Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-29

Estate.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
writes from Auburn, N. Y, in late letter,
of Hon. William H. Seward, as he appears
and is at his home, from which we make
some extracts:
sEwARD's POPULARITY.
If Governor Seward had received the Re-
publican nomination for President at Chi
cago, do not believe there would have been
100 votes cast against him in the city of his
home, where there is population Of about
10000 souls. His popularity is universal.
He is beloved by all classes of people, ire
spective of partisan predictions No work
Of public utility is undertaken unless he has
lending and helping hand in IT, No phi
lanthropic or benevolent movement is sug-
gested without receiving his liberal and
thoughtful assistance. On all sides, among
| all classes of politicians, find that senti-
| ments of respect and esteem prevail in favor
| Of Governor Seward, and no one refers to
him without expressing unhesitatingly their
| entire confidence in his uprightness and un-
selfish public spirit. AS landlord he is
kind and lenient; as an adviser he is frank
and reliable; as a citizen he is enterprising
and patriotic; as champion of what he con-
| siders to be right he is dauntless and in
| trepid; and while warm and ardent in his
| political affinities and personal friendships,
he never ceases to observe that degree of de-
corum and courtesy toward political and per-
sonal foes which one gentleman should ex-
| pect from another.
HIS OPINION OF JOHN BROWN AND THE vIR-
| GINA RAID.
The opinion of the Governor was asked in
| regard to the raid of John Brown and his
benighted followers upon the soil of Vir-
ginia. -
"Oh," remarked our friend, the United
States Marshall, "the Governor has given
his views ON that point in his Speech
Gov. Seward placed his head between his
hands thoughtfully for moment, and, with
out noticing the Marshall's remark, 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 proseIytes who believed
in the practicability and in the justice of his
scheme until they came to putting it into
execution, when but fifteen or twenty were
found rash enough to attempt it, Brown
HIMSELF l hold to have been q sane and
sound-minded man on every thing except
the subject of slavery. On that the wrongs
be and his family had suffered ct the hands
of the Shareholders in Kansas, unbalanced
his reason, and he became monomaniac.
He is to be pitied as well as blamed"
HIS VIEWS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Allusion was made to the contendinp
elements in the Democratic party.
"The Democratic party" said the Gov
ernor, "had a mission, or several missions to
perform. 1t has accomplished them, and
like the old Federal, the Wing and the Know
Nothing parties, it has, gone ont, and its
tplace is now occupied by the Republican
party. The old Federal party kept up its
organization by the cohesion of a few re-
spectacle old gentlemen 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 attempts been made to make
1t close temperance corporation. The
Know Nothing party accomplished its mis-
sion, what little it had to accomplish, and
suddenly expired. The Democratic party
was once party ofprogress; when it ceased
to be so and became the pro-slavery, anti
progress party, it ceased to exist as the
Democratic party. The Republican party is
the true democratic progressive party of the
age"
Colonel Howe put in disclaimer, in his
own quaint way, by making complimentary
allusion to his friend, Hon. Daniel S. Dickin-
son, as a sound representative Democrat, and
the talk took another direction.
!, THE IRREpREssIBLE CONFLICT QUESTION.
The Governor, as the author of the oft.
quoted phrase, the 'irrepressible conflict,
was asked how long he thought it would
last -tr. .,.i. "a, "a s..ffl. rr y
$50 long as The ,crong crisis and right ana
reason are lef free 10 combat ii. Ihod Ma
slopeTy is wrong, 0nd myself and those sohc
think Nth me, are in a conflict Nth those tbhc
think slavery is right. There are but t,co side,
10 the question. There is no middle ground
There can be no philosop hitting upon The point
The right or the rrong Of slavery is The onlS
issue"
81 agree with you, Sir" remarked thu
United States Marshal, strong Breckinridg,
man; "there are but two sides to the ques.
ton. Is slavery right or wrong? That:
the only question, and on that issue q
with the South" " atts niRi ft ~
"Every one is entitled to his own opin
ion," said Governor Seward, and he pro.
ceeded to give in detail some of his views OF
slavery as before enunciated in the Ameri
can Senate.
HIS OPINION OF DIsUN1oN.
, Gov. Seward ridicules the idea and thu
threats of disunion. "How," he asked, "art
the South to effect disunion? BY force o
, arms? Look at the subject moment. Soutl
!, Carolina wishes TO leave the Union. Othe
V Southern States may express desire TO joii
1 her. South Carolina appropriates the enor
4 nous sum OF $0O, 1000 10 arm the State for de
: fense. The United States Government i
y ready for almost any emergency. Soutl
!. Carolina pays her troops from So to SO pc
month. The United States pay theirs from
a $40 to $40. Outside of this Union, wher
a are South Carolina's money and credit
= South Carolina will pay her troops in paper
/ worthless outside her own limits. TIL
= United States will pay theirs in solid gol
y and silver. And, furthermore, the Unite
a States give their soldiers bounty lands O
!, from l60 to 600 acres each. Can South Caro-
7 lima or any other Southern State afford to d
that?
: 'The idea of forcible dissolution of tn
Union is ispreposterous, and sensible Souther
= gentlemen know il. There may be som
= earnest and sincere Southerners who thin
q dissolution of the Union practicable an
!, desirable for their own interests, and the
I, may talk good deal about it, butwhen the
> come to the actual matter of secession, il wi
4 be like the South Carolina Convention whic
/ was called for the purpose of providin
4 measures for seeding; when the Conventio
assembled it was found that more than tws
thirds of the members were averse to goin
out of this Union at all, They may be yer
IS brave and determined until they see the e,
. ormity of the act they contemplate, when Il
q lights of wisdom and reason, and the di
5 tates of common prudence, will deter the
T. from proceeding to rash extremities.'
GoyEREoR sEwARD's FAMILY
Il consists of three grown up, sons and OF