The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1864-09-22
Speech of VIM. Il. Seward,

Delivered at Auburn, N. Y, Sep.
tember 3, 1864, ON the Occa.
sion Of q Celebration Of the
Victories nj Mobile and Al.
| lanta.
Mr.. Seward addressed multitude Of peo
pie in the City Park, at Auburn, N. T., or
the Sd instant, the occasion being the cele
bration Of the recent victories by our army
and navy. He said:
MY DEAR FRIENDS: 1t is so that like t
see you come marching to the time Of nationa
airs, under the folds of the old national flag
thank you for this hospitable and patriot
ic welcome. I; proves that though you dea
vigorously with your public servants, exact
ing reasons for their policy, energy in theil
conduct of affairs, and explanations for fail.
ures and disappointments in their admins.
tration, yet you are nevertheless just, be
cause you willingly allow them to rejoict
with you, when you have successes, victo
ries and triumphs to celebrate. The news
that brings us together is authentic. IA
voice, Do yon think it reliable?l Yes. Here
is telegram which received this morning
from the Secretary of War:
Van Duzen reports that Sherman's ad.
vance entered Atlanta about noon to day
particulars not yet received.
E. NJ STANTON"
Three cheers were given for Atlanta. =
Now this news comes in good shape.
It is pleasant to have a grand result at first
and il protracts the interest of the thing, tc
have particulars coming in afterwards. tYes,
yes, we can wait for the particulars.1
This victory comes in the right connec.
ton. 1t falls in with the echoes of the cap.
ture of Forts Gaines and Morgan, which |
understand to be the particulars of Farra.
CUTS glorious naval battle, in the Bay oI
Mobile, a battle equailed by no other in Am
erican History but the naval achievements
of the same veteran Admiral At New Orleans
and Port Hudson, and all these have no par
allel in naval warfare, but the battles OF the
Nile and Trafalgar. A voice. wish we
were all Farraguts. Well, my ftiend,
know the Admiral well, and confess tha,
we all can't be Farraguts. Irdeed, very few
of us can. But we may take this comfort
ourselves, that as whole people we can ap
preciate the veterans. We can also appre
ciate Sherman, who has performed the mos
successful and splendid march through a
mountainous and hostile country recorded
in modern history, and in ing this We
show ourselves inferior in virtue to no othe,
nation. By the way, everybody admired
Farraguts heroism in climbing the topmast
to direct the battle. But there was anothe,
''partica'aF" of that contest 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 morning-not
enough to make him drunk, but just enough
to make him fight cheerfully." "Well, re-
piled the Admiral, have been to sea con
siderable, and have seen battle or two. bnt
] never found that wanted rum to enable
me to do my duty. will order two cups OF
good coffee, to each man, at two o'clock, and
at eight o'clock I will pipe all hands to
breakfast in Mobile Bay. And he did give
Jack the coffee and then he went up to the
masthead and did it.
The victory at Atlanta comes at the right
place. The rebellous district is in the sha pe
of an egg. It presents equal resistance on
its whole surface. But if you could break
the shell at either of the two ends, Richmond
and Atlanta, the whole must crumble 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 glorious victory comes in good time
for another reason. Just now we are call.
ing upon you, for three hundred thousand
more volunteers, If you will drafted men
If we must, 10 end the war. You were get.
ting a little tired of long delays and disap.
pointed expectations. In Indiana portion
OF the people. instigated by rebel plotters al
the Clifton House, in Canada, were import.
ing British revolvers in boxes which passed
the Custom House, as stationary, under pre-.
tense of arming to defend themselves. but
really to resist the draft and bring the Gov
ernment down to ruin, through subordi.
nate and auxiliary civil war. True, no arms
have been imported here. Yet delegates
went from among you, and sat down in
council at Chicago with those Indiana con.
spirators. and agreed with them not only
that that importation of arms should be de.
Tended in the election canvas, 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 all this
discomfort and this dependency have dis.
appeared. We, shall have no draft because
the army is being saisforced at the rate of
five to ten thousand men per day by volun.
teers. May not add that this vistory al
Atlanta comes in good time as the victory
in Mobile Bay, does to vipdicate the wisdom
and the energy Of the war administration.
Farragut's feet did not make itself, nor did
he make it. It was prepared by the Secre-
tary Of the Navy, and he that shall record
the history of this war truthfully anil i'm
partially, will write that since the days Of
Carnot, no man has organized war with abil.