The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-29

j WAksO Spirit sn sserssayy seward.
Wilkes, of The Spirit Of the Times, having
q be thinks, thoroughly demolished Fitz Napo
leon, a. he calls Gen. Mcclellan, now turns hi.
guns upon the Premier. The following is biz
second or third article. We print it as one O
the curiosisies Of political literature:
Pay THE LITTLE WIZARD.
The most approved principle in surgery is 4
strike the knife directly at the root OF any vi
cious cancer or felonious sore, that breeds ex
tending mischiefs in the system but there ii
likewise known to the same science, prelimi-
nary practice which requires that the most ad
vanced and obvious obstacles shall be removed,
ere the supplying source of the deformity may
safely be attacked.
j OF this compound nature did we deem the
gross militry tumor which so long absorbed the
vital currents of the army; but that unwhole.
some protuberance being we'll removed, We ma
turally turn to the main duty Of the scalpel,
and direct its action properly against the secret.
ed cyst. -, - s.
i While Genera Mcclellan remained at the
head of our armies in the field, and had il
in bis power to emasculate them in the
Peninsula, paralyze them az ct CeDterville,
and betray them as at Harper's Ferry and An
Hetam, it was our duty to confne our efforts
entirely to him ; but now that the country lie
freed from his hold upon its bride, and the
prospect is, that he must shrink permanently to
the nothing he began at, our attention is direct.
| y due to the influences which sustained him.
For months our mind was tossed with bewil-
A.. al ~c InM,
(vho had began by threatening "death to all
simple drawing of his sword. he might have
saved his country and made himself hero
We were puzzled, we say, at this, and as early
Is June last, for want of other reaeon distinctly
stated our belief, that Mcclellan had resigned
himself to tome unseen direction, which had
] pledged him not to use the sword, but to de.
pend upon secret negotiations to restore the
entente cordiale between the infuriated sections
We confess we did not at first locate our sus-
picions against Mr. Seward and his associate
/ Mr.. Blair. Our thought was, that the pervert.
ing influence was a disloyal one; and, conse.
quently, we did not expect to find it in the
Cabinet When, however, we learned that Nc.
Clellsn wss,per sstently sustained by Mr.. Seward
even after the sacrifice of HarpeI's Ferry and
the escape Of Lee nay, even in the face of his
refusal to obey the repeated orders of the Pre-
sident, the entire mystery of our military pro-
gramme was dispelled, and our philosophic
Premier stood revealed as the main danger of
the country. 80
With this cue to help US, we turn back to the
career Of Seward with the greatest curiosity,
and passing over his suspicious early history
with Thurlow Weed, their Anti Masonic cam
paign with its "good enough Morgan" lodges,
we come directly to the part be has performed
in connection with the present crisis. Though
aggravating spirit Of the issue on the "stump,"
ate; and, forgetful Of the blazing brands he
hurled defantly against the conclusive fabric
Of Southern institutions while ut large, quailed
down to plaintlve preaching when brought into
the domineering presence of the masters of the
| Temple. His speech in the Senate, in response
to the seditious utterings Of Davis, Toonbs and
| Wigtall, was entirely unworthy the occasion
| Instead Of selling their treason with giants
grasp, and trampling it underneath his feet in
grand disdain, be conten.ed himself with a soph-
omorical essay on the beauties of the Union,
and wended bis way weeping to the, climax,
that he was utterly incre6ulous the Union could
ever be dissolved. Then, he and the good men
| we have named shook hands all round; it was
evidently agreed that the ,."'irrepressible con-
ficts," higher law doctrines" and all by cones,
should be forgotten, and not an unkind refer
ence has passed between them since. On the
contrary, as in the case of Gen. Mcclellan, the
highest respect lie continually expressed through
out all Dixie for our Premier; and while the
Southern leaders would cheerfully hang Mr.. Lin
coin, it has been repeatedly said among them,
that Mr.. Seward would have been entirely ac-
ceptable to their section, had he been nomina
ted and elected instead Of Abolition Abe. 1t
may be said, therefore, by those who esteem
party reciprocation, as superior in obligation to
the ties Of country, that Mr. Seward was JUST
| fed, not only ID tempering the edge of national
authority against the recusants by his Christian
counsels to Buchanan, but alsoin subsequently
warning them through Mr.. Harvey, of the Pres,
ident's intention to reinforce Sumter with sup
plies and men. There may be some who are
willing to pretend that Fernando Wood and he
we're wrong in permitting the Georgia muskets
to 20 South after the secession of that State;
but surely, none but the most captious will as
sumo that as an old,acquaintance of the Border
State Commissioners he was more than polite
in entertaining their proposals after they had
been repudiated by the President, or more than
reciprocal in friendship, in resisting the'enun-
citation of the emancipation act against the
South. $50, .o assa4a9 s5as tgaaTJ5 esrem
The truth is, that Mr. Seward, who undoubt,
eddy loves his country and prizes the undivided
citizen within it, has had his head completely
inverted on the subject of the present difficult
ties, and is, even though in his best mood and
mental shape, entirely unequal to the crisis. -
Lacking courage, hesfancies everything is to be
done by the pen alone, and like James of Scot
land, who was very smart in words, is seized
with sbiyering the instant be catches sight of
drawn sword. .l,.'..r. .r..-....s. p.
he set out by regarding the instruction as
mere holiday affair, told the Border State Com
missioners be would arrange the matter to their
satisfaction Gas soon as he had acquired the in
fuence over the mind Of Mr.. Lincoln which he
expected" and repeatedly declared We should
have no war, even long after actual war bad
been insugurated. And this strange language,
which, if one but shuts the eyes, sounds like the
parting echoes from the lips of Cobb and Floyd,
is not the fruit Of treason, but mere vague de.
lusion, with which this purbliud statesman and
conceited theorist leads the nation to its ruin
If any infatuated worshippers claim that he is
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