[from our Special correspondent]
affairs at Washington.
the President and secession — Seward Yielding, but Greeley Valiant — Another rumored &c.
Washington, Dec. 3,
--The President's plan South Carolina to postpone secession on the 4th of March next will hardly avail.-- As South Carolina member said to me this evening, ‘"We have spiked that gun."’
Senator Seward is willing to grant the South Almost anything, but the Tribune of this morning says, ‘"Let the winds howl on; the free States will not surrender their principles on account of threatened disunion."’ Greeley's own article states the case, but takes no decided ground, so there is no day light yet.
All that money, beauty, place and power, can do, will be brought to bear in favor of Union. We shall see Southerners, heretofore fiery, backing down.
Messrs Cobb, Thompson, Jeff, Davis, and Fitzpatrick of Alabama, have, it is rumored, yielded to the President's pious appeal for staving off secession. If so, the South will be paralyzed, and the Union saved for a time.--Mississippi is reported fishy. Still, it is believed that six States will be out of the Union before thirty days. Z.
