The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-10


ton of President Lincoln has been lifted into
sublimity; and by the standard of Boutwell,, |
the memory of Seward has come to seem |
an amiable and pleasant thing. Neverthe- |
less, it must be owned he was nuisance. |
Let alone the outrages upon public justice |
and private freedom which he prostituted bis |
position to perpetrate, have we forgotten the |
dreary oratory which he used to deliver |
in soliloquy in the garden of his |
sweet retreat at Auburn, and which |
he subsequently procured to be printed
The general public, too happy, like
Vireil's husbandman, if only it had known
its own happiness, could refrain from read
ing these utterances of the sibylline Seward.
But what Journalist whose dismal duty it was
to wade through that weary waste OF words,
if haply he could find floating therein some
faint foreshadowing of coherent notion or
some fragment of exposition of official policy,
has forgotten the horrors of the task? The
speech entered into his soul. But Mr. Seward
went to Alaska. In that blest region there
was no telegraph through which he might
promulgate himself. There was no newspaper
to print him. There were no frequent postal
facilities by which he could devastate the
newspapers of his distant homo. There was
even no audience which could writhe under
his voice. OF course, he made speeches. AS
with the dogs of the fervid Watts, it was his
nature to. But he could not intlict them
upon other people. He addressed the Oregon,
and heard no sound save his own dashings
Sweet peace came upon us, and the land had
rest.
But. though Seward was thus an element
in the sum of human misery, we cheerfully
concede that he was as balm to Boutwell, In
his arrests indeed. he fell alike upon the evil
and the good. But the much more serious
infiiction of his eloquence only embittered
the lives of those who for their sins we're con-
demned, or from their own depravity delibe-
rately elected, to undergo it, But the bitter
ness of Boutwell, comes home to the business
and bosom of every man. He is about our
bed and about our path, and spying out, for
| purposes of revenue, all our ways The per-
| Torrance of any commercial transaction
| whatever involves a certain votive offering to
| the inefficiency with which he has managed
! the finances of the nation. Let him by all
means go to Alaska and skin seals. That will
really add to the national wealth, and it will
| imme asurably enhance the national happi-
ness. He may, indeed, come back. But he
| will in the meantime have at least learned
how sublime a thing it is to suffer and
| be strong. He might be easily borne
| with in subdued condition. See how much
a soiourn in Sitka has improved Mr.. Seward.
He has actually declined public reception.
| Does anybody suppose that the unregenerate
Seward whom we knew before he had been
| IL
talow and walrus-blubber would not have
leaped into the embraces of any municipality
which offered him such an opportunity for
the public utterance of his bland unintelligi-
bilities? Who knows but that Boutwell, might
return to us in a similarly frozen frame of
mind? OF course, there is no hope that Mr..
Seward is congealed into permanent silence.
The fruitful southwest gale of April will thaw
| him, and he will gush again. But even the
| tQmnorarv oIqappa of twaI friy ya no
a chance to establish the finances beyond even
his powers of prostration. And even the
temporary absence of Boutwell, would, in any
case, be such boon that we need not inquire,
with too curious n solicitude, into what may
happen after he comes back.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION
REPUBLICANS STILL IN THE AS
CENDANT.
From the N. y Herald.
The returns indicate that at the election in
New Hampshire the Republicans sue
ceeded in retaining their ascendancy in the
State, electing their candidate for Governor
and securing majority in the Legislature.
This will send Mr.. Cragin back to the
United States Senate, and as he is an ardent
friend of the administration of General Grant,
his return to the Senate chamber may be re-
garded as among the most important results
of the election.
The vote was large, but the Republican
maj jority was considerably reduced being only
about fifteen hundred against between three
and four thousand last year. The heavy vote
may be accounted for from the fact that the
sleighing was good 'from the sea to the Coos
above the Upper Coos" giving all parties a
fair chance to test their relative strength al
the polls. Why did not the Democracy carry
the State? Let us see-
But few days ago the Democracy of New
Hampshire never had brighter prospect tc
redeem the State from radical thraldom. The
eruptions among the radicels, the throwing
up of such segments as the labor reform fac
tion under Sam Flint, and the temperance
faction under the Rev. Mr.. Barrows, afforded
them opportunities of conciiating respect
| able portion of the radical party and winning
them permanently to the Democratic side
/ Some of the prominent Democratic papers il
the State, and the most prominent Democratic
organ nearest home favored recognition OF
l the radical malcOntents On the other hant
old line Democrats spurned the idea of affilia
tion in any manner with their ancient foes
: come in what garb they might. What fol
4 | lowed? A regular plug muss between the De
. mocratic State Central Committee and tn,
State central organ, in which words common
to the New York radical press, such as ''un
mitigated liars, ''you lie, you villain, ant
other elegant phrases were banded between
: them. Thus was little private arrangement
Q between the Democratic leaders and few
. leading radical seceders knocked into cooked
b hat, not absolutely by the detection of tn
o anti-radicals themselves, but by the squabble
, and wrangles, and jobbing railroad collision
n and jobbing railroad collusions among tn