Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-08-24
MIR. SEWARD BOSTON.

great crowd Assem- hled at the depot oil
Boston and Maine Railroad, in Boston,
Monday evening, to welcome William
H. Seward, of New York, on his arrival
from Maine. He was driven to the
Revere House, the crowd following, where
he was introduced to the people by Gov.
Banks, and replied in q brief speech, which
WAS followed by remarks from Charles
Francis Ad,ms, Gen. Wilson, and Alexander
H. Rice The RI cept on of Mr.. Seward was
enthusiastic in the highest degree Omitting
the formalities, the speech Of Mr.. Seward
was as follows
" Fellow-citzens II have endeavored, all
along the road-for this. | think, is the
: venth or eighth time that | have been
called out to meet a kind and cord al vel
come, on this day only-I have endeavored
to accommodate myself to the reception by
treating it as light and trivial affair, trust
ing that those who have been 50 exceedingly
kind to me would believe after all. that there
was gratitude unexprcssed and strong, con-
cealed under the face Cf simple honest good
nature But fellow-citzens, the case IS altered
when | come upon the soil Of Massachusetts.
| cannot say that have a veneration, though
| have profound affection, for Vermont.
Her statesmen are not my teachers, her pe0-
pie are but my equals. Although | honor
them and respect them, love them for their
fidelity to the interests Of their country and
20 the cause OF Justice and humanity, they
are still but my fellOw-laborers in the vine
yard. ! can say the same Of New Hamp-
shire, that | know none of her statesmen or
her sons, who were earlier in the field than
the statesmen and sons of New York. | can
say the same Of the State Of Maine, which [
have visited, great and honorable a the
works are which have been done in those
States by the champions of human rights. |
am their equal | have received their cordial
welcome as an expression Of esteem and
kindness. But it Is altogether different in
the State Of Massachusetts,. Here | can play
no part | can affect no disguise; because,
although not son Of Massachusetts,, nor
even of New England born, feel and know
it my duty to confess that if | have ever
studied the interests of my country and OF
humanity, ] have studied in the school Of
Massachusetts,. II | have ever conceived !
resolution to maintain the rights and inter /
ests of these free States in the union of the /
Confederacy, learned it from Massachusetts,.
" 1t is twenty-five years ago, not far from
this season, when a distinguished and vener-
able statesman OF Massachusetts had retired /
to his home, a few miles in the suburbs Of I
your city, under the censure Of his fellow
citizens, driven home to his quarters by the /
peltings Of remCTseless pro-slavery people, [
that |, Younger then, Of course, than now, |
made a pilgrimage from my home, which was /
not moltst on my way, to the Sage of /
Quincy (applause) there TO learn from him /
what became a citizen Of the United States, /
IN view Of the deplJrabie condition of the I
intelligence and sentiment Of the country
under its demor .lization by the power Of
slavery. And there ! received, and thence |
have derived. every resolution, every s5ntl-
ment, that has animated ana inspired me in
the performance of my duty as "a citizen OF
the United States, all tins time. ! know,
indeed, that those sentiments have not al
ways been popular, even in the S'ate Of
Massachusetts. | know that citizens of
Massachusetts,. as well as citizens Of other
States, have attempted to drive the disciples
of that .llustriOus teacher from their policy.
But it is tonight that | am free to confess
that whenever any man, wherever he may b
found, whether be was of Northern or South
err birth, whether he was Of the "s)lId men
Of Boston, OF Of the light men of MiSslssip-
pi, have assailed me for the maintenance OF
those doctrines. have sought TO commune
with his spirit, and to learn from him wheth-
er the thing in which | was engaged was
well and worthilv done What a comment
ary upon the wisdom of man Is given in this
single fact, that fifteen years only after the
death of John Quincy Adams, the people of |
the United States, who hurled him from
power and from place, are calling TO the
head Of the nation, to the very seat from
which he was expelled, Abraham Lincoln
enthusiastic cheers) whose claim to that
seat is that he coniesses the obligation OF
that higher Law which the Sage Of Quincy
proclaimed and that he avows himself, for
veal or woe. for life or death, a soldier on the
side of freedom in the irrepressible conflict
between freedom and slavery.
" This gentlemen, is my simple confession.
| desire, now, only to say to you that
you have arrived at the last stage Of this
conflict before you reach the triumph which
is to inaugurate this great policy into the
Government Of the United States. You will
bear yourselves manfully. 1t behooyes you,
solid men of Boston, if you are here, and if
the solid men are not here. then the lighter
men of Massachusetts,, to bear onward and
forward, first in the ranks, the fog Of free
dom. | am somewhat turned about, | confess
to you, by the strange languages and dialects
to which | listen here, but believe | shall
speak accurately if say have been down
East -; and bring you the assurance from
that quarter that the whole East is coming
up to this conflict with the resolution, the
and the confidence of victory.
| should not allude to my own State if it
were not that some democrats have heard
make strong claims upon the popular vote in
the State of New York. | have not often
been mistaken, and therefore venture to
correct these remarks of others by saying to
you what | said to the republicans of Maine,
when they told me that it was moderate
enough to say that they have 20, 900 majority
for IIncoln and Hamlin, but that they had
some uneasiness about the State of NewYork,
that they might set down their majority
in Maine at their own figure. and then null
tlpIy it by four, and they would approximate
the majority in tie State of New York. But
I have the same testimony to give you
in relation to al the free States
together, with the assurance that, for the
first time, this banner will be unfurled in
safety in many of the slave States. But let
not your thoughts or expectations be confined
to the present hour. tell you fellow-citi-
zens that with this victory comes the end of
the power Of Slavery in the United States.
81 think may assume that Democrat Is
a man who maintains the creed of one or the
other branch of the Democratic party of the
present day. Assuming that to be SO, tell
you, in all sincerity, that the last Democrat
IN the United States is born"
4 SECRET FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARs.-The
treasurer of Amherst College has lately re-
ceived from Mr. Daniel Sears, of Boston, a
heretofore liberal benefactor of the college,
small and carefully sealed box, with the in
structlon that it is not to be opened for one
hundred years, on pain of forfeiture of the
gift which it contains. Speculation is at
fault as to the contents, and the reasons for
the accomuanvinS condition Tho shraud