The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-06-25


u stranger. passing few years ago
through Springfield. Illinois. had visited the
court house. and heard IL predicted that the
ungain.y. vulgar. ssfre attorney. Abraham
Lincoln. would one DAY he President of the
United States. be would have regarded the
prophet a. fugitive from the mad house
and called for the first policeman 10 restore
him 10 his keepers. Ia -. perhaps, supposed
by those who are unsequainted with the sec
ton from which Mr.. Lincoln comes. that he
i a fair specimen Of the civilization OF Spsine
field. A greater'mistake could not be made
Ii will not DO for his slavish syeophants 20
shuttle OF the responsibility Of his ruff anism
and yaigarity upon the barbarism of the
West" a region which has more real civil
izatiOn aud manliness than the bOasled cen.
tiers of New England refinement In the
same town To which Lincoln emigrated from
Kentucky. and at the same bar. there have
been emlgrants IRON the SAME Stale. Who
would have graced any civic or social posi-
tim. The man was vulgarian and igno.
FAMOUS IN Illinois as evidently as ia Wash.
ington. He had brought ~ it'll him TO the
bar of the courts the manners of another
bar. at which he had retailed whisky 10 the
red eyed topers Of the village at three cents
4 glass. and the culture and the finish of the
railsplitters and boatmen. to whose fraternity
he had belonged in early life What mag
nihcent illustration OF the infallibility Of the
popular will What an irresistible demon
stration that"the voice OF the people is the
voice Of God = was the selection Of this an
mitigated blackgusrd for the Presidency of
the United States
| Now. on the other hand. il We were To
hunt over the United States for man. in all
the externals of life, the least like Abraham
Lincoln. We could find none more different
| from him than William III. Seward. He &c
sembles Lincoln neither ia person, manners.
L culture nor intellect lie y respectable
scholar. a man of the lamp. aud learned
lawyer. He has mingled with good society
and been successful in api.g its manners. 50
rs TO present a respectable counterfeit of a
gentleman 10 persons not Familiarity acqnaint
ell with the currency Yet il would be i'm
| possible to find in the annals of history,
Astounding rs they do in similar examples. q
more signal proof than Seward affords OF the
utter inadequacy of mere Intellectual cult
yction To ciyilize human nature. or convert &
back guard into a gentleman. You might
a we'll undertake 90 transform pine table
into mahogany by the process OF yeneering
a. TO make a gentleman out of such mar
as Seward by any amount OF external polish
tie has literally and truly no respect what
ever for hoaor or for good faith: he cai de
scend to anything that Is treacherous an'
vile for tho accomplishment OF his base pur
poses. The absurd and clownish Presiden
Is less of a villain than the shrewd aud pol
ishcd premier. who has upon his shoulders
more than any other man in the Unite'
States. the responsibility of the present war
and of all its misery and bloodshed. He de
=. III al.
ment of the North Tor his own political pur
poses. just as be had previously done that Q
anti masonry. and the religious element 4
the free school system of New York. HI
moro than any other man. had the power
when Lincoln was elected to the Presidenc,
to render impossible that resort to arm
which has plunged the country in tears an
blood. Lincoln was entirely under his Unfit
ence. and had called him at once to becom
his prime minister. his counselor. and h
friend. Richmond Dispatch, June 10.