Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-09-19

that | ohstinaieY LETT myself to be mieunder
stood In such case ] can afford 10 meet
prejudice with Cancellation, txaction with
concession which sutrsnders no principle,
and violence with the right hand Of peace =.
This declaration was Justly construed to
pledge him to sustain President Buchanan's g
programme, mot to coerce q State, and,
therefore, not TO resist the dissolution Of the
Union
"lt is apparent, from the whole course OF
public afairs, that Mr Seward acted 10 con.
cert with Mr. Buchanan's Administration dur.
ing the last three months Of the term He
was, no doubt, advised through Mr.. Stanton,
who was in Mr.. Bnchanan's Cabinet, Of the
policy it had adopted 10 reference to the sci
zure of every thing that appertained 10 the
nation in the South. IL was to the coalition
then formed between Mr.. Seward and Mr.
Stanton that the latter became Secretary Of
War to Mr.. Lincoln
"ls it not strange that Mr.. Seward should
have kept that paralysis on the country from
the 4th Of March to the 18th Of April, when
the conhagration OF Sumter aroused the peo.
ple2 Did Mr.. Seward partAke of the feeling
which prompted Mr.. Chase, his colleague 10
the Treasury, to exclaim, Let the South 90;
it is not worth fighting for
Mr., Holt, now the head Of the Bureau OF
Military Justice, was then also power IN
Washington While Secretary Of War, as al
ready stated he refused to permit General
Scott to reinforce Sumter, and he bad, while
Postmaster General written and published a
letter, dated 30th November, 1860, justifying
the rebellion He says in that letter, the
people OF the North have been taught that
they are responsible for the domestic institu-
tons of the South, and that they can be faith.
ful TO God only by being uniaithfu to the
com pact they made with their felow.men.-
Hence those liberty bills which degrade the
statute books Of some ten Of the free States.
and which are confessedly shameless VIOLA
ton Of the Federal Constitution in a point
vital to her honor We have here presented,
from year to year, the humiliating spectacle
Of free and sovereign States, BY solemn act
OF legislation, legaHFing the theft of their
neiShbors property say THEFT, since it is
not the less so because the subject Of the des-
picRble crime chances to be slave, instead
Of horse or bale Of goods After much to
the same purport, he says: am still for the
Union, because / have a faint, hesitatng
hope that the North will do Justice to the
South and save the Republic before the wreck
is complete. But the action must be prompt.
II the free States will sweep the liberty bills
from their codes, propose a convention OF the
States, and offer guarantees which will afford
the same repose and safety to the Southern
homes and property enjoyed by those at the
North the impending tragedy may yet be
ayerted, but not otherwise simultaneously
with his refusal TO permit succor to Fort Sum.
ter and his armistice with the rebel Secretary,
| he refused his sanction to bill, introduced
into the Senate, by Mr.. Preston King, to aus
thorize the Union men in the South to organs
ice themselves under the authority of the
United States refusing thus to allow them
| to defend themselves.
Mr.. Stanton, now Secretary of War, then
! Attorney General, was in full sympathy with
the leaders in Congress who dragged the
South into rebellion He met Senator Brown,
OF Mississippi, at the door of the Supreme
Court, as he passed from the hall Of the Sen.
ate after taking leave Of it as q secessionist
forever. He encouraged him; told him he
was right; it was the only course to save the
South; he must keep his constituents up to
It, &c This is proved by Mr.. Brown former
Senator from Mississippi who mentioned it al
the time to the Hon. James S. Rollins, ol
Missouri Mr. Salisbury Senator from Del
aware, by a resolution offered to the Senate
last winter, proposed to substantiRte it before
a committee Of that body; but the committee
was not granted The fact is confirmed, too
| by the known relations of the Secretary to
parties at that time, aud have been assured
| by one of his colleagues 10 Buchanan Cab
met that in his intercourse With his associates
of that ilk he was most pioient in denouncing
any attempt to maintain the Union by force
and continued his denuncistions till he en-
| tered Mr. Lincolns Cabinet"