iness of the Secretary of
State, and of the government, always to be ready, in my humble judgment,
to negotiate under all circumstances, whether there be threats or no
threats, whether there be force or no force: but the manner and the
spirit and the terms of the negotiation will be varied by the position
that the opposing party may occupy_.'

It can not be denied that more cordial relations exist between the
President and the Secretary of State than ever any previous
administration disclosed: so that when Mr. 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. There is his history; there
are his ideas; his thoughts spread over every page of your annals for
near half a century. _There are his ideas, his thoughts impressed upon
and inseparable from the mind of his country and the spirit of the age_.
The past is at least secure. The past is enough of itself to guarantee a
future of fame unapproachable and inextinguishable.'

* * * * *

TO ENGLAND.

The Yankee chain you'd gladly split,
And yet begin by heating it!
But when the iron is all aglow,
'Twill closer blend at every blow.
Learn wisdom from a warning word,
Beat not the chain into a sword.

* * * * *

THE HEIR OF ROSETON.

CHAPTER 1.

Qui c