Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-09-07
a FREE AND EASY CONFERENCE
WITH MR.. SEWARD.

WITH Mr. SEW ARD
| ~ A correspondent Of the New York Her
aid has been visiting Mr. SEWARD at his
home in Auburn, an interesting letter from
him is published in the Herald Of Monday
We transfer few extracts to our columns
now LoNo IS THE IRREPREssIBLE CONFLICT
TO LAST.
The Governor as the author Of the Oft quo
ted phrase, the "irroprcssibo conflict was
asked how long he thought it would last.
So long as the wrong eriss. and right and
reason are LEFT free 10 combat Il, hold that
s'arery Is 0rong, and myself and those pho
think With me are IN the conflict Nth those ioho
hink siaucry is right. there are ti0o sides to The
question There is no middle ground. There
can be no philosophiring upon the point. The
right or the CroHg Of siavery is the only issue.
now ABOUT DIsUN1oN'
Governor Seward lidicules the idea and the
threats Of disunion. "How," he asked, "are
the South to effect disunion; BY force of
arms Look at the subject a moment
South Carolina wishes to leave the Union
Other Southern States may express a desire
to join her. South Carolina appropriates the
enormous sum of $4,000 to arm the State
for defense. She is without outside defense.
The United States government is ready for
almost any emergency. South Carolina pays
her troops from s. to IS per month. The
United States pay theirs from $40 to $20.-
Outside Of this Union, where are South Caro-
lina's money and credit South Carolina
will pay her troops in paper worthless out
side their own limits. The United States
will pays theirs in solid gold and silver
And, Furthermore, the United States give their
soldiers bounty lands of from 100 TO 600 acres
| each. Can South Carolina or any other South
ern State afford to do that; The idea of a
| forciblo dissolution of the Union is preposter-
Gus and sensible Southern gentlemen know it.
| There may be some earnest and sincere South
/ erners who think dissolution of the Union
/ practicable and desirable for their own inter-
ests, and they may talk a good deal about it
/ but when they come to the actual matter Of
secession il will be like the South Carolina
Convention which was called for the purpose
| of providing measures for seeding when the
! Convention assembled it was found that more
! than two-thirds Of the members were averse
to going out Of the Union at all. They may
be very brave and determined until they see
the enormity of the act they contemplate,
/ when the lights of wisdom and reason, and
the dictates of common prudence, will deter
them from proceeding 20 rash extremities."
JOHN Drown AND HIS VIRGINIA RAID.
The opinion of the Governor was asked in
regard to the raid Of John Brown and his be-
nighted followers upon the soil of Virginia.
Gov Seward placed his head between his
hands thoughtfully for moment, and replied,
THAT John Brown had large number Of
proselytes in the North and elsewhere be-
lieve But it was with them precisely as it
will be with the disunionists when they come
to the point of putting their schemes into
practical operation. There may have been
thousands of Browns proselytes who believ-
ed in the practicability and in the justice Of
his scheme until they came to putting it into
execution, when but fifteen twenty were
found rash enough to attempt it. Brown
himself | hold to have been a sane and sound
minded man on everything except the subject
of slavery On that the wrongs he and his
family had suffered at the hands of slavehold-
ers in Kansas unbalanced his reason, and he
became a monomaniac He is to be pitied as
well as blamed
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY EXPLODED.
Allusion was made to the contending Gle
ments in the democratic party.
"Ihe democratic party" said the Governor,
"had a mission, or several missions, to per-
form. 1t has accomplished them, and like
the old federal, the whig and the Know Moth
/ ing parties, it has gone out, and its place is
now occupied by the republican party. The
old federal party kept up its organization by
| the cohesion of few respectable old gentle
men for long time after it had accomplished
its mission. The whig party accomplished
its mission, and would have continued as
party organization much longer had not at
tempts been made to make it close temper
ance corporation. The Know Nothing ac-
complished its mission, what little it had to
accomplish, and suddenly expired. The de-
mocratic party was once party of progress
when it ceased to be so and became the pro-
slavery anti-progress party, it ceased to exist
as the democratic party. The republican par
ty is the true democratic progressive party of
the age"