Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-12-10

Seward Charged with Treachery
to tho Administration.
CHARGES AND SPECIFICATIONS.
| Grand Plan Of Paclfl cation
SEWARD TIE FAST FRIEND or SEY.
MOCR, VAN bUKEN AND
FERNANDO WOOD.
| From wilkes' Spirit Of the Times.

should rot release its apprehcnsions ~
too long furlough. Dangers OF e. aver
sign ficauce and deeper root remain be
bind and I'LL they be corrected, The
country will continue to plunge on as
ourposeless as dismas,cd ship, with an
unseen leak sinking her to the bottom.
| Generals cannot save the nation II It's
| councillors are false. A stubborn PEG
pie might replace armies wbich imbe
.ility had surrendered to the enemy, but
no amount of heart can restore the cap
| ltulations OF false diplomacy for once
we concede to treason even 30 much az
the opening for hair, the fracture vi.
den., and our unity is split forever.
We mean by this language to declare
our fixed belief that we are even nov
apon the brink Of ruin, and that the per-
| manent division OF this vast Repnbl Is
| inevitable, unless William II. ,taoard
&c yu,ekiy taken from the helm Of the
Government. And this, on our part, Is
no vague ana idle fear nor Is II enter
Gained solely by ourselves. Thousands
| Of thinking men, who watched with
| wonder Mr.. Stewards course since he cx
CHANGED fearful adieus with The traitors
Of the Senate, share this opinion with US
| and foresee, as we do, that unless some
fresh hand take possession OF the wheel,
and put it hard down against our prsvI-
| on. course, the Union will soon be upon
the rocks.
1t is Mr.. Seward who is the author
OF the tame aod wavering policy, which
ha. for the last two years characterized
our treatment of the South. II was Mr..
seward who, with q blindness which de
nies all presumption OF his s'atemanship,
refused to recognize the possibility OF a
rebellion. 1t was he who, on this false
calculation, steered the shameful surren
!ers of Buchanan he who received the
spotted traitors Of the Teyolted States
when an insulted sovereignty should
nave consigned them to the tcatfold ; and
|, was he. too, who held the hands Of
the President while Letcher, DC fooled
us Of Norfolk and iiatpers Ferry, and
bus bore off virginia TO the arms Q. the
1 y
statesman did not seem to realize that
war was in the wind, and by way OF ma
king sure of peace, conceived the tr ght
cotton OF letting the cotton States retire,
on the profound idea that the border
,tricg would stay; nay, that the recusants
would soon blush,ngly return, and hum
hly entrea, to tie left ont no longer in
the cold" Ii had in his president ey c
little plan Of a convention tor this pur-
Jose, alter the pattern OF that which
Seymour 4 Go, fought tor in the late
election; While, as windward anchor,
IN case this hope should fan, lie calcul>-
ted to app' a>c the country by an agg'c
cation on the side of Canada, as an off
set tor the amputalion on the Gulf Itde
n orations in the political campaign OF
50, aud his c,apuIono atement to the
Duke OF Newcastle, during the visit of
The Prince Of Wales.
In keeping with. Mr.. Stewards mislead
ing assurances to the North, that there
would be no war-none, at any rate
which lie could not settle IN sixty days
was the unathorized promises which this
model statesman made TO the Southern
Commissioners, that Sumter should no,
be reinforced and especial Y in keeping
with this extraordinary pledge, was the
more than dubious act Of authorizing
Harvey TO give information to the trait
ors OF the Presidents secret expedition
tor that purpose. The word that was
thus given from the State Department,
was the signal for tina, infamous bonn
bardmen,. and Harvey, who sent it, was
rewarded by his patron with the embas
sy to Portugal.
Finding himself now in deeper va
ter, MIR. Seward attempted to navigate
the county on a semi-demi, half and
half war and conciIiation principle. In
stead of branding the outbreak purely
an instruction, hv closing the Southern
harbo,s as ports of entry TO the com
merce of the word, he formally recog-
nized the rebels as belligerents, in pro-
claiming blockade, and then, by way
Of avcrting the similar recognition OF
the European powcrs,he endeavored to
propitiate France and England bv re
linquishment OF priyateering, without
STIMULATING even for the protection Of
private property at sea. THIS act OF
Craftsmanship was the fruitful source of
halt our future troubles. It granted the
first aspiration Of the South, by recog
nizing 1t as public power, against which
We were leyylng war, or exercising .lur-
lsdlction, and thus invited in its favor
that sympathy which usually extends to
| revolution. 1t is entirely in keeping
with his Wholesale and uncompensated
abandonment of privateering, aud fully
worthy of the bsequent declaration to
our Minister at London, that the Presi-
dent recognized the possibility Of sepa-
ration, and admitted the cardinal dogma
OF the South-"that the Federal Govern
ment could not reduce the seeding
States to obedience by conquest
These extraordinary declarations were
made to Mr.. Adams. ir a letter dated
the 10th Of April, 1851, and given to the
press BY Mr. Seward as late as Decem-
Der last. They make revelation at
which the country well may tremble ;
for, while thus formerly encouraging the
South to pereevere 10 arms, and justify
ing England for be. S ,uthern p,edilec.
tons, he permitted the President to
keep demanding soldiers by the huu.
dred thousand, apparently to effect what
be had announced, in the PRESIDENT
own name, as impossible to be done.
But these troops gave not the slight. st