Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-27

N"tS ANi SOhSASso'
SENATOR SEWARD AT ST. PAUL.-Gov.
Seward spoke at St. Paul Mimi on the 18th
inst, in the presence of an enthusiastic and
much admiring audience. The New York
Herald has a report of his speech, from which
the following is taken =
Cetainly, since we can lay so little claim to
having produced these results by our own
work, or wisdom, or virtue, what could it have
been but that everything power which, by its
higher law, controls even the peryerse wills Of
men, and which means that this shall be, hence
forth and forever, as it was established in the
beginning, a land, not of slavery, but a land
of freedom. Fellow citizens, either in one way
or the other, whether you agree with me in
attributlng it to the interpOsition of Divine
Providence or not, this battle has been fought,
this victory has been won. Slavery to-day is,
for the first time, not only powerless, but with
out influence in the American republic. The
serried ranks of party after party, which rallied
under it to sustain and support it, are broken
and dissolved under the pressure of the march,
the great and powerful march,-of the Ameri
can people, determined to restore freedom to
its original and just position in the govern
ment. For the first time in the history of the
United States, no man in a free state can be
bribed to vote for slavery. The government
OF the United States has not the power to make
good a bride or seduction by which to make
ard convert democrats to support slavery. For
the first time in the history of the republic,
the slave power has not even the power to ter.
rity or alarm the freeman so as to make him
submit, and scheme, and coincide, and COM
promise. 1t rails now with feeble voice, as it
Numbered i'll our ears for 20 or 30 years past.
With feeble and muttering voice they cry out
tl1 tbpV will tlA HMM tn nil H}bo'c
AFRAID? They complain that if we will not
surrender our principles, and our system, and
our light-being majority-to rule, and if
we will not accept their system any such rul-
ers as they will give us they will go out OF
the Union. Who's afraid? NobodyS afraid
nobody can be bought. Now, fellow citizens let
me ask you, since you are so prompt at an
swering-suppose that any time within the
last forty years we could have found American
| people in the free states everywhere lust as
they are everywhere in the free states now-in
such condition that there was no party that
could be bought, nobody that could be scared
how much sooner do you think this revolu-
ton would have come in which we are now
engaged do not believe there has been one
day since 1857 until now, when slavery had
any power i'll this government except what it
derived from buoyng up man Of weak virtue,
no principle and great cupidty, and terrifying
men OF weak nerve in the free states. And
now come to ask what has made this great
political change How is it the American peo-
pie, who only ten years ago said, "Take part,
take all'-who only six years ago said Cake
Kansas, carry slavery over it :" who, when the
tears of the widows and the blood of the mar
tyrs of liberty cried out from the ground and
appealed to them for aid and help and SYM
pathy, said, Let Kansas shrek !" how is it
that IN the space OF six years you have all be-
come-the whole people of the north and the
northwest, the whole people of the free sta es-
have become all at once so honest that none OF
them can be scared will tell you, theorists
and visionaries ON the Atlantic coast, who of
all men in the world were safest from the in
vasion Of slavery and had least to suffer from
it, while these praries and wldernesses were as
yet being filled and organized, could not be con-
WINGED of the imminence OF the danger. 1t has
been next to impossible to convince the man
| who lives on the sidewalk of an Atlantic city,
or even the farmer in his field, who lives in
| Ontario, or Cayuga or Berks or in any Of the
counties in the eastern states, that it was a
matter of very great consequence to him
whether slaves or ireemen constitute the PEG
ple-the ruling power Of the new states
But just in the right moment, when battle
was as good as lost, the emigration from
the eastern states and from the Old World
into Michigan and Winconsin and Min
nesota and Iowa, rose up in the exercise
and enjoyment of that freedom which had
been saved to them by the ordinance OF 1887,
ana, approaching its value and importance,
and feeling, every man for himself, that he
neither would be slave nor make a slave,
nor own slave, nor allow any particular man
to make or buy, or own slave within the
state to which they belonged, they came like
Butcher TO the rescue, and the field Of Water.
loo was Won The northwest has INDICATED
the wisdom of the statesmen OF 1887, and the
virtue of the American people and now,
since you were so determined that slavery
should be arrested, and that freedom should
henceforth BE- national and slavery only
sectional, we of the Atlantic states are
becoming just as honest and just as brave as
you are. Fellow citizens, must not be mis-
interpreted. have said that this battle was
fought, and this victory won. ! said so
| perhaps in the senate of the United States, foul
years ago, and was thoughtto have thereby,
instead of encouraging tie great army OF free
dom to consummate its triumph, tended to
demoralze its energies. / know better.
knew that men work all the better, and are all
the Drawer when they have hope and confidence
of success and triumph, instead of acting un-
der the influence Of dependency and despair.
| The battle is fought and this victory won, pro-
vided that you stand determined TO maintain
the great American party under its great and
glorious leader. Abraham Lincoln in inaug-
urating its principles into the administration
of the government, and provided you stand by
him in his administrations it it shall be, and |
trust It shall, wise and just and good one, IN
"a NE adversary shall ind out that he has been
g y9 and shall voluntarily retire from The field.
Unless you do that, there is still danger that
: q" mat has been gained may be lost.