The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-21
Secretary Seward in his late soron.d.

9pocch to the loyal subjects of Abraham
T. took occasion TO sneer at the Govern.
'ornt OF the Confederate States which he
r'.ls poor, ricketty concern. by no
o'"aas to be compared with the splendid
Autoracy which makes its home in the
'''penious palaces and marble halls Of
Washington Like all his countrymen
seward despises everything which does
40 bear the external mark and visible
"r', Of power Grandeur Of soul firm
"ss Of resolve, dsinterested patriotism
hat spurns all sordid considerations
'heSe are what neither he nor they can
comprehend. The moral sublime--tbat
greatness which consists in acting uno,
principle and suffering any amount If
gu Tor principles sake-is to them MI az
sac pages of sealed book. They can.
'o' read It, and feel no desire TO know
nat u means They are of the earth
H7hy. The expression, always in their
"ouths, "it won't pay" affords a
mpleto picture, in words, of the
hole Yankee generation. Had that
ri &c existed in the time of the amos.
4'S' u IS easy 10 understand what
s'rt OF estimate they would have placed
tt'on them. They would have set them
3'"n as poor mean-spirited crew Of ,
sFaddiers' who had the folly to 20 about .
Ei'9 world enduring stripes, imprison.
nent pain, and, eventually, death. for 6
t''U sake OF cause from which they .
s6Ald never hope to derive wealth or sta 9
"'1' or influence, ncglecting all the on. a
pshtunities which presented thcmeeIves
10 make their pile" and acquire n rc
s'1ehce en- Fifth Avenue" They never !
e"' ldhsve been made TO understand that
ts'ry were not fools for so zealousIv ia
F'a>ng themselves to the promotion Of '
'''R'on winch did not pay" and they n
NE'ii' nave been sure to have suspected 60
secret motives, not believing the ex;st :
''''"e OF such feelings as disinterestedness !
1'"- desire to do good without n cons; AZ
possible. ri
ilr Seward despises the Govo,nmo,. Y
. ''''i'i'ohd because its Congress does sm
's'' S'' III M enormous marble structure
''t out OF the money contributed in n
3 Ahc greater proportion, by the State v
III N are excluded from it. He desnisos Roo
~ executive because its residence 10 IN Of :
''use built for n private citizen. He :
7Nl 'SoS 'he whole Government because "
departments and burcaux hold tbeir sta sI91
''F ~ III brick buildings instead of mar. no no
= piles Perhaps, if he will take tbo III
'1'le, when he passes again throu,b in N
''ieiphla, to take look at old hide and ID,
''|'nre Hail. he may be cured Of some l n',.i
'i'' iallacies that is. if he d.siros o. =
nus cured Surely our Capitol w
'o{h not IN the best possible taste il h U T''
e"pcilor building to that, or TO tho IN. ma
'H' IN Annapolis in which Congress- =,
= citing when it received the commits w
u ~ Washington, resigned to the hand bb,oeil
e. ave u alter seven years of glorious ,,eti. ;,
successful toll Nay, we are told il w
realty superior to ST. Stephens chanel Arp'y
o' II was burnt and rebuilD in nr -tal
G. the British House of Commons NJ
:" several hundred years, and in Mrs.
y originated all the great measures wv
''Ve made England what she is w
4 II . '''N 10 ami uSu
u All ITS marble paid for out of South. Of the q
|
'y' wv NeN capitol at Wash | Address
u never heard so wise "A man speak --.,---o
= 'on OF old, or Burke of later times w
eloquent n man as st. John and guard d
ham IN the last century. or PITT and intY ~
b TINS 1t never behed ceremony E Eiy 70 NJ NJ
fuat rs the trial and condemnation no IS
Ming by the representatives of n WA
+, or OF pro-consu for the mis- r'oNrt
sment OF fifty millions of subjects ho1i S,
pheen Consort for alleged high tween II
! ahd misdemeanOrs. Ii is not en-. -
with the half of thousand years w q,
Il IS line as the attempt has been MAN, MdhN, OF
G IT, Its whole history is modern ing a chill
,'gar, like the taste ia which il WAS by aidres.
od and the low-brod Yankees no "
secrate It's halls and purlieus.- w An
residents House, again, is very partly fur
sldence-as good as Washington p TGa' a nii
Nahted. II has, moreover. one adj. WAN
over the White House." which w Ire
80, 49,. A., , middle coul
'ot expect Mr.. Seward to appre- OF teaching
)ut which nevertheless, let him som som g wr Ta
he may, as mn advantage. 1t is A Ao IE,, !.
u by gentleman. That, we "v,1-,
Is more than even Mr.. Seward w eitht
for the filthy ackanapes that 5 chaser f Slts 8,
the air of the White House with w." Rlchmo
enc jests and ribald anecdotes. WANI
y can be said against JEFF. in private II
us bittercst enemies will not teach French
least, that he is gentleman no Its
= can be alleged IN taooy of Abe WANT
ms warmest friends cannot pre- French AND and
nc Is gentleman We wsuld Sl,oJo Offered red
: Stewards recollection, when he Ivy,>r,
nself to indulge so largely in w to obt
Tor the poor accommodations paiJ b adlt 81
gernment, that our Saviour was
manger, were we not well
a h.E