The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-19 00:00:00

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r the entrance, stands au old stone buildini,
DOW a farm house on the Earl of Cork's estate,
which was formerly, perhaps, an ecclesiastical
building of some kind, and once the residence of the
Liverseges. The sound of a military band attracted
us to this ; and here was a large tent laid out with
tables at the side of the old building. But passing
through this you came into the old refectory, and
upon a scene rather more gay than the monks of
old ever got up under the rough old gray timber
roof. Lord Cork was doing the honours of his
hospitality in right good Somersetshire style, with
Mr. Pieties, the members, and Professor Phillips
near him, and Mr. Dickenson, who hopes to be
a member, with the young Marquis of Bath beyond,
and Colonel Sir H. Rawliuson, ands bevy of ladies.

MR. SEWARD ON THE AMERICAN WAR.

Mr. Seward was at Auburn when the news of
the fall of Atlanta was received, and the Secre-
tary of State was called upon for an address, which
occupies three columns of the New York Times.
Albiding to Atlanta, he said :
The victory at Atlanta comes at the right place. The
rebellious district Is in the shape of an ea. It preemie
an equal resistance oe its whole surface. But if you 0044
break the shell at either of the two ends—Richmond sad
Atlanta—the whole must crumble to pieces. While Mee.
men under Grant has been striking the big sad, Meade under
Grant has been striking just as hard blows upon the
inner end. The whole shell will now be easily crushed,
for it has grown brittle with the extraustioa of vitality
within. This glorious victory tomes is good tine for
another reason. Just now we are calling upon you for
300,000 more volunteers, if you will—drafted men If we
must—to end the war. Yoe were getting a little tired of
long delays and disappointed expeditious. Is Indiana •
portion of the people, mitigated by rebel plotters, at the
Clifton House, in Canada, were importing British revolvers
in boxes, which passed the custom-house as statitniery, milder
pretence of &min to defend themselves, but really to resist
the draft, and bring the government down to ruin, through
a subordinate sod auxiliary civil war. ?roe, no arms have
been imported bare. Yet delegates went out from among
you and sat down in council at Chicago with those Indiana
conspirators. and agreed with them not only that that
im-
pnrtatioa of arms should be defended is the election ma-
vase, bat also to demand the cessation of the war upon the
I ground that success in restoring the Union is unattainable.
Already under the iodation of the cheering sews from
Atlanta, all this discontent and this despondency have dis-
sppeared. We shall have on draft because the army is
beiag reinforced at the rate of tie to ten thousand men per
day by valuation.
He regretted the absence from the meeting of
many influential men:

Why are they not here to rejoice is the victories that
will thrill the hearts of the lovers of freedom throughout
the world! Alas, that it must be coofeased, it is party
spirit that holds them aloof. All of them are partmans.
Some are republicans, who mcoot rejoice in the ostiosal
victories because this war, for the life of the nation, is Lot
in all respects 000 ducted according to their own peculiar
radical ideas and theories. They want guarantees for swift,
sod universal, and complete emancipation, or they do not
want the nation saved. Others slay away beims they
want to be assured that in coming out of the revolutionary
storm the ship of state will be found exactly in the suns
eonditioa as when the tempest assailed it, or they do not
want the ship saved at all—as if anybody could give
such guarantees in the name of a people of thirty millions.
Others are democrats. They received from their fathers
the axiom that °sly democrats could save the country, and
they must save it by democratic formulas and combinations
which the progress of the age has for ever exploded. They
menet come up to celebrate schievementa which condense
their narrow and hereditary bigotry. Others, of both the
republic's and democratic tactics, are trilby, that the
nation shall be saved, provided it ie dose by some one of
their chosen and idolised chiefs, which chief they mutually
denounce and revile. They cannot hooeur Grant, and
ghermao' and Farragot, and Porter, because by such
homage they fear that Fremont acid Ill'aellan's fame
may be eclipsed. Nevertheless, there are enough here
of the right sort—(Yee, that's true)—enough of
wee who once were republicans, but who, taking that
woad in a partisan manse, an rapabbases no looser, end
men who ooce were democrats, but who, taking that word
in its narrow application, are democrats so longer, all of
whom are sow union men. because they found out at the
beginning of this tremendous civil war, or at some period is
its progress, that no man, no party, no formula, no creed,
could save the union, but that only the people could save it,
sad they could save it ally by ceasing to become partisans,
and becoming patriots end onion men. (Cheers for the
nnioo.) Yes, my friends, when this war shall be ended is
the restoration of the union, no man then living will exult
in the recollection that during its ceetinuaime be was either
a radical or a coeservative, a republican or a democrat, but
emery man will claim to have been throughout an unreserved
and unconditional solos man.

