The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-09-18
W. III. Seward.

". H. Seward
Although the report is not confirmed that
Seward is to be sent on foreign mission, 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
tho tempest which will ere long be bowling
over the North for the author of the war. He
is the man, he, VIM Ii. Seward. eminently
the man who fired ",he Ephesiau dome Of
the old American Union, and whose maine will
be immortal in the hate and eXecratiou Of his
countrymsn There We're causes at work III
the antagonistic institutions, interests. and
habits of the people. which rendered ultimate
no such man us VIM. II Seward, this genera
tion at least might have died in its bed i'll peace
A hundred and fifty Thousand Of Seward s
countrymen, whose bones now bleach the coil
they came to desecrate, might he 6weiiing IL
Ccntented homes, and hundreds of thousands
more, whom lie is training for the same infer
nal purposes, might have lived to good old
age. H organized purely for the purposes of
his own election the political Abolition party
which brought the old Union to destruction
No other man in the North possessed the re
culiar combination ct intellectual and moral
qualities necessary Tor that purpose Il Is
true he failed in obtainin. the tirs. nomination
tary of State he was the actual, If not the
nominal President, and he was sure Of being
Lincolns successor till wicked rebellion
assumed its gigantic proportions, rendering
tho subjugation of the South Necessary to the
preservation Of that glorious Union-tha, is,
the election of VIM Ii. Seward to the. mex,
Presidency of the United States.
When American school boys used to read
in history of bloody tyrants i'll ancient times
and even in modern Europe who remorselessly
sacrificed the lives of their helpless subjects in
mere wars of ambition, such beings seemed to
be monsters belonging to fabulous period
whose character it was scarcely possible 10 be
ieve in What boy or lnan on all this continent
twenty years ago suspected that among the
aspir2nts for American favor, i'll row of Sen
ators whose diminutive forms were lost in the
gigantic shadows of Calhoun, Clay, and Web
ster, sat a man who was to play in the political
Paradise of the new world the part of Satan
IN Eden q man whose lust of power and place
would hurl u towering Republic to the dust
and convert its finest fields into Gogotha
Yet, we have lived to see this miracle of Di
abolish, and to realize that no form of quarre,
can purify human nature or preserve the PEG
pie from those calsmities. inevitable as plaques
and pestilences, in which the selfish aud un-
pFincipled ambition of the few may involve
tho innocent and unofiending many
IN what country the Premier of Lincoln
will ultimately find his anticipated exile, we
know not; but bis infany is as wide as the
esrth, and he can visit no spot OH this planet
where be is not already known and despised.
There il no civilized court in which, whatever
tho outward forms Of respect to III ambassa.
dor, there will not he secret contempt for the
most mendacious and bypocritieal public man
Of this century, and for the impostor who
promised ~ often that the rebellion should be
put down in sixty and ninety days. The rep
utAtion Of Arnold and Burr, in future ages.
VIII be fragrant and glorious compared with
that Of VIM H. Seward.