New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-28
THE LAST HOORBACK.

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Gov. SEWARD has been simply just to his
country. to his friends, and to himself, in au-
thorizing The National HhUigeneer to publish
an explicit and circumstaDtial contradiction OF
the latest coinage by which his good name has
been assailed in The n. \. Herald. That jour
nal proclaimed. without qualification, backing
its statements by corroboratng letters, pur'
porting to have been written at Washington
and Albany respectively,
/. That Gov. Seward had determined to re-
tire from the Cabinet in which he now holds
the first place;
9. That he so retired because of his invinci-
BILE rrpugnance TO the new nnd more vigorous
War Policy intended to be naugurated by the
late Coriiscation Emancipation act;
! 3. That his more especial friends in this
State had formed coalition with Ills lifelong
adversarics, by virtue of which they were to
act together this Fall, supporting Breckln-
ridge Democrat for Governor, upon an under
standing that Gov. S. should be returned by
the new fusion to the U. S. Senate in place
of Preston King
A. That ths basis, the cement, of this re-
malkable coalition, was hostility to those who,
in the petite vocabulary Of Tie Herald, are
termed " iufernal Republicans" who were
thus to be consigned to prescription and butter
darkness.
To every part of this astounding pro-
grammc, Gov. Seward gves the mos. emphatic
I L.. 4 %. IRA.
from the Cabinet so long as his remaining IN
it shall be desired BY the President; he does
not propose to connect himself with any oppo-
sitlon, or quasi opposition, to the Government
of the Union; and he 1elterutes his frequently
expressed determination never to hold another
Office after he shall have earned an honorable
discharge from bis present position. Ia SNORT
| Tie Heraid's fabrication had 10 shadow OF
warrant in any act or thought OF Coz. >,
aud, Ia 20 tar as IT mputes to him any afhnty
with its own versatility Of aspect, abnegalion
OF principle, aud contempt for consistency, Is
an unuitigated libel.
go far, We deem the authorized statement OF
! The infeNigencer no more than was due from
to his country, aud to his own reputation. Tie
H,raM las Of late so besmed him with its
| hypocrtical adulation that thousands, IN the
absence VI such n contradiction, would have
vany imagined that the dishonoring bulletin
OF bis lifelong tIaducer but now unmeasured
culogist had some sort of Justification. Bat il
is not right that ~ important u statement should
be- prciaccd, as is this in The hicHigsneer IL
follows:
n order to the ins,lais demand for exciting ns~s
which prevails among ell classes Of people Ia dense cenm1n
ts leading journals " principal cities keep
spondsn. ws.hin on transmit BY telegraph letter the
colorrd tbs offspring generally OF urnse wtich
hourly hyis about the s ofths hot. and Of the Erecu
tiv. Departments aud h,H fs,e I9 fad, me JoHrhd!i
nem'ir" nsJy nc deacisncy Jom n'', Jia' ragin.
GfilHs"
This gross imputRtion on the leading
truth, and, il it BE- TIE hhAigtnccr's own
Coinage, should have been put forth Otherwise
than as preface TO the important and author
lied refutation which follows It, There is but
one journal in the country ind that in no
proper sense u "leading one-which is justly
exposed to such a charge as ia above quoted.
Had the pretended letters from Albany and
Washington, through which this cSlumnious in-
yenton was made public, been read at once in
every place Of public resort in our country, and
each intelligent reader asked to Indicate ito
source, 1T least nine.y.nine of every hundred
would have instantly responded, THAT 10 from
The Neu- York Herdtd"