Respecting tae connug presidential election, he
said :

Why should party spirit, especially at this juncture,
divide the American people' And why should 1, a mem-
ber of the executive administratioo, allude to it on such an
occasion as this! The sneerer is at heed. The comma.
tics of our country commode that admiaideation to sue-
'soder its powers to the people, sod the people to &eg-
oista wets to assume and exercise them for font years.
You receive the execrative government in a condition very
different sod highly improved. We found it practically
expelled from the whole country mouth of the Delaware,
the Ohio, and the Missouri, with the most of the army and
navy betrayed or fallen tato the hands of the issue-
geese, sod • new and treasmahle Confederacy, with
the indirect but effective co-operation of foreign
powers, ettablishiug itself on the Gulf et Mexico.
We cheerfully give the government hack to you with large
ad ocequeriag armies and • triumphant navy, with
the hateful Confederacy biting into pieces, and the rebel-
lions States, one after mother returning to their allegiaoce.
Regarding myself now, Merrier% not as a secretary, but
'imply as Gee pi the people, I, like you. as called by my
vete to determine into whose heed the precious trust ahaß
sow be confided. We might wish to avoid, or at least to
postpone, that duty until the present fearful crisis is past.
But it cannot and it ought sot to be avoided or adloerned.
It is a coastatutimal trial, and the nation must go through
it deliberately and bravely. I shall therefore cheerfully
=bait for your consideration the comae which I have cos-
chided to adopt, and the mimes for it. First, I beg you to
remember that the present is not a °maroon or customary
presidential election. It occurs in the midst of civil war,
arising out of • disputed succession to the executive power.
Disputed sucenesious are the most frequent mum of civil
wars, not only in republics, bet arse in monarchies. A
dispute about the ruccession of the President periodically
hegeta an abortive or a real revolution, in each of the
Spudah and American republics. So the disputed sue-
erasion of the Spanish throne begot that memorable thirty-
years' war which convulsed all Europe. A dispute whether
Snares was the lawful president brought on the prevent
civil war, with the esimequence of French intervention
to Merici. A dispute whether the present King of
Denmark, who succeeded to the throes last winter, is
lawful heir to the Duchies of Sifter* end Holstein, brought
about the civil war in that country, which through
German intervention has jun now maid with the
dismemberment of the Danish kingdom, It is
remarkable, also, that civil were produced by disputed sae-
comic's, invariably begin with resistance, by some one or
mere of the settee or provisoes which constitute the king-
dom, empire, or republic, whisk ia disturbed. It was so in
the United States of Mexico. It was so in the United
States of Columbia, sod the rose was the same in the
Ilmted States of Vemmeta. Now, it is sustain that in
UM we elected Abraham Liaooln lawfully and cosistitu-
%tonally to be president of the whole United States of Ame-
rico. Seven of the states immediately thereon rushed into
disunion, and summoning eight more to their alliance, they
set up • revolntioarwy government. They levied war agaiost
us, to effect a separation andeitablish a distinct sovereignty
and independence. We somptod the war in defence of the
anion.
The war he maintained was at its crisis :

It in clear, therefore, that we are fighting to make Abra-
ham Lincoln president of the whole United States, under
the election of 1860. to cautious until the 4th of March,
1865. In votir fora president of the United States can
we wisely of Infely vote out the identical person whom.
with force and arms. we are fighting into the presidency
(No, no.) You justly say no. It would be nothing ler
than to give up the very object of the war at the ballot-box.
The morel strength which makes our loyal position impreg-
nable would pass from us ; and when that moral strength
hem passed away material forces are MO klerf effective, or
even available. By such a proceedir we shall howsoever
with the enemy, and shall have given him the victory.
Bat in that agreemeet the constitution and the union
will have perished, because when it shall bare once bees
proved that a minority ate, by force or cirrus-
',flies, defeat the full aocuesiou of a conetitutiosally
abases preeideet, no president thereafter, though elected
by ever so large a majority, can hope to exercise the execu-
tive powers unopposed throughout the whole country. One
of two things must follow that fatal error. F.ither • rooter
between your newly-elected compromise president and the
same usurper, in which the usurper must prevail, or 01.64)
combination between them through which the usurper or
hi succorer, subverting your constitution and substituting
his own, will become President, King, or Emperor of the
United Stare, without foreign aid if he can, with foreign is-
tereeatioe if . (That's so.) To be sure it is so ;
nothing is noraerWn than that either the United Slates

