New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-13
REPUBLICAN, MEETING Ar ALBANY
SPEECH OF THE HON. WIN. H, SEWARD
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In torrents. humorous "'iO ''''N w '''I"
home being unable TO obtain admittaoce inside.
The meeting was the largest seen in Albany for
,nsny wears. II looked like the tunouts in 1910.
M,ror p,RMELE E presided, assisted by number
Of vice presidents
f,nv SEWARD made bis appearance amid pro-
,orOed cheering, and kept the crowd for about two
hours. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed and the
Republicans were in high spirits.
When be concluded Gen. JAMES W. NYE came
forward in snsver TO loud calls, and spoke for
some time in his usual happy and brilliant style.
GOV. sEWARD's SPEECH
Hail TO the capital of New-Yorkl Venerable for
its antiquity, and yet distinguished for it, loyalty to
Progress, Liberty and Union This capital is dear to
ne. 1t has more than SEN me abroad with hon.
orable functions and in those adverse seasons
which have happened to me- as they NUT happea to
all representative men, it has never failed to receive
me at home again With sympathy and kindness.
Douby bonored be the banner of the stars and
stripes which here takes its highest significance as
it waves over tho halls where equal representatives
make The laws which regulate the lives of equal free
men, Honored be the statue Of Jus ice that sur
mounts the dome above us Blind, that she may not
through either passion prejudice discriminate be
tween tie rich end the poor, The protestant and cath
Ole the native-bO and the exotic, the freeman aud
him whose liberties have been coven down, and
weighing with exact balaI the ghts Of ell classes
and all races Of men, Old familiar echoes geet NY
car from beneath these embOwered roofs The
voices Of the SpencTs, Of Ken, and Van Rensselaer,
and Ven Veghteo of The geoal TOmpsins, of Clinton
the greet and the elder Clinton of King and Ham1
Ton, Of Jay the pure AID benevolent and Schuyler
the gallant and inf xible. The very ar tne fingers
uftQ III sO-
cal and of physical enterprise and OF unconqueraoie
You. old. tried, familiar friends, ask my counsel
whether TO cling yet longer to traditional controversies
and TO dissoyiDg parties rise at to nobler
gms with new and more etc asso istlonsl do
not wonder at your suspense, nor 90 'e9sure 1au'lon
or even timdiIy. Fickeness in political associations
is a weak Dets, and preciptabcy 10 pubic action Is a
crime Cor sideTed by itself it s unfortunate to be
obliged to separate from an old party and to destitute
n new one. The new one may exhlbli more enthus-
asm for a time but il must 80 for time lack cOhe
sion and discipline The Of parties are generally
arbitrary and not at all i0ncaiVo of their Oh 4racters
or purposes. generous man will, never theless cling,
as if it we're family altar TO name that has long
been a raliying cry for himself aud his comparios.
The gre at question before u.s. bOwe' err IS to be de-
cided not by een4 but under the counsels of reason
and patriotism 1t was the last iDjunc iou given by
the last of the revolutionary congresses TO the
American people, never TO forget that the cause OF
America had always been and that 1t must ever con-
TIME 10 be the cause OF human nature. The question
then IT, what il the dictated TO US by our love
Of country ano Of humanity
The na'ion was foun1ed on the simple aud practi
cally Few principle OF the equal and lnaledaoe
rights q all men, and therefore necessarily became
republic. Other governments, founded on the au-
Gent principle of the inequality of men, are by force
Of an equal Necessity mooarchies or aostooracies
Whene, or either of tbese kinds of governments loses
by lapse of time and change of circumstances its ele
Ipeniery principle whether of equality inequality,
thenceforwara il takes rapid and lrfesls ole course
toward a reorganization Of The opposite kind. No one
here or elsewhere is 90 dsoy al TO his country or TO
mankind be willing 10 see our iepub lean syste
fail All a, rec that in every and throughout all
hazaros srstocracy must be a6hor'et and avoided,
and republican institutions must be defended and pre-
served.
Thin IL not strange or extravagant when say that
an arisocTacy has already arisen here aud that is
all esdy undermining the Republic. An aristocracy
could not arise in any country where there was no
privileged class and DO special foundauon on whlch
such class could permanently stand. On the con
trary every State, however republican its Consutu-
ton may b., is sue 10 become an arstocracy sooner
or later ifit has privilege class standiog hrmv on
an enduring spt cial iout daton; and that class is
continually growing stronger and stronger, aud the
unprivepe ed Glasses continually growing weaker ana
weaker il is not at all esse tia 10 privileged class
that il rest ieuda Tel ures or on military comma9d
or OH ecclesiastical authority, or thai its rights be
hereditary or even that it be distinguished by iltes oil
honor. II may be even the more ip.ldous aud the
more dang FOR lacking all these things because 1t
will be LEES obnoxious 10 popular hostility.
privileged class has existed IN this country from
an early period of its sett ement. Saveh odes coast-
fute that class. They have a special foundation on
which TO s'ond-namely, penonal domi ZION over
slaves. Conscience and sound policy forbid all men
alike from holding slaves, but some ciilzeas disregard
fbe Injunction Some of The States enforce the lnhD
tion other States reglect refuse to enforce It, In
each of the States there three hundred and my
thousand citizens who avail themse yes OF this peculiar
inc ence and those projected by the laws oil these
States constitute a privileged class Ioey confess
themselves to be such class when they designate the
system of Slavery peculiar institution
The spirit Of the revolutionary age was adverse 70
that pryiIeced class. America and Europe were firmly
engaged then in prosecuting what was expected To be
a speedy complete and universal sbonl0n oil African
Slavery Nearly all the privileged classes al htteu
that Slavery as per nanant system was inueieusl0e
and favored its removal. Tney asked only wnat
seemed by means unreasonable some s'cutiI .I
,eai, ~ a sudden. rash and violent removal OF tue
syiI Under these circumstances even the most de-
rided opponents of Slavery consented 10 some pro
xisons OF the Fedora constitution when were ncou
rstent with the stern logic OF equality THAI Pervadeu
all its other paris, and pervaded tDe WnoiS VI VIC
Declaration of American Independence, on when Tue
Const ution itself was based. We are not TO censue
the fathers for these CONCESSIONS they had union OF
the States 10 create and TO their ardent and generous
minds the voluntary removal of Slavery bv the action
of the several States themselves without federal laer
ference seemed not only certain oa' close a. manu.
tn. &c prov isions of the Constitution were;
Frsf. That the foreign slave-trade should not be
abolished b, relsCs. g.
SSoond, That any Law or regulation which any State
miobt establish in favor of Freedom should not impair
the legal remedy then supposed 10 exist by conmon
law for the recap'ure by ea process IN sucn 49,
Of ugitives from labor service escaping from other
TSir5, That three-fAhs of all slaves should be
counted in settipg the basis of representation ID the
several States. .,,..,
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