Paris, and will probably have an audience of the Emperor next Sunday. If our new Minister, whose position becomes most responsible, should express views similar to those of his predecessor — and the Emperor will doubtless ask his opinions on the same points — an immediate offer of French mediation may be anticipated
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