The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-04
Judge Blaek-The Adams Ealosy Of Seward.
From the Baltimore Gazette ]

From the baltlmoro 6ebetsoJ |
1t was an evil hour when Mr.. Francis
Adams consented to deliver before the {
New York Legislature his eulogy on ME-
Sew ard. In attempting to prove that MT.
Seward was the foremost statesman OF ms
time, he has given to others the opportu-
nifty of proving what chariatan he was.
Mr.. Welles, in his dry. prosy way T s,sts s1s
many of the attributes with which Mr.:
Adams had invested him, and to correct
his more glaring misstatements OF Facts
And now, with clean scalpel and consum-
mate skill, Judge Black proceeds with the
work of dissection, and lays bare All sno
his fluent shallowness his utter want OF
political principle ; his plant, trucking,
treacherous ways his contempt Tor Jaw
and his cowardly. cruel, vindiotive, per,
scouting spirit. Judge Blacks reply Tn
a as,p Int the World has had the good for:
time to obtain cspy Of it in advance, and
reprinted the entire article, occupying
some six columns. We have only room
for one extract, but it in such a. will whes
the public appetite for more:
A PERSONAL RkMINIsGEH,Cb-c99E ~ DE-.
have mt on record your personal remini-
ecences Of Seward will add my contri.
button. believing that the fact am about
to mention throws q broader light on MS
public character than any which you have
given. When the troubles were as tnei1
Worst. certain Southern gentlemen, through
Judpe Campbell, Of the Supreme Court,
requested me to meet Mr.. Seward and sec
| IL he yyould not give them some ground on
which they could stand with safety inside
of the Union. consented. and re met
at the State Department. The conference
wss long and earnest. cannot, within
these limits, set forth even the substance
AZ II. He seemed conscious Of his power
and willing to use it in the interests OF
peace and upiop, as far as he gould without
the risk of offending his own party. What
could he do : Many propositions were
Iimpracticable or likely to prove useless,
before I told him what felt perfectly sure
would stop all controversy at once and
forever. / proposed that he should simply
pledge himself and the incoming Admins
tration to gorern according 10 me Oomst''a ~
constitutional law to accept that exposition
of IL. which had been or might be given by
: the judicial authorities. He started at this
became excited and violently declared be
would do no such thing; "That," said ne
the bred Scott case" In vain told him
that he was not required to admit the cor
rectness of any particular case, but merely
, to submit to it as the decision of the high
, eat tribunal, from which there could be NJ
t appeal except to the sword.
. O You will see that if such pledge as TILL
had been given and kept, the war couie
: not have taken place ); it would have lef
t nothing to fight about; and the decen
men of the Anti Slavery party would nav;
lost nothing by it which they pretended
to want, for even the bred Scott case hat
: Injured to their practical benefit. But Mr.
Seward must have given up the higher Law
= and denied himself the pleasure Of kldaap
3 ping Democrats;
0 was obedience to the Consultation 10 con
strued by the courts but this prepare.
o me to learn, az did some time afterward
i that the corre1ative virtue of loyalty con
d sisted in trampling the laws under foot
t What should the world think Of the states
o manship which introduced these notions
q do not know, but believe that MI
= Seward, in consequence OF the converse
q ton above mentioned, got Mr.. Lincoln t
Q commit himself in the inaugural to tn
d absurd and mischievous declaration tina
he would not take his law from the Su
:, preme Court, but would take it from tn
1t Chicago Convention. Your address ha
little confidence was left in the Govern
% ment as protection to our personal rights
If We cannot help but feel that the securlt
q of life, liberty aud property must be fear
y fully slender in a country where a citlze
70 of yonr standing can openly say that tn
owner anu Clnkl6T Ol lilo ilttic DOhA WAC
l. statesman whose example ought to be uni
If versally copied. .
IT Yon are a leader of the party calling il
If self ,"Liberal Republican," whose plat
form is a protest against iniquity in hig
y places, and whose movements are strug
gle for the restoration of honest govern
70 meat. Your compatriots know, il you d
3, not, that the evils they deplore were In
!. trodpced by the man you advise them
10 initiate. The party you oppose for il
10 moral and political principles upon th
q model which you now declare to be full {
g beauty aud goodness. Your personal cor
], sistency is nothing but to go back in th
10 way, not only on yourself, but on you
r friends and your country, is too bad.
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D. manufacturing operations it has been foun