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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
inet, a cultivated demagogue, and nothing more. In many respects he resembles Martin Van Buren, of his own State, having the same unscrupulous cunning, the same scheming, wire-working, partisan character; the same supple conscience; the same narrowness of aim, and the same cold, imperturbable temperament.--Each of these men began his political career and continued it by pandering to the base passions of the ignorant and degraded; Martin Van Buren fomenting the anti-rent disturbances in Columbia county, and Seward bestriding the hobby of anti-Masonry. Abolitionism has also been used by both men simply and exclusively as a political instrument. It is a well known fact that Wm. H. Seward, when in the Senate of the United States, after a speech most earnest and pointed in its denunciation of Southern institutions, has been asked whether he really entertained such sentiments as those announced in his speech, and that he replied, with a laugh, "No; I only used them for party effect." Can