Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-15

himself, when he Classics them as parties to a
" detestable compact" we shall not say that he is
either an enemy of the Union" or that he loves
his party more than he loves his country and
truth, but we do say that he has, as we conceive,
srayed widely in that speech from the limits of fair
discussion which should look more to the clarif-
cation of the popular judgment and to the enight-
eminent of the popular mind in this period Of per-
plexity and doubt than to the exacerbation of poll
tical preudices and the nfuration Of popular pas.
sions.
We do not any more clearly perceive the expe-
diency than the justice of these sweeping ACCUSE
tions. The Secretary must know that they will
convince nobody who is not already convinced,
and that they are more likely to estrange than to
conciliate the candid and moderate of all parties
And if nothing is to be gained for his it is
certain that less than nothing is to be gained for
himself by such injurious imputations on one-haf Of
his countrymen in the Loyal States. Even since
this unfortunate speech was deli 5ered, and with
express reference to its "fings," he has been re-
minded, through the columns of one of his own
party organs-we allude to the New York Evening
Post-that if conservative men must necessarily be
rpeled by such hoarse oburgat;ons their utterance
leaves him none the less-we quote the words of
his political ally-"a special object of distrust
with the bulk of the vitatiaing forces ESQ the rad-
Gals assume to bel that are standing by the Gov
eminent" He is reminded by this :" loyal politi-
cal associate that che has overdone the thing"
and the vehemence of his denunciation against the
Democratic party, being obviously unjust in its
direct application, is alleged to be reflex mode
of attack by which the Secretary seeks 70 show
Union party, whose confidence he does not COM
mand to say nothing of the bulk of the remainder,
whose confidence in him is shaken" (The "loyap'
writer of alludes primarily to that portion
of the present Republicans who were originally,
and some of them only two or three years ago,
numbered among the adherents of the Democratic
party. The candidate, for instance, whom Mr..
Seward now supports for the Vice Presidency
was at the last Presidential election actively and
prominently serving in what he calls to-day, in his
speech at Auburn, " the reasonable column of the
State-rights Disunion Democracy under Breckin
ridge,")
I hose who know the candor and generosity which
the honorable Secretary habitually practises to
wards his political opponents Ga, we have had oc
casion to know them) will see in the multitudnous
elimination which he has dealt over the land in
this speech not the " insolence of Office" and moi
the "covert malice" ascribed to him, but the con
ceivcd necessities of a cause which does not admit
of Legitimate defence, for who so fit as he to make
high argument on grounds of justice and reason
where such grounds exist?
| 1t remains only to say that we hope no judiciou
friend of Gen. Mcclellan will be betrayed into TIT
use of poisoned arrows because his enemies darker
the air with shafts of malice and detraction. TIL
spear of Ithuriel in its ightest touch is moro Pc
tent far than all the weapons drawn from TIT
arsenals of SANDER.
"-No falsehood endure
Touch of celestial temper, but returns
OF force to its own likeness"