The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-11-12

duce his own,"-snd so confident is he that
Abolitionists and Republicans ought to en-
Joy these old rights denied by his friends
a power to all Democrats, Copperheads
md Conservatives) that he put the ques-
ton very personally and pointedly to Mr..
Chase, and asks that devotee Of freedom
and popular liberty and purity, whether
his demand "is not just" and if he, Mr..
Chase "would submit to any other course2"
Shades of Forts Lafayette, Delaware, Camp
Chase, Old Capitol, the Wheeling Athena
UNI, &C., &C., what history could you
unfold of a total disregard of all these de-
mands which Mr.. Stanton TINS makes for
himself, and which be presumes Mr.. Chase
would insist upon in like case of his own!
If a conservative has been able to feel
sympathy with any one in the Cabinet, Per-
haps Mr.. Seward may have been once en-
titled to a modified degree of that feeling
But his late discreditable effusion at Au
burn must terminate all respect and consid-
Grafton for him as man of just sentiment
and honorable political character. His at
tacks on the Governor of New York are up,
or down, to the point of sedition, and the
silly prattle in which he talks about Jack
and Gill, and puffs and drivels over Abra-
ham Lincoln, display an interior mental con
dition that calls down ones pity and dis
pleasure. Poor Seward, he seems not to
know what manly dignity means, and shows
himself content to cut any 6gvre, however
puerlle or grotesque, SO that it will tend to
keep him in Office. 1t is plain that Chase is
his terror, and that he has to beslaver the
President by name in order to hold on to
post that had he been wise he would have
sacrificed year ago, if he could not have
retained it consistently with patriotic Am
erican instincts and his own self respect
Never was child more tickled with a play
thing than Seward with the only eminent
Executive position he can ever hold.
The ridiculous and irresponsible manner
| in which Government affairs are transacted
was well shown up at the late Maryland
election. Not only did Schenck and his
subordinates pay no obedience or attention
to the Presidents suppression of his indo'
lent "orders," which went to the polls as
| if none of them had ever been revoked by
superior authority, but there were at some
of the polls two conflicting bodies Of soldiers,
or quasi soldiers, crossing each others paths
and disputing each others authority. Thus
in the adjoining county Of Prince George
the Provost MarshaPs force acting under
orders from Baltimore were met by the So
called Col. Bakers force sent from Wash
| ington, both parties acting under different
instructions and denying each others pow
ers. The fact is that in denying each 9TH
er's powers they were quite correct, for both
transgressors and have committed what
ought to be punished, for their interference
was no less an infraction of the positive
laws of the State of Maryland than it was
an assault on the very first principle ofpop
ular liberty in Republican country-and
| what makes the matter more odorously
shameful is the fact that the Provost Mar
shall was one of the candidates for office at
the very election. Thus it is, and by such
ways as these, that the falsely called Re-
publican party is outraging all the instructs
of freemen, and making Republican Gov
eminent Kissing and by word to the
ends Of the earth. No longer can the
American people hold themselves up as an
example to the rest of mankind, no longer
can they make the just boast that they are
the special guardians of the Genius Of Lib
erty-and all this discredit comes from tie
sway of the Abolitionists.
| Last Sunday witnessed the resumption
of bis clerical (?) duties by the Rev. VIM.
II. Claiming, just fresh from his trip to
England, whore with Beecher, Conway and
others, he has been endeavoring to get up
an abolition agitation similar to what has
been their work for the last twenty years
in this country. In England they assail
slavery with the hope of overthrowing the
conservatism of that country and Of invol
wing, if possible, the whole land in disorder
aud anarchy, for they have no sympathy
with fidelity to mans best interests either
in this world or another. The motive that
underlies all their energy, is love Of
power and desire to rule. Like all other
men the raging passion to be masters has a
large possession of their souls, and they are
willing to overthrow all the labor and wis
dom of ages to attain their purpose. That
is the key to all their exertions.
Six pieces Of the cannon Captured by
French and Sedgwick's men on the Kappa
hammock came into town to day. They
seem to be English made guns.
Before very many daya the fine statue of
Freedom, designed by Crawford, but cast
by Clarke Mills, will be ready for the pub
lie eye from its lofty position on the apex
of the dome of the Capitol, The pedestal
on which it is to stand is already in place,
| and in about two weeks the statue will be
inauguratsd, with some ceremony. The
statue consists of four parts, one Of which
weighs two and half tons. Though the
height is SO great, no difficulty is appre-
hended in the process of setting it up.
The weather has turned very cold with
the wind high from the North.
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