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The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Seward and McClellan. We take it for granted that an interesting question will arise between Seward and McClellan for the next Presidency of the United States. A military hero has always been tSeward and McClellan for the next Presidency of the United States. A military hero has always been the favorite of that excitable people, and, unless Seward can manage soon to clip McClellan's pinions, he will find that he has been hatching a formidable competitor of himself for the imperial purple.Seward can manage soon to clip McClellan's pinions, he will find that he has been hatching a formidable competitor of himself for the imperial purple. We should not be surprised if the divers little intrigues to oust McClellan from his seat, and the subtle suggestion that he should divide the military authority with two or three other Generals, had their origin in the crafty schemes of Seward. Not having the personal courage to proceed, like Louis Napoleon, to the field, and prevent his Generals from a monopoly of gunpowder, he is seeking to nnot keep him in the saddle. Such a poor old failure as Scott never excited any apprehension in Seward; but a man who wins a battle, even if it be by odds of sight to one, will achieve a formidable p
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Europe. (search)
ember 20, which shows that even then the British Ministry believed in the probability of a war with the United States. Lord Lyons in directed to speak with Mr. Seward on the subject of letters of marque, and to say that in case of war, Great Britain is willing to abolish privateering as between the two nations, if the Preside In the House of Lords, on the 7th, Earl Carnarvor inquired as to the truth of the arrest and imprisonment of a Canadian subject named Shepperd, by order of Mr. Seward. He commented severely on the conduct of the United States, if the facts were correctly reported, and especially on the demand that Shepperd should take the oas all but inaudible, was understood to say that the main facts of the case were correctly reported; but, as soon as Lord Lyons was informed of it, he applied to Mr. Seward, who stated that the oath of allegiance was tendered to Shepperd under the belief that he was an American, and his release was subsequently obtained on the cond