The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-10-26

TRAITOR.
Mr.. Seward had public reception at An
bum ou Friday, on which occasion he spok,
at length on public affairs. We copy a re
port Of his speech from the New Yorl
Times:
SPEECH o. NR. sEWARD-
NJ Good Friends A meeting with YOU
here from time to tine, as opportunity serves
and duty permits, is not merely privilege
bus even bless ng. Your greeting on this
occasion comes in a season when fruits are
clustered Ground Us, although the leaves
above our heads and the grass beneath our
ieet are yet fresh and green.
After some further friendly preliminaries
the speaker spoke Of
LINCOLN AND JOHNSON.
We have lost the great and good Presi-
dent, Abraham Lincoln. He had reached
stage Of moral consideration when his name
alone, If eucircled with martyrs wreath
would be more useful to humanity az large
tIaa his personal Efforts could be beneficial
TO any one country as her chosen Chief Ma
gistrate. He is now associated with Wash
ington. The two American chiefs, though
they are dead, still live, and they are lead
ing the entire human race in a more spirited
progress toward fields Of broader liberty and
/
i place Of Abraham Lincoln we have a new
President. To most Of you he is personally
unknown The people around nae, with
their customary thOughtiulness, are in
quiring Of those who are nearer TO him than
themselves what manner Of man Andrew
Johnson lie, and what manner Of President
he may be eNpecied to be. When, in 1861,
treason, laying aside, for the moment, the
already ObuOXiOus mask Of slavery, and IN
aIru
honored robes OF democratic freedom, flashed
its lurid light through the Senate chamber
and announced, as already completed, a dis
solution Of the Union, then, leader, who
should be at first o Senatorial and afterward
a popular leader, was required to awaken
sleeping loyalty and patriotism through
out the land, TO rouse its unconscious hosts
and to inspire them with the resolution
needed 10 rescue the Constitution, supptess
the rebellion end preserve the iptegrsty of
the Republic. lAPplause.l To me, reason
seemed 70 suggest, in this case, as 4 necessity
resulting from circumstances, that thst
leader, While he should be capable, in
flexible and devoted patriot, should also be
a citizen Of a hesitating border State
| STAKEHOLDER IN practice, though not in prin. |
elple' and YET IN principle abd association a |
Democrat. Andrew Johnson, Of Tennessee, |
completely filled those complex conditions, !
| anu TN AAAA NAiAAaGNA Nl Tue NuolG amer I
| can people. he assumed the great response
bility Loud aPplause.l The insurrec- |
ton soon became hagiti0os, insOlent, def |
ant, aud announced, 70 the astonishment Of |
mankind, that the pretended free empire |
which ii was building by usurpation within /
/ forbidden borders was founded upon the /
corner stone O. slavery Tho newly inau-
| guFated President, Lincoln, with decision,
not unace0mpanied by characteristics pru-
IL aHs.F 4. Il
should be deemed and treated as a public /
enemy. [Applause.l Andrew johnson ac-
eepted the new conditions Of his popular
! leadership which this announcement crea-
ted, and thenceiorWard he openly, freely
and honestly declared, not only that the Il
erection Of the new edifce should be proven
ted, but the corner stone Of slavery ITSELF
the rock Of OIL our past as web as our then |
future dangers, should be uplifted and re-
moved, and cast ou5 from the Republic
Renewed applause.l Whatever may have |
been thought by you, or by me, or By 9TH
ers, at that Time, IL is now pparent that the
attempted revolution cHimieHted when the
natinOal banner was for the first time sue
cess .ully replanted by our gallant army on
the banks Of the Cumberland, and when !
