, 1860-03-07
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nIIe. SCENARIOS SPEECH.

NAA%s . (. ~ II II U'S ~ H1A~@.s
The two great points in Gov. Seward
speech, which we print this morning are his
elaboration Of the irrcpsess;ble conflict hy
designating the free Suites us labor States and
the slave States US capital States, OIL tue one
hand, and his mastery exposition Of the fact
that the Republican party arc tho conserva-
tors Of the Union, on the other. Regarded as
= whole it is one Of the greatest arguments
ever pronounced from the American forum. II
we have any criticism upon it-any opinion
not wholly lcr,aded with admiration-it 1c-
fors to tic oft repeated designation Of the free
mud slave States by tho terms Of labor and
capital respectively. Wo do not think this is
m improvement on the plain, ralpable self
defining terms Of Free and Slave, which appeal
at once to the instinct and moral sentiment Of
maakind. Labor and Capital are phrases which
do not lay hold Of men S conscicnccs They can
never supplant the ingraincd ideas Of Liberty
and Slavery which every thinking being COM
prehonds on the instant. No transccndcntal-
ism surrounds these, and no essays on political
and social economy arc. needed to give then,
popular forcc. Nor is it true that the slave
States Of this Union are tho capital States.
Tho CENSUS returns Of 1850 exhibited tho fact
that the real and personal pFopcrty-thc
capital-of the free States, exceeded that Of the
slave States, negroes included, By the enor~
nous sum Of one thousand ONO hundred and
sixty-six millions Of do!iarsl Hence Mr..
Scward's phrase is only tr,'c as applied to the
fact that labor is man in the one section, and
capital, or property, in tue other. And in the
degree that it becomes necessary to explain
these things, the force OF The argument is dcs-
1roytd
Aside from this. NC layo naught but tle
wnrmest cncominms for the massive aud states-
m mike effort or tic New York Senator. No
one eau rise from its pes1sal without feeling
TINT the pcrmancnce Of the Union lies
in the SUCCESS Of the Republican party
that Liberty ard Union are one aud insepa-
rablc-that ;lll those who would destroy tho
Union arc cooperating with the Democratic
party for the extension and perpetsllty Of Sla-
very, while on the contrary, not ono man in
tue Republican ranks but reyercs the conied-
Grafton which our fat,crs established, aud is
ready to defend it with his blood against foes
without and foes within. It is so strongly
conservative in tone that thousands Of readers
will wonder whether this is The demon whom
Mr. Seward has been represented to be by
those who fear tho greatness Of his intellect
and the potency Of his principles. Yet there
is nothing in this speech which will not square
with the uttcrslncas Of his whole public life.
We agree with the New York Tribune that
whether Mr. Seward sllau bo deemed strong
enough witt, the masses Of the four doubt.
full States to he tho Republican standard
bearer this year, or not, his speech will IL
a most valuable and powerful auxiliary il
those very parts where his nanlc has been
associated with all that is atrocious in politics
and where Republicanism is deemed by tht
great majority Of voters little better Than .
crime