Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-04-30

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VIM. H. Seward 10 . politic'an-a
shrewd, adroit, sklllfull, wary tactician.
The conceit Of the Presidency is no
new tangled idea with him he has
been possessed of it ever since he was
elected Governor of the State, and was
called "L,ttle sorrel Top" because
like Martin Van Buren,, his hair was
red. His official course has been gov
| erned by two Observation-Disclosures
to gain the North, and lavish expen.
diture Of public money to Southern
| spendthrifte, and other intrigues by
which to obtain = footing At the South.
No measure has been presented to the
Senate, since he has had seat in it,
proposing to appropriate a dollar Of
money, or grant government favor in
which the South, or any Southern
man, was interested, but what has
found an advocate in him. No South
ern man Of distinction visited the ca
pital but Seward was the first to tosdy;
and in his intercourse with Southern
Senators no obsequiousness was too
hu,niliating for his Uriah Heap dispo-
sition. Nor is this all that our dapper
Senator has done to make friends ut
the South he has gone further. We
have the assurance of more than one
man of high position and entire relia-
bility that our Senator has made pri-
vate pledges, that he has entered into
implied stipulations which compro-
mise him deeply on the slavery ques-
ton. 1t is said that the speech in
which he declared that the slavery bat
tie had been fought out was intended
as feeler to see how far he could ven-
ture upon q new ground, which would
render him less obnoxious to the
South, but that finding this position
very hazardous to his interests 1t the
North, he lost no time in taking the
back track, and made the famous trea-
sonablc speech at Rochester in the
campaign of last November, in this
State,
His late visit to Virginia plsnta-
tation, in which he took good care to
give out privately, for Southern circu-
lation, that he had grossly erred as to
the working of the peculiar institu-
ton, was another preparatory move
ment in the same direction, and he
has succeeded in prevailing upon a
Southern man Of distinction to be-
come his guest this Summer at Au-
burn, in order to get Southern social
recognition, that he may make foun-
dation for Southern political status.
These are not the moves off states
man--they are the tricks of a
small politician. Clay, Calhoun or
Webster would have suffered political
crucifxion before resorting to strate-
gems of so base a character. How
beautifully the course Of Calhoun, as
the exponent of Southern idea, con.
trasts with the cunning of Seward,
who though risen to notoriety as the
leader of an exclusively Eastern section
seeks national preferment by deception.
But the South cannet be bamboozled.
The hopes founded upon strategy like
this caunot avail. There are great
principles underlying the political
economy of the South. She has always
contended for those rights guaranteed
by the Federal compact, and by the
Constitution, and nothing more. Her
patriotic masses cannot be led even BY
her own sons if recreant to her institu-
tions, much less by an Eastern advcn-
turer distinguished for nothing but
Abolition fanaticism. 1t will be fear
full day for the South, and she knows
it, when man like Seward shall seize
the reins Of government When that
hour comes, if it ever SHALL come, then,
indeed, have we reached the crisis OF
dissolution. This fair national COM
pact will have been made in vain, and
the: experiment in American self
government will have proved failure.
The American people will submit to
the rule Of tyrant but never to the
tricks Of a demagogne.-N. Y. Nescs.
! GOLD DISCOVERY IN SOUTHERN ILL
rNoIs.-We learn that the town Of
Carlyle, in Illinois, on the Ohio 4
Mississippi r. r., about fifty miles
east of St. Louis, is in a lively ferment
on account Of the discovery of gold
dust in . ravinc At the foot Of Fairfax
street, near the ferry landing. The
dust has been tested by an "old Cali
fornis miner" and pronounced genu-
inc gold. We ourselves saw a small
quantity in Jumps, said to have been
brought from the spot. Carlyle is not
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