Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-11-11
Senator Seward n, Rochester.

ROCHESTER,, y. Y. Oct. -. 1858.
Senator Seward addressed very
large Republican meeting in this city
tonight. Corinihian Hall was crowd
ed 10 excess. He spoke about one
hour and a half. and dwelt chieiis
upon the subject Of slavery. showing.
first. what were the intentions OF the
Trainers of the Constitution. and.
second, what has been the tendency OF
the Government under the control OF
the aristocracy of slavery This
country, he sail, must eventually be
wholly free or altogether slave
Territory. He arraigned the Dcmocra
tic party as the great Ally Of the
Slave Power. Democratic Admins
trations merely record is bchests-
The next demand Of the Slave Power
viii be the abrogation Of the law
suppressing the slave trade. and so
they will import from Africa. at the
cost of only $50 head. slaves enough
to fill up the interior Of the continent.
Thus. relatively increasing the number
Of Slaves States, they will allow no
amendments to the Constitution
preiudicial to their interests, and
having permanently established their
power they will expect the Federal
Judi,iary to nullify all State laws
which shall interfere with the inter
nal or foreign commerce in slaves
When the Free Sta.cs shall be
suffi icntly demoralizcl to tolerate
those designs. they may reasonable
conclude that slavery will be accepted
by these States themselves. II it were
possible to conceive for moment
that the Democratic party should
AisObcv the behcstS of the Shareholders.
we should then sec withdrawal oi
the Shareholders, who would leave the
party to perish. The portion of the
party which is found in the Free States
is q mere appcnaage, convenient to
modify It's sectional character without
impairing It's sectional constitution,
anl IS less elfc tive in regulating its
movement than the nebulous tail Of
the comet is in determining It's appoint
Ell though apparently eccentric course
in the fiery sphere from which it en-
anatcs. Senator s. finally spoke of
the Republican party as contrasted
with that Of the Democratic, and al
luded to the recent successes of the
former in Penn~ ylvania AMI the West
His con-luling remarks were as fol
lows: "The secret Of It's assumed sac
cess lies in that very characteristic
which. in the mouths OF scofiers, con-
stituteS great and lasting imbecility
and reproach. 1t lies in the fact that
it is party of one idea, but that idea
is a noble onc-an idea that fills and
expands all generous souls--the idea
OF equality-the equality of all men
before human tribunals and human
laws, as they all are equal before the
divine tribunal and divine laws. ]
know and you know that revolution
has begun. | know AMI all the world
knows that revolutions never go back
ward. Twenty Senators and hun
dred Representatives, proclaim boldly
in Congress. to-day, sentiments which
not so many men even in this Free
State dared 10 utter in their own
homes twenty years ago, while the
Government of the United States,
under the condnct Of the Democratic
party. has been all that time snrren-
dering one plain and castle after
another to Slavery. The people of
the Unitel States have been no less
stcalily anl pcrseveringly gathering
together the forces with which to
recover back again all the fields and
all the castles which have been lost.
sni to confound AMI overthrow, by
one decisive blow, the betrayers of the
Constitution and Of Freedom forever