Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-01-28
Hr.'Seward's Novelties.

The spectacle of on army .aro1cedly hos
tile in its mission passing to its destination
over soil it proposed to invade at the first
blast Of war, would be something nOreL in
the history of States Imagine Russia
asking permission Of England to make
Malto a depot for its navy during the
Crimean war, or France transporting its
troops for the Italian campaign by way u
Salzburg, Tienna and Trieste.-Ece Jour
nal.
Mr.. Seward is fruitful inventor of nov
elites:
The "irrepressible conflict" that pro-
claimed that free and slave States could not
live lgether IN the same union; was a nov
city IF Mr.. Seward. No statesman, from
the day of Washington down, ever dreamed
of it,
His speech to the Duke of Newcastle,
1--WE must insult YOU" was a novelty
His threats against Canada were novel
ties.
His promise to the South Carolina Com
missioners, that Fort Sumter should be
peaceably evacuated, was a novelty; and Its
Justification was another.
His prophecy, that the war should be
over in thirty days. was novelty as have
been all his prophecies since. The fulfill
ment of one Of them would be an agreeable
novelty.
His invention of the idea of blockading
ones own ports was novelty in interna-
| tlonal law and his treatment of rebels as
foreign enemies, while denying them bel,
! ligerent rights, was another.
His letter to Gov. Hicks, sneering at the
! representatives Of mOnarchies, was a nov
city in diplomacy.
| His circulars to the Governor of the
| States on the subject of frontier defences
was another novelty.
! His declaration. that the recognition o!
| the South by European powers would be re
sented by US by general war upon all En-
rope, is a novtlJy in doctrine, aud would be
a greater one In practice.
His arrest of loyal citizens, in peaceful
| States. by telegraph, is novelty, which il
| is to be hoped may return to plague the
| inventor.
| His invention of a passport system, with
cut law, which annoys lnyal citizens and
| gives free scope to traitors, is another nov.
! city.
His long reply to a demand never made
in the S!ideli aud Mason case, and MS dex-
| ferrous proving our right to seize and ON,
duty to surrender those enyoys is a noyelty
! also.
His continuance Of universal corruption
at time of great national necessity. is q
novelty 10 the minds of all patriots.
His select of such diplomatic repre-
senlatiyes as Giddings, Helper, Burlingame
& Co, is another novelty.
His proposed surrender of the rich. Of
privateering, without an equivalent, is q
novelty.
His Abandonment of the Monroe doctrine
is novelty.
His irritating dispatches to foreign court.
are novelties in manner and ten,per and
| substance
His invitation to England to send her
troops to Canada, through Maine. is a ma
niacai novelty
Finally, Mr.. Seward, acting as n states
man, and managing the affairs of a ereat
nation, in great crisis, is a novelty tAa;
the world has never yet seen the like, of
and probably never will again.
Reviewing Mr.. Stewards labors foy the
last year, we doubt if Dumas, or Waller
Scott, or the inexhaustible Sylvanus Cobb
was half "a prolific a novelist as VIM. ri
SewaEd.-N. / Argus.