Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-06

burn, this week, secretary Seward, following
the example of other members OF the cabinet,
made speech ON the aspect of public affairs.
lie defended the uniform cheer fitness with
which he had anticipated and surveyed future
events, on the ground that it was faith, and
not dependency, that overcomeS mountains,
and scales the heavens. He had invariably
refused to be diverted from the main question
by debates on collateral issues, which were
the food of weak minds and faithless hearts
Passing from the subject of the election of the
day following, and taking up the argument of
those who are arrayed against the govern
ment, he said =
They are troubled to know the terms upon
| which you will give peace to the insurgents.
| The answer is Il simple one: There can be
no peace to insurgents in arms, until they
| have submitted and accepted Abraham Lin
| coin as the president of the United States
then, and not before, will be time to speak
about terms ofpeace. The abettors of the re-
belIion are troubled for fear we shall not
! leave to the rebels, when they have submit
ted, enough of slavery and slaves. They
| want to know what we propose about that.
| My answer is, that if they had submitted to
| Abraham Lincoln, ut the beginning, they
! would have retained the whole. They have
| lost by resistance, on an average, 10000
slaves month. Each month of prolonged
resistance increases the loss, and they are
| verging upon the time when submission COM
| ing too late, will leave neither slavery nor
| slaves in the land. This question of slavery
| is their business, not mine. So long as they
| propose no surrender they are entitled to
slr Inns ba,,
slavery thus far, has been the legitimate
fruit of their own crimes; but it was fruit
ordained not by man, but OF God.
Without seeking to divine His wayx, |
think the future will be like unto the past
The instruction will perish under military
power, necessarily and therefore lawfully ex-
erciSed, and slavery will perish with it. New
ertheless, am willing that the prodgal son
shall return. The doors, so far as am con-
cerned, shall always be open to him. The
| longer he is content to feed upon husks, the
sooner he will hunger. The longer he is con-
| tent IN his dalliance with the harlot of rebel
! lion, the greater will be his ultimate disgust
with her embrace. The greater his hunger
and his disgust the deeper will be his repent
ance and the more lasting his reformation. |
shall send no invitations after him; and vet,
speaking not for myself, but for you and the
whole American people, | express the convic-
ton that neither man nor angels can prevent
the fatted calf being slain for his welcome
when he does come back, saying penitently,
Brothers, have offended, and | desire re-
cUnciIation.'
Mr.. Seward then spoke at length of the
complaints that the war was productive of
burdens without adequate compensation, and
spoke of the greatness and prosperity of the
country, imperIed by the revolt of the chiefs
Of the democratic party, and closed with the
following general statement of his policy and
its results:
''When the first notes Of alarm were sound
ed, threatening civil war and desolation, l
said to myself is this inevitable? 1t is in one
case, was the answer. The democratic party
throughout the United States, which has viz
tually held the reins of government for half
century, has been overthrown by a constitu-
tional majority, in the election. In the name
and in behalf of that party, its disappointed
chiefs have refused submission and resorted
to civil war. If the democratic party of the
United States lend themselves directly or
Indirectly to that instruction, civil war is in
evltable, and ferocious, bloody, all per-
vading revolution is indefinitely fastened on
the nation. That revolution will then end
in successful invasion and pacifcation under
foreign conqHeror. What shall be done in
this emergency? The answer was obvious
Prevent it by appeals to the patriotism of all
parties, and surrender of all their conflict
ing interests. preiudices, and passions to the
common safely. This will enable us to pre-
vent a revolution if possible, to meet and con-
quer it if we must. llthese means prevent
1t! l know rot Three months, six months,
twelve months, twenty-four months, thirty
months, will disclose either the fact that the
democratic masses of the United States are
disloyal, ana that the revolution will therefore
prevail, or the fact that they rise to The true
spirit, to the lofty heights of patriotism, and
the country will be saved. That time has come
at last. Not so soon as in our impotence we
wished, but as soon, we may believe, as was
best for our welfare. The democratic mass
es, dscarding leaders, have attained the
height of patriotism. They are in the
the field; they are in the cabinet; they are in
the canvass, counseling, voting, Fl citing, gem
erously, Loyalty, nobly, to make the election
OF Abraham Lincoln, president of the United
States from 1861 to 1865, a fixed. Irresistible
fact. twill be done. The country Is saved
and there remains nothing left to complete the
great and painful drama, but that which can
not be long delayed, the submission of the in
surgents, and thus the restoration to peace.
And what peace may we not expect that to
be! A peace that establishes forever the prac-
ucability of free republican, representative
federal government; the immediate or ulti-
mate restoration of four million of bondmen
to freedom, the security of the American con-
tinent against equally the evils Of internal an
archy and foreign aggression. The angels in
heaven might tune their harps to the sympho-
ny of such peace"
A SHIPwRECK IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN-A
Canadian schooner came into Boston, yester-