The republic., 1851-04-15
mr. seward and mr. Ru.k.

We publish in another column, in an article
from the New York Express, a letter from Mr..
RUsK, Senator Of the United States from Texas,
in reference to the position of Senator SEWARD
on the Ten Million Texas bill. 1t is well
known that this bill is denounced for contradic-
tory reasons by the Disunionists of the South
and the Abolitionists Of the North. BY Mr..
CHEvrs, and Governor QUITMAN, and men Of
that stamp, the +" "excision Of Texas" is con-
demned for surrendering one hundred thousand
square miles Of slave territory to freedom. By
the GARRrsors, and their allies in the northern
States, the same measure has been condemned
as the abandonment of one hundred thousand
miles Of free soil to slavery. Now, both of
these propositions cannot be true.
Governor SEWARD has seen fit to take ground
against the Compromise measures of the late
Congress. He disapproves all of them, with
a single exceptions; and has availed himself of
the recent Abolition convention in Boston to
present his views on the subject to the public.
In a letter to that convention he alludes to the
Texas Boundary bill as a measure obtaining
''peace from one Of the youngest and feeblest
members Of the Confederacy in the attitude Of
sedition." The letter of Senator RusK is pub
lished for the purpose of showing that Senator
SEWARD himself agreed to vote for bill giving
to Texas ten millions of dollars, and more ia
vorable terms as to territory than were given by
the bill in question.
In the Senate Mr.. SEWARD took occasion to
claim no little credit, during the last session.
for his solicitude to avoid all agitation" II
was understood, from his own statements and
those of his friends, that he was disposed to
acquiesce in the measures of Compromise and
the policy of the Administration. He init
mated that he was rather better Union man
than Mr.. CLAY himself; because Mr.. CLAY
had been willing to introduce the slavery ques-
ton into the debates, whereas he had himself
scrupulously avoided any connexion with it
beyond the presentation of petitions for the
repeal Of the Fugitive Slave law. For this
conduct we believe he has been warmly
commended by the New York Courier and
Enquirer a journal which has denounced his
general course on the slavery question in
warmer language than our own relations to
Mr.. SEWARD would authorize us to adopt. If
we were his especial friend, we might venture
to use without fear of rebuke similar terms of
condemnation; as we are not, and have never
pretended to be, we feel that it is decorous to
leave all severe censure of him to such WHIG
journals as claim to be particularly friendly.
We wait with some anxiety to learn the views
Of the Courier and Enquirer on this last de-
velopment in Mr.. SEwARD's case.
IN
that no gentleman in the Senate would, for a
moment, hesitate to give entire credence to
any statement, however extraordinary, that he
might make upon this or any other subject. He
is sedate and cautious man-the last man in
Congress to exaggerate or overstate the tenor
Of any conversation, and the last man to mis-
understand or misinterpret it. There is no
reason to doubt that Mr.. SEWARD stated to him
all that is alleged in the letter; and, where Mr..
RUsK is known, no denial Of the statement
would weigh feather against his unimpcach-
able yeracity