he month of March closes, but the administration seems to enjoy the
most beatific security. I do not see one single sign of
foresight,--this cardinal criterion of statesmanship. Chase measures
the empty abyss of the treasury. Senator Wilson spoke of treason
everywhere, but the administration seems not to go to work and to
reconstruct, to fill up what treason has disorganized and emptied.
Nothing about reorganizing the army, the navy, refitting the arsenals.
No foresight, no foresight! either statesmanlike or administrative.
Curious to see these men at work. The whole efforts visible to me and
to others, and the only signs given by the administration in concert,
are the paltry preparations to send provisions to Fort Sumpter. What
is the matter? what are they about?

APRIL, 1861.

Seward parleying with the rebel commissioners -- Corcoran's
dinner -- The crime in full blast! -- 75,000 men called for --
Massachusetts takes the lead -- Baltimore -- Defence of
Washington -- Blockade discussed -- France our friend, not
England -- Warning to the President -- Virginia secedes --
Lincoln warned again -- Seward says it will all blow over in
sixty to ninety days -- Charles F. Adams -- The administration
undecided; the people alone inspired -- Slavery must perish! --
The Fabian policy -- The Blairs -- Strange conduct of Scott --
Lord Lyons -- Secret agent to Canada.

Commissioners from the rebels; Seward parleying with them through some
Judge Campbell. Curious way of treating and dealing with rebellion,
with rebels and traitors; why not arrest them?

Corcoran, a rich partisan of secession, invited to a dinner the rebel
commissioners and the foreign diplomats. If such a thing were done
anywhere else, such a pimp would be arrested. The serious diplomats,
Lord Lyons, Mercier, and Stoeckl refused the invitation; some smaller
accepted, at least so I hear.

The infamous traitors fire on the Union flag. They treat the garrison
of Sumpter as enemies on sufferance, and here their commissioners go
about free, and glory in treason. What is this administration about?
Have they no blood; are they fishes?

The crime in full blast; _consummatum est._ Sumpter bombarded;
Virginia, under the nose of the administration, secedes, and the
leaders did not see or foresee anything: flirted with Virginia.

Now, they, the leaders or the administration, are terribly startled;
so is the brave n