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The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
From Washington.[Special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Washington, Feb. 3, 1861. When Senator Mason drove Seward to the wall, and forced him to admit the coercion policy of Lincoln, he did a greater service to the South than he expected. While owning the fighting policy, it had been arranged by Seward that its effect should be mitigated by an assault upon himself, for lowering the Republican flag in regard to slavery in the Territories. Frescenden was to begin the attack, Sumner was to follow it up, and Wade was to close it by a thundering onslaught. But Fesenden and Mason both rose at the same instant, Fitch, of Indiana, who was in the chair chose to recognize the latter, and so the trickery of the double- dealing, black-bearded wretches, was completely foiled. This comes to me from a gentleman who had it from Sumner himself. Of course Sumner pretended to be really angry at Seward, and my acquaintance believed him. But the cat came out of the bag very visibly to my