The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-12

time Is a statesman. one who has tic aagacity
to discover the true interests of his country,
and the ability and nerve to follow that end
without regard TO personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT or
popular camor. Indeed, that has been the
want Of the old Repablic for many years, and
L. perhaps u defect common to Republics
Great men, with ample qualifications to guide
the ship Of State. are a. common in free as III
monarrhicsl Governments; bG', unfortunately
they are not as sure Of receiving the Jast reward
Of their labors. The popalaeei is more fcklo than
a king, and more easily imposed upon in the
selection Of its counsellors. We find the NOR
Archs Of Europe, both absolute and limited,
able to command in their Cabinets the bes.
talent Of their empires, whereas, it is many
wears since the best talen. Of America con-
trolled the Admins ration of the Government.
us Z loLg tune sirce man of first late in
,eliot: could be elected President Of the United
6tates 1t became the custom to choose some
unA nowu Inan for that purpose, with the well
understood design Of making him q tool of
party, q mere agent of the political establish
ment by which he had been placed in power,
and this, for the base and sordd purpose of
securing the public revenue so as to distribute
!. entirely among the trainhand. OF the sue
cessful parry. The late Mr.. MARcr. who, when
Judge of the Supreme Court Of New York,
charged that State fifty cents for the cost of
patch in his breecbes condensed in one pithy
line the WHO'S aim, spirit and character of
American party politics "To the victors be-
long the spoiis." Mr.. MARCY never heard the
last Of that ingenious concession, but, what
ever may lie thought Of his discretion in max
ing such an avowal, it was the principle upon
which all parties acted, those who denounced
Mr.. MARCY qaite as much hi. political
frieuds. ABRAHAM LINCOLN is only at the
present moment attempting a moro extended
and literal application of this principle. He
was elected to the Presidency simply as the
representative Of a sectional party, and he has
carried on the Government from the beginning
with exclusive reference to the will and inter-
ests of party, and not OF. the country. All the
offices were given to men of his own section I,
and all the spells Of the war now waging are
to be Pareeled out among his chiefs. Tue
Cthtc eOFeIcikHtlcS uTc u nc eWamptu, anu our
very farms to be divided among his legions, ii
successful. Not only this, but every Southern
fresde was to be degraded. and every South
ern patriot swung from the gallows. Our ac-
cursed race was to be exterminated. and the
new and holy seed Of the Pilgrims substituted
In its place. What comment upon the Zero
city and wiekedness of party spirit, among a
people claiming 10 be the most free, and civil.
zed, and Christian people upon the face of the
earth Did ever any kirg that ever sat upon
throse, any despot cf ancient or modern times,
begin II war with such inhuman, barbarous and
devilish purposes, az those ferociousy and re-
peatodly proclaimed by the free press Of the
free North" and which they have only been
prevented from executing by the universal
I" Shame! Shame." which arose from all
Cbristendon, and by the stern and powerful
front with which the South instantly faced her
brutal and braggart foe?
We need not be surprised. then, that WV.
II. SEWARD is the nearest approa ch TO a states |
man that such a people can produce. He is a |
man of education, and in that respect has the |
leagues; but bis history proves that he is, like
all the rest Of the United States Cabinet, a
cultivated deinsgogue, and nothing more. In
many respects he resembles MARTIN VAN BU-
BEN, Of his own State, having the same un-
scrupulous cunning, the same scheming, WIRE
working, partis character /; the same supple
conscience; the same narrowness Of aim, ana
the same cold, imperturbable temperament
Each of these men began his political career
and continued it by pandering to The base pas
sions of tho ignorant and degraded; MARTIN
VAN buren, foment!ng the anti-rent disturb
anoss In Columbia county, aud SEWARD be
striding the hobby Of anti Masonry. Adolf
tionism has also been used by both men simply
and exclusively as political instrument. 1t
ia a we'll known fact that WM. II. SEWARD,
when in the Senate of the United States. after
speech most earnest and pointed in its denun
citation Of Southern institutions, has been asked
whether he really entertained such sentiments
As those announced in his speech, and that he
replied, with a laugh, No; / only used them
for party effect" Can such person be called
a statesman? Does be deserve the name Of |
gentleman And yet he is, at this moment |
the North. He is the PALISuRus of their skip |
Of state in this darkest night and stormiest |
sea that ever vexed the soul Of mariner. Yet |
he has him elf engcndsred the darkness and |
evoked the storm. Who expects him to take |
his country safe through the evils he has |
brought upon her. Who believes that he il |
As capable of building up as of pulling down |
Who imagines that he sees his way at this mo. |
ment one inch before his nose? Five months |
ago be announced, with the air Of an oracle |
that ia sixty days all the troubles Of the c,un-
try would he a: an end
The result shows thai be has net the most
ordinary sagacity. He did no, pretend to give |
h reason for the prediction, and, in making it. |
proved himself mere mounting prstender. |
Get il 10 on such man as this that the North |
relic. to take It safely and triumphastly |
through such IN exigeEcy as tbs present. IL |
lac had hcen state' man be would have pur-
soed at the beginning of these troubles the
course # WEBSTER or a CLAY. Hs would
have poured oil ON the troubled waters; be
would have spilled emollients ineteal of irri-
tAhts To the 'InamHd passions of the people
This would at least have deferred The evil
day. Bal lie DID not comprehend intelhscnty
tide interests Of his own section. He did not |
psfecirs tha, delay If al open rupture mus, |
e"nlinnc to adj 20 Northern strength aud to |
h"a.aern weakness. III could not W, iers.aud
thai zach proclamation 81 that Of LINCOLN
would divide the cnu,trv f,rsvey a,d at..
L ally ruia Northern trade AMI 10 anufactur,s