The New York herald., 1867-04-09

Congress. IL would create an EXTRAORDINARY
fermentation and reaction in the North, un-
doubtedly; but what Of thatf The principle
is the thing. Perish everything rather than
sacrifice principle. In whatever point of view
we look at the movements now going on in
the South, and at the position Of parties with
regard to the issues that have been raised, we
foresee that remarkable changes must take
place. We advise the Southerners to use the
power the radicals have placed in their hands
and bring the revolution to its logical end.
The Cession of Russian Am erica-1Ir. Stewards
Dinner Diplomacy.
Mr.. Seward, they say, is working like
beaver, or rather like whole colony of
beavers, to get his Russo American treaty
through the Senate. The New York radicals
are sounding. the alarm, and like Bolts, with
Captain Tyler, they are resolved to "head him
or die" One of their active scouts at Wash
ington reports that Stewards chances with his
Esquimaux acquisition treaty are improving
daily; that he has not only secured spontane-
ous recommendations from General Halleck, in
California, General Meigs and Commodore
Rodgers, but that he expects every day
strong certificate from Peter Cooper; that the
industrious Premier is working the telegraphs
and the Associated Press in the manufacture
of public opinion night and day, and that he
has, likewise, two other machines running off
the same material, yard wide, at ten cents
yard. These two machines, high pressure,
oscillating engines, are, first, the Secretary's
dinner parties, and second, the Washington
lobby, strengthened by some Of the most skill
full graduates Of the old Fagin of Albany
These vultures have discovered that there is
money in this thing, and they are hungry for
sop in those seven millions Of American gold
for Russian icebergs. Mr.. Sewards dinner
table is spread first with map Of Russian
America, and this cloth is covered "with
roast treaty, boiled treaty, treaty in
bottles, treaty in decanters, treaty garnished
with appointments to Office, treaty in statistics
(Thurlow Weed's), treaty clad in fdrs, orna-
mented with walrus teeth, fringed with timber
and Topping with fish," In short, Mr.. Seward 8
dinner diplomacy is said to have worked such
wonders among the conscript fathers Of the
Senate that "the Esquimaux ring" are ready
to bet their pile on Seward and Mount St Elias
on test vote. But still there are Senator's, as
1t appears, who are not willing to pay seven
millions of dollars for an ice house, . worthless
desert with which to enable the Secretary Of
State to cover up the thousand notifications
and defeats he has suffered with the ship
wrecked Southern policy of Andrew Johnson.
This, then, is the "irrepressible conflict"
Mr.. Seward Is striking for monument Of diplo-
matte glory broad as Russian America and
high as Mount St. Elias. The implacable New
York anti-Seward radicals, of the original firm
of Seward, Weed and Greeley, are resolved to
head him off, But with the spoils of this treaty,
his offices, all the telegraphs Of the country the
newspaper press and his powerful endorssrs-
from General Halleck in San Francisco to Peter
Cooper in New York-and with the Washing
ton lobby, and above all with his toothsome
dinners, meats and drinks, the Secretary of
State holds mighty strong hand. Moreover,
be mot only knows how and when to play any
Of these trump cards, bat after writing up bis
case all day, he can dine il and wine 1t and
talk it up ell night
We will undertake to put the writings the
talkings, the dinings and the winnings of
Mr.. Seward In his diplomatic enterprises
against all that has been done in these ohan-
nels by any other half dozen Of our Secretaries
Of State of the nineteenth century. But he has
little or nothing 70 show a. the result Of ell
these labors In positive shape, because his
achievements have been mostly Of negative
character. For example, his diplomatic cor
respondence during our late critical civil war
would put out ibe pipe md tvgp the head Of a
German archeologlst to read IT, and no other
man could begin 10 make head or tail Of II
and yet with the garnishings Of his dinner
table, II served the purpose Of so bewildering
England and France as to keep them out Of
our fight with Jef Davis till poor JET was
safely housed in Fortress Monroe. Is this
small matteri Yet again, no man but q pri-
soner limited in reading privileges to Mr.
Stewards Mexican correspondence will, per-
haps, from this time to the millennium, ever be
found to read 1t through. Nevertheless Il was
this correspondence, never ending but still
beginning, that finally worried Louis Napoleon
out Of Mexico, rank and flle, bag and baggage.
II was the case Of the Yankee Ia Louisiana,
who sold his sugar plantation at half price to
bis overseer to escape from the mosquitoes
Touching Andrew Johnson's Southern policy,
Mr.. Seward did good service to the country In
getting this business so inexplicably mixed up
that it required the sword of Congress TO cut
the Gordian knot Most of all, the radicals
have cause to be thankful TO the Secretary Of
State for his pilotage Of President johnson on
bis famous stumping campaign Of last septem-
Der. But what was the Secretary's reward
Radical abuse and spell Of sickness that laid
him up for six weeks.