blic mind throughout the United States. While it is the
intention of the President to maintain the sovereignty and rightful
authority of the Union everywhere, with firmness as well as discretion,
he at the same time relies with great confidence on the salutary working
of the agencies I have mentioned to restore the harmony and union of the
States. But to this end, it is of the greatest importance that the
disaffected States shall not succeed in obtaining favor or recognition
from foreign nations.'

Two months prior to this, and on the Senate floor, Mr. Seward had said,
'taking care always that speaking goes before voting, voting goes before
giving money, and all go before a battle, which I should regard as
hazardous and dangerous; and therefore the last, as it would be the most
painful measure to be resorted to for the salvation of the Union.'

A day or two succeeding the Judd dispatch, Mr. Seward writes for
Minister Sanford (about to leave for Belgium) instructions; commingling
views upon non-recognition with considerations respecting tariff
modifications. In these appears a sentence kindred to those just
quoted--'_The President, confident of the ultimate ascendency of law,
order, and the Union, through the deliberate action of the people in
constitutional forms_,' etc.

From those diplomatic suggestions, which are accordant with _European_
exigencies, Mr. Seward readily turns his attention to Mexican affairs,
in a carefully considered and most ably written letter of instructions
for Minister Corwin. He touches upon the robberies and murder of
citizens, the violation of contracts, and then gracefully withdraws them
from immediate attention until the incoming Mexican administration shall
have had time to cement its authority and reduce the yet disturbed
elements of their society to order and harmony. He avers that the
President not only forbids discussion of our difficulties among the
foreign powers, but will not allow his ministers '_to invoke even
censure against those of our fellow-citizens who have arrayed themselves
in opposition to authority_.' He refers to the foreshadowed protectorate
in language complimentary to Mexico, yet firm in assurance that the
President neither has, nor can ever have, any sympathy with
revolutionary designs for Mexico, _in whatever quarter they may arise,
or whatever character they may take on_.'

Within one week (and at dates which contradict the prevailing gossip of
last April, tha