, 1860-09-28
Seward AID Doug las--A StnGeslunu aud
4 Politician.

The true ssatesmao, We overheard q lecturer
remark, is no C1ore like politician than tie Can.
itoiine Joveis Ikea Chin paEz:e, Nor was it IN
extreme comparison. All ta4t tue stateepaua
and the politician have in eommon is ahsir
occupation. They both busy themselves
with Tie political affairs Of ra.ion,, but hey do
70 on different principles, and with diatinc: atd
different ends. Tbs atatesman, from lsrue
survey of the pscuharities Of bis country, her
people, her resources, her 1e1ations and lsr
pEobate destlnles, promotes such measures
OF policy ~ will procure to .hat country securi-
y ut hcne a1d respect Abro.d. lie will lry tn
develop It's wealth and power, but he will regard
public virtue Is higher aim than either wealth
" power. Us will act With pa1ty. but oaly
so far rs the vje~s Of tba. parry are conducive
to Tie general good. But ihe politician never
has large or general views; tho horizon Of hia
pnrpesss is the horizon Of party suceesa; and
eTeu that suceess IS dear to him as = means ct
attaining personal ends, rather than Al naeans
Of advancing the principles Of justice or truth
it may represent.
Ws bare a. e4emplidcaton Of these difftr-
ences, We tLink, in the rresent attitudes res
pecllrely OF two distinguished senators OF the
United S:a'ed one Of New York aul The
torical tour; both are making elaborase speech
es TO the people; both are urging the claims Of
different political parties to public confidence;
.Ed Jet the contrast between them is obvious
xswelt ~ immense. Mr. Seward, if be CON
suited his private feelings alone, has many per-
aonal ressors why te should remain idle, if not
Indifferent, in ths present controversy. But h.
does not allow that 10 coatrol his public seton.
Superseded, q the Candidate of his party for
the highest cltlce in the Qift Of tha people,, by
the superior fortune Of ano:ter, he throws him
self into the CANVASS for that other with al the
ability and ea1nestuess he can command. Mr.
Douglas, who Is = candidate, and who has
unTL L-- Ill.
why he should remain Silent, treverses the lard
from one end % the other, traduc;ug his opro.
nents and pleading bis OWN cause. His tcpi: il
himaelf and his servieeB to the cammouT ealtk,
His prircipsl object, the formation Of z great
party on which be may ride into higher power
hereafter. Seward speaks for cause Doug.
Las speaks for Douglas.
In their intellectual merits, Ne mar obse,re
in passing, the Efforts Of these gentlemen ara
no less strikingly contrastej. Sc yard has IN ada
= half-d1zen 2ddresEes to the people Of The
West, Ill, Of Deces 4ltY, upon the same topics.
yet each varied from the other in the d.taia ii
logic SID rhetoric. lie does not repeat at Mil
~aukee the phrases which be used At Detroit,
nor at Madison tho phrases which he used at
Milwaukee. His mind is full Of his subject. but
his Imagination suggests thousand changes Of
trope aud expression ia which to present It:
new ideas come to light at every new place:
new Arguments enforce the main propositions;
and new illusions, historical, literary or Local,
lend vfracity to the stv}e- Deuglss, on the 9th,
defful pan cea of squatter sovereignty for bis
beginning, middle and end. The only ya1ia-
tions-like Tho variations Ct pAgarini en- the
fddle-are Of one string.
At Concord his exordium was Dor9lR1, and
his perorstion tquatter sovereignty; but At
Newark the exorc1um wassqustter sovereignty
1ud tee peToratlon DouxfGB 10 tho ABSORPTION
Of his faculties in this sublime theme be cannot
evaa unbend to more tean one joke. Like h;s
argurentr, his fun IL mcuotoncus. he is worse
than Jos Pent1e-d, the ctown Of the ci1cus, who
has It least dczsn things intended 10 b. xitly,
which be fepeata in al the cities AID 1i1lsges Of
the Union. Douglas be9sn 1t Maize, went
sylTania, New York and North Carolina, aud
IN now g7ipg over tho Yves: with tke same
speech Arybcdy whohss heard oneka1heard
ali the others. With this siaE!e exception, that
if there be in any locality any peculiar 1ocal
prejudice, he varies bis strain to tho most du.-
Get batteries Of that prejudice.
1here Is this that is 1naaterIy and stateama1.
like in Ar. Seward's addresses: he proceeds
upon fundamental principles Of general politics.
The noble ideas which uederlie our Institutions
inspire his worda wherever he GOES. He does
not sppeai to local passions: nor spend his
the nation, not for t1e prs:sn, sereIy' ba: for
Ill time. awaken his interest. BE informs ths
people tbs: they must contemplate higher ecds
than the results OF Z party campaign. 4 rools
aad glorious future il spread cut before the IA
ton If it is true to its CONVICTIONS Of duty aud
right; and In illustration Of this truth Iii,
SaHard At Madison rel1ssd story Of John Ad-
ANS, Who, At the cloae Of tbs Revolutionary
War, set down and counted up the Losses aad
sacrifices that he had endured ind made, and
Jet reioiced in the establishment of the inde-
Pendenee which had been the crest object Of
his life. ~ bars gained nothipg &" hs sale, al
should have been eren moro comfortable, per-
haps, snd more quiet, had No remained under
the British dominion; but for my children, aud
for the children Of tho generation that 1abored
entities rs to rejoice, and calls upon ua by our
sneeess to render thanksto Almighty Godl