Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-09-15
w11.11AM II. SEWARD.

the confidence OF o very large numoer OF
people for q considerable length Of time
beyond the date when he would otherwise
have been unanimously discarded by the
Union party, because of the continued as
sursnce given BY his Premier that the
Chief Executive remained tru 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 condition" Of Secretary
seward, is that the blows Of the assassin
have produced a demented state of mind,
in which his natural tendency to compla.
cent expectation, his optimism and his
cowardice, have been lett the prominent
and working elements in his character.
This is, certainly, a charitable excuse for
him 4; but it is wholly gra,uitous, and, we
think, certainly erroneous. We are thor
oughly of the opinion that Seward, despite
the terribly face-scarring cuts Of the as
s~assin, and the more intellect-injuring
effect of constant snufins and brandy
drinking. Is the "same old coon"-,hat he
has ever been a weak, vain, deeeitful man;
apt in giving fine philosophical expression
to whatever dogma or ideas may suit a
purpose IN immediate view. and only ex-
hibi,iug IN his history, points to the con-
,rary of this judgment in his early life,
when not his sagaci,y alone, but that of a
multitude of really more prophetical
minds associated with him, saw that sla-
very was to grow more and more hateful
TO the educated and Christian people Of
the North.
We have never trusted the man, since
we FIRST came to a knowledge Of his ac-
ton IN the U. S. Senate. He would vote
for every rotten Land Bill, every fraudu-
lent "private claim" proposition tina. came
up for action in the Upper Hall Of Con-
gress. And even while he was advocat-
ing Free Soil" principles in debate with
Southern Senators, he would Offences
p~ecially toward the close Of a days dis
cussion-concede away half the argument
TO his opponents thus almost %irreparably
i~njuring the cause he affected to plead, and
embarrassing to a great degree those who
were TO follow on his assumed side Of the
question, and against the very men to
whom he had granted the most essential
par. Of the premises" the platform or
basis Of the entire controversy.
V. Butsch, in his admirable speech at
the Second Ward Union Club, Virginia,
on las, Wednesday evening, said that he
Judged the position of Seward to be thus
correctly explained: He (Seward) had
found that the President was hent on
destruction, and since Andy's Access
sion TO the Chief Executives Char,
his premier had been tempering down
the formers disposition and inten-
tons so much as he was able. de
was humoring and at the same time re-
s,rsining the President, by those arts Of
Aattery, i~nsinuating advice, etc., which
the stubborn traitor in the principal chair
knew not OF, but by which he (Andy) was
at least partially. and for the preservation
Of peace, managed and controlled. ~
sincerely believe" said Butsch, "that
when Congress mex assemblies, Seward
WIN suddenly develop his present and,
as we think, queer policy BY saying to
the leaders of the Republican Union party
in Congress: Here, gentlemen, I have
taken care Of your President for a year
and a half, and have borne all sorts Of
abuse for my necessary e~xpedients in
keeping the charge imposed upon or
assumed by me; now take him off my
hands; I'll be no more lieutenant of his, mol
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.
I blame no Union man for his denuncia-
tons OF me; they were as natural and
proper as the anathemas which our Revo-
lu,ionary soldiers cast against spies sent
from our camps to the enemy under the
disguise OF deser;ers 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, I will retire to the
shades of Auburn, and spend the balance
Of my days in quiet enjoyment Of recol-
l~ections of the past, and expecting to wit
ness until my time Of departure shall come
the ever increasing greatness and glory Of
the American Republic"
Old Wings, proud relics Of that dis
banded but once powerful organization,
cannot endure the thought-that Seward
is really a traitor to Freedom. It is Iea-
sonable to expec. that they will seek out
and insist upon the truth Of some apology
for his apparent treachery. And God
knoweth, the people of this land would
welcome with tears Of joy. such a devel-
opment of to the cause Of Stewards con-
duct, as our worthy and esteemed friend,
Mr.. Bu,sch, eloquently suggests. All the
battle Of Stewards life, all the evidences Of
his craftsmanship would be eclipsed by
the disclosed strategy of this and the past
years devising, according to the pro-
grsmme we have quoted. But alas!
such a hope is delusion. It is impos,i-
Bile tina, it should be so. For Seward
could have done less than deny his origi-
nally professed National sentiments, and
cry out for State Rights-as he did in
New York city a, the recent reception of
the President-if he was playing the par.
our friend assigned him.
1t may be that Seward 10 demented.
We wish it were possible, tina. we could
anticipate such a revelation of patriotic
cunning and endurance as ha. been nut
IN plea and e~x,enua,ion for him. I, IN
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