The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-07
WHY LINCOLN SHOULD BE REELECTED.


citizens Of Auburn, New York, including several
hundred volunteers who were waiting to be mus
tered into the service of the United states, con-
grcgaied in the grounds adjoining William H.
Stewards residence in that city, and called for the
Secretary 70 address them. In response TO the in
vitation Mr. Seward came forward and spoke as
follows .--
My DEAR FRIRNDs-It is so that like 10 see
you come marching TO the time of national airs
under the folds OF the old national flag thank
You Tor this hospitable and patriotic welcome
II proves that, though you deal vigorously with
your public servants, eNaCting reasons for their
policy, energy in their conduct Of affairs and ey-
plantations for failures and dsappointments in
thelr administration, yet you are nevertheless
just, because you willingly allow them to rejoice
with you when you have successes, vic
tories, and triumphs TO celebrate. The news
that brings us together Is authentic. The victory
comes IN the right connection. II fall; i'm yith
the echoes OF the capture of Forts Gaines and
Morgan, which understand to be the particulars
Of tdrragut glorious naval battle, In tue bay of
Mobiie-a battle equalled by no other in Ameri-
can history but the naval achievements OF the
same veteran Admiral at New Orleans, at Port
Hudson, and all these have no parallel in naval
warfare but the battles Of the Nile and Trafalgar
a yoce-"I wish we were all Farraguts.'O
We'll, my friend, know the Admiral well, and
confess that we all can't he Farraruts. Indeed,
very few of us can. By the way, everybody adj
m'red Farragut's hcrosm in climbing the top
mast 10 direct the battle
But there was another "pRrtiCular" of that con-
test that no less forcibly illustrates his heroic
character "Admiral," said one of his officers
the night before the battle, "wOn't you consent
TO give Jack a glass Of grOg in the mOrniug-not
enough to make him drunk, but Just enough to
make him fight Cheerfully." "Well," replied
the Admiral, II have been to sea Considerable
and have seen battle or two, but never found
that wanted rum 20 enable me to do my duty.
l will order two Cups Of good coffee to each man
at O'Clock, and at o'clock will pipe all hands
to breakfast in Mobile Bay" And he did give
Jack the coffee, and then he wentup to the mast
head and did it. The victory at Atlanta comes
at the right place. The Tebollious district is In
the shape OF an egg. IL presents equal resistance
on its whole surface.
Bat if yon could break the shell az either of
the two ends-Richmond and Atlanta the whole
must CTumble 70 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 il has grown brittle with
the exhaustion OF vitality within. This glorious
victory comes in good time for another reason.
Just now we are calling upon you II three hun
dTed thousand more volunteers, if YOU will
drafted men, If we must--to end the war
You were getting a little tired of long
delays and disappointed expectations. In
Indiana, portion of the people, instigated by
Rebel plotteTs at the Clifton Housc, Canada were
importing British Teyolvers, in boxes which
passed the Custom House as stationery, under
pretcnce OF arming to defend themselves but
really to resist the draft aud bring the Govern
ment down TO ruin, through subordinate and
auxiliary civil war; True, no arms have been
imported here; yet delegates went ont from
among you, and sat down in council at Chicago
with those Indiana Consprators, and agreed with
them not only that that Importation of arms
should be defended in the election canvass but
also TO demand the cessation of the war, upon
the ground that success in restoring the Union is
unattainable. Already, under The influence of the
cheering news from Atlanta, ali this discomfort
and this despOndGncy have disappeared.
We shall have no draft, because the army is
being reinforced at the rate of five to ten thou
sand men per day by volunteers. May L not add,
thet this victory at Atlanta comes ia good time
as the victory in Mobile bay does, to Vindcate
the wisdom and the energy of the war adminis-
tratlOn Ferraguts fleet did not make ITSELF nor
dld he make 1t. II was prepared by the Secretary
OF the Navy, and he that shall record the history
Of this war truthfully aud impartialy, will write
that since the days of CarnOt no man has organ
lied war with ability equal TO that of Stanton
but, ausplcious 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 freedom throughout the world
Alas that II must be confessed 1t is party spirit
that holds them alOOf. All of them are partisans
Some are Republicans, VINO cannot rejoice in the
national victories because this war for the life of
the nation is not in all respects conducted accord
ing to their own peculiar radical ideas and theo-
ries. They want guarantees for swift and uni
yeTsal, and complete emancipation, or they do
not want the nation saved. Others stay away
because they want TO be assured that in coming
out of the revolutionary storm the shin of State
will be found exactly In the same condition as
when the tempest assaied il, or they do not want
| the ship saved at all, as if ianybody could give
such guarantees in the name Of a people of thirty
millions. Others are Democrats They received
from their fathers the axiom that only Democrats
could save the country, and they must save IL by
Democratic formulas and combinations, which
| the progress of the age has forever exploded.
| They cannot come up 10 celebrate achievements
which condemn their narrow and hereditary
| UigOtIy.
Others of both the Republican and Democratic
parties arc willing that the nation shall be saved
provided Il is done by some one of their chosen
and idozed chiefs, which chief they mutually
denounce and reyile. They cannot honor Grant
| ana Sherman, and FarTagut ana Porter because
| 6y such homage they fear that Fremont and
McClellan's tame may be ecipsed. Nevertheless
there are enough here Of the right sort enough of
| men who once were Republicans, but who, taking
| that word in partisan sense, are Republicans no
| longer, and men who once were Democrats, but
who, taking that word in its narrow application
are Democrats no longer, all of whom are now
Union men, because they found out at the be-
ginning Of this tremendous civil war, or at sOmo
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 partisans and
| becoming patriots and Union men.
Yes, my friends, when this war shall be ended
| in the restoration of the Union, no man then
living will eXult in the recollection that during its
continuance he was either radical or a conser-
| Yatiye, Republican or a Democrat but every
man will claim 10 have been throughout an unre-
served and unconditional Union man. But why
should party spirit, especially at this juucture,
divide the American people And why should l.
| member Of the Executive Administration
allude to It on such an occasion as thisl The
answer is at hand. The constitution of our coun-
| try commands that Administration to surrender
its powers TO the people, a.d the people to desg-
nate agents 70 assume and exercise them for four
years.
You receive the Executive Government in a
condition very different and highly improved
We found 1t practically expelled from the whole
country south of the Delaware, the Ohio, and the
| Missouri, with the most of the army and navy
betrayed or fallen into the hands of the insar-
gents, and a new and reasonable confederacy,
with the indirect but effective cooperation of
foreign powers, establishing itself on the Gulf of
Mexico. We cheerfuly give the Government
back to you, with large and conquering armies,
and triumphant navy, with the hateful Con-
federacy falling into pieces, and the rebeliious
States, one after another returning TO their ale
| glance.
Regarding myself now, therefore, not as sec
| retary, but simply as one of the people, l. like
Won noll lad hNrr -.