New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-01

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! TIE SPEECH OF Gov. SEWARD in the Senate
yesterday, opening the debate on his bill to admit
Kansas forthwith into the Union under her new
Free Labor Constitution, though dealing only with
topics already widely persisteI y discussed through
series of years, must stu arrest the public atten-
ton. So calm in temper, go philosophic in state
ment, go comprehensive in grasp, so passionle's
even in its ncupations go farreaching in its views
| it must everywhere be recognized as speech
which no ether man could have made. Other
statesmen generally seek to narrow and belitte the
issues which divide and convulse the country;
Gov. Seward gives them their fullest em-
phasis. The " irrepreSsibe conflict" was
never more broadly affirmed more distinctly
set FORTH than in this very Speech. The most ad-
vanced Republican must realize that his convictions
and aspirations are herein embodied; yet the most
| vehement Slavery Extensionist must likewise feel
that its spirit is mbued and sufused with fraterna
kindness toward the South, and most devoted,
unsectional patriotsm-that its author recognizes
the People of the Slave States not as casually and
temporarily united with us in a political partner
ship, but as brethren and countfymen yesterday,
| to-day, and forever-that our Union ia perpetual,
| br,vud tho Yvuor of faction and mad
| ambition; and that the only permanent
effect of each serious attempt at its dissolution
must be the ruin of those engaged in it. Gov.
Stewards faith in Liberty and Freedom of Dis
cussion as ccnservators of National existence and
vitality is boundless and invncibe. No peril, no
calamity of the hour can shake bis conviction that
our Union and our Free Institutions are destined
to endure and expand forever. This constitutional
optimism, in the presence of a widespread alarm,
partly bypochondrac, partly hypocrtica, is in it.
self strong antidote to the fantastic terrors it
defes and combats. The Union will never be shat
tered in the presence of such impregnabe faith in
its endurance.
Gov. Seward has 80 long been stigmatzed by
reckless and ribald press as Jacobn and radical
that those who now frat study his inculcations
fully will be astonished to find him 80 eminently
pacific and conservative. Future generations will
be puzzled to comprehend how such sentiments as
his couched in the language of courtesy and suavty
which no provoc,tiOn can induce him to discard,
should ever have been denounced as incendiary and
| anarchical. Unles, it be treason to maintain that
Freedom is preferable to Slavery, no man was ever
less disoya or less reckless Of international obBga.
| tons than'he. Whoever can scent Disunion in
such speeches as that we herewith print, might find
it far more readily and abundantly in the Sermon
on the Mount or the Multiplication table.
| Whether Gov. Seward shall this year or ever
be candidate for President, it is not for US to
decide; but whether he shall be or not, il is Of
vital consequence to the Republican cause that this
speech be universally read Thousands voted
against Gen. Scott in so because of their detesta-
ton and horror of Gov. s.; and whoever may be
our candidate in 1860 will lose votes from terror Of
Sewardsm and the Higher Law" We say,
then, to our fellow Republicans, IfyQu mean to
triumph at the close of this year, help to put this
speech INTO every mouse anu iunaptcu caplu III inc
Free States. Could it be SO circulated in the
doubtful States, we should regard most of them as
doubtful no longer. Thousands who blindy execrate
| Gov. Seward will yet read his speeches, knowing
that they are able and thorough and that they never
blink the great questions at issue. There should be
at least One Million copies of this Speech in the
hands of 80 many voters within the next month;
who will help put that number in circulation Tor
rather what Republican will not We shall have
Issued $1,000 copies of it before this day is ended
and at least Twenty five Thousand more to-morrow
but what is that aggregate compared with the ur
gent requirement. There should be One Hundred
Thousand circulated forthwith in New-Jersey, with
Half Million in Pennsylvania and an equal num-
Der in Indiana and Illinois Republicans Of every
State, but especially those who regard Gov. Seward
AZ our proper standard-bearer in the impending
Presidential struggle VIII each Of you elect him
sell Committee Of One to take care that this