The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-12
From the New York World. March ard.

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MIR. -SewardSs Diplomatic Papers.
, TheffS olous Hhestion discussed with pre-
posterou warmth for the last week by two
of the radical Organs in this city suggests
apohher bettsr fitted to engage public atten-
ton. Whether Mr. Seward has or has not
read his dispatches, 'all and some,' to Presi-
dent Tiucoln-is-a point Of little consequence
so long as the country considers our foreign
relations just safe in the hands of onefof
these statesmen as in those of the other. If
the diplomatic correspondence is creditable,
the: country-is quite willing the Secretary OF
State should divide the Apraise in any pro-
portion he .pleasesybetweeE himself and his
official chief; but if it is tissue of bluuders,
itisi not easy to isee how the prfvity Of the
Presid emf is'to red GEM its character. 49, ~
d II would-do no discredit to, either of these
gentlemen to have it known that Mr.. Lin
coin had som etim es waived his right to know
the precise wording Of Mr.. Stewards COM
munioations to our minister's; but it is dis
honorable, to both thatlthe. President made
statements in his last annual message which
are, proved by the diplom attic correspondence
to be untrue. 1t is inconceivable that the
part of the message relating to foreign affairs
should not have beense seen by Mr.. Seward
before its Transmission to Congress- and he
should neither have allowed the President
to make msstatements from want of correct
Information, nor have coluded with him to
decelVe7the country. The President stated
In his message that in j une last there was
reason 10 suppose the foreign governments
wotld soon withdraw their recognition of
the South as belligerents. TIE diplomatic
correspondence of that and the preceding
month shows that the persistent attempts
made for some time previous to induce such
withdrawal We're then abandoned as fruit
less. Mr. Day ton, after abiding to the fail
urs both of Mr. Mr.Adam's efforts and bis
own, expressed the opinion that "a knowledge
of the denial of the application would very
much encourage the re bels' In a dispatch
to Mr. Dayton, dated the Goth of June. Mr..
Seward expresses the Presidents regret at,
the failure. In a recent able pamph let re-
viewing the last volume of the diplomatic
corresponds there is a coplous collation.
| ofpassages By which the statement in the
messengers proved to be untrue. Instead Of
| trivial discussions on the etiquette of official
| intercourse observed between the President
and secretary, the radical journals would be
| better employed in explaining the false i'm
preston attempted to be given to the coun.
| try,in the message Did Mr.. Lincoln know
ingly impose upon the country, or did Mr..
! Seward impose upon him?
| CeWaTu 10 nave T6au all MS
dispatchesTto the President; it is to be re-.
gretted that he did not also read them to
some one capable ofgiYing him intelligent
advice. Such friend might not have VEN
tured to suggest a retrenchment OF the turgid
rhetoric of which Mr.. Seward is so much
enamored in his own productions but he
would at least have saved him from making
| himself ridiculous by ambitious displays of
| Ignorance. We will present one or two
samples from the scathing pamphlet to
which we have alluded. Mr.. Seward says
in one of his dispatches that "Richelieu oc-
cupied and fortified a large portion of this
continent extending from the Gulfof Mexi-
CO to 1the Straits of Belle Isle," though
Rieheleu had been dead thirty years before
the Mississippi was discovered either at its
source or its mouth. In a dispatch to our
minister to Portugal Mr.. Seward speaks of
slavery.as ga gigantic error which Portugal,
in the age of Cameons, brought into this
Continent" though Cameons died in 1879
and the Portuguese slave trade in this hemi-
sphere did not begin until 1886. In anoth-
er dispatch he speaks of the head waters of
theitributaries of the Mississippi "near the
lakes and Prince Rupert's Land"-Prince
Rupert's Land being in the Artic regions.
Ridiculous blunders of this sort are indeed
| of little consequence except as indicating
want of exactness in Mr.. Stewards mental
habits, and puerile taste for decorating
| his productions with sham ornaments. 1t
| would be well for Mr.. Stewards reputation
| if he had no worse faults to answer for
When'a patton is in peril the choice is very
| tFiffing between the uupretending clumsi-
ness of Mr. Lincoln's style and the preten-
| tious magniloquenoe of Mr.. Stewards. But
the country may reasonably demand of both
that'jus sensibility to the natl onal honor,
and tha firm assertion OF the national dig
nifty, which till this administration came
into power, have uniformly, marked the
bearing of our government toward foreign
Was there eyerin the history of the world
such a diSereditable burlesque on national
magnanimity as Mr.. Stewards gratuitous
offer, of a free passage through the State of
Maine for British troops sent to Canada to
be used, if used at all, in, fighting against
us?s With the same sYcophantic facility
the sacred inviolabiity of our flag on the
ocean. which the nation always heretofore
cherished asthe apple of its eye, for which
1t has once declared war against Great Brit
ain,r and which it has asserted with high and
becoming spirit for more than half century
of diplomacy, under administrations ofevery
shade of politics--this' object of national
pride has been gratuitously and submissively
surrandered to- the nation against which we
have so stoutly maintained it. We will
not pursue the humiiiiating catalogue. Our
only purpose in these hints and specimens
is to suggest to the radical journals that, If
they incline to elucidate the mysteries of
Mr. Stewards management, there is no such
dearth of topics requiring explanation that
they need waste space on frivolous point
relating to the etiquette observed by him
toward the President -sf or r--'.. -