The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-08-04
SEWARD AND HIS PROJECT.


| and losing large army in the attempt learned
that France was undoubtedly on the point of form
ing an alliance, offensive and defensive, with them,
they sent Commissioners to make proposals, such
the colonies would have accepted with pleasure
In the beginning of the strife. But 1t was too late
The Declaration of Independence had already been
adopted-the alliance with France had already
been secured-the colonies would not think of 60
ing back into vassalage, and were determined that
the blood they had shed should not be in vain. So
they gave short to every proposal OF con-
| ciation. They would accept nothing but uncon-
ditional Independence and they would make no
treaty separate from France.
OF all newspapers on this continent the New
York Herald is the least reliable. 1t is not only
utterly interruptions, but it1nduges constantly in
o strain of gasconade SO supremacy ludlcrous that
We are always at loss to know whether its lucu-
brations are meant for jest earnest. We place
but little reliance, therefore, on what it says with
regard to Stewards plan for pacifyng-that is, for
subiueating these Confederate States. But sup
pose he seriously enterains such notions, it is evil
dent that he is but repeating the history of the
first Revolution and that he is induced to attempt
cancellation by the motive that prompted
Lord North-namely, the fear of foreign interven-
| ton. Let us, then, see what he proposes
I In the first place. the Territories are to remain
| free The great object for which the South so
long contended in the Congress Of the United
States is to be put beyond their reach forever by
a single dash of the Secretary's pen. In the Sc
cond place. Missouri is to be free State. The
scoundrels who have robbed her citizens Of their
slave property to triumph in their ruin, and
| they are to receive no indemnifcation whatever,
but to be told that Missouri "has chosen to be a
free State, palpable lie, and lie which nobody
better knows to be such than Seward himself In
the third place, after the other slave States have
been secured from one end to the other by Lin
coins hordes Of Abolitonists, after half million
of slaves have been stolen from them, the masters
are to retain all those in their possession at the end
of the war Wonderful lberality, to be sure.
Let it be understood, however, that he is thus IL
beral only because he thinks slavery has received
blow from which it cannot recover'-that IS to
say, because having accomplished all he aimed at,
nothing more was to be gained by concession. In
a word, Seward, fancying that because the Yam
kee army was not destroyed at Gettysburg he is
master of the country, proceeds to treat 1t as
though it already subjugated forgetting how
often he has heretofore exposed himself to the
ridicule of the world by foreteing the entire sup
preston Of the rebellion in ninety days. He and
Lincoln are anxious to ''scttle up the present
quarrel, and they offer to people who have half
million of men under arms terms of absolute sub
mission. We do not believe Seward is such fool
as all this amounts to, Notwithstanding his predic-
tons with regard to this war. We believe that he
has no idea of proposing any such terms, that they
are connections of the Herald correspondent, and
that they are written to ORDER most possibly. in
the very Office of the. Herald itself. proper
idea he has of "the proper measures" to settle the
controversy the South to give up her arms and
submit to the couqucror !. What worse can she
do after she has really been conquered 2?
The inducements held out to us to submit to
this ignomnous treaty are truly very enticing 1t
seems that if we continue obstinate Yankee COM
merce will be ruined by the combined navies of
France and England, and we owe SO much to Yam
kee Doodle that we will su blnit to anything rather
than witness that catastrophe. The Yankees, it
seems too, want to conquer Mexico and Canada,
and establish the Monroe Doctrine, as it is fool
ishly called, which has been uncercmoniously
trampled in the miro by the Emperor Napoleon.
And we arc supposed to love the Yankees so dearly
that we will jump at the chance to help them out
in their ambitious schemes If the Herald man
is merely making fool of himself, for the amuse
ment Of his readers, We car understand all this.
But if he be in earnest, then we say he cannot
make fool Of himself, inasmuch as nature has al
ready done that job for him. We help Yankee
Doodle to fight France and England Why, it
would be the delight of nearly every soul in the
Southern Confederacy TO see all Yankeedom turned
into a bowling wilderness-to see every mothers
son of them mastered, sold into slavcry-to
see Boston and NewYork (ike Eyre of old) turned
into little villages, where the fishermen dried their
nets.
Notwithstanding, however, we are not disposed
to place any confidence in anything the Herald or
its correspondents may say, we deem it certain
that England and France will never allow the
Union to be reconstructed. In that even England
cannot fail to foresee the downfall of her maritime
supremacy, and France the extinction of all hope
of ever obtaining permanent foothold in Mexico.
AS long as we fought on equal terms England was
anxious to see the strife continue; but she is not
anxious to see US overwhelmed, as she will be in
duced by the enormous lies of the Yankee. news
papers to believe about to be- Napoleon
has long been DESTROYS to recognize the Confed-
eraey, and now that he has planted the tri-color in
Mexico, he will no longer be withheld by England
These considerations, and nothing that the Herald
and its correspondents say, induce to believe
that we shall shortly be recognized, at least by
Unconstitutional Dispatch.
INTERyENTION-It would seem from all the
authorized accounts coming from abroad, that Mr.
Raebuck is far more Jealous than judicous
friend of the Southern Confederaey. We regard
ed his statement made in the House of Commons
highly Important, if true, but at the same time
entertained and expressed serious doubts of its
correctness We doubted very much whether
monach Of the astutencss and caution which have
always CHARACTERIZED the present Emperor of the
French, would have authorized private member
of Parliament to make statement in reference to