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From Washington. [Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Washington, Jan. 13, 1861.
As your readers will have a synopsis of Mr. Seward's speech before this letter reaches them, I prefer they should interpret it for themselves.
Never before have so many and so widely different constructions been placed on a man's opinions.
Balancing the views of those who heard the speech as well as I can, the result is rather in favor of peace than otherwise.
But it should not be forgotten that it is Seward who promises (if he does promise) harmony.
He cannot be trusted.
No man can be trusted now. The people must rely upon themselves and demand their whole rights — nothing less should content them.
Southern members who listened to Mr. Hunter, say that his speech was worthy of any age, and that some of its eloquent passages will in after times be repeated in the schools as models of chaste and powerful rhetoric.
Such is the anxiety now to hear the great men of the nation, that one
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.affairs at the University of Virginia--GeneralScott burnt in effigy, &c. University of Virginia, January 13th, 1861.
The election of Anniversary Orator came off in the Jefferson Literary Society last night, and resulted in the choice of Wm. G. Temple, Esq., son of Ex-Governor Temple, of Delaware. Mr. Temple is a gentleman of no ordinary talent, and will represent the Society with credit.
Those of our friends who will be with us on the 13th of April, may expect a treat, and we confidently assure them they will not be disappointed.
The two Literary Societies have invited Mr. Paul Brown, a distinguished lawyer of Philadelphia, to deliver the annual address before them on the 4th of July next, and he has accepted.
Gen. Scott was burnt last night in effigy, by the students, amid repeated cheers for Toombs and the seceding States, and groans for Major Anderson.
A card was placed over the effigy, on which was written--
"Winfield S