Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-11-23

10 SOC some Of ,hs young oaleqfA and
not consult with men who, &c tho war
broke cat, could not olouhl h horse
alludiug to General Scott, whose age
and indrmiiies precludcd him from ac
tive duties.
Tho new expedition was got ready
and was about to sail, whcn says
poor Mr.. Wclles -
81 congratulated myself on tho en-
crgy and activity with which this
work had been accomplished, and was
prepared to await results. Mr., Sew
ard and his son Frederick called at
my rooms at Wizards about II
o'clock at night, on the 9th OF April,
with a Telegram from Meigs and Por
ter at New York, the pnrport of
which was that there was difficulty in
completing arrangements, in eonse
Quence of conflicting orders from the
Secretary Of the Treasury. / asked
an explanation, for knew of no
movement which my order connicted,"
In naval phrase, Hall hards were
called to reef topsal" They rushed
to the President, but he was, or pre-
tended to be, more pcrploxed than
they. "lle looked first at ono aud
then at the other; read and re-
read the telegram, and asked If was
not in error as to the flagship. He
said be had become confused with the
names Of Pocahontas aud Powhatan 20
1t may suit Mr.. Welles theory of
Mr. Lineoln's integrity to believe, if
he can, in this simplicity; but to our
mind it is abundantly clear that the
President was playing a game with
cousummate art, for at the lime he
thus appeared confused he knew he
had issued the orders which frustra-
ted the whole, and had, at the in
stance of Seward, actually appointed
David d. Porter to command and
Montgomery c. Meigs, to engineer
the absurd and useless detection
to the Gulf
The whole matter is simply scan.
dalous, deeply duplicating Mr.. Lin
coin and Seward. TO the latter it is
credilable in one respect only. 1t
tends to show that he meant to keep
faith with Judge Campbell, and thro'
him with the South Carolina author
tiles; and there is nothingin the antece
dents Of the officers, as young as they
were, whom he used as his instru.
ments to conflict with this theory
Noisy and truculent as Mr. Stewards
Gemini, Meigs and Porter, have lat.
terly been, they were then thoroughly
sympathetic with the South. Mr.,
Davis had been Mcigs' kind and con-
siderate friend, at time too, when
he needed friends, aud Porter moved
in that Coburg sphere of the District
OF Columbia, which, then as now, is
tuned in sweet accord with the dis.
pensers OF patronage and office. The
proof is conclusive that Lincoln, Sew.
ard, and their subordinates never Sc
riously contemplated the rescue or re-
lief of Major Anderson, and that down
to this time the people of the North
have been victims of huge delusion.
The EceHiag Post says:
"Any other man finding himself
bound by promise given under a
misapprebension TO the enemies Of his
country, might have thought it his
duty TO resign Office, rather than by
indiscrelion aud conspiracy to thwart
the first important act the Govern
ment he belonged to had undertaken
forits own preservation. But Mr. Sew
ard doubtless thought, as q polite
statesman, that his own services were
more important to tho nation than
the Sumpter expedition and feeling
that his personal honor required that
the countryshould lose one or the other
OF them, he chose to render tho relief
Of the fort impossible, rather than de-
privc tho nation Of his future labors.
History will decide whether he chose
wisely for The country and for his
o,vn fome -