all the world Mr. Seward's transcendent
superiority over all other eminent men in America. Are the European
statesmen to be prepared beforehand, or are they to be befogged and
prevented from judging for themselves? If so, again is _love's labor
lost_. European statesmen can perfectly take Mr. Seward's measure from
his uninterrupted and never-fulfilled prophecies, and from other
diplomatic stumblings; and one look suffices European men of mark to
measure a Hughes, a Weed, a Sandford, and _tutti quanti_.

In Mr. Lincoln's councils, Mr. Stanton alone has the vigor, the
purity, and the simplicity of a man of deep convictions. Stanton alone
unites the clear, broad comprehension of the exigencies of the
national question with unyielding action. He is the _statesman_ so
long searched for by me. He, once a friend of McClellan, was not
deterred thereby from condemning that do-nothing _strategy_, so
ruinous and so dishonorable. Stanton is a Democrat, and therefore not
intrinsically, perhaps not even relatively, an anti-slavery man, but
he hesitates not now to destroy slavery for the preservation of the
Union. I am sure that every day will make Stanton more clear-sighted,
and more radical in the question of Union and rebellion. And Seward
and Blair, who owe their position to their anti-slavery principles,
_arcades ambo_, try now to save something of slavery, and turn against
Stanton.

APRIL, 1862.

Immense power of the President -- Mr. Seward's Egeria --
Programme of peace -- The belligerent question -- Roebucks and
Gregories scums --Running the blockade -- Weed and Seward take
clouds for camels --Uncle Sam's pockets -- Manhood, not money,
the sinews of war --Colonization schemes -- Senator Doolittle --
Coal mine speculation --Washington too near the seat of war --
Blair demands the return of a fugitive slave woman -- Slavery is
Mr. Lincoln's "_mammy_" -- He will not destroy her -- Victories
in the West -- The brave navy --McClellan subsides in mud before
Yorktown -- Telegraphs for more men -- God will be tired out! --
Great strength of the people --Emancipation in the District --
Wade's speech -- He is a monolith --Chase and Seward -- N. Y.
Times -- The Rothschilds -- Army movements and plans.

If the military conduct of McClellan, from the first of January to the
day of the embarkation of the troops for Yorktown--if this conduct
were tried by French m