Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-25
Hon. W. H. seward a Traveller.


getfulness. When a man has spent years
of his life in stirring up mischief, guided
alone by his unholy ambition--whsn
those efforts have worked natural result
in desolated houses, wasting poverty, and
millions of bruised and broken hearts
when he has entailed desolation and
misery upon nearly all around him. ana
these monuments of his villsiny are
staring him in the face at every turn, IL
is no wonder that he should be seized with
a desire to avail himself of the first OPP
portunity to fly from the misery which ne
has entailed, and seek in distant chimes
and strange and novel scenes to drive
from his mind recollection of the fruits
of his basene cas-. Such is W. b. Seward,
soon to retire from the Office OF Secretary
of State of the so-called United States,
and enter, as it is reported, upon an ex-
tensive tour of travel. How many others
innocent ones, too-would seek reiiei
from the scenes Of woe and misery that
surround them if they only had 1.-THE oil
the means of which his devilish policy
has stripped them. time alone can tell.
Thousands of the men and women of
this country reduced to poverty by him,
are now piniDg in their desolate homes,
deprived of the fruits of the labor OF
lifetime-bereft of children, home and
friends -heari-broken and doomed to
look, for the remnant of life, upon the
scenes of desolation that surround them,
while the author of all these evils has
gathered from their spoliation the means
to fly from the blight with which he has
cursed his country. Mr.. Seward goes,
as we have said, to bury among strange
climes and new and novel scenes, the
recollections Of blasted and ruined
country. But, will he succeedf Not
unless nature is untrue to herself and
revelation is lie. The specters OF a
country wrecked in honor, distracted by
crime, with all the ancient habits Of in
dustry and conientment destroyed-all
branches Of her political economy thor
oughly corrupted, and her name stencil
in her own nos,rils, will haunt him on
every shore. The ghostly forms and
hideous specters of the millions whom
he has slain will greet him at every turn.
Ne time or place can free him from these
painful visitations. In no place and at no
time can he flee from their presence. 1.-The
were to take 1.-THE wings of the morning
and ayto the uttermost parts ofthe EARTH
be cannot hide from their presence or If
be make his bed in hell, the remembrance
of them will even there wiring bis soul.
This consciousness Of guilt and the re-
membrance of its awful fruits are a part
of himself-inseparable from him, and
like "the body of death, !" will curse him
to his grave. He, of all others, is the
arch traitor to himself to his country,
and to our common humanity; and 60
where he will, do what be may, the curse
of that country will rest upon him. God
pity the poor maniac, for such he is.
Should he, in the midst of the crowded
halls and gilded mansions of the old
world, hear his country spoken of as the
scene of rspine, robbery and murder, let
him remember that be made it so. Should
he hear--as he will, il he hears the truth
her public men spoken of as venal,
corrupt and faithless, let him remember
that he made them so. Sould he hear Of
divisions, quarrels and revolutions among
his people, let him remember that it is
his work. Should be see, as he will, this
once glorious government going rapidly
to decay with anarchy and disorder, in
the place of her wise constitutions and
well-ordered society; should he, in
our most populous towns and
cities, instead of the peaceful pur-
suits Of merchandise the sound of
the hammer, the anvil and the spindle
hear the uproar of contending factions,
and the drum and ife Of hostile aspirants
aud forces, let him remember the coun-
try owes it all to him. BE it was who
first taught the lesson Of a higher law
for political aud social conduct of So
ciety-than the Constitution. he first
led the multitudes to contemn and under
value the constitutions Of the country
and set at naughi the wise and whole
some lessons Of orr fathers He it was
who eugendersd and nursed, aud brought
into full play the "irrepressible con-
Rict," and with bis willy hypocrisy To-
iuriated the sectional passions Of the
country. and seat the stronger against
the weak, with Ere aud sword, TO do the
work Of ruin. He il was who gave birth
and strength to that mortal h.ired OF one
section against the olher-culminating
in an enormity which can never be
healed, and which nov sleeps like the
sirocca from the lakes 10 the gulf Yes;
he-William II. Seward carries upon
bis head al this deEilisb mischief. Well
msy be 6y.