Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-10-26
Gov. Seward in a slave state.

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Senator Seward reached st. Louis on Sat
urday night 2sth ult., and was escorted by the
Vide Awakes to Baruum's Hotel, from the
Balcony of which he delivered his first speech
in a slave State as follows:
He said he had not come to see ST. Louis or
the people Of Missouri, but to see Kansas,
which, was entitled to his gratitude and res
pect.. Missouri cond take care of herself she
did not care for Republican principles, but
warred with them altogether. Ii forty years
ago Missouri had chosen to be free State,
she would now have four millions of people in
stead ofone million. He was a plain spoken
man, and here he was talking treason in the
streets of ST. Louis. He could talk nothing
else if he talked as all honest man, but he found
himself out Of place here. a VoIcE-" Y ou re
at home" y Here, said he, are the people of
Missouri, who ask me to make speech, and at
the same time there are laws as to what kind
of a speech I may make. The first duty you
owe to your city and yourself is to repeal and
abrogate every law on your statute book that
pfehibits a.fnan from saying what his honest
Judgment and sentiment and heart tell him is
the truth. Mingled surprise and appreciation
on the part of the crowd.] Though / have
said these hard things about the State of Miss
OUR, have no hard sentiments about it or ST.
Louis, for have great faith and hopeAnay,
absolute trast=-in Providence. What Mis-
sour wantsis courage, resolution, spirit, man
bood-npt consenting to take only that pri-
vilege Of speech that shareholders allow, but
insisting on complete freedom of speech. But
Illave fulitfust that it will all come right in
the end that in ten years you will double
your population, ard that in fifteen or twenty
years you will have four millions of people
To secure that you have but to let every man
who comes here, from whatever state or nation,
/ speak out what me believes will promote the
welfare and interest of mankind. What sur
sprised me in Kansas was to see the vast i'm
provements made there within six years, with
SO little wealth or strength among the people
and what surprised me in Missouri was that
with sucha vast territory and such great re-
sources, there was SO little Of population i'm
provement and strength to be found. Faint
manifestations Of APPROVAL. ought not per.
haps, to talk these things to you, 1 should have
begun at the other end of the story though a
citizen of any other state has as much liberty
here as the citizens of Missouri but; he has
less liberty than ] like, I want more thar
I you have. I want to speak what 7 think in
stead of what Missouran thinks think
you are in a fair way of shaming your govern
ment into an enlightened position. You are
in the way of being Germanized into it.
would much rather you had got into it by be
| ing Amerieanized, instead of Gernaaized but
4 il IL better to come to it through that way
thar not to come to it at all. 1t was through
the Germans Germanizing Great Britain that
/ Magma Charta was obtained, and that thai
great charter of English liberty came to be ths
charter of the liberties of the sons of Englanc
throughout the whole world. Whatever lie
lin my power to do to bring into successful ant
practical operation the great principle tha
this government is a government for free men
and not for slaves or shareholders, aud thai
| this country is to be the home ofthe exile from
/ every land, I shall do as you are going to dc
by supporting Abraham Lincoln for Presiden
] and Hannibal Hamlin for Vice President
Cheers. a4.e i.as sze5 eya.