The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-03-08
Sen. Stewards Great Speech.

Sen. Stewards Great Speech.
On Wednesday, February 10Th last, Sen.
Seward presented the memorial of Kansas,
praying admission to the Union as a State,
and accompanied it with Speech, which, as
was expected, fully sustained the reputation
of its author, as the greatest living Statesman
of this country. 1t occupied two and half
hours in the delivery, and drew together the
largest audience of the present session. 1t
| is to beprinted as a Campaign document.
We copy few paragraphs from the cor
respondence of the N. Y. Tribune, in relation
to this speech:
The audience assembled to hear Gov Stewards
speech to-day, filled every available spot in the Senate
galleries, and oyeraowed into all the adacent bibles
and passages, crowding them with throngs eager to
follow the argument of the Senator or even to catch
an occasionalsentence word while, throughout It's
devery,a constant stream of life flowed up and down
the gorgeous s.aircases of the Chamber vainy beat
ing against the compact masses who had been
tunate TO get early possession Of the ground and
thence recoilng and DETECTING, the disappointed cur
rent would glide into eddies around the hail. and ling
err in groups beyond earshot Of the Speaker, unwil
ing to abandon all hope of ultimately catching a
glimpse ofthe scene transpiring below.
1t on the aeor itselfthat the most Interesting
spectacle presented. Every Senator deemed to
be in his.seat. Hunter, Davis Toombs, Mason, Ham
mond, slidell, Clingman, Benjamin, and Brown paid
the closest attention to the speaker Crenden list
ened to every word. Douglas affected to be selfpos
sessed but mis- Of mien gave token tho,
the truths now uttered awakened unpleasant memories
of the Lecomptcn contest, when he, Seward and Crit
tenden, the famous Triumvrate led the allies in their
attack upon corrupt and ,fespodc Administration.
! The Members of the House streamed over to fine
north wing ofthe Capitol, almost in body, leaving
Mr. Reagan, of Texas to discourse to empty benches
while Seward held his levee in the Senate.
| Many prominent m ~ from. various parts of the
Union, occupied the reserved in and around the
Chamber. There unusually large attendance
of the diplomatic corps. This due in part, doubt
less, to the reputation of the orator as statesman
and leader of great party take the control
Of the Federal Government but more, perhaps the
fact that durnghs recent foreign tour Gov. Seward
was received with marked respect, and seemed some.
times to be confidently consulted by the eminent
crowned heads and the most distinguished statesmen
Of Europe. ...
Beyond the most of Gov. Stewards speeches. this Of
to-day produced marked present Impression. Dis.
missing the Kansas imbroglio in adroit paragraph
he drew vivid between the scapital States
and the "labor States showing that the "frrepressi
BILE conflict, for announcing which he is maligned
is conflict between capital In negroes and the labor
ufwlite men His exposition Of the relation of the
Constitution to Slavery contained in few lucid
fences, all that is valuable upon that subject in Mar
SHALL Story, and Kent TIL" historic sketch of parties
and policies and the influence of slavery upon BOTH
from the rise of the Missouri Compromise onward to
its fall exhibited all of Iaam's fidelity to fact light
ed up with the warm coloring of ncroft The espe-
cial outline of the Kansas controversy and of the
doctrina heresy and dangerous tendency Of the bred
Scott pronunciamento, have never been compressed
/ into worde so few and weighty. Nothing could be
more triumphant than his vndication of the Republi-
can party from the charge OF sectionalsm nothing
more felicitods than his invitation to the South to
come to Newt York aIqh proclaim its doctrines from
Lake Erie to Sag Harbor assuring its champions of
safe conduct in their raid upon his constituents while
the sly suggestion, thatif the South would allow Re
pnhlicans the like access to its people, the party
would soon cast as many votes below the Potomac
it now does noh o. that river, Of those hap
by retorts whose visible effect upon Senators from the
Slavehodng States must have been to be appre.
ciated and enjoyed. His implied rebuke of the TRADE
against Helpers book, by quoting JeTerson's com
end itory letter to Price, the Helper of his day. and
his comparison of the attempt to impcate, by innu.
eEdoes Others than Brown and his companions, in
their attack npon lIarper's Ferry with like attempts
toimiicate innocent persons in the Salem Witch
craft the City Fawkes Plot, and the Old Colonial Ne
gro Plot, produced sautary effect upon apprecia
ting auditory, though uttered in the calm and
ured language so characteristic of our Senator And
finally, this mastery and successful speech closed
by an elaborate and impressive exposition, alike orig
nal, sincere and heary orthe manifold adva ntages
Of the Federal Unon the firm hold it has upon the af
fections of the people, the solid basis upon which it,
pillars rest, and the certainty that it will survive the
rudest shocks OF fanaticism and faction.