New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-21

Lhtse d;s.;nrs elements Of ccmpromise They all ,wed
Zoe slayeholderst to represent their slayes they aoweu
the TEMPORAL establishment promotion oil the slave
trade. thew allowed the re capture of fugitive slaves. 80
tie Statse from that time commeneed struggle oeeween
Slavery and Liberty, and according TO bis own SNOW
in every Of the fights Slavery, up TO thus monsns
has been Vctorioes Now, ladies aud gentlemen, gov
ernments are nos made. They grow Goverhnents
are not sn artificial machinery They are the results OF
civil life, wealth, thoughts, habits, blood these
mako soyernments lei us wHa. 'ne o0 Mea sre
asd thoughtful can shape out Tor you the
rapabe form of their government as mucn az
Cuyier could tell you the haFdts OF an animal II yen
showed him its anstoniy. Governments grow. Acccu-
ITO FIR. Seward this Government has been gro wine.
lis organic life has been going on seventy years
Wbst is the result Incessant victory on tne eave
he vsys the people have been detuded with the idea
tbss their Union is in danger, end they have sacr,
feed iuetce and liberty in ORDER to save shst ioVeu
SniCn iron the spis. a Se 'n as Daniel
-ster ssid We do not know any man tssS mas deos
now; he has liabilities. Laughter Ihere is
no grOg in New York. only semo n,n Go;s 90
States Well, according tc Mr.. Sewsrd, the people,
the weakness the only that he gives for his IN
cessant Defeat of Liberty is an over.sensitve desire
and crednous belief of the Dsunion propensity OF the
Capits States-an over-sensitive desire 10 avoid the
dai per-en inodnate love of the Union What 10 his
remedy Glove the Union better" How does ne
end his speech The eulogy of the Union. The eaai
dron has been turned and stirred for sixty years. The
result poison Does he put in any new element is
there any wholesome potion infused None. VIVA
was the btterest element Of the draught! Too mnch
love of the Union Add TO it what Is called states
| manshp. Great laughter and appause In Bean
Swifts matcbess satire you know the traveller net
man engaged for forty years in extracting snnoeams
| from cncumbers. laughter. Said he, Have you
| succeeded "Not yet; but only grant me year or
two more and additional funds, and have no doubt
| " / shall succeed" Repeated laughter. The lover
of the Union puts the parchment ON the table. lie
| NJ, nd farms
| the hands that made it are almost DIVINE. Iney
could not be better. The charter party Of your voyage
is almost from heaven. We started Jefferson ana
Wythe, the spirit of these mighty statesmen MAKING
| Virginia tremble for her right to sell. John jay
brooded over New-York with his angel wings. Sam
| Adams thundered in Faneui Hall. The enthusiasm
| of the revolution launched the ship of State. We
went on seventy year,. We clutched Florida from
Spain, and entombed 1t to Slavery we Dought
Louisiana from Napoleon, and stamped 1t with
bondage. We stole Texas from Catholic Mex
leo, and put back Slavery into its free soil: We
outraged every principle of Saxon Justice with the
Fugitive Slave bill. We trampled on the Constitution
elf in the bred Scott decision Ourabest statesman
star ds in 1861 and tells us the history, and we ask
what is your remedy Z" Shut your eyes. Plunge
headlOpg when private man of hated lips suggests
the positive value that is in the remedy-but 1t might
be we'll to consider whether had not started wrong,
Heis traitor He must not have public hall. de
must not be heard. He is libeing the institutions; he
is g the prosperity a9 sd ns aens Si
actly the state in which we meet tonight Mark me,
en- not blaming William ii. Seward. He is a repre-
sentative man. the abest statesman the ooldest tnss
| we have got Great applause. The foremost man OF
l8 States. Wei, what can any OF his friends sug-
gest before pass, moment, TO the direct argument
that wish to present to you Why they would un.
doubtedy say, you do injustice to MIR. Seward That
speech of bis is the simple programme OF poll
tician. lie spoke at Rochester his real heart ne ne
uttered in 1885, in Ohio, his full belief when ne
said Slavery is a sin and an evil, and must
"be abolished and you l must abolish it,"
Wen know he did, | know he did, and
that makes that speech all the more remarkable.
He cannot afford to utter what he then did, Hewould
| not be available if he was Aboitionst. You have
got Constitution under which the leading men and
the first Presidents Of your country ayowed them-
| Henry, Wythe Lee Jay, the leading men OF the
Revolutionary period went down into their graves to
carve in enduring granite the record that they were
Abolonists. They drfted sixty years on your sacred
, and almost divine sea of the Union and the man
who makes his bid for the Presidency seals
his fate, ne is Abolitonis and his friends excuse
him on the ground that he ought TO. know he ought
to- But turn round and look at the other side. What
is the public opinion which your Union has produced
| that makes such condition OF things necessary Am
/ wrong in saying that it is a Pro-Slavery influence
| No man dares TO say it. The first thing new mem
Der of Congress says when he rises the floor, is
"Mr. Speaker, am not an Abolitionist.' Laughter
ment. What has the Union done There is no
mystery about the Union. 1t is piece Of parchment
laid up at Washington, written IN fair text hand all
correct-eyery Dotted and every crossed 1t ia the
agreement of three millions of people how they should
be governed. That is the Constitution Our fathers
| made and you may 90 look at it. Applause Well
| now what has it done | am an American as well as
you. l know the history exactly as you do of sixty
years. Let us weigh it. What is the great object Of
| Government! Watch me carefully, and see If 1,
| Intentionally at any rate, attempt to mislead
| Won. | have no wish TO make speech;
| certainly have wish TO cheat one Of
| you into an hours delusion. / have not laid
twenty five years the altar of Slavery and unpopu
larity order to deceive you people for an hour, My
object fellow citizens, in coming here tonight to
endeayor to add an atom, tribe, something to the
weight of public opinion. believe 1t is the ultimate
1 final king Of this country, public opinion You may
build your capital OF granite and crown 1t with iron,
and the pulsation of grls beartw wear down, only
give il time enough. believe in sentiment, and that
as the only influence immortal in this world of
want to stir hose pulses, TO hasten them That's my
| only object tonight. Now what is the object of
Government To protect person and property, and to
secure to every the easy safe utterance OF all he
thinks Is not that the whole function Of govern
| ment. Save your life, save your property, give ex-
pansion to your miDd-that is all. Now what has the
Union done for you. Are your lives any safer in this
| city that James Buchanan regns at Washington! Are
| yonr title deeds to the Fifth Avenue any
| better because South Carolina buys negroes.
| Property there is all the same. The right
of locomotion can't you and l 60 to Savannah 70.
| night Suppose we did. Suppose you entered
| your name as a member Of Ward Beechers Church,
| Brooklyn. / think if you got your lives In
sured the Office would think you had forfeited the pol
notion therefore, in the matter. Well now as TO the
utterance of opinions suppose you stood in Charleston
10 night How long shouldI be permitted to make this
speech? How long would you be permitted to listen
70 ~ Well, there is nothing gained there then m
freedom of opinion. Come home again: Does
the existence of the Union make the very
ntterapce of opinion any safer in NewYork 7