The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-10-31
NORTH IOWA TIMES.


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VIM. HI. seward.
A Republican exchange, (the Lansing
Mirror,) publishes the speech of Mr.. Sew
ard at Chicago, and a liberal portion of the
speech Of Mr.. Douglas, at the same place.
The editor Of the Mirror suggests that the
North Iowa Times print Republican
speech also. Having recently rercad Mr..
seward's celebrated sssst th, of last
win,er, wo have concluded sblige Mr..
CHArrERroN with an extract ffomsrit. Mr..
Seward is a beautiful writer, and Of all his
political efforts we think-his last Senate
speech carries off the palm. It will DC re-
collected that he had previously spoken at
Rochester, N. Y, and that his speech there
was of radcsl character; it was at Roch-
ester he set the ''irrepressible" idea agoing.
The conservative portion of the Republican
party (and We trust that portion is larger
and more influential than appearances now
indicate) came down on Seward for his i'm
prudent radcalsm. In the Senate he took
q view of things much more consonant
with the union of the States and depreca
tory of sectional strife. The "confict" at
Rochester had become repressible in the
Senate; but this moderation, this patriotic
outburst Of eloquence for the Union as it *,
lost Mr.. Seward the nomination. He has
travelled over the west lately, and has in
doctrinated his admirers with the most ilib-
eral ideas towards the South; he has loaded
Lincoln down with every weight having the
least specific value to the cause. of -Aboli.
tionsm.
Let any man read the concluding portion
of this extract and ask himself what Mr.
Seward means by referring to the Africans
free and the Africans in bondage" when
they, with the rest Of the immense audi
ence which h. calls up, say: ''Is this ally''
'Are you more just taan Washington
wiser than Hamilton, more humane than
Jefferson?' "W hat new form of govern
ment or Of union have you the power to
establish or the cunning to derise that will
be more free, more gentle, more Jenefcent,
or MORE GLORIOUS than this?"
If the african in bondage" is estopped
by Seward from complaining of this "free,"
'gentle," "benefcent" and GLORIOUS gov
ernment, what, in the name of Jehovah, was
the use of his comprising land and sea to
tell our people of its wickedness, its "viola-
ton of the rights of humanity" Of its
divergence" from correct policy, OF its
absurdity in pretending to be free govern
ment while holding men in bondage, and
why did he tarnsih his fame as an Amer
lean orator and statesman, by deliberately
telling his hearers that native born citizens
of this mighty Republic were no longer Ca
pable of, or virtuous enough, to guide its
destinies?
We thank the Mirror for requesting us
to print Republican speech. Please read
this extract:
remain now in the opinion I have uni.
formly expressed here and elsewhere, that
these hasty threats of disunion are so un-
natural that they will find no hand-to exc
cute them. We are of one race, language,
liberty, and faith; engaged, indeed, in va
ried industry, but even that industry, So
diversified, brings us into more intimate re-
lations with each other than any other peo-
pie, however homogeneous, and though liv-
ing under a consolidated government, ever
maintained. We languish throughout, il
one joint of our Federal frame is smitten;
while it is certain that part discovered
must perish. You may refine as you please
about the structure Of the Government, and
say that it is a compact, and that breach,
by one of the States or by Congress, oil
any one article, absolves all the members
from allegiance, and that the States may
separate when they have, or fancy the,
have, cause for war. But once try to sub
vert it, and you will find that it is Gov
ernment Of the whole people--as individu-
ais, as well as compact of States; that
every individual member of the body polite
is conscious Of his interest and power in it,
and knows that he will be helpless, power.
less, hopeless, when it shall have gone
down. Mankind have natural right, a
natural instinct, and natural capacity for
self ltgovernment; and when, as here, they
are sufficiently rpencd by culture, they will
and must have ltgovernment, and no
other. The trainers of our Constitution,
with a wisdom that surpassed all previous
understanding among men, adapted it to
these inherent clements Of human nature
He strangely, blindly misunderstands the
anatomy of the great system, who thinks
that its only bonds, or even its stronges,
ligaments, are the written compact or even
the multiplied and thoroughly ramified
roads and thoroughtares Of trade, commerce
and social intercourse. These are strong
indeed, but its chiefcst instruments of co
hcsion--those which render it inseparable
and indivisible-are the millions Of fibre>
of millions of contented, happy human
hearts, binding by their affections, their am.
bitions, and their best hopes, equally the
high and the low, the rich and the poor, the
wise and the unwise, the learned and the
,untutored, even the good and the bad. to a
Government, the first, the last. and the
only such one that has ever existed, which
takes equal heed always of their wants
their wishes, and their opinions; and ap
pealS to them all, individually, once in .
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