Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-07-29
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| wI,, ,,cc,r,. NJ: a printed official docu-
,z,, hose ia leaf arc the following title
and inscriptions:
.r,rrHs RELATING To FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
BRIG. Gen. Casey, 80 G. Street.
..ru Hon. John Lctcher, Governor of Va.
Picked up on battlefield on New Kent road,
Sunday, June lst, 1862"
In short, the pamphlet is one oitte trophies
of the battle of the Seven Pines, ana "cn.
Casey, in his happier days, was the owner.
w, render him such thanks for the privilege
of pcrusins it, rs he may consider due 10 ms
good intentions.
The document contains such portions Of
! ,I,. correspondence between Seward and the
L. :. Foreign ministers, rs it was Judged "con-
Si>tent with the public service" TO publish.
Its size certainly bears evidence to Seward 5
industry. while his letters indicate his charac-
t,ris,ic cunning. But while they show hS
perceptions to be quick and his attempts far
reaching, his art appears hut shallow, anu his
schemes generally stranded. His efforts
1
they seemed ndispoScd TO favor his pollcy,usu-
ally began with bold threats and ended III meek
submission when rcbuiIcd. The Trent affair
is not without its parallel in Stewards dlplo-
macy. AS We may take OCCASION TO SHOW
tn, story of the traveller in his Sulky, anu
| the Wagner with his team, who met III 4 mar
row and difficult road, will illustrate the spirit
which governs in Stewards cOnirontratlohS
with foreign governments. 'Get out oil my
way" Numbered the traveller, "or III servo
you as | lid another on yesterday! Inc
m;imdacl WAGNER complied anu yielded him
the road, aud then begged to be informed Oh
the punishment inflicted on his brothef
wagner the day before He would not get
Out of my way" answered the traveller, sand
I-,goi ort "J'MS! -
The weak little town on tho Barbary Coast
Is The only foreign community that Lincoln
n. iutilnilatcI though he has tried nearly all.
cward has :'cccrtully surrendered the road
IN every dispute, when his threats failed to
clear it for himself.
! T. ere is am expression which dances
thru;;yh his letters TO his ministers anu MS
rc,.r, citations To tnrc 81 powers, III winch he
., ,:!"Scly initiated by his partSans at home.
This most wicked ana rauSelcSS rebel
lion -" This ulprovui;c,i rebellion and con-
Syracv against the best government the world
ever saw" are the songs hat are sung IRON
seward down to the vrricst mcrrciiary III Linz
coins army.
This best government that the world ever
saw had been rcvoluliuni@c'l in theory
When Virginia acccdcl to the late conlrlcra-
ton she reserved the right to herself, anu
thus secured it for all the other States, 10 re-
sumo the powers conferred if they Should he
welded to her disadvantage. Yet Joseph ~
Wright, appointed 10y buchanan Minister t"
Prussia, expresses in 4 despatch before
us the sentiment of not only Seward aH,l ms
parts. Lul Of the MISS Of that party to which
| Wright be ngcd: "Let tic cost hs ~hM Il
mag, we IIuSt vinllcatc the memory OF OH
fathers from the saunders announced br .,Sc
in HIGH places i'll the so-calld confederate
States wherein they have proclaimed ours is
only confederation oil States, and not 4 ma
lional Union
This :" best government that the world ever
saw" was thus to hc interpreted as couSoi-
dated ansoiuIlsnl, in witch the majority of
the people was the dcl'orand this view was
! In La. nj I-Juf,y,j. ,,,st
And the revolution was not in Mc";Y only
1t was practical. The North has ever pro
icSScd 4 contempt Tor distractions. Those
great truths and principles b. Which good
mcn and wise communities regulate their con-
duet, and which they plant a$ sisI-boaids 10
point out the pathway Of lcciituic, have c;cr
been valued and studied at the South. AT
the North they are SIccrcl 1T As abstrac-
tons Accordingly Seward and his clan did
not, i'll this case, content themselves with
| Wright's abstraction. They practically cS-
| tahli<hcd the absolute rule OF 4 numerical
| majority Of the aggregate population Of the
United States, instead Of that system Of Con-
tolerate Government and State sovereign
" which our fathers instituted. And not
only did they thus rcvolutionSc and ruin
the best government in the world but they
seized their uSurpcd dominion in the most in
tolcrablc spirit and with the most lntolcrahlc
designs.
The chest government i'll the world was in
their hands. not merely the absolute rule Of
the minority by the majority. but it was the
absolute rule OF one section Of tho Union by
the other. The Southern States were As much
a mere province or dependency Of the North,
as Cuba is Of Spain. And not only was this
sbcst government that the snn ever shonc
upon rule Of one section by another. but
with the most hostile spirit and for the
most oppressive purposes. Never did Spain
hold Cuba so entirely for her own profit,
or rule her so much at her own will, as vas
intended for the Southern States by "the best
Government the world ever saw" In the
document before MS it is admitted that the
alienation between the North and South was
caused, though not justified. by the new pol
ICY Oh WHICH She 4>oI III I'tu uetcllliicu W
put the Government. That policy was rdT-
fare OH Southern property and Southern in
situations. Coupled with this, is = tariff
that would make Southern industry pour the
lions share of its hard earnings into the laps
of the blessed "majority," who administer the
"hcSt Government that the sun ever sllonc
upon
Seward wrote TO Minister Judd March ~.