Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-04

Six words fly spoken BIZ Mr.. Lincoln-six words
inspired by Sewsrd-would have Gained the n
sing storm, and there would have been no war.
But Seward had predicted the 'irrepressible con-
iict" even before Mr.. Lincoln. To have avert
ed it, would have been TO falsify his own predie-
ton.
After the war began, he declared the Southern
privateersmen to be ''pirates," and announced
that they should be hung as such. Was this con
c~iliatiOnl He caused LettTes de cGchet to be issued,
and dozens of citizens to be dragged from their
beds at midnight, and to be incarcerated in dun
geons for months, not only without crimes on
their part, but without knowing for what they
wer, incarcerated. This was mildness with a
vengeance. The party which brought Mr.. Sew
ard into power had time after time declared that
slavery was the cause of the war; that the slaves
must all be emancipated; that the property OF all
the citizens of the Southern States ought to be
confscated; that the Southern States must be
subiugated, subdued, conquered, and governed as
Territories. Where is the declaration of Mr..
Seward. on record that these. or any of these, are
not his principlesG 1t does not exist. Certainly
the country has the right to believe that Mr.. Sew
ard is as radical" as Mr.. Chandler or Mr.. Love-
JOY. Yet now his friends here say he will retire
from the Cabinet if radical measures are adopted.
Let him do so. Let him come out honestly over
his own name, in a letter to a friend, simply say
ing that he is opposed to emancipation, to confis-
cation, aud to illegal arrests, and the country will
believe him. But even that can not atone for the
evil he has done.
Another thing has now come to light which, if
il be verified, ought to cover Mr.. Seward with
shame. His friends are now Boosting that he
has made a secret agreement with the French
Government by which the United States have
consented to stand still and look on while Napo-
leon iBvades Mexico, conquers her, and reduces
her to the condition of a French province, as the
price of Napoleon's non-interferene in our civil
war. That is, Seward "buys of" Napoleon by
selling to him our reyersionary right to annex
Mexico, and by giving up tile sacred and cher
ished principles of the Monroe doctrine. This,
if true, would account for Mr.. Stewards oft re
peated and complacent declaration that "there is
no daL ger of foreign Intervention" But the
whole story is improbable. The Emperor Napo-
leon is not a fool. He knows that nothing but a
treaty will bind the United States, and that the
Senate alone is the treaty making power. 1t is
probable, however, that there is a secret under
standing between the Emperor and Mr.. Lincoln's
Administration to that effect. If there is, such
base trucking, such pusillanimous abandonment
OF principle for the sake of temporary expediency
will overwhelm the Administration with shame.
1t is possible that both Seward and Stanton
will leave the Cabinet. But at present the indi-
cations are that neither of them will. Obstinacy
mot hrmness) forms a part of Mr.. LincOlns
character; and, Just because he knows that the
people OF the whole country demand the removal
of Stanton, he WI retain him if he can. Stan
ton, however, is dreadfully offended at Halleck's
appointment. He knows that he can "play sol
der" no longer; that a military mind and mill
tary hands will now control and direct military
operations; and that all that he will be will be the
Presidents secretary, "A clerk, for war matters.
The ''hysterical Secretary" as the New York
Times calls him, will not be apt to chew that
leek with much relish As to Seward, the Presi-
dent will probably promise him anything he de
mands, and then try to keep his promise; while
at the same time he has promised Stanton, or
Bates, or Chase, directly the reverse. The whole
world knows that it is his ''irrepressible" attempts
10 pursue two opposite lines of policy at the same
time that has caused the war to languish and that
now hinders e~nlistnents.
1t is whispered here that Gen. Halleck will sig
nalize his accession to the chief command by the
concentration of three hundred thousand troops
here; an overland march to Richmond, not by
Fredericksburg, but by way of Gordonsville and
Louisa; and the capture of that city in c%onjunc
zion with the army of Gen Mcclellan, who will
advance upon the rebel capital by the tour great
roads between the James River and the Chicka-
hOminy. Stranger things than that have hap
pened. Ii Is certain that Richmond could be
taken in that way. Why, then, shall it not be
doneI