The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1863-11-27
W H0l f NO. PA.
Speech Of Secretary Seward.

Hon. William H. Seward. Secretary OF
State, made speech in Corning Hall, Au.
burn. on Monday evening, the 2d inst, to
crowded audience. on meters of public i'm
port. In it's course he elaborately argued
that there could be no satisfactory pea CO
arrived at between the North and South
which was not preceded by submission on
the part of the rebels. He also made some
very truthful but severe reflections on the
conduct of disloyal citizens, in abandoning
natural and moral instincts, and sympathi-
zirg with men who had the destruction of
their country, its institutions and liberty, as
regning motive in their rebellion. OF
such disoyal men aud their perverted ideas,
he said
"Tbey are afraid OF tho loss Of individual
liberty and OF State Rights, and they there
fore saw continually on tho string of arb-
trary arrests and suspension of the haJeos
corpus. They do not see that the country
is in a condition of civil war--exposcd to
fore ign invasion that arrests are weapon
OF war which must be welded BY the mill
tary power of the State. and not by ito
courts and consta bles. The dangers they
fear are iuture-,hey overlook the present
danger. which, If it prevails, will leave the
country no future: They mourn the public
peace lost, so pteously, that they have no
heart to restore it in the only way it can bo
resrored ty contest with the enemies in
arms who have destroyed it. They sigh for
peace IN the future, and thus invite the in
surgents to invade our own homes and FIRE.
sides They are troubled to know the terms
upon which you will give peace to the in.
surgents. The answer is a simple one !:
There can be no peace to the insurgents in
arms. until they have submitted and accept
Abraham Lincoln as the President of the
United States then. and not before, will be
the time to speak of the terms OF peace"
Concerning the consequence of rebel sub.
mission, and the future of slavery, Mr.. Sew
ard said -
The abo,tors Of the rebellion are troubled
for fear wo shall not leave to the rebels,
when they have submitted, euough of sla.
very and slaves. They want to know what
We propose about that My answer is that,
if they had submitted to Abraham Lincoln,
at the beginning, they would have retaiu sd
the whole. They have lost by resistance.
on an average, ten thousand slaves a month.
Each month of prolonged resistance in
croases tho loss. aud they are vergipg upon
the time when submission, coming too late,
will leave neither slavery nor slaves in the
land. This question of slavery is their busi.
moss. not mine. So long as they propose no
surrender, they are entitled to ask no terms.
What has happened to slavery thus far has
been tho legitimate fruits of their own
crimes; but it was fruit ordained, not BY
man. bnt Of God. Without seeking to d.
vino His ways. think that the future will
be like ulto the past Tho insnrrection will
perish under military power, necessarily,
and therefore lawfully exercised, and sla.
very will perish with It, Nevertheless, I
am willing that the prodigal son shall re-
turn. The doors, so far as am concerned,
shall always be open to him. The longer
he is content to feed upon husks, the sooner
he will hunger. The longer he is content
in his dalance with tho harIot of rebellion,
the greater will be bis ultimate disgust with
her embrace. The greater his hunger and
his disgust, the deeper will be bis repent.
ance and tho more lasting his reformation
l shall send no invitations after him and
yet, speaking 10, for myself, but for you
and the whole American people. express
the conviction that neither man nor angel
can prevent tho fatted calf being slain for
his welcome. when he does cnme back, say
ing penitentIy, Brothers,, / have offended,
and desire reconciliatlon.'