Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-24
wide Awake Jubilee at Auburn.
SPEECH BY MIR. SEWARD.

wide Awake Jubilee at Auburn.
sfhEoh 81 NH SEWARD
The wide awakes of Auburn had grand
Jubilee on Tuesday night. when they were
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Ue""eMe"' " 0e A"dNeS' feo" C"'SeNS,
Friends, and Neighb6rS This is not exactly
according to contract. We parted last at mid
night, you remembers it was at the court
house. The day, the 9th of this month.
Doubtful, perhaps, whether it was not the It'll.
We were receiving the election returns. The
first ward, republican second ward, republi.
can third ward republican; fourth ward, re-
publican, astounding republican. (Cheers,
and hurrah for the fourth ward.) That is
right. The fourth ward deserves it. Give
the ward three more. (Threc more were Civ.
en- Now | think OF it, the first ward deserves
as many. (SiX cheers were given for the first
ward.l Well, then came news from the sew
eral towns cheering, glorious, magnificent,
and the scattering returns from other towns,
counties, and states-I told you that the state
was republican by $4,000 that Abraham Lin
coin was president that you would not need
me longer to rejoice with you. | promised to
leave Il light burning in my library, and that
If we should have bad news, | would come
back to you if called, and you promised me
not TO come unless the news should come in
rather blue. (''We did-thats it") Well
the news didn't come in blue, but all right and
cheering; and yet, you are here again.
daughter. Cheers. That's fact.'') And
what aggravates the case is that the news is
too cheering Tor you to enjoy itaone. (Great
laughter Well suppose one must not in
sst On strict performance of engagements in
these times, especially with wide awakes. 1t
is in their nature to be uneasy, and to make
other people 50. They would not let their ad
versaries sleep before the election; their
friends must not expect to be allowed to rest
undisturbed after the election. (Cheers and
| laughter.)
Fellow-citizens you have right to rejoice
l remember that thought it an occasion tor
| rejoicing when the good cause we now main.
tain, carried one ward in the city, one or two
or three towns in the county, and the state of
| Vermont alone in the whole country. But
now who will deny our right to rejoice when
| it carries all the wards in the city, all the
towns in the county, all the counties in the
state where its argument is fairly heard
and practically all the states in the Union
which allow, in fact, tree speech, free debates,
| free mails, and tree and universal suffrage 1t
is tine earnest of its universal acceptance
| But there is still greater reason to rejoice in
| the manner in which this success has been won.
1t is the verdict OF the people for a principle
the republican principle-lhe true democratic
principle of equal and exact Justice to all men
| Cheers 1t is verdict rendered Dnrelv on
conviction, without passion or interest. Not
republican vote in the United States has
| been procured through terror not one bv
| bribery or corruption Nav. every vote has
been given in resistance of Intimidation or
corruption. (Cheers.4 | do not charge that
the fusion votes or other oppostion votes wrre
largely given under such appliances. But
the record OF the canvass still remains, and
bears its testimony that the main argument of
those parties was their menace OF disunion.
ard the last reliance was money at the polls.
(Cheers, that's So Who will now libel the
American people Who will deny their vir-
tue But tins demonstration of yours has its
meningitis meaning in various relations 1t
recalls the past, and tells that the erroneous Ma.
tiona policy OF forty years has been retraced.
reeOnsdered, condemned, and renounced.
Let the prCjudices and passions be buried
with the errors of the past 1t bears on the
future. 1t assures that hereafter the policy of
the country will be the DEVELOPMENT of its
resources the increase of its strength
and its greatness, by the agencies of
Freedom and Humanity. (Cheers Dis,
miss we, then, the future, until some new cleo
ton call you again to y.ur council chambers
to renew your efforts in obedience TO the prin
cipIe that eternal vigilance is the tax we pay
| for enduring liberty. (Cheers) The imme.
ula'e question Is me bearing OF the occasion on
'ie P.tsGnt' nat Is our present duty It's
su"Py tiat oi hiashallility we nave learn
GU; nel GtU'ore' the pfacuce OF patience under
Poll'lcai ueIeat' II now remains to show the
greater 'lrlut OF moderation III triumph That
| We may no this, let US remember That is only
"S "SuIes OF speech that the use OF material
Terms suc'l us deleat ana victory OBTAIN
III "u' sJs"ih Oh eiectlohS' Inc parties en-
| saseu III an eiectloh are not, never can be,
never must oe, enemies, or even adverSarles.
we are an Ie'IoW cltZehs, Americans, breth-
| lei'' II Is tlial oI issues ny the force only
Vi lIdsoN anu me contest Is carried TO lis
cohc'uSloh' WIN the use only OF Suffrage. An
appear lies rom me people TINS year to the peo-
| Pie themselves next year-t0 be al gued and de-
t Yer III the same way and 50 ON forever.
lnis Is 'hueeu a long way TO The attainment OF
ileh's anu me establishment OF interests. 1t
is our way however, now as 1t has been here
I T Lei II oe our way hereafter. lChterS.l
1t "'eIe De among US, OF Ill the country, those
| ""o 'iilhk !i"' marslalln5 armies or pulling
uowh me pillars OF the republic Is better, be-
cause shorter way, let us not doubt that If
VIC co'i'iIenu our way ny our patience, our
een'ItneSs' our anectloh toward them, they,
coo, Will oelore tNey shal nave gone TOO Tar,
AHu OUT tna' our way, lie OLD way, their old
| way us wen us our Oh way, Is not only the
Snoi'eS' ouV Inc pest
| Fellow citizens, | should do injustice to you
and violence to my own feelings, if did not
recognize in this visit a warm and most gen.
|