Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-03-08
MIR. seward'S Novelties.

The spectacle OF an army 0UoHedly hos
tile in its mission passing to its destination
over a soil it proposed to invade at the
first blast Of war, would be something nor-
el in the history of States. Imagine Rus.
sia asking permission of England to make
Malta a depot for its navy during the
Crimean war, or France transporting is
troops for the Italian campaign by way Of
Salzburg, Vienna and Trieste .-Eveung
JouruaI.
Mr.. Seward is the fruitful inventor of
novelties.
The "irrcpressible conflict which pro-
claimed that free and slave States could
not live together in the same Union, was u
novelty of Mr.. Stewards. No statesman
from tho days Of Washington down, ever
dreamed Of it..
His speech to the Duke of New Castle
eve must insult you,' was novelty,
His threats against Canada were novel
tics.
His promise to the South Carolina Com
missioners, that Fort Sumpter should be
peaceably evacuated, was a novelty; and
its Justification was another.
His prophecies that the war would be
over in thirty days was novelty; as have
been all his prophecies since. The fulfill
ment Of one of them would be an agreea,
bic novelty.
His invention of the idea Of block aiding
ones own ports was novelty in inter.
national law, and his treatment of rebel.
as foreign enemies, while denying them bel.
,lgereut rights was another.
His letter to Gov. Hicks, snecring al
the epresentatives Of monarchies, was Q
novelty Of diplomacy.
His circulars to the Governors of States
on the subjec. of frontier defences wa.
another novelty.
His declaration, that The recognition o
the South by European powers would b'
resented by us by general war upon al
Europe, is a novelty in doctrine, ant
would be greater one in practice.
His arrest of loyal citizens, in loya
States, by telegraph, is novelty which i
is to be hoped may return to plague thu
, inventor.
His invention of passport system
! without law, which annoys loyal citizen
. and gives free scope to traitors, is anothe
novelty.
, His long reply to demand never mad
: in the Slidell and Mason case, and hi
dexterous proving our right to seize AM
. our duty to surrender those envoys, is
i novelty also.
E His countenance of universal corruption
!. at a time of great national necessity, is
y great novelty in the minds of all true pa
y triots.
!, p His selection of such diplomatic repre-
I sentatives as Giddings, Helper, Burlingam
d & Co., is another novelty.
: His proposed surrender of the right
privateering, without an equivalent, is
novelty.
- His abandonment of the Monroe doc
70 trine is o novelty.
'e His irritating dispatches to foreign cour
10 are novelties 10 manner and temper an
is substance,
t, His invitation to England to send he
is troops to Canada, through Maine, is
maniacal novelty.
g, Finally, Mr.. Seward, acting as state
4 man, and managing the affairs of gre
y nation in great crisis, is a novelty tn
" the world has never yet seen the like g
D, and pro qbably never will again.
Reviewing Mr.. Stewards labors for Il
i last year, we doubt if Dumas or Walt
4 Scott. or the inexhauStable SylvapuS Col
K was half as prolific novelist as VIM, !
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