Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-27
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SENATOR. THE ORR
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His Speech before the New England
society OF n eyy. YOrl<--He Predicts.
Nature OF GOurGiOTern1nent.
Senator Seward being 1by chance at the
Astor House in. New York on last Satnr-.
day night, on his way from home to Wash
i!ngton, was persuaded by the members of
the New England Society tomhke few
remarks before their rAssoeiationatit an.
nual supper. The. following is ttat por-
ton of it referring to the. state of the,
country: gis
Fellow-citizens, these are extraordinary
times that are happening incur day. 1
remember that it was the men of New
England, who lived only two or three
times as long ago ms J. hUYe aliycd-not
more than, twice as long ago as, have
lived-und my friend Mr.. Henry; Grinnell;
whom Happen to see, here-I hope he is
soundSr IN politics than lie was the last
time heard of him.g Laughter and ap-
plause. l hope he is as sound as his bro
thcr Moses. since these men of New
England invented the greatest POLITICAL
| fdiscOvery of the world, the confederation
of the Republican Stntes-thc first CON
federation of Republican, States in Ameri-
ca was the invention of New England. i
have always admired and respected the
people of New England for this great dis
| coverY,. which, after having been put into.
| successful operation in the colonies of
Massachusetts Bay, and PlymoutEs and
Connecticut, and New Haven, came af-.
terward, after having been sanctioned by.
the wisdomsRnd experience of Dr. Frunk-
lin FOfTa lFtTUn
people of the thirteen colonies of this con-
tineut south of the st. Lawrence. II has
been5reserved fOrtotlr day, and for this
very hOar, to see an lHVentiOn-of another
kind, and of an opposite nature, by aspor-'
tion OF our countrymen residing south
of the Potomac. The Yankees iuvt nted
conteder atiou, the people of South Caro-
lima have invented secession. TCheers-
and hiss The wisdom of the latter is
now to be tried in comparison with the
experience of the former. At FIRST glance
it exhibits this singular anomaly of a
State which has in the Seuute of the
United States two seats-a State consist
ing OF seven hundred thousand people of
all conditions, and of whom two hun
dred and scventy-four thousand are
withdrawing two seats in the SEN
ate of the United States, equal to the
representation of any other State in the
Union, aud six members in the House of
Representatives, each of them paid three
thousand dollars u year out of a treasury
to which they contribute but small part,
going out of this Union to stand by them
selves, and to send to the Congress of
the United States three Commissioners to
stand outside of, the bar. and to, negotiate
for their interests, and to be paid '6y them
selves instead of the two Senators and
six Representatives in Congress, equal
members to all the Representatives in the
Coufederacy. This is the experiment
which IS to be tried. Whether States on
this continent of North America wi.l fiud
it wiser to refuse to. occupy seats within
! the Congress of the United Statrs, TO be
paidab the United States iora coming
| there, and to have votes, or in lieu of it
to send Commissioners to present their
| claims and their rights at the bar of the
United States, without the privilege of vo-.
ting upon theirown claims, and to be.paid
for it by the States themselves TLangh-
| ter. This.is the last political invention
ofthe times. need not say to you that it
is not likely to be followed by many other
States on this Continent, orto be perse-
vered in long, because it is manifestly
very much inferior to the system
which already exists. TLaughterand cheers
LUZ O(NGS Va ASOuLLl SitTOllutL NeSlreS 10 go
out. Just at this moment am going
back to Washington for the purpose of
admitting the State of Kansas; and ven-
| ture to sny,y that for every State of this
/ Continent that will go out of this Union
| there stand tataleast, already waiting, two
| States thtt will be glad to come in and
take theIrpiaces. [Applansc. They Will
| do SO for this simple reason, that every
State on the Continent of North America
must be Democratic or Republican State.
You, gentlemen, from New England, do
not like the word Democratic; therefore
will nsc the word Republican Tlausdtcr
and applausc,] and no Republican State
nt:this continent, or on amy other, can
stand alone. That is an impossibiity.-
And the reason ISIS simple1One. So rnnch
liberty, SO much personal l,independcnc
such scope of rivalry and emulatiuui and
ambitionias IpuVe- republic, where univer-
sal suffrage exists alone, are too mucli for
any one State standing singly to MAIN
tain. CGheers: Wherefore it IS, as you
have seen, that the moment it was thought
that crevices were Sreu in this great ma
tional c0nfederacy of ours, you began TO
| hear at once of secession, not only in
South Carolina, bat secession in California,
secession in New England, and ut last
secession of New, York Cityannl Long
] Island from the State of New York;
Laughter and cheers They are right
+ in all this. Dissolve this American Union,
and thereis nogonei State tll.t- cal stand
without renewing perpetna!ly the process
of secession, until we are brought into the
condition of the States of Central America
| -pitiful States, nnables to stand Rlone.-
No, gentlemeni Republican, States, are like
sheaves intthe harvest feld-put them up
/ Singly, and every lnst blows themydown.
stack them together, and they, defy all the
winds of heaven Loud applause.l So
you have seen that these thirteen jRepub-
lican States all came singly to the co6vic-
ton, each one, that it could not staud
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