Seward acts, the government
will prove a powerful unit. Indeed, in this connection, history will
hereafter write precisely what Mr. Seward, in his speech on the
'Clayton-Bulwer treaty,' said respecting the Taylor
administration:--'Sir, whatever else may have been the errors or
misfortunes of that administration, want of mutual confidence between
the Secretary of State and his distinguished chief was not one of them.
They stood together firmly, undivided, and inseparable to the last.
_Storms of faction from within their own party and from without beset
them, and combinations and coalitions in and out of Congress assailed
them with a degree of violence that no other administration has ever
encountered_. But they never yielded.'
We can not better conclude this paper, while the volumes of Mr. Seward's
works are open on the table, than by quoting still again, and asking the
reader to apply his own remarks on Secretary of State Webster in the
fisheries-war speech, before alluded to: 'I shall enter into no encomium
on the Secretary of State; he needs none. I should be incompetent to
grasp so great a theme, if it were needed. The Secretary of State! There
he is! Behold him, and judge for yourselves.
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