Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-10
sECRETARYsEWARD's SPEECH

lure Management
On Saturday evening last large crowd
Of The citizens Of Auburn, New YORK, in-
Guiding several hundred volunteers. who
! we're waiting to be mustered into the SER
vice of the United States, cougregated in
the grounds adjoining William a. Stewards
residence in that city, and called for the
Secretary to address them. We give
portion ofhis remarks:
UNION VICTORIES AND THE DRAFT.
Buff you could break the shell at either
of the two ends-Richmond and Atlanta,
the whole must crush to pieces. While
Sherman under Grant has been striking
the big end, Meade, under Grant, has been
striking just as hard blows upon the lesser
end. The whole shell will now be easily
crushed, for it has grown brittle with the
exhaustion of vitality within. This glori-'
GUS victory comes in good time for anoth-
er reason. just now we are calling upon
| you for three hundred thousand more vol-l
unteers, if yOu wilI-dFafted men, If we
must-to end the war. You were getting
g little tired oflong delays and disappoint-
ed expectations. In Indiana, a portion of
the people, instigated by rebel pIotters, at
the Clifton House, Canada were Import
ing British revolVers, in BOXES, which pass
ed the Custom House as stationery, under
| preteuee of arming to defend themselves
but really to resist the draft and bring the
Government down to ruin, though q sub
ordinate and auxiliary civil war. True, no
arms have been imported here; yet dele
gates went out from among you, and sat
down in council at Chicago with those In
| diana conspiTators, and agreed with them
not only that that importation of arms
should be defended in the election can
yass, but also to demand the cessation OF
the war, upon the ground that success in
restoring the Union is unattainable. Al
ready, under the influence of the cheering
news from Atlanta, all this discomfort and
this dependency have disappeared. 4
We shall have no draft, because the ar
nv is being reinforced at the rate of FIVE
to ten thousand men per day by volunteers.
May not add, that this victory at Atlanta
comes in good time, as the victory in Me-
bile bay does, to indicate the wisdom and
the energy of the war admfnistTation3-
Farragut's feet did not make itself, nor
did he make it. 1t was prepared by the
Secretary of the Navy, and he that shall
record the history of this war truthfully
and impartially, will write that since the
days of CarnOt, no man has organized war
with, ability equal to that of Stanton. Bnt,
suspicious as the occasion is, it has never
theless failed to bring out some whom we
might have expected here. Why are they
not here to rejoice in the victories that
will thrill the hearts of the lovers OF free
dom throughout the World2
MALIaN INFLUENCE OF PARTY SPIRIT.
Alasl that it must be confessed it is par.
ty spirit that holds them alOof. All of
them are partisans. Some are Republi-
cans, who cannot rejoice in the national
victories because this war for the life of the
nation is not in all respects conducted ac-
cording to their own peculiar radical ideas
and theories. They want guarantees for
swift, and universal, and complete eman-
cipation, or they do not want the nation
saved. Others stay away because they
want to be assured that in coming ont of
the revolutionary storm the ship of State
will be found exactly in the same condi-
ton as when the tempest assailed il, or
they do not want the ship saved at ali, as
if anybody could give such guarantees in
the name of people of thirty millions
Others are Democrats. They receive from
their fathers the axiom that only Demo-
Gratis could save the county, and they must
save it by Democratic formulas and COM
biustions, which the progress of the age
has forever exploded. They cannot come
up to celebrate achievements which con-
demo their narrow and hereditary bigotry,
Others of both the Republican and DEM
ocratlc parties are willing that the nation
shall be saved, provided it is done by some
one of their chosen sand idoliBed chiefs,
which chief they mutually denouuce and
reVile. They cannot honor Grant, and
Sherman, and Farragut, and Porter, be
cause by such homage they fear that FREE
mont aud McOlellan's flame may be eclips-
4 tha1a nh nf
the right sort; enough of men who once
/ were Republicans, but who, taking that
word in partizan sense, are Republicans
no longer, and men who were once Demo-
Gratis, but who, taking that word in its mar.
row application, are Democrats no longer,
| all of whom are now URiOn men, because
they found out at the beginning Of this
tremendous civil war, or at some period
in its progress that no man, no party, no
formula, no creed, could save the Union,
but that only the people could save it,
and they could save it only by ceasing to
become partizans and becoming patriots
and Union men. sss
Yes, my friends, when this war shall be
ended in the restoration of the Union, no
man then living will exult in the recollee-
ltion that during its continuance he was
either a radical or q CONSERVATIVES, a Repuh-
lican or q Democrat but every man will
claim to have been throughout an nure-
served and unconditional Union man. But
why should party spirit, especially at this
Ijuncture, divide the American people
Aud why should 1, a member of the Execu-
tive Administration, allude TO it on such
an occasion as this2 The answer is. at
hand. The constitution of our country
commands that Administration to surrender
its powers to the people, and the people to
designate agents to assume and exercise
them for four years. ,r
THE EXEouTIvR AUTHORITY RESTORED.
You receive the Executive Government
| in q condition very different and highly inn.