The Washington union., 1858-03-07

Louis Palms. at New Orleans Louisiana reapponted
Louis q. Pyes, at Newnansviile, Florida reapponted
REcKvms or PUBLIC MONEY.
James c. Tappan, at Helena, Arkansas reapponted
VIM T. Sargent at Champagnole, Arkansas reap
pointed.
Charles B. Mitchell at Washington, Arkansas reap
pointed
Joseph L. Dickson, at Fayetteville Arkansas reap
pointed.
Thomas J. Bishop, at Springfield Missouri reap
pointed.
Nath, B. Holden at Warsaw, Missouri reappointcd.
Henry w. Palfrey, at New Orleans, Louisiana; reap
pointed
Jesse b. McClendon, at Greensburg Louisiana reap
pointed
Alfred L. Woodward, at Tallahassee, Florida vice
Henry Bond, deceased
THE CROAKERs MR.. SEWARD AT THE HEAD.
Everybody must observe that we are prodgiously
endowed, in this country, probably by right of in
hertance from our great ancestral grumbers on the
other side of the water, with huge faculties for
croaking, and with very large caste of constitu-
tional croakers. They abound everywhere-being
readily detected by countenanccs which seem to say
at once like the Pharisees, The Lord has dealt
well by u.s. They are devoted to complaints, criti-
cisms detractions, fault-fndng, aud general depre
ciation of men and things Politics to them are
cheats and frauds, religion is deception, justice a
mockery, charity bargain, benevolence weakness,
love dream, friendship manocuvre-in short, the
world is all wrong, precisely because it is not ex-
actly right Nor is this class either small modest,
or scrupulous. They naturally incline to the minor
ity, and are chiefly to be found in the republican
ranks Mr. William II. Seward is their Prophet and
Seer. 1t is the very strictest sect Mr.. Seward
himself cape near losing his position the other
day by Expressing his concurrence in a single
measure of the administration For that act Of
weakness, or rather inhdelity towards the croak-
ers, he was promptly aud electually rebuked, and
has since made the amplest amends by address
ing document from tho Senate which, for all the
essentials that may be supposed to have favor in
Pandcmonium cannot be exceled. 1t is croakerism
intensified and amplified. Mr., Seward finds the gov
ernment a mass of putrid corruption demanding in
slant overthrow and the substitution of new one
on the ''prDciples of humanity as illustrated by the
teachings Of the croakers, of whose maxims in
structs us that outside of negro worship there is no
Religion, that outside of ant-slavery there is no
no honesty. MFR. Seward maintains that the first
elections in Kansas embraced a fraud the deduc-
ton is inevitable from his premises that such fraud
80 tainted the territorial government that itcoud never
after be legal 1t is true this position is met by the
fact that at the last October election his friends
got possession of the government and hold 1T still.
Il is also true that they ordered the election of the
4t of January, and appeal to the results of the
latter, and maintain their binding force; but that is
nothiug--it the work of the croakers themselves
Mr. Seward, their prophet, is not altogether perfect
however He declares
l. That the frauds of 1854 invadated the terrific
rial government established by Congress, and made
it Surprise and Usurpation;
H. That the people, by virtue of the frauds afore-
said and the surprise aud usupation aforesaid had
perfect right to establish and put in operation the
revolutionary government at Topeka, and that that
government is now the source of all authority in
Kansas and,
ILL., That the territorial government since October
last has been perfectly legal and binding. and that
the law directing the election the 4th of January
was, therefore, valid law
The principle upon which this theory is maintained
by Mr. Seward is precisely the same as that which is
ingeniously nbodcd in the game, "Heads win tails
you lose" The territorial government is illegal
and fraudulent in democratic hands perfectly
legal and binding in republican hands. The Topeka
constitution is the righ,fal organic law if necessary
to keep out the democratic party; it is nothing at all
otherwise. Mr.. Seward's friends would not vote, he
says, because by voting, they would thereby recog
Mise the validity Of the territorial laws, and such
recognition would impair the Topeka government
which was saving ordinance in the republican
creed Yet his virtuous friends did vote last fall
did recover from their Surprise, did take posses
sion of the Usurpation, did employ it to call the
4th of January election and do hold it now. Then
what has become of Topeka They can't keep up
two establishments. Besides, they are now fighting
for the control Of the State government under the Le-
compton constitution which they claim to have been
Surprise and Usurpation. These men, good
ader-respectabe, thoughtful, honest reader-are
the republicans, guided by their Prophet and Seer,
William II. Seward.
Mr. Seward is prophet, ingenious. industrious,
unscr,pnlous and full Of methodical fanatcism
rIe is no logican, he has positive intellect that
is to say, in spite of his many faults, we like him.
and we offer this analysis of his mind in exenuatcn
of his position. Mr.. Stewards primary object is TO
create an antislavery sentiment, and to effect it's
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