Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-01-04
THEGAZETTE,
CEDAR FALLS. IOWA.
FRIDAY. January 4th, 1861.
Senator Seward on the Crisis.

CSh"eoi oE"AlD Hliuc u speech III New
York, on the 22nd ult., before the New
England Society, which at that time was con
vcned at the Astor house celebrating the
24Oth anniversary of the landing on Plymouth
Rock. Though Mr.. SEWARD had no idea Of
being called upon for speech on this oc
casion, his remarks could hardly have beer
more felcitous or more cautious had they
been premeditatcd. His audience charmingly
displayed the Yankee characteristic, (Which
you know, is asking questionsD but moth
ing was elected as to the policy to be pursued
by the incoming administration, though al
this time he was doubtless acquainted with
it, if not before, being fresh from interview
with TuuRLow WEED who had just returned
from bis visit to the President eject. In re-
ply to question by one of his auditors as tc
what Mr.. WEED had said to him, he remarked
"T do not what he said to me. 1 will only tel
you what said to him. And that that repudiatet
all compromises whatsoever that New York. Pennsylvania
and New England cannot stand upon. l learned fror
him that he had been to Springfield in the State of Illinois
And suppose you would all like to know what he TOLD
me that he learned there will give you the best salts
faction can. He prints newspaper called The Esen
ing journal. man Of truth, believe And if he is
man to tell you what he learned, you can get it in hi
newspaper"
Thus virtually admitting that he would
consent to no more compromising; but, al
the same time, giving his hearers to under.
stand distinctly, that it was VIZ. II. SEWARD
that was talking, and no one else.
Mr.. SEWARD referred most happily to the
days of the Forefathers, and that greatest Of
all political discoveries" thc confederation Of
States ~ forcibly contrasting it with the
latterday invention of the South-Secession
He then passed to quite lengthy cxamina,
ton of this latter day invention, stating it to
be, in his opinion, much inferior to that great
of the Government introduced, consequently
not likely to be followed by many of the
States of this Union, nor to be persevered in
long by any. He said that it was an impos-
sibility for State to stand alone, for the
simple reason that so much liberty, so much
personal independence, such scope of rivalry
and emulation and ambition, as pure repub-
lie, where universal suffrage exists alone, are
too much for any one State standing singly
to maintain" Estates" said he, "are like
sheaves in the harvest-iield-pu them up
singly, and every gust blows them down
stack them together, and they defy all the
winds of heaven He was not surprised
that in this great family of States that there
should, once in while, one or mo,e of its
members get disconnected, and want to with
draw for while, sand see how much better
they can manage their fortunes alone"
In referring to the South, Mr. SEWARD io-
coseriously said
"And they say that hate them, and that all love is
lost between us. don't believe word of it, On the
other hand do know for myself and for you that bat
ing little differences of opinion about advantage and
and about prescription, and about office, and about free
dom and about slavery and all that which are family
difficulties and into which do not take any outsiders
in any part of the world into council on either side
that there is not State earh outside the American
Union, that like half well do the State South
Carolina-nether England, Ireland Scotland nor
France, nor Turkey although from Turkey they
Arabian horses, and from South Carolina they send me
nothing but curses, still like South Carolina better than
any OF them; and, do not know but have presump-
sion vanity about IT, but 1 believe that if there was
anybody overhear the State of South Carolina when she
talking she would confess that she liked pretty
WELL and am that If anybody to make de-
scent upon the State of New York tomorrow whether
Louis Napoleon, the Prince of Wales his mother
the Emperor Of Russia, the Emperor Of Austria be-
eve that all he hills Of South Carolina would pour forth
her population for the of New York God knows
how this may be; don't pretend to know, only conec-
ture But this do know that il any of those powers
were to make descent upon Charleston South Carolina
know who would go to their rescue,we would all go;
everybody would so. Therefore they do not humbug me
with their secession, and do think they will humbug
YOU and do not believe that if they did not humbug you
and me, they would much longer succeed in humbuggng
Now, Citizens this is the ultimate
suit Of this business These States and always will be
together. 1t is all sham to talk of striking down star
from this constellation 1t is thing that be done
don't see any less stars than did last week, year
ago, and expect to see more all the way"
1t is evident from the whole tenor of Mr.
SEwARD's speech, that the Old JACKSON doc
trine of coercion meets with but little favor
N his eyes; and, though he has no appre-
hension of dissolution ofthe Union, he asks:
8 In this time, when people are thinking,
under delusion, that they are getting out of
he Union and going to set up for themselves,
what are we to do in order to hold them in
He answers this as follows:
Now, in all this business propose that we shall keep
our own virtue and temper, which in politics
'sts in remembering that must differ brethren
IN the same family must differ and if can be entirely
'ool, and entirely calm, and entirely kind debate will
ense which will be hard in ITSELF and win prove very
soon that either we wrong, and shall concede to
our offended brethren else that we are right and they
will have to acquese and come back into raterna re.
ations."
He closes with the following prediction:
Ibeliere that secession stronger on the night of
he 9Th day Of November, when President and Vice
President who were exceponable elected than
now. That is now some fifty days since. believe that
very day that has set since that time has set upon
led passions and preudiess and you will only give il
time sixty suns will give you much better and
norc cheerful atmosphere