The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-13
MR.. SEWARD on THE Kyow.SoTHINas.

Mr.. Seward made demonstration against the know
nothngs just before the close of the last Congress- which
reads very unsteady, and is as follows;
.sWhy cir, do mos. earnestly and most aectionately
advise all persons hereafter be born that they be born
the United States and they without Inconvenience
be born in the State OF New York. and thus avoid great
deal of trouble for themselves and for Others Laughter
Moreover do atieconatey enon upon all such per
hereafter to be born that they be born OF fathers
and of mothers of grandhers and OF grandmothes of
American blood. Still more sir, do aectionately enjoir
upon all shall have the wisdom into exist
this side Of the Atlantic and of such pure and
tainted ancestry be either born in the Protestant faith
be converted speedily possible to that good and true
Protestant Church. within whose pale myself am accusom
ed to worship.
and conviction of the serious Inconvenience which absolute
and slavery entails upon and upon of
do earnestly strenuous and aectionaey connre all peo
everywhere who hereafter to be born to be born
white Laughterl Thus being born in this free and hap
ply country and being born white, they will be born free
But Mr. President this the length and this the BREADTH
of connection with the and mysterious order OF
tots. And if there shall hereafter among persons
who because from ignorance they not be able to profit
by my advice and counsel shall be born in foreign lands
there shall be who despite of my counsel shall
persist in being Roman Catholics, Jews, Turks, Chi
or if there shall be others who disregardng per-
suason shall insist upon coming into the world with black
ened faces and twisted hair all in regard to them
weight the disabilities which they will incur by their pre-
sumption and perverseness. daughter.
Good ideas these and well strung together. But will
Mr. Seward tell how it that many of his friends in
New York joined this and sacrificing order simply
reelec him the Senate of the United States They
into the order first be elected TO the legislature
Getting into the legislature they voted for him for the
United States Senate and broke their oaths by pub
lie disclosure of the secrets of that refuge of lies Was
this accident design Mr. Seward is shrewd
ager allow any such step be taken before doubtful
contest without full consultation and it is difficult
decide that the game well known to, if not first sug
gested by him Is this not fair and natural inference
Mr. Seward is extremely anxious to prove eley
enth-hour devotion the adopted citizen But he is not
consistent in this demonstration His sympathies have
always run with the black cause His politics have always
partken of the African hue Nothing his patriotism
much dark-skinned Citizen He offered TO send the
New York white Irish and Dutch into Virginia exchange
for the free blacks OF that State He is the idol of the
gro White suherings rarely stir his impulses. To
him all politics would be proftess and uninviting
test if it were not that abolition invoked his earnest feel
ings and taxed his fertile imagination,
II is moreover good evidence of Mr. Stewards insin-
certy that at this be himself Is practically the
leader Of the party which he violently vituperaes.
He that the abolition element controls it. He feels that
is his best chance carry his schemes into successful
operation He knows that the great body Of those who
belong il antsavery to the kbone-ed by his
orders-hred with his wordsdevoted to his schemes.
How absurd then suppose especially after the conduct
of his friends in New York that such language that
have quoted is anything than blind 10 mslead the
public mind