The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-12-06
STATE SECRETS BROUGHT TO
LIGHT.
The sewar6.seymour Plot.
From wilkes Spirit Of the Times, Nov. %.

had surrendered to the enemy, but no amount
of heart can restore the capitulations of false
diplomacy; for once We concede to treason even
60 much - the opening for hair, the fracture
widens, and our unity is split forever.
We mean BY this language to declare our fixed
belief that We are even now upon the brink Of
ruin, and that the permanent division of this
vast Republic is inevitable, unless William II.
Sesoard Be quickly taken from the helm Of tie Coz.
e,nment And this, on our part, 10 no vague and
idle fear; nor is it entertained solely by our
selves. Thousands Of thinking men, who have
watched with wonder Mr.. Stewards course since
be exchanged fearful adieus with the traitors of
the Senate, share this opinion With US and fore
see a. We do, that unless some fresh hand take
possession of the wheel, and put it hard down
against our previous course, the Union will be
soon upon the rocks
It 10 Mr.. Seward who is the author Of the tame
and wavering policy which has for the last two
years characterized our treatment of the South.
1t was Mr.. Seward who, with blindness which
denies all presumption Of his craftsmanship, re-
fused to recognize the possibility of rebellion.
It was be who, on this false calculation, steered
tho shameful surrenders of Buchanan; he who
received the spotted traitors of the revolted
States when an insulted sovereignty should have
consigned them to scaffold; and it was he, too,
WuO ueiu Vic VI Suc ITceUcHS WINE AetCu'
er l. Co. fooled usof Norfolk and Harper's Ferry.
and thus bore off Virginia to the arms of the
Confederates. Even then, this famous states
man did not seem to realize that war was in the
wind, aud by way of making sure of peace, con-
ceived the bright notion of letting the cotton
States retire, on the profound idea that the bor-
der string would stay; nay, that the recusants
would soon blushingly return, and humbly en-
treat to be left out no longer Sin the cold" He
had in his president eye little plan of conven.
ton for this purpose, after the pattern of that
which Seymour & Co. fought for in the late
election; while, as windward anchor, in case
this hope should fail, he calculated to appease
the country by an aggregation on the side of
Canada, as an Offset for the amputation On the
Gulf Vide his orations in the political cam
paign of 80, and hs crapulous statement to the
Duke of Newcastle, during the visit of the Prince
of Wales. 2
In keeping with Mr.. Stewards misleading assn
RANGES to the North, that there would be no war
none, at any rate, which he could not settle in
sixty days-was the unauthorized promises which
this model statesman made to the Southern
Commissioners, that Sumter should not be rein.
forced; aud especially in keeping with this ex-
traordinary pledge, was the more than dubious
act of authorizing Harvey to give information to
the traitors of the Presidents secret expedition
for that purpose The word which was thus
given from the State Department, was the signal
for that Infamous bombardment; and Harvey,
who sent it, was rewarded by his patron with the
embassy to Portugal.
Finding himself now drifted into deeper wat
er, Mr.. Seward attempted to navigate the coun-
try on semi>demi, half-and- half, war and con-
Citation principle. Instead of branding the
outbreak purely an instruction, by closing the
Lnr ko,o &c A.
merce Of the world, he formally recognized the
and then, by way of ave,ting the similar recog>
milton Of the European powers, he endeavored
to propitiate France and England by a relin-
quishment of privateering, without STIMULATING
even for the protection of private property at
sea. This action of stdtesmanship was the fruit.
full source of half our future troubles It gram
ted the first aspiration of the South, by recog
nizing it as q public power, against which We
were leving war, nor exercising Jurisdiction, and
| thus invited in its favor that sympathy which
usually extends to revolution. It is entirely in
keeping with his Wholesale and uncompensated
abandonment of privateering, and fully worthy
Of the subsequent declaration to our Minister at
London, that the President recognized the pos
sibility of separation, ard admitted the cardinal
dogma of the South-'tbat the Federal Govern.
| ucuI COuiu not CeuuCc the 6cCeOl0G states to
obedience by conquest"
These extraordinary declarations were made
to Mr.. Adams in letter dated 10th of April
1881, and given to the press by Mr.. Seward q,
late as December last They make revelation
at which the country we'll may tremble; for
while thus formally encouraging the South tc
persevere in arms, and justifying England fou
her Southern predictions, he permitted the
President to keep demanding soldiers by the
hundred thousand, apparently to effect what be
had announced, in the Presidents own name, st
impossible to be done. But these troops gave
not the slightest trouble to our little Premier
Their cost to the country contributed to helr
his plan of wearying the people with expense
while, SO long as he could retain Mcclellan anG
Buell., the troops could not be used to aggravat.
the issue beyond negotiation point We MAY
now perceive why Mr.. Seward has CONSTANT,
been the secret influence which retained thes,
incompetent commanders in the field and why
on the other hand, he has been the persisten
enemy of Grant, Hooker, Hunter, Wallace, Ere
mont, Mitchell, and Rosseau, and every othe
soldier who has evinced an inclination for actiy
movements in the field.
/ The selection for st. James, of Mr.. Adams
who has gravey admitted upon paper, that "thi
war is mere question of boundaries" Is of
piece with all the rest Of Mr.. Stewards policy
That gentleman is as fully in accord With al
our Premier's private plans and politics as is hi
shadow, Thurlow Weed, or his friends Seymou
and Prince John. Were this not so, Mr.. Sew
ard would not have ventured to lay down I
: him in the famous letter Of the 10Th April, tn
doctrine that States rights are CO equal with III
national authority, nor have authorized him {
} say to England, We recognized the fact that tn
South had the power to successfully resist-ths