Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-10-29
Yours,


SENA foW SEWARD AT ROCHESTER .-Roches-
ter, n Y October 25th Senator Seward ad
dressed very large Republican meeting in this
place tonight. Corinthian fall was crowded
to excess. lie spoke about orae hour and
half, and dwelt chiefly upon the .pbject Of
slavery, showing, first, what were the intcn-
tons of the trainers Of the constitution and
ID, what has been the tendency Of the Gov
erment under the control of the aristocracy
of slavery. This country, .he said, must
eventually be wholly free or altogether slave
territory He arraigned the Democratic
party as the great ally of the slave power.
Democratic Administrations merely record it's
behests The next demand of the slave pow
er will be the sbrogation of the law suppress
sing the slave trade, and so they will import
from Africa at the cost of only twenty dol
lars head, slaves enough to fill up the in
terror of the continent. Thus relatively in
creasing the number of Slave States, they
will allow no amendments to the constitution
prcjudicial to their interests, and having
permanently established their power, they
will expect the federal judiciary TO nullify all
State laws which shall interfere with the in.
ternal or foreign commerce in slaves. When
the Free States shall be sufficiently demoraF
lied to tolerate these designs, they may rea.-
sonably conclude that slavery will be accsp--
ted by those states themselves. If it were
possible to conceive for moment that the
Democratic party should disobey the behests
of the Shareholders, we should then see a
withdrawal of the Shareholders, who would
leave the party to perish. The portion of the
party which is found in the Free States is a
mere appendage, convenient to modify its
sectional character without impairng its
sectional constitution, and is less effective in
regulating its movement than the nebubous,
tail of the comet is in determining its ap--
pointed though apparently eccentric course,
or the fiery sphere from which it emanates.
Senator S. finally spoke of the policy Of the
Republican party as contrasted with that of
the Democratic. and alluded to the recent
successes of the former in Pennsylvania and
the West. His concluding remarks were as
follows The secret OF the assumed success
lies in that very characteristic which in the
mouths of scoffers constitutes great and last
ting imbecility and reproach. 1t lies in the
fact that it is party Of one idea, but that
idea is noble one-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 a
revolution has begun. l know and all the
world knows that revolutions never 20 back
wards. Twenty Senators and hundred
Representatives proclaim boldly in Congress,
to-day sentiments and principles Of freedom
which not so many men in this Free State
dared to utter in their own homes twenty
years ago, while the government of the Uni
ted States under the conduct Of the Demo
cratic party has been all that time surrender
ing one plain and castle after another to
slavery. The people of the United States
have been no less steadily and perseveringly
gathering together the forces with which to
recover back again all the fields and all the
castles which have been lost, and to confound
and overthrow by one decisive blow the be-
trayers of the Constitution and Of freedom
forever.