Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-09

, express fears that the North will couBte-
nance secession if Seymour and Blair are
elected. In the present state Of things,
and the present party permanently in
power, that were possible; for, the fierce
passions of conflict having subsided, the
mass of mankind sympathize with the
conquered, especially if insulted or op-
pressed; but elect an administration dis
posed to restore them to where they we're
before the revolt, and | see no rational
probability that the one hundred thou
sand majority in Ohio, who recorded
their votes against secession, and in
favor of subduing it at any cost, will at
once change sides, without shadow of
reason, and sustain it.
have looked the condition of things
full in the face, and write down my deep
convictions. There is danger of another
civil war. / deplore the threatened mis-
chief, and have done all / can to avert it,
and shall hope the bitter cup will pass
from us. But the party in power are
resolutely fixed in exciting to the utmost,
and keeping up to their highest intensity,
the fierce and angry passions of men,
and it were vain for them to expect
ferocity on one side, and calm endurance
on the other. Their policy continued
will force on collision, which let them in
prudence avoid. The moral and physi-
cal powe. of the nation is against them /;
they can prescribe voters and manipulate
elections, but their power will fail against
men, embodied and under arms, where
each man counts, whether cheated of his
vote or not; and in this arbitrsment
they would be but as one to three. The
war, if they really force it on, will not be
strictly section against section-theSouth
will be united, the North divided-it will
be like the war between the Guelps and
Ghibilines, which, for more than two
hundred years. desolated Italy, and in
which Caesar Borgia practiced the les.
sons in political morality which Senator
Morton has been taught to adopt and
practice, by our five years of war. If he
had revised his reading of Machiavelli' 8
Prince, it would have deprived his les
sons of the charm of novelty, as he would
have found it in full practice many hun
dred years ago, and by looking little
further he would have found thatit peo-
pied Dante's hell, even to its ninth circle,
with more than half its tenants. 1t were
better for the country, better for the party,
that Congress should not reassemble on
the 10Th. If they meet they cannot pos
sibly abstain from interfering in the
Southern elections, unless, indeed, they
be overawed by strong Northern vote;
it is he sole business for which they are
to be called again together, and they will
feel bound to act.
There are some things in your letter
not quite worthy of you or of the subject
we discuss You say my suggestion as
10 the power of the Senate to prevent
legislation is the same as contained In
Seymours begging letter AN insnu-
alton that | borrowed the opinion from
him, whereas, you we'll know that, men.
tally, | never deal in borrowed capital.
The truth is, had written down the
passage referred to, just as il now reads,
weeks before / saw Mr.. Seymour's letter,
and the thought does not suffer lido you
think it does p by occurring to two inde-
pendent minds at the same time. You
call Seymour's a begging letter"
You must be at loss for something to
object to; it struck me as in
decidedly good aste-unexceptionablein
matter and expression. l know little of
him, personally, but, if in all else he is
equal to this, he will do. You certainly
have no warrant for the opinion that he
will fall under the influence of Toombs
and Hampton. He certainly never yet
acted under their inhuence-as General
Grant did under that of Stanton and
Wade, when be gave Stanton file of
United States troops to enable him to
"stick and bayonet the President, if
he should attempt TO enter the Depart
ment There is no more reason to sus
pect Seymour of subserviency to disloyal
councils than any other, the best man
in the nation. On the whole,fI would
rather have your opinion two years hence
on the present political condition, than
now. remain very truly yours.
T. EWING.
Hon. 7. c. Jones. Delaware. Ohio.