The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-09-27

On the occasion of late dinner given
by Governor Stanford to military officers
in San Francisco, according to the BuLLe-
tin, nc said:
"Sccretary Seward had told him the
last time he was in Washington that he
had been waited on by deputation from
Richmond, which threatened to take the
great State Of Virginia ont of the Union
if the doctrine Of States Rights was not
sckDo~IedgedRy Dur Government Sew
ard : frPIy ESSUrOnug 70 uOvernUr sum:
ford, was: "-Before this Government will
recognize the doctrines Of Calhoun, Vr-
ginia may 90 and be DID,"
Mr.. Stewards statements were never re-
garded by his personal acquaintances as
conclusive o. facts. We have no ,ubt
he told Gov. Stanford what he represents; !;
but gentleman who bore the most init.
mate relations, personal and political. to
the Premier, repeated to us the following
conversation between Mr.. Seward and Mr.
Rives. Of Virginia, at the time Of the sit
ting of the Peace Congress in Washing
ton, just prior to the incoming Of the
present Administration. Our informant
was gentleman of unquestionable verac-
ity, albeit he was Republican. We do
not, Of course, pretend to give the conver-
Sntion verbatim, but it was substantially
this:
Rires-GovernOr, what do you propose
to do with US?
Sewdrd-Why, my old friend, you can
not make any demand which | would not
cheerfully grant.
Rires-You astonish me. We had re-
garded you rs among the most radical Of
the AbolitiOnistS.
Sewdrd-For what reasonf
Rires-We judged you by your public
declarations.
SeWdrtI-What declarations?
Rires-Among others your Rochester
speech, in which you assert that the Gov.
ernmcnt cannot continue part slave and
part free; as also your speeches in the
late canvass in the North West, in which
you yet more emphatically reiterated the
same sentiment
iSerdrd-Why, Rives, 1 am surprised
that so old politician has not yet
learned to discriminate between n STUMP
speech and state paper. Did you sup
pose that I did not know that thu
doctrines of those speeches we're utter
ly impracticable to State policy? They
were only used for a purpose, and an
swered that purpose in securing the elec
tion Of good conservative whig admins
tration, in which you and I are mutually
interested. You will find, sir, that YOU
people have nothing to fear from this ad
ministration, and that we have no preju
dice against your institutions. But yor
will bear in mind that We cannot affort
now to announce our policy, for tha
would destroy our influence with tht
anti-slavery element Of our own party anC
perhaps put it out Of our power to serve
you.
It will DO recollected that Mr.. Rives re
turned to Richmond and made speech
in favor of adhering to the Union, assu
ring the people that they had nothing tc
fear from the incoming Administration
But Mr.. Seward found to his cost, and tn,
cost of the country, that he had invoked
devil to the aid Of his party that hat
now got control of it out of his hands. W,
have no doubt that Mr.. Seward and Mr.
Lincoln intended to be just as conserva
tive rs was Mr.. Fillmore, but unlike him
their party came into power in Congress
at the same time, and the pressure wal
too great for their resistance. Abolition
iaFs was dominant and acquieScence va.
their only safety. "Hell is paved will
good intentions" of the same sort.-Sa,
Joaquin Republican.