The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-05-07
ONWARD AND aRHALDY.s

In tho last Ledger Mr.. Greeley fe-
publishes his famous private letter to
Mr.. Seward, wherein he announced a
of tho political partnership
which had existed between thom.-
Commenting on this letter, Mr.. Greeley
says:
"Seoing nothing in this letter that
requires explanation, I simply add that
my personal relations with Gov. Sew
ard were wholly unchanged by it. We
met frequently and cordially after it
was written, and We very freely confer.
red and co-operated during tho long
in Congress for Kansas and
Free Labor. He understood a. well Is
I did that my position with regard to
him, though more Independent than it
had previously been, was nowise hos
tile, and that I was as ready to support
his advancement a. that of any other
statesman, whenever my judgment
should tell me that the public good &C.
quired it. 1 was not his enemy, but
my own and my country's freeman.
"ln the spring Of 1859, Gov. Sew
ard crossedthe Atlantic, visiting Egypt,
traversing Syria, and other portions Of
Asia Minor, Us we'll as much of Europe.
Soon after his return, he came one
evening to my seat, In DR.. Chapin's
church-as he had repeatedly done
during former visits to our oity-and
| now recall this as the last occasion
on which We ever met. The Scripture
lesson Of the evening was the thirty
first chapter Of Proverbs, which reoounts
tho merits and the honors Of the virtu.
Gus woman, aud asserts, among the lat
ter, that Her husband is known in
the gates, when he stitch among the
elders of the land Two months ago.
thereupon observed Mr.. s., Il was
travelling in Syria with = Turkish fire.
man and other documents which pro.
claimed me, infer, a person of conse-
quencc, since the dead functiouary of q
village where I halted and presented
my papers, received me with the great
est distinction j.; aud, IS a proof of bis
regard, invited me to sit with him in
the gate, as, aanked by the elders, he
heard complaints and defenses, and
rendered judgments thereon So un'
changing are the essential habits and
usages Of the Asiatics, that foreign con-
quest-Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian,
Greek, Roman, Saracsn, Crusader and
Osmanli-had, along with more than
thirty centuries, rolled their surges
over that region, yet there were the
chiefs Of the respective villages o,
tribes, judging the people as Of old.
surrounded and counseled by the ell.
ders; and any eminent stranger is in
vited, as mark Of honor. to sit with
them, as he was in Tor before) the
reign Of Solomon.
Ross Brown found but one man do
ing anything in Syria; and he was
falling on a house. It is well to lie
usefuliy busy ; yet quiet and tenacious
| contcntment with
The good old ways-aH ways, when old, are good
is not devoid Of recommendation, and
even advantage.
I have often, these late years, beer
unable to agree with Governor Seward
have sometimes quite pointedly di.
scuted from his views of great publi'
questions. 1t is not probable that VI
shall ever again be as near to each 9th
er as We have been. That his end
have ever been patriotic, I will moi
doubt; that his means have sometime
been mistaken, I think his warmes
friends must admit. That he once as
pired to the Presidency, is truth, bu
no reproach; able, wise and good mel
have done SO, without impeachment o.
their patriotism or abatement Of thei1
usefulness. And yet, one who has al
out clutched the glitteriug prize, ye1
failed to secure it, always thereafter
! seems to have suffered from the aspira
ton or the failure-possibly from both
Great, Intellectually, As Daniel Web
ster was, lie woald have been morally
greater, and every way more useful and
honored, had no sternly responded,
"Get thee behind me, Satan {" to every
suggestion that he might yet attain the
Presidency. I hope Mr.. Seward viii
outlive, if he has not already outlived
his ambition, and will find leisure and
Indictment to write Of what he has seen
aud known during his all but half
century Of devotion to public affairs
Doubtless, hecould clear up points which
now seem obscure and pulling; and
will hope he would succeed in showing
that, even when most denounced and
execrated, he was, however mistaken,
faithful in heart and purpose to Justice,
Freedom, and the iualienable Rights Of
Man.
THE OBSCENE DEMOCRACY.