The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-09-26
W. n. Seward.
Iron the Richmond Dispatch


Iron the Richmond pispateh.1
Although the report is rot confirmed
that Seward Il to be sent on foreign mis-
s'on' that day Of honorable Punishment
may not he far distant. We have no
doubt he Il anxious TO hide his head in
some foreign land, and escape the tenn.
pest which will era long be bowling over
the North for the author Of the war. I'D
is the men, he, VIM. H. Seward. pre.em.
inently the man who fred "the Enbc.,or
dome" Of the old American Union ona
whose name will be immortal in the boto
and execration ofhis countrymen. There
were causes at work in.the antneonistio
institutions, interests, and habits of The
people. which rendered ultimate disso.
luton Inevitable; but, If there had been
no such man as VIM. H. Seward, the gen.
GRAFTON at least might hive died in It's bed
in peace. hundred and fifty thousand
of Stewards countrymen, whose bones
now bleach the soil they come TO desc
crate, might be dwelling in contented
homes, and hundreds of thousands more,
whom he is training for the same infer.
nal purpose, might have lived to good
old age. He organized purely for tho
purpose Of his own election the political
Abolition party which brought the old
Union to destruction. No other man in
the North possessed the peculiar combi-
nation of intellectual and moral qualities
necessary for that purpose. 1t is true he
failed in obtaining the first nomination
OF his party for the Presidency, but, Us
Secretary Of State, he was the actual, if
not the nominal President, and he was
sure OF being Lincoln's successor till
wicked rebellion" assumed its gigantic
proportions, rendering the subiugation
of the South necessary TO the preservation
of that glorious Union-that is the cleo
ton of VIM. H. Seward to the next Pres
idency of the United States.
When American school.boys used to
read in history OF bloody tyrants in an
cient times and even in modern Europe
who remorselessly sacrificed the lives of
their helpless subjects in mere wars Of am.
bition, such beings seemed to be monsters
belonging to a fabulous period, whose
character it was scarcely possible to be-
lieve in. What boy or man on all this
continent twerty years ago suspected
that among the aspirants for American
favor, in row of Senators whose diminu-
tive forms were lost in the gigantic shad-
ows of Calhoun, Clay, and Webster, sat q
man who was to play in the political Pa.
radise Of the new world the part of Sa.
tan in Eden; man whose lust of power
and place would hurl towering Repub-
lie to the dust, and convert its finest fields
into Golgotha. Yet, we have lived ia see
this miracle Of Diabolism, and to realize
that no form Of quarrel can purify hus
man nature or preserve the people from
those calamities, inevitable as plaques
and pestilence, in which the selfish and
unprincipled ambition OF the few may I'M
volve the innocent and unoffending
many.
In what country the Premier of Lin
coin will ultimately find his anticipated
exile, we know not; but his infamy is as
wide as the earth. and he can visit no
spot on this planet where he is not already
known and dispised. There is no civil
lied court in which, whatever the outward
forms of respect to an ambassador. there
will not be secret contempt for the
most mendacious and hypocritical public
man OF this country, and for the impostor
who promised SO often that the rebellion
should be put down in sixty and ninety
days. The reputation of Arnold and
Burr, in future ages, will be fragrant and
glorious compared with that of VIM. II.
| Seward.