_April 27._--Mr. Seward went on a visit to the army, dragging with him some diplomats. The army was not to forget the existence of the Secretary of State, this foremost Union-saviour, and the candidate for the next Presidency. Others say that Seward ran away to dodge the Peterhoff case.
_April 27._--How the politicians of the _Times_ and of the _Chronicle_ lustily attack--NOW--McClellan. If I am well informed, it was the editor of the _Chronicle_, himself a leading politician, and influential in both Houses, who instigated Lovejoy, Member of Congress, to move resolutions in favor of McClellan for the battle at Williamsburgh, where McClellan did what he could to have his own army destroyed.
_April 28._--Mr. Seward elaborated for the President a paper in the Peterhoff case--and, _horribile dictu_, as I am told--even the President found the argument, or whatever else it was, very, very light. The President sent for the chief clerk to explain to him the unintelligible document--and more darkness prevailed. Bravo, Mr. Seward! your name and your place in the history of the times are firmly nailed!
_April 28._--The time will come, and even I may yet witness it, when these deep wounds struck by the rebellion will be healed; when even the scars of blows dealt to the people by such Lincolns, Sewards, McClellans, Hallecks, the other _minor gens_, will be invisible--and this great people, steeled by events, will be more powerful than it ever was. Then the Monroe doctrine will be applied in all its sternness and rigor, and from pole to pole no European power will defile this continent. The so-called Americo-Hispano-Latin races humbugged by Europe, will have found how cursed is _any whatever_ European influence. The main land and the Isles must be purified therefrom. Will any European government, power, or statesman permit the United States to acquire even the most barren rock on the European continent? The American continent is equal, if not more to Europe, and the degrading stigma of European colonies and possessions must be blotted from this American soil.
_April 29._--The President appoints a day of fasting and prayer. Well! it is not for the people to fast and to pray, but for the evil-doers. Lead on, Mr. Lincoln, attended by Seward and Halleck--all in sackcloth and ashes.