The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-10-08
REBELLION IN TIE REPUBLICAN CAMP.-MR SEW
ARDS sPEECH AT DETROIT

ARDS SPEECH AT DETROIT
Mr. Seward has so far recovered from his
ing abors Of the late session Of Congress be able
favor his friends al Detroit in Michigan with Of his
great intellectual and philosophical harangues against the
South but apprehend from the announcement in the
Tribune that is the only effort that his delicate health
viii allow him TO make during the campaign The theme
Of this Detroit speech the aggrandEement Of slavery
and it is charac tezed by all the intellectual ygor and
the philosophical sophisty for which Mr. Seward is dis
tngu shed, ntermIed with large amount Of poetcal
license facts Mr. Seward that every depart
ment of the government is under proslayery nfu
ence and this false assumption he builds his argument
in favor OF change of administration. He INDUCES in
unadueraed fiction in maintaining that all the depart
mens of the government are filed by slavery-ex-
tremists but he does not go quite far Mr. Banks in
suggesting that southern shall under the Fremont
regime be entirely osracsed and the taken
exclusively the hands Of abotonists He tries TO
plain the why the slavery extremists he falsely
calls the democrats have succeeded in getting control of
the and amongst the he places prom
neny the fear of northern that the Union might be
dissolved He thinks it almost crminal-at least it is
cowardy-in northern TO have any fears about dis
solution of the Union and he congratuates himself and
their courage up the point of being indifferent whether
the Union preserved not He does not say with Banks
the National Lageneer, that the Union cannot be dis
solved but he eoces in the signs that the supporters of
Fremont longer restrained in their warfare the
South by the apprehension that they endangeng the
Union. He does not say in many words that he pre-
ers diSunion the further ascendency of the democratic
party but his argument would lead his followers regard
dsunion less evil than the election of Mr.. Buchanan.
Mr. Seward closes his speech by declaring in the teeth of
what Mr.. Blair has said that he knows Col Fremont we'll
and he thinks doubt that he is IA true repre-
sentative Of the of freedom Taken all together
Mr. Stewards speech is reafirmaon of his wellknown
abolition purposes but somewhat more reserved and eau
tious than he sometimes shows his hand with most tame
and equvoca endorsement of his presidential candidate
The coven foot is sufficiently exposed to provoke the
of Col Fremonts present confidential organ the
New York Herald When it is remembered that Bennett
just engaged in the task of making out Col FIRE.
mont good southern Union-loving man. it will not be
surprising find him pitching into Mr. Seward for his
endorsement of Col Fremont and reliable black
republican abolitionst Listen to Bennett Seward:
Mr. Seward has making Detroit of his char
actersc speeches against the Shareholders of the South
the governing class of the country He gives heavy
poeca euson this theme better fitted for the columns
Of dull poltcoerary magazine than for the practical
exgences of this crisis the stump He is of those
-fogy politicians who like the Bourbons, forget
anything and learn yhing BE breaches the
its of this campaign upon false issues He lighting the
Shareholders class while the great Fremont party
devoted to the practical Of putting down this
infamous democratic dynasty at sshingon, and of putting
up constitutional administration in its place. We have
nothing do with saveholders class than with
any other class Of feowcitizens We dealing with
debased administration and the corrupt party and the
rupt spolsmen and dunon politicians and re-eaters that
control the buchanan democracy"
Bennett winds up by saying that Seward "beogged
the real drift merits and issues Of this great
mcnt for Fremont and a new administration"
Bennett evidently which way the wind blows and
is setting his sails accordingly. he win the
triumph of Buchanan and exut in 1t with endish delight
the final overthrow Of Seward Greeley Webb and Ray
mond. Look for Benefits denial that he
black republican, and his assertion that he only
spy in their camp cheat and the backrspubcan
rascals"
When Mr. Seward undertakes TO reconstruct the broken
and dsmembered fragments OF repubicansm into another
sectional organization he may profit by the experience
furnished him in the present campaign.