Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-11-02
Seward S Speech at Albany.

seward speech at Albany
The Bangor Jeffrsomm copies this
document at length, and remarks
1.-The speech is sound in doctrine on
the great question Of the day. aud is es-
pecIally significant for the fact that lis
author therein wholly ignores the Wing
party.
So far so good but let no Native
American he cheated with this kind oil
cant. We invite especial attention &c
the following paragraph, from that sell
same speech
at is best 10 take an existing organl-
cation that answers TO these conditions II
we can find one; II we cannot find one
such, we must create one. Let Us try
existing parties by this test Shall we
take the Know Nothing party, or the
American party, as II now more ambl.
tionsly names ITSELF 1t is a purely sec
tional organization. In the privileged
States i, scouts the principle OF the
equality OF man, and jusiiies the unbound
ed claims of the privileged class. In the
unprivileged States i, SUITES lis voice and
SURPRISES your own free speech. lest ii
may be heard beyond the Potomac In
the privileged States /, justIfes all the
wrongs COMMITTED against you. In the
unprivileged States II affects TO condemn
them, but protests tina, they shall not be
,olr,-.,J | .Da,l- Of O. -.
and prevaricatng rituals, its unlawful
and unchrlsiian oaths, its clandestne
councils and its dark conspirscies, ITS
mobs and its murders, prescribing and
shaving men for their conscience sake
and Tor the sake of their nativity. have
spoken Of them often enough and freely
enough heretofore. | say now only that
all these equally unfit this so-caled
American party for any national duty,
and qualify it to be, what it has thus far
been, an auxiliary Swiss Corps, engaging
the friends Of Freedom In premature Skin.
mishes at one time, and decoying them
into ambashes prepared by their enemies
at another. Let ii pass by"
VIZ NOW ush iut Cdiu'u ledueF 10 say
If the author does not ''lhereln wholly ic-
more" the American party too Yet the
editor Of the JcGersonian says:
1.-The speech is a forcible and correc,
statement ot the position of the Republi-
can party"
We agree with you FOR once it's jus,
what we have been telling our readers for
the last len months, namely, tina, the Re-
publican party. as Northern, sectional,
(noi national, party, was hostile TO the
American party. If we have no, been
believed heretofore, we think that man
must be sunk so low in old fogyism. that
the arm Of progress can never reach him,
who will continue to doub, our state
ments upon this point, in the face and
eyes oftestlmony Ike the foregoing.
But we seek no cause for quarrel with
the Republican party; we would rather
1t ally itself with the American party,
and then, like the allies in the Crimea,
storm the strong hold-,h Sebastopol o;
Romanisrn and Slavery. Yet that man
must be blind to reason, blind 10 areu.
meut, blind TO facts. who still insists tina
the American and Republican parties are
the same in principle, bat differing only
IN name.
There are many good and true men in
Hancock county who style themselves
Republicans; but We are no, prepared to
believe that one in fifty have guAe,s large
enough to swallow this kind of Seward
ism, even with Bartlett Of the Jefe,so
man 10 help crowd il down their throa.s
No, they are at heart Americans the,
Will stand with the Americans on The
platform adopted at the county conyen
tion. Seward, Greeley Il Bartlett 10 III,
contrary nolhs outstanding lie, then
pass.