North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-02
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Inc ~ visit to New York City, and were sun
Gently paved and entertained by the authorlnes
ably listed the various institutions of pubic cnarlS'
In' ,sv were dned and toasted in fine style AZ inc
aa,or House. Mr.. Seward. fresh from Albany ""e'e
- had crooked his finger and secured 'ie e'o.O -
NJ, Fish, was also present, and was aiuueo - =, :"
,orms of marked respect ana conSueia
eu.. ..,a,, f,overoor of the State spoke of him as
the honored representative Oh 1he esa'o ~ se s'e
NV ~ ITnitsd States (which ,allusion was
lived with twelve cheers; and ne was at last called
Inv Mr.. Speaker Raymond, in toastswhich the
O%D offa,ed TO President Fillmore and Congress.
IN. toast. saws the Tribune, was loudly cheer
4 and all eyes were turned upon Hon. William H.
e e'rard for response He was evidently not pres
u.,ed to comply with this demand, but finding it
f..loss to resist, he rose to address the company.
Cheer followed cheer so fast and so long that it was
some time before he could be heard" Mr.. Seward
oDeued his speech as follows;
With your leave, Mr.. President, gentlemen ofthe
Cannon Council and of the Legislature Legislators
If the City and of the State of New York since it
Is 60 distinctly your pleasure, rise most cheerfully
- respond to the sentiment which expresses your res
nsct for the Executive and the Legislators OF the
limited States. I am sure that hazard nothing in
assuming express the grateful reciprocity OF res
ct and consideration for you behalf of the Presi
PoOt of the United States. That ilustrous citizen,
SSimself son of New York, educated among US,
nd having risen to his proud emnence by services in
a. councis and as her representative while he will
Nv as he ought Just to all the States over which he
ssides still lodges the object of his in
nSe preference and worship that one of them which
Srst received his devotion. CCheers.]
Mr.. Seward then spoke at some length the iden-
-, If feeling and interest between New York City
md New York State, and concluded as follows:
"And this thought suggests, gentlemen, yet an
,ber the intimate relation, the ndlsSoluble connec
n between the State and the United States. 1t is
M, New York alone that supports and sustains this
a city, and this great State, is the entire nation,
,tcbing from the river st. Lawrence along the At
oic coast and the Mexican Gulf and then across the
maintains and along the Pacific coast away up to
Noolka Sound. Our star is indeed brilliant and dis
constable in the constellation but let it shoot from
is sphere and it would pale its fires and be lost in
the Heavens lcheers.1 Gentlemen, no man in New
York can be dsunionst Icheers. l know none
indeed. will say only one thing further on the sub
ioct of the Union. am believer in the Christian
Religion. When it happens in my way to fall in
with sceEtic, l ehdeavor to remove his doubts, and
Ipersevere coa6dingly; but when he avows himself
an Atheist think that he is to be turned to my
friend Dr. Benedict, of the Insane Hospital at Utica.
Soft should hear New York man avow himself
a Dsunionist, should think the Bloomingdale Asy
Ium the fittest place for his correction. Cheers.
Sir what is just and wise must be defended and
maintained, but he who cannot maintain and defend
them in this u Mon and under this Constitution, IS
capable of doing no good, and, in my poor judgment,
incapable of doing more harm. lCheers. May
Heaven take of the New York man, if there be
one. who seeks Dsunlon, and Heaven save the wits
of him who sincerely suspects others of being so
But. gentlemen, must not forget that am only
casual and unexpected guest; will not abuse, by
much speaking, the hospitality which has INDUCED
me with the privilege of being listener at this hap
Ply greeting of town and country. Cries of " Go
NJ eric of Tn
90 only Gentlemen of the rural districts, please
to be in order. Excuse me, Mr.. Lieutenant Govern
or and Mr.. Speaker, for thus usurpng your authority
give you gentlemen, The City of New York and
the State of New York, harmony and affection be-
tween them and ndissoluble Union between them
and all the sister States"
Mr. Seward was followed by another Abolitonist,
Hon. Henry Stanton, no, among other things, said
"There is too much of human progress, human
hope, and human wel-being, involved in the exis-
tence of the Union, to allow it to be dissolved !
will tell you Sir, what will make our institutions
enduring as time. 1t is because, that while the Peo
pie will regiousy observe and PERFORM in their let
and spirit all Constitutional obligations, and will
maintain the absolute supremacy of the laws, they
will also exercise the freedom of speech and the press,
the right of assembling and PettionIng, and will re-
sist every encroachment upon the inviolabty OF tie
writ of habeus corpus and the privileges of the trial
by Jury. Loud applause Dissolve this Union
Why, Sir the men yet live among US, who have seen
few feeble colonies, along the Atlantic coast
inhabited by less than three millions OF people, ex-
pand into a confederacy of thirty-one Independent
States, stretching its territory from the granite shores
of New England to the golden strand of California
and from the pine forests of the Lakes to the orange
groves of the Rio Grande, teemng with twenty-four
millions of intelligent and prosperous treemen, and
becoming richer in all the elements of true greatness
than any nation under heaven. And, Sir, the grand
sons of these aged men will live to see this same
cOnederacy grow under our glorious Constitution TIL
its population the march OF enumeration. TILL
its territory, washed by two oceans, reaches from
the arctic of Labrador to the troPlc heats OF
Panama, and till the sun, as he traverses this VIDE
domain neither rises upon master sets upon sGUe
Long continued appause.1 l conclude by PIoPos-
ing you the immortal sentiment of Daniel ebster;
" Liberty and Union and forever, one and lnse-
PARABLE
So it seems that the breach between President
Fillmore and Senator Seward has been healed. The
Presidents organ reoices the election OF Ham
lton Fish, Mr.. Stewards ally and bosom friend and
Mr.. Seward in turn, responds to toast on 6ehGE g
the President and speaks of him in the highest terms
Seward too, it seems, is Union man! What will
the members of that defunct humbug ''-the Union
party-say to that! Seward says he is one OF the
best friends the Union habitat what is 'wise
and just =" may be defended and maintained I" the
Union and by the Union-and that Disunionlst In
New York is fit subject for Lunatic Asylum
Will the Wing papers of the State lay these facts
before their readers. Or will they keep them back
for the benefit of their dear President and the ma
4ional Wing party! We shall see.
SPECIE, TOBACCO, &c.
"A late New York letter to the Philadelphia Ameri-