The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-10-01
Foreign Extracts----Seeretary. Seward
'-- Reviewed. -.- 5.-,-
From the London Standard

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~ From the London Standard
$ The principal in cheap tailoring firm i
t this metropolis. when com plimented by
!, customer on the telling nature of his adver
. tisem ents, was wont reply, with some dig
nifty, that he "kept a poet" We suppose !
t is in this light that Mr.. Seward understand.
+ his duties to the firm of Lincoln g. Co.
Perhaps be would reject il as too iguoble .
comparison. He would like to be com pared
to Taillefer. singing the song Of ''Row WAND
) before the Norman host at Hastings, to keeE
their Tagging spirits on the eve Of battle
, Or he would like to be com pared to the
scribe, tho literary trumpeter, who, read y
= with ink. horn at his side, used to accompany
the king or chief of old times as he went
down to the war, prepared to chronicle his
heroic deeds for the admiration of poster;ty
Or does he resemble that envoy to foreign
parts, whose duty, it was said by Sir Henry
Wotton. was simply ''to lie abroad for the
good of his country" -.t --t-- -..- b.. -, ..
Mr.. Seward is all these, and much more.
We do not know what the Union would do
without him. He is the bard, the troubado or,
the trum peter, the scribe, the apologist of
the Northern people. He, and only be, can
find poetic incidents in the war. He and
4 only be. can point to it as a page of history
OF which a people has reason to be proud
None else would take SO rosy view of two
| years of misfortune. No one but Mr.. Sew
ard could venture to speak with COO nfide nee
| OF that ultimate success which the world re
| CARDS as hopeless. Once year Mr.. Sc ard
favors US with his views at lens nglh-each
time he tells US that the North is certain of
victory, aud that the subjugation of the
South is on the eve of being accomplish ed.
For the third time he gives US this solemn
assurance. and We believe him no more than
we do the boy in the fable, who is always
crying "wolf." 80 S. ,..t s.,--,.. .r5.
| The history for which we are this time
indebted to this distinguished romancer
forms wonderful state document There
is enough ingenuity in the paper to cause
us to regret that Mr., Stewards talents should
ever be so misapplied. His natural yoca-
tion is that of special pleader-his busi-
ness should be to hoodwink Judge aud
jury in the interests Of client who was pre-
pared to pay him well. He would prove, to
his own complete satisfaction, that a mur-.
deIed man had died from natural causes;
that an adulterer was the victim of circum-
stances; a burglar much misunderstood
votary of the moon. We have read Ma
caulay's 'EnglandJ Froude's Henry VIII
and Carlyle's 'Cromwel,' and, like Plate,
we are tempted to ask, What is truth? But
for a writer of history commend us to Mr..
Seward. The admirers of Marae and
Robespierre, the Freuchmen who maintain
that Napoleon beat US at Waterloo and
Villeneuva at Trafalgar. should certainly
lose no time in securing his services. His
present engagement is not likely to last long,
and he would be invaluable to them.
Unfortunately for his argument, Mr..
Seward writes upon matters of which most
men are able to judge for themsel yes, as
they have occurred SO recently as to be fresh
in all memories. He begins by complain
ing of the ''preiudice" which an;mates the
policy of English and French statesmen.-l
1t is supposed that the efforts of the Gov
ernment of Mr.. Lincoln to preserve the Un- |
ion, and maintain the integrity of the Re-
public, can not be successful. This is fatal
error, as Mr.. Seward undertakes to show
In enumerating the Federal successes dur
ing the present year, he tells that the South |
lost at least $4,000 men in the defense and
at the fall of Vicksburg. We have heard |
also that the North lost 10000 men during |
that defense. He tells US nothing of that |
We are informed that the Mississippi is |
opened to commerce, and that vessels pass
to and fro on it without hindrance. The |.
fact is that not single barge can get down
the river without an armed convoy, that the
of the North has chosen other
ou tets and rot a bale of cotton comes to
England from Louisiana. The great river
is utterly useless to the North. The quays
Of New Orleans are deserted. grass is grow
ing in the streets of the once busy city; and
the bayouS of the Southwest which once
swarmed with cotton steamers and sugar
boats, are lett to the all:gators.
So much for the opening Of the Missis-
sippi, tn restoration of trade, and the bless
pgs of the Northern rule. The rest of Mr..
Stewards review Of the war and its pros poets
IS tissue of Misrepresentation. Burn
sides defeat at fredericksburg is represent
ed as a triumph, because the Geseral got
back again across the river. The battle of
was equally sanguinary to
both Parties," it being admitted that the
a rmy of the Poto mac was 'uusuccessful.'-
Gettys burg was, Of course, a great victory,
and Lee aud his army would certainly have
been utterly destroyed, had not Meads
made the mistake of believing the Potomac
lniordable. 1t is, however. pretty generally
known that both armies recoied simultane
ously alter the battle of the 4th, and that
Meade was imm ensely astoniShed when he
lao heard that Lee had gone. Lee would
have given battle again at Hagerstown if
superior orders b ad not obliged him to con-
tinue retreat which was effected N per-
feet order and without serious molestalion.
Mr.. Seward tells US nothing of the dis
graceful surrender of the whole Of Milroy's
army at Winchesser-a disaster which went
far to compensate the doubtful advantage
claimed for the Federals at Gettysburg. OF
course the American Consu!s who are to
disabuse European statesmen of their pre-
judiced views are to insist exclusively on
one side of the question. One-third of the
Confederate army is to be represented as
If true, what is this 20 the loss
Of 600. 900 men by the FederaiS in eighteen