These Are The Men
Who Must Be Loathed By The Nation - Whose Fate Must Be Held Up As A
Warning To Others Before Good Can Come!
Northern men and women talk
of hanging Davis and his accomplices.
I myself trust that there
will be no hanging when the war is over. I believe there will be
none, for the Americans are not a blood-thirsty people. But if
punishment of any kind be meted out, the men of the North should
understand that they have worse offenders among them than Davis and
Floyd.
At the period of which I am now speaking, there had come a change
over the spirit of Mr. Lincoln's cabinet. Mr. Seward was still his
Secretary of State, but he was, as far as outside observers could
judge, no longer his Prime Minister. In the early days of the war,
and up to the departure of Mr. Cameron from out of the cabinet, Mr.
Seward had been the Minister of the nation. In his dispatches he
talks ever of We or of I. In every word of his official writings,
of which a large volume has been published, he shows plainly that he
intends to be considered as the man of the day - as the hero who is
to bring the States through their difficulties. Mr. Lincoln may be
king, but Mr. Seward is mayor of the palace, and carries the king in
his pocket. From the depth of his own wisdom he undertakes to teach
his ministers in all parts of the world, not only their duties, but
their proper aspiration.
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