Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-06

case Of North Caroline. for instance. the oocu.
patton 81 That State bs oar lorce- iust nov
would cripple the operatons of he enemy bv
Weakening bis forces a. other points At lie
Nvry moment. therefore. When Tie p~.sSe-Sinu al
thai St'fe would be useful % Us a abandon that
posse~. ion.
he enemy are too ssgacious not 10 take in
meIiaie advantage OF this pslpabe blunder.
hiriy thousand Confederate truUps have I'd
vaneed 70 biack~aieE and the Chow "a rivers,
and taken possession OF the po'uts which Gen
Foster was ordered 20 evacuate, And this i no,
all While Gen Foster was in North CaroIin,.
h, troops covered Norfolk. The removal of his
Z forces Uncovers Norfolk, and renders the place
comparatively detenseess. unless other sroops
have been sent there for it, defense The Rich
mpnd newspapers state that the greater n,rt al
HO0Ser's army has been moved down IN the
direction OF Norfolk. This - of c0urse A mi,
take But, even if a large number of Hnoker's
troops have been 80 muved. il j. so many taken
tom the delenses of Washington. IL Is ab-o
I iuteiy Necessary, however. that some troops be
sent 20 Norfolk, 1t We wish 90 retain that Mace
The critical condition of our FOREIGN relations
PARTICULARLY as regards France. has assumed a
phase that is positively alarming While Mr.
Lincoln has been amusing himself By "playinp
soldier he has lett the entire management of
foreign af'irs in the hands OF Mr Seward Those
o. the re ,der~ OF the Times in Illinois who know
I Nj Lincoln need not he Informed that he i
utterly unable TO comprehend the nature OF our
relations with foreign countries His mud is not
constituted Ike the mind OF a Statesman Heno
more comprehenjs foreign diplomacy than child
cOmprehends the most abstruse geometrical prob
lens THIS : the secret Of h,s cinging with such
pertinacty 70 Mr Seward He has sense enough
10 know that Mr Seward does comurehend these
things. aud that, il he loses Nc Scward. he Is
himself lost OF Mr. Stewards ability AS a states
man. there can be but little doubt But the
trouble with him Is his INSCRIPTIONS ambition
He l. quite - much 10 blame "a Sumner. or as
Lincoln himself in bringing about the present
q alpy sectlona war.
1t WIS Seward who predicted the ''rrepressible
conflict between slavery and free white labor.
long before Lincoln adopted that catchwor,i IL
was Seward who secured Lncoln's nomination
alter he had gained Lincolns promise thai he
should be made Secretary OF State: because he
Knew Lincoln well, and was cOufden. tlat. ms
Secretary OF State, he would be i'm reality the
supreme power IN the Government and would be
able 10 give tone and direction to the Admins
trduOn. lt WAS Seward who. after Lncoin's
erection and before MS Inauguration, prevented
ncou from calming the rising TEMPEST by con
ciiiators assurances, while he himself wa, delud
IN the nation l'y his magniaquent phrases about
The m gnanimity' which the new A,minisrra
ton was gong to display-magnanimit which
soon distinguished Itself ia the unjust iucarcera
ton OF hundreds OF hiS fellow cit,zen~. "a thou
sand times better patriots than he is, in dungeons.
from which many OF them emerged only to enter
insane asSlu or To be carrie. To the grave II
was Seward wnO ranged the Fort Sumter
affair as To throw the odiur OF firing the first
gun upon the South; and tins. COO. after detin
ing the Southern Commissioners At W .-hiupton
while his secret military preparations were being
made, ana while he was privately assuring them
thai the, would be heard IL was Seward abo
prevailed upon the President To appoint rs Minis
ter 10 France "a post where We need the yer, irSr
az !"mauc TALENT a man utterly incompetent
AMI who cannot even speak word of the French
language
IL 1t had been Stewards design to embroil NJ
~ war with France ne could not have carried
OUT that design more electullly than by what he
NJ done Great importance has been attached
by come of the papers TO the question. wherhe,
OF not Mr.. Seward reads all of hi dispatches ,o
oar foreign Ministers 10 Mr. Lincoln, rs well rs |
their dispatches TO the State Department In.
act y, ne dpes not. Mr. Lincoln IL entirel, |
ignorant OF the course of the diplomacy of the |
country. But the question is really of no i'm |
poftance al all Even if the disparche, were
read e. Mr.. Lincoln. he could no more compre
bend them than II they were written in Hebrew |
As matter of form Mr. Seward has sometimes
read paragraph. here and there out OF a dis
patch to Nc Llncoln, and triei To explain To him
me meaning OF the rest. But the iiea that Mr.
Seward sends only such dispatches "a Mr. Lin
.oln has seen and approved is simpl, ridiculous
Mr. Seward has been left 10 manage our foreiyi,
iiialrs Ia his own way, and the consequence j.
nat We are OF the verge of war with France
u matters look now the prob ibity is that il,
lie spring the French troops now in Mexico will
De landed at Mobile, aud the French feet now in
he Gull will appear oil Charleston ana enter that
labor Such are the fruits of the doctrines OF
he 'irrepres>ible conflict school X.