Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-09-29
from the Gold Hill NetDs.
WILLIAM H. SEW ARD.

There are various speculations anoat concern
ing the cause of Stewards real apparent de-
fection from the Union cause. Certain Is 1t, that
the President retained the confidence OF very
large number of people for considerable length OF
time beyond the date when he would otherwise
have been unanimously discarded by the Union
party because of the continued assurance given
by his Premier that the Chief Executive renamed
true to the grand principles of the organization
which elected him to the Office of Vice-President
The most generally accepted theory in regard
to the "condtion" of Secretary Seward is that
the blows of the assassin have produced de-
mented state of mind, in which his natural ten
dency to complacent expectation, his optimism
and his cowerdice, have been left the prominent
and working elements of his character TINS is,
certainly, charitable excuse for him but IL is
wholly gratuitous, and, we think, certainly er
roneous We are thoroughly of the opinion that
Seward, despite the terribly face-scarring cuts
of the assassin, and the more intellect-lnJurlng
effect of constant snufing and brandy drinking,
is the "same old coon"-that he has ever peen,
a weak, vain, deceitful man apt in giving hne
philosophical expression to whatever dogma or
ideas NAV suit purpose in immediate view, and
only exhibiting in his history, points contrary to
his Judgment in his early life, when not his sa-
pacity alone, but that of multitude really more
prophetical minds associated with him, saw that
slavery was to grow more and more hatelul TO
the educated and Christian people of the North
We have never trusted the man, since we came
to knowledge of his action in the u 5. Senate.
He would vote for every rotten Land Bill, every
fraudulent private claim proposition that came
up for action in the Upper Hall of Congress
And even while he was advocating =" Free Soil
principles in debate with Southern Senators, ne
would often-especially toward the close of
days discussion-concede away half the argu-
ment to his opponents thus almost irreparably
njuring the cause he effected to plead and en-
barrassing to great degree those who were to
TO How on his assumed side of the question, against
the very men to whom he had granted the most
essential part of the tpremises, the platform or
basis of the entire controversy.
v Butsch, in his admirable speech at the Second
Ward Union Club, Virginia, on last Wednesday
evening, said that he judged the position OF Sew
ard to be thus correctly explained he (Sew-
ard) had found that the President was bent on
Chief Executives Chair, his premier had been
tempering down the fomer's disposition and IN
.entions as much as he able. He was hu-
moring and at the same time restraining the Pres
ident by those arts of lattery nsinuating advice,
etc., which the stubborn traitor IN the princl-
pal chair knew not of, but by which he (Andy)
was at least practically, and for the preservation
of peace, managed and controlled. sincerely
believe" said Butsch, that when Congress
next assemblies, Seward will suddenly develop
his present and, as we think, queer policy, by
saving to the leaders of the Republican Union
party in Congress Here, gentlemen, nave
taken care of your President for year and
half and have borne all sorts of abuse for my
necessary expedients in keeping the charge i'm
posed upon or assumed by me; now take him OF
my hands; I'll be no more lieutenant OF his nor
any longer the target of Congressman and Union
journals who have not known and could not
know of my real relations, and my real motives
in remaining in this place. | blame no Union
man for his denuncation of me; they were as
natural and proper as the anathemas which our
Revolutionary soldiers cast against spies sent
from onr camps to the enemy under the disguise
of deserters from the Continental forces. Now
take the President, and do the best you can with
him: for my part, with literal scars from the
great conflict and satisfied with the honors my
country has conferred upon me, will retire to
the shades of Auburn, and spend the balance of
my days in quiet enjoyment of recollections of
the past, and expecting to witness until my time
of departure shall come the ever increasing great
ness and glory of the American Republic"
Old Wings, proud relics of that disbanded but
once powerful organization, cannot endure the
thought-that Seward is really a traitor to Free
dom. 1t is reasonable to expect that they will
seek out and insist upon the truth of some apol-
ogy for his apparent treachery. And God know
eth, the people of this land would welcome with
tears of joy, such a Development of to the cause
of Stewards conduct as worthy and esteemed
friend, Mr.. Butsch, eloquently suggests. All
the battle of Stewards life, all the evidences of
his craftsmanship would be eclipsed by the dis
closed strategy of this and the past years devils
ing, according to the programme we have quoted
But alas such hope is a deluson. 1t is i'm
possible that it should be SO. For Seward could
have done less than deny his originally professed
National sentimental, and cry out for State hign's
AS he did in New York city at the recent recep
ton of the President-if he was playing 'he pA'
our friend assigned him. we wish
It may be that Seward is dementea srcb
it were possible that we could antcipa,e as
revelation of patriotic cunning ana e sor him
II Is mo not however, hasty Judgment, h;m II to 'S saw
ha rd,v he an erroneous estimate OF Dill ~ other
Ina. ~ hm;id up the Republican Union pa' Srea
ha man Ss,;bersteiy proposed to ni%sei Die
;s s q i: ssy
The & sssae
ou. ndouhtedly ~ lending every energy egystshle .,
s.a,ac. His history will provoke ;.s con-.
lnteHecs' -. u-catest mourner over ItS W.