Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-03-15
1Tr. Seward,s Late Speech.

The conviction has been brought home to the
leaders and managers of the Black Republican party
that too much holiness in the avowal of their ex
IRENE doctrines was beginning to lesson their chances
for securing the control of the government in the
lext Presidential election. 1t was this feeling which
induced the New York Tribune to seemingly abandon
the fortunes Of Mr.. SEWARD IN connection with the
Chicago nomination, and urge the selection of one
like Mr.. BATES who, though essentially a Bepub-
lican, and a gallant Emancipationist," whom " it
would be difficult to make odiaus to sane abolition
lists is not so well understood by the country, and,
therefore. not liable to the same prejudces that
would cucumber Mr.. SEWARD as their candidate
To counteract this tendency IN the sentiment Of
the party, and TO srrest the tide which had been
setting in against him, appears to have been the OBJ
ject and aim Of Mr. SEWARD in his late Senatorial
speech. How far he has succeeded in his endeavors.
il is too clearly to predict with confidence Our
impressions are, that the effect has been favorable
that but for this arresting Of the tide, he must
have been overwhelmed at Chicago. while at present
he stands a reasonable chance of success. His
friends appear 10 have been delighted with the
speech not on account Of any new principles which
1t enumerated, or any new light which it has cast
upon their political pathway, but simply because it
revealed more moderate tone, and more prudent
policy, than he has hitherto held and parsued.
With regard to tho subject-matter of Mr. SEwARD's
speech, the n. Y. Journal Of Commerce saws 1--WE are
not among these who have assigned to it the utmost
Importance or believed 1t likely to exercise very
powerful influence upon the political issues of the
day. He is a statesman Of much ability, a theorizer
IN political systems, rather than practical poti
clan q statesman in the abstract rather than prac-
ticallv. aud better skilled in weaving the web of
mystery, than in calculating political truths. Inms
late speech in the Senate lie has presented the Sec
tional doctrines of his party in garb, and that
like the man who has been for a time cut at the
elbow, but presently appears in bran new suit
anG is more presentabe in refined society, the ReFub
Hcan party may appear more respectable and less
odious, but after all it is only the identical man in
different dress holding the same dangerous opinions,
and ready to put in practice the same evil intent.
against those who VIII not submit to his arbitrary
dictaton concerning their domestic affairs. In one
particular Mr.. SEWARD holds, in his recent speech,
different language from that proclaimed last year at
Rochester Instead of insisting upon the existence
of an 'Irrepressible conflict between opposing
forces until the States Of this Union shall be all
free or all slave he says, the whole sovereign
" upon domestic concerns within this Union, Is di-
vided between us by unmistakable boundaries. You
have your fifteen distinct parts eighteen parts
equally distinct Each must be maintained in order
that the whole may be preserved But the speech
Is remarkable not for any new principle advanced
or position sumed but for the sublued tone, and
the Difference TO the late expression of public sent
ment, which mark its language throughout