[TWOPENCE

sad their constitutional president, or the sosaalled Coated'.
rate States and their usurping pre idsst, mast rale within
the limits of this republic. "therefore reprd the pending
prordential election as involving the godless whether
hereafter we shall bays a meditation sad a country
left us. How shall we vote, the., to ism our
country from this fearful danger! (Vote Lincoln
in again.) You ham bit it exactly my friend. We must
vote Lincoln in again, and debt him is at the same tan*.
If we do this the rebellion will perish, and leave DO root. If
we do otherwise, we have only the altereatide of acquiee-
mese in a perpetual usurpation, or of ectering an endless
mac/mita of civil and meal wan. Upon these grounds,
entirely irrespective of platform and caadidate, I consider
the recommendations of the constitution at Mimeo as
tending to subvert the republic, (It's so, that's a fact.)
It will seem a hard thing when I imply that a party like
the democratic party can either mediate or blindly 'dope
measures to overthrow the republic. All experience how-
ever, shows that it is by the maids or madder of greet
rintethat Istates have been brought down to dertructioa.
often hear alarms that a party in power im subverting
the state, and it sometimes happens so. But nine times ont
of ten it is a party out of power that, in its Impatience or
ambition overthrows a republic. . . They ea I am
always too unguice of the 10000 SS of national aaadfdatea and
of the national anon. Bat it spend to me that the veriest
croaker io all our loyal camp will take new courage and be-
come heroic when he sees that the last hope of the rebellion
hams upon the ratification of this abominable and detestable
camped by the American people. . . And what a time
Is this to proclaim such a policy, oonceived in treachery,
and brought teeth with shameless effrontery. A cessation
of hostilities os the heels of decisive naval and Led battles,
at the very moment that the rebellion, without a single
fort in its pomades on the coast, or oe either of the great
rivers or lakes, is *rambling to the earth, and at the same
time a dozen new ships of war are going to complete the,
investment by sea, and three hundred thousand volunteers
are rushing to the limes, to complete the work of restoration
and_pacificatioo.
He defended the President against the accusations
brought against him by the Democrats respect-
ing slavery :
The chief complaint against the President is that he will
sot acoept peace on the bails of the integrity of the Union,
without having also the abandonment of slavery. When
and where have the insurgents offered him peace on the
heed of the integrity of the Union ? Nobody has offered it.
The rebels
pledged to rule this Republic or rain it. I told you here •
year ago that, practically, shivery was no longer in question,
that it was perishing, under the operation of the war.
That assertion has been confirmed. The Union
men is all the Slave States that we have de-
livered -are even more anxious than we are to
abolish slavery. Witness Western Virginia Maryland,
Louisiana. Tennessee. avid Arkansas: Maryland,
Jefferson
Davis tells you in effect the same thing. He says that
it is not slavery, but independence and sovereignty, for
which he is contending. There is good reason for this. A
hundred dollars in gold is only a year's parolee of the
labour of the working man in every part of the United
States. At less than half that price you could bay all the
slaves in the country. Nevertheless, our opponents want a
distinct exposition of the President'. views on the ultimate
solution of the slavery question. Why do they seat it?
For the same reason that the Pharisees and Saddam'',
wanted au authoritative resolution of the questions of
casuistry which S/040 in their day. One of those sects
believed in a kingdom to come, Ind the other denied
the resurrection of the dead. Nevertheless, they walked
together in loving accord in search of animate' °escaro-
les the spirit world. ")faster," said they, "there was
a man of our nation who married a wife earl died, leaving
six brothers. Those brothers snoessaivelymarried
the widowed woman end afterwards died. And last of all
the woman died also. In the resurrection which of the
seven shall have this woman to wife r Now what was it to
them whether 000 or all should have the woman to wife in
heaven. It could be nothing to the &Unease in any case.
What was it to any human laving on this side of the grave?
What was it to any homes being is Mama except the
woman and her seven husbands —absolutely matinee. Yet
they would have an answer. And they received one. The
answer was that while in this mortal state, men and
women shall Dever cease to marry sod to die,
there will be is the resurrection neither death
nor marrying nor giving in marriage. Although altogether
neautbonsed to meek for the Provident upon hypothetical
questions, I think I can give an mower epos the subject of
al at the present day—an answer which will be ex-
plicit, and I hope not altogether unsatiehdory. While
the rebels continue to wage war against the government at
the Coited Staten the military measures affecting slavery,
which have bees adopted from morality, to bring the war
to a speedy and successful esti will be methined, mood)
so far as practical experience shall show that they caa
be modified advantageously, with a view to the rune
end. When the insurgents shall have disbanded their
armies, and laid down their arms, the war will instantly
OMNIe and all the war measures thee misting. totludil
those which affect slavery, will new oleo. aid all the mon
economical, and political goodies', as well as questions
affecting slavery as others which shall Uses be existing be-
tween individual' and states and the Federsl government,
whether they arose before the civil war began, or whether
they grew out of it, will, by force or the constitution, pea
over to the arbitrament of court, of law, and to the councils
of legiaLltion.
Mr. Seward concluded u follows :

The nun i wain. So sorely at it shell rise meals, so
surely do I think that the peat 'vests we base now cells-
brats,' prelude the cod of our mafioso' troubles, and the
restoration of the natioeal authority with pew, prosperity,
and freedom throughout the whole laud, from tho lake. to
the gulf, and from somas towns.

DRAMA.

STRAND.

The numerous patrons of this popular little
house will be glad to hear that it m-opseed on Saturday
night, atter a somewhat longer mem thus urinal, with the
old eceepaey sad some of the old Owes, but with promisee
of many aoveltioa Mee Seashore/eh bas mad* geed use
of the time during which the theatre bee remained along he
reconstruct and redecorate the frost of the house, and it
is new one of the best arranged, best ventilated, and most
elegant little places of entertainment is Landow The
dram-circle sad stalls bare been entirely altered sad vastly
improved, and, while the Rudman get mere air and comfort.
the roaaagmient can met roori visible. A. new barlesque
by Mr. Byres will be produced is about three weeks' time,
and Mr. Stevie, a promising low comedian and singer from
Liverpool, will make Ms first appeareaos in Loaded..