Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1866-07-14


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dent which operated to spare this
man from the fate of martyrdom
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ham Lincoln. Yet to-day all the
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course has not been exempt from er-
rors of judgment. 1t is not neces-
sary to the maintenance of the repu-
tation which his policy has won, that
this should be denied. Mr.. Seward
is human, and humanity is fallible.
If there be any statesman who rose
ir 1860 and predicted truly all the
principle events that would take
place in the succeeding semi.decade,
who forecasted the policy that would
carry the Nation through the strug-
gle, or who, approaching its magni-
tude properly, ventured to forestall
it's triumphant ending, the name of
that statesman has not met the eye
of the present writer. But that Mr..
Seward, from the outset, took the
highest and noblest view of his duty
in his country's strait, and that he
has carried out his conceptions in
the most conscientious and noble
manner, no one familiar with his
tory of the past five years will stand
up and deny.
Time, that test of all human en-
deavor, has already set its seal on the
worthiness of Mr.. Stewards work.
At the time of the 7''ent difficulty
an anglomania spread over the coun.
try, which it required no ordinary
nerve, no common sense of duty to
withstand. But he did withstand it,
although the flood was so powerful
that even one so cautious in his
thoughts and utterances as Edward
Everett was carried over to the op-
position by it. But perusal of that
noble State paper, written on this
occasion by Mr.. Seward, the only
one in history where the claims Of
an opponent are fairly and fully
stated, which winds up with a decis-
sion adverse to the opinions then
held by the majority of his country
mcn-a pcrusal Of that document
will not fail to convince postcrity as
it convinced the American people
then. that the demand of the hot
headed adherents to =" NV country
right or wrong" were neither just
nor expedient.
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lv remarkable display Of cool. for
hearing temper. Mr.. Seward conduct
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