New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-23
WIDE.AWAKE JUBILEE At AUBCRN
SPEECH by MP. SEWARD.

SPEECH by Mr.. SEWARD.
TIE wide-Awakes Of Auburn had grand Jubilee on
Tuesday night, when they addressed by Senator
Seward ar foIlows:
Gentlemen. wide-Awakes, Fellow Citizens, Friends
and Neighbours This il not exactly according to con-
tract. We parted last at midnight, you remember II
was at tho Court House. The day the bib OF THIS
month. Doubtful perhaps whether it was not the ath
We receiving the election returns. The First
Ward, Republican, Second Ward, Republican, third
Ward, Republicans; Fourth Ward, astounding Repub-
ican. Cheers. Hurrah for the Fourth Ward. That
is right. The Fourth Ward deserves 1t. Give the
Ward three more. Three more were given.l Now
think Of il the First Ward deserves as many. Six
cheers We're given for the First Ward Well
then came news from the several towns,
cheering glorious, magnificent, and the scatter
ing returns froLi other towns counties ana
States-I told YOU that the State was Republican
by 50 900; that Abraham Lincoln was Presidents that
Won would not need me TO rejoice longer with you.
nronised 10 leave light burning in my library, and
that if you should have bad news, would come back
to you if called, and you promised me not 70 come
unless the news should come in rather blue. /" We
did," "thats it'll Well, the news didnt come In
blue but all right and cbeerng and yet yon are mere
again. Laughter. Cheers. That's TACT Ana
what agpravaes q case If that the news 100 Gnee
ing for You to enjoy il alone. langhter. "eh 1
suppose one must not insist on strict performance OF
engagements in these times, especially with Wlhe-
Awakes II is in their nature to be uneasy, ana 10
make other people So They would not let tnelr aaveI
expect to be allowed to rest undstrbed after the cleo
ton Cheers and laughter.l
FeIlow-cizens YOU have q right TO rejoice. L re-
member that | thought it occasion for rejoicing
whom The Onod cause we now maintain, carried one
Ward In the city, one two, or three towns In the
county, and the State Of Vermont alone IN the whole
country But now who will deny our rQht to rejoice
when carries all the wards in the city, all the towns
in the county all the counties IN the state where It's
argument is fairly heard, and practically all the states
in the Union which allow in fact free speech Tree de-
bates free mails, and free and universal suffrage. LII
il the earnest Of its universal acceptance But tnere
il still greater reason 10 rejoice in the manner IN which
this succers has been. II the verdict OF the People
for Principle-the Republican Prlnclple-the true
Democratic principle of equal ana exact Justice 70
all men. (Cheersl. 1t ia verdict rendered purely
OF conviction. without passion or interest. Not ne
publican vote in the United States has been procured
through terror not one by bribery or corruption Nay,
every vote has been given IN resistance o. luz
tnidation and corruption. Cheers. do not charge
that the Fusion votes other opposition votes were
largely given under such appliances. But the record
Of the canvass remains and bears s testimony that
the main argument OF those parties was their menace
Of Disunion, and the last reliance was money, at
the polls. lCheers, That is 10. Who will now libel
the American peOplel Who will deny their virtue
But this demonstration of yours has lts meanng-its
nearing in various relations. Ii recalls the past and
tells that the erroneous national policy of forty years has
been retraced recOnsidered reversed condemned, and
renounced Let then the passions and the preudlees be
buried with the errors OF the Past III bears on the
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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 election call
Won again to your council chambers to renew your
efforts in obedience TO the principle that Eternal Flg-
| lance il the tax pay for Enduring Liberty
ICheers The immediate question is the bearing Of
the occasion on the Present. What Ia our present
| dutyl It is simply that Of magnanimity We have
learned heretofore the practice OF patience under POI
litical defeat 1t remains 10 show the greater
| virtue of moderation in triumph. That we may do
| this, let remember that It Il only as
| figures of speech that the Of material terms,
| such az "defeat" and victory obtain in our
system Of elections. The parties engaged in an cleo
ton not never can be- never must be- enemies, OF
even adversaries. We are all teiiow-citIzens Ameri-
cans brethren. II is trial of senes by the force only
Of reason; and the Is carried to its conclusion
with the only of suffrage An appeal lies from the
People this year to the People themselves next year
to be argued and determined in the way and 30
on forever. This is indeed long way 10 the attain
ment Of rights and the establishment of interests 1t
il way, however, now as 1t has been heretofore.
| Let il be way hereafter Cheers. II there be
among u.s. or in the country those who think that mar
shaing armies or pulling down the pillars Of the Re
public If better, because shorter way let u not
doubt that if we commend our way by our patience,
our genteness, affection toward them, they too,
will before they shall have TOO far, lind out That
way the old way, their old way well as our old
way, is not only the shortest but the best.
Fellow citizens / ahould do injustice 10 yOu and vio-
ence 10 my own feelings if did not recognize in this
witt and most generous demonstration Of your
personal kindness to me. You know how deeply |
was committed TO the triumph of this Presidential
ticket than 70 other in times that are past
and to it, triumph distinct and emphatic if posi-
BILE here than anywhere else. How the eyes OF friends
in every part of the country were anXiousy liked on
this State on this county nay, even on this town, TO
learn whether true in this crisis to our cause
our country and 10 ourselves This lent q new and
intense earnestnezs TO your efforts, and our success
therefore has exceeded al that dared to hope. The
year 1860, how many acts Of homo kindness has II
brought 10 me from all my neghbors. My welcome
from abroad-svmpathy with IN my labors for the
country at WashngtOn-the rescue Of my dwelling
from fire during absence cooperation with
me- 70 earnest, so devoted, so effective In secur
ing the ascendency Of the Republican cause
throughout the Union, these congratulations on
it's sueeess--I feel them all more deeply, more crate
fully than dare express May you all find your re-
ward in the increasing happiness and growing great
ness OF our country. And now we part again. You
10 lay aside the embems of your political association,
at least for time, and TO return 10 your lndust nal
pursuits and social enjoyments TO return to the
theater of public duty at the national capital May
kind Providence spare all your lives, and continue all
the blessings yon enjoy; and when we meet again IN
| the coming Spring season, when these now naked
trees shall have resumed their woned foliage, may our
hearts be renewed in their mutual affections, and may
all the suen and angry clouds which seem TO be gath
ering in the political atmosphere have given place 10
those serene and luspicious skies which properly be-
long 10 the only pure and complete Republican system
10 be found on the face Of the earth. Loud and pro-
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