W. H. Seward.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Express, in a tribute to the personal popularity of Senator Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, even among the Republicans, says:‘ "It was in the house of Col. Davis that Mr. Seward made the remarkable confession, about a year ago, that his own peculiar notions on the slavery question were maintained merely for political effect. So, at least, Col. Davis has frequently asserted, and without contradiction. It seems, therefore, that we, the people, are about to fly at each other's throats like bull-dogs, merely to uphold a set of men who have mounted the negro not because they love him, but because, through him, they hope to dictate, from the high places of the Government, to the white man. This is 'Republicanism' with a vengeance."
’ This is indeed "Republicanism," and, alas! the melancholy history of all Republics is, that not only the people have been sacrificed, but at last, the Republic itself, to gratify the ambition of demagogues.
