The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-11-21
SEWARD ON THE WAR.

Before the recent election Secretary
Seward delivered short speech at Au-
burn, N. Y, containing some passages
GU current matters worthy Of no e. On
the subject assumed by the national Adj
ministration, III the election, he said
&C am here by accident and not by
design. | have pcrsisteItly declined, as
you know, to enter political canvasses as
debater. have had TWO reasons for
this | wanted the internal as we'll the
foreign enemies of The United States 10
see that this Administration could stand
of its own strength, without resor' ing to
popular arts of self-defense Second.
thought that an Administration that
could not stand WI hout speaking for
itself must fall, even if all its members
should engage IN its vindIcation y
As regards the extinction of slavery,
the subjoined extract is empha ic ::
The abettors of the rebellion are
troubled for feaY we shall not leave to
the rebels, when they have submitted,
enough of slavery and slaves. They
want to know what we propose about
that. My answer is, that if they had
submitted 10 Abraham Lincoln at the
beginning, they would have retained the
whole. They have lost by resistance,
on an average, 10000 slaves a mon h.
Each month of prolonged resistance in
creases the loss, and they are verging
upon the time when submission, coming
too late, will leave neither slavery nor
slaves in the land. This question of
avery is their business, not mine. So
long as they propose no surrender, they
are entitled 20 ask no terms. What has
happened to slavery tkus 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 Ills
ways, think that the future will be
like un o the past. The insunec
will perish under military power, neces-
sariy aud therefore lawfully exercised,
and slavery will perish with it,
AS 10 the return Of the rebels to their
allegiance, he remarks:
Nevertheless am willing that the
prodigal son shall return. The doors,
50 far as | AIN concerned, shall always
be open to him. The longer be is con.
tent 20 feed upon husks, he sooner he
will hunger. The longer he is content
in his dalliance witt, the harlot of the
rebellion, the greater will be his I'LL;
mate disgust with her embrace. The
greater his hunger and his disgust, the
deeper will be his repentance and the
more lasting his reformation. | shall
nftAr hin, .,,l
speaking not for myself, but for you and
the whole American people, I express
the conviction that neither man nor an
gels can prevent the ia ted calf being
slain for his welcome, when he does come
back saying peniten.ly. Brothers, |
have offended, and | desire reconcilia-
tion.'"
As to debt, suffering, &c. MIR. Seward
observes
"rhe sympathlzers with the confeder-
ates tell US of debt, taxes and blood.
Was ever sovereign y and freedom saved
withou the expenditure of money and Of
life 1t is the lot appointed to nations
TO endure war with its evils, as well as
to enjoy at intervals peace and prosperi-
ty' Who caused the debts, The taxes
aud the shedding of blood The CAN
nonade of Sumter answers the whole
question at once.
''In conflict like this the question is
not one of abstract suffering, but which
of The con ending parties suffers most.
Viewed in this, light the whole of the
suffering which tue war has produced has
fallen upon the insurgents, and the loyal
Part of the United States is exempt. In
The insurgent Safes there ls no Que CHI.
zen who is not the poorer and the more
unhappy for the war. Ia the loyal re-
eions there is not SAFE which is not
stronger, nor citizen who is not the
richer for the same cause. The increase
Of veal b which arises from he new ma
tional discipline of indus ry which the
the war has obliged US to adopt, has en-
abled US to pay al! increased debts and
taxes as easily as we paid the debts and
taxes existing when the war began Nor
must we forget that ii is only question
OF whose debts and whose taxes we shall
pay-not whether We sha pay any. We
pay either the deb aud taxes of Abra-
ham Lincoln and his admins ration, or
the deb and taXes Of Jeffersea Davis
and Robert p. Toombs. In the one case
we have an equivalent of dollar for dol
lar for what we pay, and the greater
equivalent OF national safe and honor.
lu the o;her case We pay twelve dollars
in gold for one dollar Of confederate mo-
ney, with tie additional evil of e.ernai
disgrace and ruin" ----~
He closed thus:
"The democratic masses, disclrding