Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-08-23
THE PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN
Gov. Seward on the Stump.
, HE CONSIDERS LINCoLN's ELECTION SURE.

States, aud speak during the present campaign.
On the 18th he arrived at Boston, from few
days stay in Maine, and was intro luced to the
people of Boston, and addressed them as fol-
| lows:
CITIZENS OF B)srov-o7 MASSACHUSETTS,
, have heard from the honorad Chief Magistrate
OF your State, my excellent and esteemed friend,
your explanation, S)methng, however, seems
to me to be due from myself, to you and to the
country, for the unexpected surprise which has
, overtaken me, 1t is so contrary to the habit of
my whole life to be arrested on a journey
(laughter) (which had for its object but the
performance of duty of friendship, and was
! commenced and prosecuted, and hoped to be
. ended in manner entirely private, that am
sure some explanation will be expected of me.
Now, my explanation, fellow citizens, is a very
simple one. have been very weak. have
committed great blunder I have made
great mistake. My first mistake was in suppos-
ing that it was safe to trust railroad fora con-
veyance through New England and down East,
instead of the telegraph, (Laughter,) found
out my mistake only when it was too late for
Awakes at Bangor fast asleep in the middle Of
OHO uf1JS you NOlJ HulChly uloGONOICu UlldV uLCy
wake up quite too soon for the convenience of
quiet traveller (Laughter.) | certainly have
not besought, and have not desired any Demon
straton of consideration at the hands of my
fellow citizens. There are many reasons why
prefer to seek the satisfaction of the attempt to
perform my duty, in my own conscience, and
not in the plaudits of my fellow men but it is
Gods will that we must be overruled and dis
appointed, and | have submitted with such
graciousness as can. Lau9hter) Fellow
citizens, huve endeavored, all along the road
for this, | think, is the seventh or eighth time
that have been called out to meet a kind and
cordial welcome, on this day only have en-
deavored to accommodate myself to this recep-
ton by treating it as light and trivial affair,
trusting that those who have been so exceed
ingly kind to me would believe after all, that
there was gratitude, unexpressed and strong,
concealed under the face Of simple, honest
good nature. ('' Cool But, fellow citizens,
+ the case is altered when come upon the soil
of Massachusetts. cannot say that have a
generation, though have profound affection,
for Vermont Her statesmen are not my teach
crs, her people are but my equals. Although
3 honor them and respect them, love them for
their fidelity to the interests of their country
n and to Che cause of Justice and humanity, they
are still but my fellow-laborers in the vineyard.
| can say the same OF New Hampshire, that
, know none Of her statesmen or her sons who
were earlier in the lid than the statesmen and
sons OF New York. can say the same OF the
State of Maine, which | have visted--great
and honorable as the works are which have 'been
done in those States by the champions of hui
man rights. | am their equal have received
their cordial welcome as an expression of esteem
and kindness But il is altogether different in
the State of Massachusetts, Here | can play
no part | can effect no disguise; because al
though not son of massachusetts, nor even of
New England born, feel and know it my duty
to confess that if have ever studied the interests
of my country and of humanity, | have studied
} in the school of Massachusetts,. (Cheers, and
cries of " Good. ~ If have ever conceived
resolution to maintain the rights and interests
of these free States In the union of the Confedera
cy, | learned it from Massachusetts,. (Renowed
cheering.) 1t is twenty-five years ago, not far
from this season, when distinguished and VEN
cradle statesman of Massachusetts had retired
to his home, few miles in the suburbs of your
city, under the censurc of his fellow-ctizens
driven home to his quarters by the peltings of
remorseless Pro-Slavery people, that /, younger
then, of course, than am now, made a pill
grimage from my own home, which was not
lnoested on my way, to the Sage of Quincy
(appause) There to learn from him what be-
came citizen of the United States, in view of
the deplorable condition Of the Intelligence and
sentiment of the country under its demoraliza-
ton by the power of Slavery. And there re-
ceived and thence derived, every resolution,
every sentiment that has animated and inspired
me in the performance of my duty as a citizen
of the United States all this time. | know,
indeed, that those sentiments have not always
been popular, even in the State OF MasSachu-
sets know that citizens OF Massachusetts,
as we'll as OF other States, have attempted to
drive the disciples Of that illustriouS teacher
from their policy. But it is tonight that | am
free to confess that whenever any man. wherever
he might be found, whether he was of Northern
or Southern BIRTH whether he was of the
g solid men of Boston," or of the light men Of
Mississippi, haveassailed me for the maintenance
of those doctrines, | have sought to commune
with his spirit, and to learn from him whether
the thing in which was engaged was we'll and
worthily done. What commentary upon the
wisdom of man is given in this single fact,
that fifteen gears only after The death of John
Quiacy Adams, the people of tide United States,
t0ho hurled him from pOt0er and from place, are
calling 10 The head Of the nation TO the gerry seat
from which he ,Oas erpel!ed, Abraham Lincoln
enthusiastic cheers -,ohose claim 10 that scat
is that he coatcSSes the obligation Of that higher
ia,O- applause -,vhich The Sage Of Quincy
proclaimed, and that he dUolOs himself, for 0eal
or noe, life or death, soldier on the side Of
freedom in the irreprcSsble conflict bet0een Free
dom and Slavery prolonged cheering.) This,
gentlemen, is my simple confession | desire,
now, only to say to you that you haze armed
at The last stage of this conflict before you reach
the triumph l0hich is to inaugurate this great
policy in The government Of the United Mates-
Cheers You will bear yourselves manfully.
it behooyes you, solid men Of Boston, if you
are here--(a voice" They are land if the
solid men are not here then the lighter men of
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