Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-03-28
From the National Intelligencer.

| There are some known opinions of the distn-
| guished Senator from New York from which we
| entirely dissent; and we do not know, when we
come to think of it, that we have ever in our life
| given him credit in these columns for any single
thing that he has either done or left undone This
| has been from no want of personal goodwill or
| respect towards him, but purely by accident; but
| it is one reason, among others, why we should
| give him credit when we think it due to him.
| The occasion presents itself. We have sincere
pleasure in doing now so much justice to that
Senator as to place before our readers the follow
ing eloquent, and indeed brilliant, passage from
q Speech delivered by him at the Dinner given on
Saturday last by the authorities and citizens ofthe
city of New York to the Members of the Legisla-
| ture ofthat State visiting that city.
At the close of his speech Mr.. Seward said
Gentlemen, will all have common property in
the State OF New York as tits, and n the whole and
every part and element oft There may be among the
citizens of this great capital some who feel that they
have right to look contemptuously on the country
which constitutes its broad suburbs | remember one
who seemed to think so. l fell in with him on tour
i am sure it was his first one--to Niagara. He
pressed his surprise at seeing steamboat Cayuga
lake and two steamboats, Senaca lake, and when
he yet another Canandagua lake, he asked
me, with all the artlessness OF one willing to be nstc
ted, how they got the steamboats, into the lakes!-
Laughter Well gentlemen,it must be only such per-
sons as this that undertakes the rural districts,
and they only to be pited but certainly not 10 be
retaliated upon
$50 there doubtless are some minds in the country
mat are Jealous of the CITY, They do not know, they
DO not understand that the wealth gathered here flows
over the whole State; that the light OF civilization
klndled here ilumnates this broad land while its ash
es and cnders fall within the confines of the city itself
The wealth produced here is shared with the country
me poverty and crime generated here remain at home
Tor such benefieence TCheers]
"Gentlemen, we have common property in the vir-
tues that have made this State what it s-n that prnci-
pal virtue emulation signfied by the bearings on our
armoaI shield: the rock with the waves beating upon
IT, and the motto In vain; the rising sun, and that
spirit stirring, spirit sustaining motto, Higher 1t
not tor town or country either that Hamilton and Jay
labored to secure the elements OF freedom JUSTICE and
order In our constitution, that Clinton developed our
vast resources and made the valley of the St. Lawrence
and the valley OF the Mississippi tributaries our great
ness
"And this thought suggests, gentlemen vet another:
the Intimate relation the necessity of ndissoube con-
nexlen between tine State and the United States 1t is
not New York alone that supports and sustains this
great city and tins great States the entire nation,
stretching from the river ST. Lawrence along the At
antlc coast and the Mexican Gulf and then across the
mountains and along the Pacific coast away up to
Nootka Sound. Our star is indeed brilliant and distin-
gulshabe in the constellation but, let it shoot from its
sphere and i would pale its fires and be lost in the
heavens [Cheers.l Gentlemen, no man in New
ches chss one t bs
further on the subject of the Union: l be-
lever in the Christian religion. When it happens
III my way to TALL in with skepc, endeavor to re-
move his doubts and pesevere coafidngly; but when
he avows himself an Atheist, think that he is to be
turned over to my friend DR.. Benedict, of the insane
hospital at Utica, So, if should hear New York
man avow himself disunonist, should think the
Bloomi1gdale Asylum the ttest place for his correc-
ton [Cheers. Sir, what's just and wise must be de-
tended and maintained, but he who cannot deiead and
maintain hemin the Union and under this Constitu-
uon, is capable of doing good, and, in my poor
Judgment, incapable of doing no harm G(,heers /
May Heaven take OF the New York man, if there
be- one, who seeks dsunion and Heaven save the wits
OF HIM who sincerely suspects others of being 30! But
gentlemen, must not forget that am only casual
and unexpected guest; will not abuse by much speak
ing, the hospitality which has INDUCED me with the
privilege OF being listener at this happy greeting of
town and country: TCres Of go on, go on No. gen
tlemen: Cries Of go on. go on.l Gentlemen Of the
rural districts, please to be in order. Excuse me- Mr.
Lieutenant Governor aud Mr.. Speaker for thus usur-
ping your authority give You, gentlemen, The CT
ty OF New York and the State of New York-harmo-
between them and all the sister States'n