Tennessee, first among the border States
which had been reluctantly carried into
the rebellion, offered once more q foOthold
ana resting place 70 tne autnorltie6 Of The
Union. From that time, while it was vet
necessary to prosecute the war with such
energies as human nature hsd never before |
exerted, it was al the same time equally !
needful, with wisdom which has never been
surpassed, to prosecute the benefcent
work of restoring the Union. and har-
mOnizing the great political family which, | !
although it had been temporarily dig- ]
tracted was destined, nevertheless, 10 ]
! d q ~ q
protection. Loud applause.l The abol-
tion Of slavery was thenceforIh equally an II
element Of persistent war and Of returning {
peace. CONTINUED applause He neither I
r ads history with care, nor studies the y
WAYS Of Providence with reFerenca, who 8
does not see that, for the prosecution Of q
these double, diverse, and yet equally inn ,
portant purposes 81 war and peace, Andrew v
johnson was huy appointed TO be Pro 4
visional Governor in Vennessee-the first of a
a series OF Provisional Governors aiierWard r
to be assigned 10 the iusurrectionary States, | G
and was subsequently, elected Vice Presi- d
dent, and in the end constitutiOnally inau- 81
gurated President Of the United States p
Renewed applause. We are continually a
hearing debates concerning the origin aud [
Of the plan Of reatoration. New "a
converts, North aud South, call it the Presi- h
dents plan. All speak of it as il il were a | c
new ana ltEcAA GU IflllEAAks Nl me Eou- I O.
.rarv, we now see thai il is not especially al
Andrew Johnson's plan, nor even a new II
plan in any respect. Il is the plan which q
sbruptly yet distinctly offered itself 10 the q
last administration, at the moment have al
before recalled, when the work of rest0Ta- -
lion was to begin; at the moment when, al Il
though BY the world unperceived il did be-
gin, and it is the only plan which thus
,easonably presented itself; and therefore is
H. 10 H.na- ~ IL hon I
lfterward could Be adopted. l6reat ap- y
nlause This plan, occasionally requiring !,
variation Of details, nevertheless admits Of =,
no substantial change or modification. IL =
,ould neither be enlarged nor contracted. | "
State conventions Of loyai States, however | ~
favorable, in disloyal States however hos p
lie could not lawfully nor effeetuslly disa- 4,
row it; and even the people themselves, y.
when amending the Constitution Of the | II
United States, are only giving n that plan Y
t. Just and needful sovereign sanction. In y
he meantime, the executive and iegisla- p
i've authorities Of Congress can do no more y
han discharge their proper functions Of -
the recently insurgent States n
rom anarchy during the intervening period u
While this plan is being carried iuiO execu-
ion. Applause 1t is ESSENTIAL to this
,lan that the insurreciionary States shall.
" themselves and for themselves, accept
M uuuNl TINS NAaAr anu thereby hubIAh / ~
themselves to and recognize the national III
al
sUBIUGATI0N. Ell
This is what ] meant when ] said TO Mr.. y
adams, ia passage which you may posi- =
lly recall, thst IN the sense in which the =
gord sa5jngatioH was then used BY the enc n
MES Of the United States, at home aud -
broad, IL was not the expectation or Pur- =
,ose Of this Government that the southern | ~
tates should be subjugated bot that y
bought that those States would be brought =
" the judiciously mingled exercise Of pres y,
ure and persuasion, TO a condition IN which u
bey would voluntarily return to their ale ~
lance This was the explanation which / p
Ir. Adams gave 10 Lord Pslmersion, the ~
'rime Minister of England, when the great, =
nd, as I trust, not unfriendly statesman, q
aid that be did not believe the Federal 81
lnian could be restored, becsuse he knew y,
hat while any man can lesd horse 70 the y
-ater. no man can make him drink. The w
ian, therefore, recognizes not the destruc- "a
Ion. nor even the subversiun Of States, but "a
heir active existence and il reasons from CT
,rts a. thew are, pot from assumed or pos e
ible changes 90 be effected By continual Ia
ar. much less does it reason from mere y
himeras. lApPlause-l -
This absolute existence Ct the States y
-birh constitute the republic De the most ~
n ]. .