New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-09-15
C1BJNET COUNCILS.

Mr. Montgomery Blair has been accustomed to
plume himself on originally standing alone in Mr..
Incon's Cabinet in favor of reinforcing Fort Sumter
and fighting Secession generally According to the
Blair version of the matter Gov. Seward not only OPP
posed all efforts to relieve Fort SUMTER but actually
sent elsewhere tho expedition which MesSrs. Welles
ard Blair had caused to be hastily fitted out at this
port expressly for that service. Minister Haryey's
telegram, warning the Rebel leaders in Charleston of
the determination to provision the fort, is quite gener
ally understood to have been inspired from the State
Department. We are wofully mistaken if Mr.. Seward
either anticipated Civil War when he accepted that
Department or was not ready TO 60 far as almost
any one else TO avert il.
Mr. Carpenter, the artist, in his Personal Recol-
lectons of President Lincoln" says:
"Whie standing thought, unobscrved corner o.
the room. Mr. Seward approached me- and In manner Of
than usual warmth sad ti toe President The other
day that you painting picture upon false presump'
o. Looking a. lin in surprise Inquired his mean
lug. on he rejonoa you appear TO think 10 common
Administration she destruction o: slavery Now allow inc
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the different religious sec have been chasing idea until
thew have believe that their horizon absolutely bounds
the world Sayery ben in fact bat incident In the
history the nation iaerf5g b2HHd 20 P IN ne Pogre'
Intelligence Future generations VIII scarcely credit The record
one rnneot ~ Rsnpbi JcryeJ With II Is boand 90 not
destiny Of but the best hopes OF al mankind
would be set back Indefinitely Tho magnitude Of such
calamity IL beyond calculation Tie sasf'o Of the no.
IT, then, Of rosy e'Hf,queaos ian ma dsrHeie7 Of
Siac Had you consulted me for subject TO paint shond
have given you Cabinet Council ON emancipation but the
Rg ELe took place rheu te Hers cane Of ne attack upon Sun
i nAeH Hf trt m'aSRrss Ne 'fgaH-ea yoF hx ryIaoH
national authority That the crisis In the history Of
this Admnlstrati0nnot tue issue OF ihe lIoeA
nation n am 10 pe rcmehveied ny posi- NY, nc CON
claded with much excitement Of manner let u not be a.
having loved Prcdomnlniy White men or Back men, but as
We do not recoect that Mr.. Seward was ever
really suspected Of a special love for Blacks what
ever rbald and scurrilous press might have chosen
to say. But we did and do understand that Mr. S.
was formerly one of those who held and felt that
country was to be served and saved by Ju5tice-by
Righteousness--by giving to every man his honest
| due-by bringing constitutions and laws into
closer and closer conformity to the dictates OF Eternal
| Rectitude. We have certainly supposed him above
the wretched babbe which prates of love of the negro
surprising love Of country. We long loved and hon
! ored him as one Of those who saw clearly and felt
deeply that il was not Right but Wrong that endan-
gered our Union-that it was Slavery, not anti
! Slavery. that imperiled the Nations existence
| We never heard any but Copperheads assert that
! the great business of this Administration is the de-
struction of Slavery" What we understood was that
the Administration should put down the Rebellion in
the shortest and surest way. If Slavery or Abolition
stood in the way of our National integrity, the Gov
eminent was TO walk right over the obstacle in its
singe-minded devotion to the maintenance of the
Union
But we are utterly unable to reconcile Mr.. Stewards
averment that Slavery was killed years ago." with
his grave assurance IN his dispatch to Minister Day
ton at Paris April -, 1861, that
1.-THE Territories viii remain in oil respects the same,
whether revolution shall succeed shall fail III. G0Hd
ton Of Sarry the several States Gill remain just e SAM,
nler succeed fail There is not pretxt for the
complain, that dsaectod States be conquered BY
the United states the revelation s Tor the g' o sIS
subject exactly the laws and forms Of administration
whether the revolution shall succeed whether 1t shall fail
In the case the States would be federa connected vita
the conedescyi IN the other they would as now De
members the United States bnt their constitutions and
laws customs habits and institutions, in either case VIII re-
main the same
Most certainly he could not honestly write thus
who believed that slavery was killed years ago."
or that Its death.knell was tolled when Abraham
Lincoln was elected President" An ambassador,
we know is said to be sent abroad to lie for his coun
try; but we never heard that they were sent abroad
to be lied to for the good OF the country If they
were, the continuance would be remarkably round
about, clumsy affair.
The N. " Times says:
when ended. Slavery had been destroyed and its
destruction had been completed and made maj p he auop
| ton Of the Constitutional Amendment
-" When the war ended" at least One Million Of
our people were still in actual bondage. The Con-
stitutional Amendment inhibtiDg Slavery had not
been ratified Nor would it have been to this hour,
had not Mr. johnson said to the Rebel States, Rat
iy il, or keep you under martial law till you do"
And, up tc this hour they have gone just so far in
putting away Slavery as he insisted they should CO.
under penalty of being kept under military rule.
Whether those who have insisted on Equal Rights
and Equal Laws as the basis Of Reconstruction or
their antagonists, are the more clear'seeing right
feeling UniOnsts, events must determine We will