Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-10-11
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Extracts frcm a Speech Of Senator Sew
ara at Dubuque, iowa
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SIDES TO EVERY QUESTION.

TWO .ttE5 TO EVERY QUESTION.
This, ny young fricn1s. FOR see many
such arounu ME, trinGs ne to point where
/ can give you one instruction which il you
practice, Is .uug as you live, may make 1T
least some % yol great men, honorable men.
u>iuI men. Hcmemher tha. all questions
have two sides {: one is the right side. tie
other the wrong SIDE; one is tne side of
justice the other that of injustice; one the
side Of human nature, Ike other Of crime
Ii YOU t,hc the wrong side, there is no pow
cr in earth or heaven that can lead you
through successfully, because il IS appointed
in the council Vi heaven that Justice, truth
.sa3 r,&sen alone eaa rr%~ai!. This instruc-
ton would he incomplete Il we're not to
add one other, that Indifference between
right and wrong is nothing else than to
take th2 wrong side The policy Ola q cat
leader Of the Democratic Party in the
North is Indifference it is nothing to him
whether Slavery is voted up or voted dozn
IN the Territories. Thus i makes no diff
ference to tia. distinguished statesman
whether Slavery is voted " Or voted down
in tbs new States whether hey all become
Slave States OF Free States Let Us see
how this would have worked in the Rcyo-
luton. II Jefferson had been indifferent
as to whether Congress voted up the Dec
laration ot Independence or voted it down,
what Kind Of time would thcy have had
with IT, Patrick Henry would have been
after nina with Vigilance Committee. and
be would have 10 monument over his re
mains The British Government would
have liked nothing better than a lot OF such
Indifferent men ior leaders ofthe American
people and George III, and his dynasty
might have ruled over the continent for a
thousand years to come.
THE .' ONE IDEA PARTY
All the big and little speakers of the Op-
position party are continually tauating tie
Republican party, by calling ita party with
but one idea or one object in view-rcfer-
ring to the opposition to the extension of
slavery. Senator Seward thus dispel5 the
horrors, which oar opponents would make
their followers believe, surround the idea.
MIR Seward said =
am not quite convinced that it is sound
philosophy in anything, at least in politics,
to Danish the principle of giving paramount
importance at any one time to one idea,
If man wishes to secure good crop of
wheat to pay of. the debt he owes upon his
land, he is seized with one idea in the
spring; he plows, plants and sows; he gath
ers and reaps, with single leading idea
Of getting forty bushels to the acre, if he
can. If a merchant wishes to be success.
iul, he surrenders himself to TIE one idea
Of buying as cheap and selling as dear as
he honestly can. | would not give much
for a lawyer who is put in charge Of my
case, that would suffer himself, when before
the jury, to be distracted with great many
pleasing ideas / want one devoted to my
cause In the Church we have great
many cergymcn who have horror Of thls
one idea and the negro question, but /
think it was ST. Peter who had it made
known to him in vision on the house top,
that he must not have scattered ideas but
there was to be one idea only, that is Of be
ing satisfied with everything else provided
he could only win souls 70 his Master.