Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-03-02
senator seward,s speech.

senator seWGrd'ba Speech'
The sense of the telegraphic abstract of Mr.
Stewards speech was SO changed by verbal err
rOrs in yesterday mornings Leader, that we
again insert it, l.5Ha f
Mr. Seward presented the memorial of the
Legislature of Kansas, praying for admission
into the Union.
Mr.. Seward then spoke. He opened by re-
marking the evils of slavery. Labor either of
fellow men or Of slaves was the the cardinel
necessity of society. Some States chose one
kind and some the other. The Slave State
strikes down and Affects to extinguish the
personalitity OF the laborer not only as a
member of the political body, but also as a
parent, husband, child, neighbOr or friend. He
thus becomes in a political view merely
property without moral capacity and without
domestic, moral ,or social relations, dutes,rights
and remedies, a chattel, an object of bargain,
sale, gift, inheritance or theft. His earnings
are compensated and his wrongs abused, not to
himself, but to his owner. The State protects
not the slave as a man, but the capital of
another man which he represents. In contrast
Mr.. s. reviewed the condition of the free labor
and the free states. He said the State which
rejects Slavery encourages ard animates the
laborer by maintaining and developing his natur.
al personality in all the rights and faculties Of
manhood and with the privileges Ofcitizenship.
He thought he might not inaccurately call
Slave States capital States, and Free States
Labor States. In the opinion of Mr. Sew
ard, the fathers of the Republic adjusted the
slavery question 80 that it might have given US
much less than our present disquiet had not
circumstances afterwards occurred which they
had not clearly fOreseeu.
They condemned the practice of Slavery and
hoped for it's discontinuance. They expressed
this when they asserted this as fundamental
principle in the Declaration of Independence,
that all men are created equal, &c. He thought
the Constitution recognized every human being
not as capital but as a person.
After giving brief history of the settle.
ment of the Louisiana territory, the speaker
referred TO the question of Congress LgisIating
for the Territories. The question of 1920 was
identically the question of 1860.
He alluded TO the conflict going on between
freedom and slavery. The Democratic party
was generally found to support policy of
capital. He quoted instances.
Mr.. Van Buren, launched prospective veto
against the anticipated measure of removing
slavery from the District of Columbia. a
Democratic Congress brought Texas into the
Union, stipulating for its future reorganization
into four slave Stales.
Mr.. s. referred briefly to the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, and It's effect upon the
territory of Kansas. Immediately after the
event the Wing party went down never to rise
again, and the Republican party was organized.
He spoke of the efforts of Democrats to make
Kansas a slave State and force it into the
Union as such, and denounced that party's OBJ
iect to mask itself, behind the battery of the
Supreme Court. The same party was itself
responsible for the act to subvert the free Re-
public of Nicaragua, ald to open it to slavery
and the African slave trade.
Mr.. Seward said the Republican party EN-.
bodies the popular protest and reaction against
policy which has been fastened upon nation
by surprise, and which its reason and con
science eoncurring with the reason and con
science of mankind condemn. He spoke of
the coming Presidential campaign, and the
Republicans holding to the principles of pre-
venting the Territories by Constitutional
means from becoming homes for slavery and
polygamy He said the policy of the Republi-
can party was to stand by the freedom of
speech and of the Press The speedy improve
ment of the public domain by homestead laws
will encourage its settlement and internal
commerce, and construct needful connections
between the Atlantic and Pacific States. He
alluded to the fact that while Southern men are
not willing to see the Inauguration of Res
publican President because il was a sectional
party, and passed on TO prove that the Repub-
iican party is not a sectional organization
He asks, is it easier for US to bear your sway
than for you to bear oure, is it unreasonable that
for once we should alternate! He said the real
principles of the Republican party were naN
tional. He was no assailant of States. all
the States were part and parcel of his own
country.
Mr. s. said it was well and wisely arranged
that the States were sovereign on the subject
of slavery within their own borders. He said
John Brown and his associates acted on ear
nest though fatally erroneous convictions. He
pronounced the act an act of sedition and trea-
son, and criminal in just the extent that it
affected the public peace, and was destructive
of human life l ..a.aJ
He did not think anything serious would
grow out of the repeated threats to dissolve the
Union. Gu-ELs IL lE1a -