The Council Bluffs nonpareil., 1860-09-15

rsr AiTIoSaI piyE2GEy1E lsD RETrRs.
SPEECH OF
WILLIAM q. SEWARD :!
Al Detroit Sept. 4sh. 1soo.
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FxtIow CITrzESs-We claim that our po-
lisicai system is . jodicious one. and that We
are "a Intelligent and vir;uous people. Ihs
| government ought therefore not 90 to Sc
care respect and goodwill abroad, bot also
10 p.1jace good order, contentmens and
harmony as home. Ii fsiss to attain these
ends. The Canadians certainly Dsiihe. en-
" nor lore us. Al! the Independent Amer
lean paEers, from the Rio 0rande TO Cape
Horn. while they eonsrive 10 construct gov
e.nmenss for themselves after our models,
fear. and many Of them hate Us. European
nations do indeed revere our constitutions
snd admire our progress, bat they generally
sgree 10 p.onouncing Us Inconsistent With
Ger organic principle and eaprieious. The
President inv ighs against corruption among
the people. The immediate representatives.
Of the people In Congress charge the Presi-
dent With immoral practices, and the PresI-
dens protests against their action as subssr-
sise Of tho Executive prerogasive. The
House OF Representatives orgasizes itself
convul.ise!y amid confessed dangers Of
popular commo,ion. The Senate listens
uDsurprissd. and almost without excitement,
70 msnaees Of violence, secession and disun-
ion. Frauds ard violence in the Territories
are paIiiated and rewarded. Exposure and
resissencc TO them are condemned aud pun
ished, while The just, enlightened and rea-
sona5is will Of the people there, though
conslitutioIally expressed. is circumyented
di.obsyed and jisreyardei. States watch
auxioas,y FOR unlawful intrusion and insa-
son by citizens of other States, while the
Federal Courts fa.l to suppress p:racies on
the high seas, and ereo Oh eur own coasts.
The government, of the Union, caurts and
submits TO State espionage Of the FEDERAL
mails, while the States scarcely attempt 20
protect the personal rights Of citizens Of
other States, peacefully pursuing harmless
occupations within their fraternal iurisdic-
tlUns.
4 CHANGE WANTED.
their several parties and masses answer.
Certainly you, the Republicans Of Michigan,
as well rs the Republicans throughout the
whole country, are not satisfied. But you
are Interested in a change Of administration,
and therefore perhaps preindiced. Ask,
then, the Constitutional Union men. few and
inefficient, indeed, here. but numerous and
energetic elsewhere. They are not satisfied.
II they were they would not be engaged, as
they are now, IN hopeless attempt to or
ganize new parry withou, any principles
at all, after their recent failures TO combine
such patty on obnoxious principles. But
they also are interested and possibly preju-
diced, Ike the Republicans. Appeal then
TO the Democratic party, which enjoys and
wields the patronage nUi power of The Fed
eral Government. Even the Democrats are
no less dissatisfied. They certainly are dis
sati.icd with the Republicans, with the
National Union men, with their own admin
istration, with each other, aud, rs think,
even Individually, with themselves. The
North is not satisfied. It's masses want
suppression of the African slave trade, and
an eTeetual exclusion Of slavery from the
Territories, so that all new and future States
may be securely free States. The South is
not satisfied. is masses, by whatever means,
and Mt whatever cost, desire Ihe establish
mept and protection of slavery in the Ter
ritorIes, so that none of The new States may
fail to become slave States. The East is
discontented with the neglect OF its fisheries,
manufactures and navigation, and the West
is impatient uuder the operation of national
policy, hostile 10 its agricultural, mining
and social Developments. What government
in the world but ours, has persistentiy re-
fused to improve rivers, construct hnrbors
and establish light houses, for the protection
Of it's commerce? New and anomalous
combinations OF citizens appear, in the
North iustifying armed instigators Of civil
and scrvIle war: in the South devising means
for the disruption aud ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of
the Union. IL is manifest that we are suf-
fering IN the respect and confidence Of for
eign States, and that disorder and confusion
are more hagrant among ourselves now than
ever before.
! do not intend to be understood that
these evils are thus far productive of material
suffering or intolerable embarrassment,
much iesa that the country is. az so many
extravagant persons say, on the high road
to civil war or dissolution. On the contrary,
this fair land We live IN is so blessed with
all the clements Of human comfort and
/ happiness, and its citizens are at once so
ioyal and wise. and so well surrounded by
yet unbr0ken guarantees of civil and relg.
ious liberty, that our experience Of misrue
at the very worst never becomes so painful
rs to raise the question, How much more Of
public misery We can endure; but it leaves
US liberty To stop nov. as always heretofore,
with the inquiry, How much more Of free
/ dom. prosperity aud hener We can secure 10y
I The practice Of greater wisdom and higher
/ virtue? Disconten;ment is the wholesome
j fruit Of discovery Of maIadministrati0p.
and conviction If public error is here, ut
! least, always a sure haIbinser of political
reform.
/ Martha Van Buren,. tn say. is writing n
/ review Of his own life, and eur ttma, for
( rosthumous uses. Ii itisnot disrespectful.
! | should Ike to know now the conclusions
I ho draws from the national events be has
I seen, and IT which he has been an important
I part; fer he j. shrewd observer. with the
advantages Of large ard lonS experience.
/ To me it seems that the last forty years
I have constituted period Of signal ard
( lamentablc failure in the efforts Of states
men 10 adjust aud establish federal policy
| for the regulation of the subject OF slavery
F.! in its reisttaus to the Union. In this view
/ | regard it as belonging to the Office Of n
statesman net mctely to favor an immediate
and temporary increase Of national wealth.
! and an enlargement OF national territory
but also to fortify. so far ~ the prescribed
constitutional limits Of bis action my allow.
the irlluences Of knowledge aud humanity
to abate popular prejuaiees and passions,
BY modifying or removing their causes: TO
ascertain aud disclose the operation Of gsn
sral laws, and to study aud reveal the <cclal
scndeosies If the age, and by combining the
past with the present. While giving free pay
ali che time Ia the reciprocsting action of
the raaay ea-sSsstias moral forces, 10 deyel-
on that harmonious system which actually
prevails in the apparent chaos Of human
aIsirs. aed 81 70 gaia something IN the way
af assurance az to che camplexion of that
tatariss toward. which. since eur eoansry
il destined 10 sndure. ard inasmuch IS ws
desire that II NAV be immortal, car thoughts
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