Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-07-13
ltrom the WAshin gton ChroAiels.l
ShWAhD's TAMmANY LETTER.

Il
Secretary Stewards efforts to rally party
TO the support of "my policy" of which
we understand, he claims to be the great
originator, meet with very Indifferent sue.
cess. The demoralized Republicans and the
Copperheads and reconstructed rebels, Of
which the johnson .party is composed, are
not unanimous in the belief that Seward has
thoroughly repented of his forty years ser
vice as a thorough going Abolitionist, a radi,
cal who believed in the "higher law" and
an "irrepressible confiictn between right
and wrong There is a pertinent illustration
oil this in the reception which his most re-
cent production-his letter to the Tammany
society-has had from the New York press.
The chameleon of the Times is silent, but
its cousin, the World, gives Seward to under
stand that the "unterrifed Democracy" are
not to be deceived by his "rose.water letter. -
1t says.
When Secretary Seward sat down to
write his rose-water letter in reply to the
invitation to the Tammany Society, the
thought must have suddenly struck him that
he owed an atonement to Democrats for the
abuse he poured upon them in his last Au.
burn speech. We beg to assure him that
his fulsome and -Nancyish praise Is
appreciated at its true value. Democrats
have seen too many specimens of his lac
quersd ware to mistake it even for gilt,
much less for gold. They remember not
only the last Albany speech, in which they
were abused, but the one preceding the Lass,
In which certain other parties were praised;
and they regard his abuse and his praise as
equally hollow. They would as soon be the
objects of the one as OF the other, his full.
some praise being as nauseous as his unjust
abuse is offensive Even if Democrats were
80 mock-magnanimous as to have forgotten
the tinkling of Mr.. Stewards little bell, the
lacquered compliments he scattered right
and left in his October speech are too recent
To have escaped their recollection.
When
he bestows praise on the Democrats so soon
after abusing them in his last Auburn speech,
the conclusion we draw is that Mr. Seward
has some personal object which he hopes to
reach by making Democrats his stepping
stones. But if he has lost all self-respect,
Democrats have not They feel nothing but
honest scorn for man who courts and
fawns on them so soon after his rancorous
abuse"
The Herald is sarcastic, 1t says
I'VE presume that had Mr. Seward been
present he would have been delighted with
the Fenians of Old Tammany, and he would
have been pleased to meet there Sir Fred;
erck Bruce and Colonel Roberts hand in
hand, and he would have completed the
sachems for their fine old Bourbon and their
good oysters; and we dare say he would
have joined with the same pleasure in a
toast to Andy johnson, old Thad. Stevens;
Thurlow Weed, Dean Richmond, Horace
Greeley, H. j. Raymond, Or John Van Blu
rem. Everything is lovely with the Secrc-
tary of State since the abolition of slavery,
Whatever is is right and the jolly Irish
man in the play, who, even without shirt
to his back, was always jolly must still
give way to our Secretary of State, for with
him the year of jubilo has come and he,
indeed, is the happy man."
The Tribune bears witness to Mr.. Stewards
remarkable consistency, and also reveals the
character of Tammany as "a true Union
,League."
"Governor Seward stood through forty
honorable years the consistent, conspicuous,
determined, detested adversary of the inilu-
ences which have borne sway in Tammahy
Hall. Yet he writes 10 the sachems as
though only lovers quarrel had momenta-
rily estranged them. Hear him:
"'I have had some differences, in my
time, with the Tammany Society, but long
ago forgot them all, when recalled the fact
that the society has never once failed to
observe and honor the anniversary of ma
tional independence; and the further fact
that, during the recent civil war, the Tam
many Society sent its sons to fight for the
Union, and with answering fidelity heartily
supported the Federal Government in its
struggles with sedltion. In view of these
facts and of the noble principles now avowed,
hail the Tammany Society as true Union
League
"There were members of the Tammany
Society who fought in the Union, as there
were others who fought in the rebel armies;
but IL is not true that the Tammany Society,
with answering fidelity, heartily supported
the Federal Government in its struggles with
sedition.' In the darkest hours of our con.
test Tammany Hall reelected Ben. Wood
to Congress, knowing that he never gave,
and never loOuld give, vote in favor Of
suppressing the rebellion. Tammany Hall
elected and reelected to Congress John W
Chanler, whose heart was as thoroughly
with the rebellion as was Ben. Woods. And,
in the gloomiest days of our great struggle,
the Tammany orator of the Fourth delivered
to crowd of delighted Democrats lecture
on Edmund Burke, written expressly to
show that the slaveholding rebels were fight
ing for the identical cause upheld by our
fathers in their Revolutionary struggle, and
never could, because they never ought to,
be overcome"
A HOSPITAL INoIDENT.-One day well
dressed, intelligent woman, called at the
door of the diet kitchen, and asked to see
one of the " Christian Commission /" ladies.