His first act is to transmit to all the (Buchanan)
subordinates abroad copies of the President's Message, accompanying it
with a score of terse and sparkling paragraphs regarding the rebellion;
yet, in those few paragraphs, demonstrating the illusory and ephemeral
advantages which foreign nations would derive from any connection they
might form with any 'dissatisfied or discontented portion, State, or
section of the Union.' In this connection, he refers to the
'governments' of J. Davis, Esq., as 'those States of this Union in whose
name a provisional government has been _announced_;'--which is the
happiest description yet in print.
There is apparently a fortnight's interregnum, during which a procession
of would-be consuls and ministers marches from the State Department to
the Senate chamber to receive the _accolade_ of diplomacy. The Minister
to Prussia, Mr. Judd, first finds gazette, and on March 22d the
Secretary prepares for him instructions suitable to the crisis. There
are 'stars' affixed to the published extracts, showing _coetera desunt_,
matters of _secret_ moment perchance! And here we may fitly remark, that
whilst the labors of the diplomatist which came before the public for
inspection display his industry, it is certain that quite as voluminous,
perhaps more, must be the unpublished and secret dispatches.
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