Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-26
svindication Of the Polfsy of the
Administration

MfsDeWaru mao q faDhc FeCepisou ~
Auburn on Friday, on which occasion he.
spoke at lengthcn public affairs We.
copy report 81 biz speech from the
New York Times:
SPEECH or Mr. SEWARD.
ny COOP FRIENDS. A meeting with
you here from time to time, ss opportu
nity serves aud duty. permits, ia not
merely privilege, but even blessing.
Your greeting on this occasion
comes 10. q ~ season wheD frnits
are clustered around %, al.b ugh
the leaves above our heads and the
grass beneath our feet arc get fresh
and green. The assemblage which
has gathered 10 express 70 nae It's good
wishes, harmonige8 with the seagon and
the scene. However youthful d towna
man Of Auburn II, he 10 nevertheless
ha9tually thoughtfni, however old, be
is yet always cbesrfal and hopefal-~9his
particular greeting Gala up not mere
fancies, but mem0ries--soTpe rev ana
others Old som G pleasing, ot5ers mourn
inl some p'iyafe, o;h'Is public; With
all Of ahicil, bsw,.g.sp, ysa all are int
matelg and Consciously associated and
those memories have becomes 90 indelh-
bly, impressed upon me. that they seem
10 me 10 constitule q sart cf nyYeFy
being We haze mst ocoasionally dur
ing the past fiye years, but Algays under
circumstances which were paiBlul, and
which excited deep solicitude
You freely gave mo your eympathies
then, even when my visits were hurried
when my appeals toyou, and through
you TO more distant fellow ejtizsnb to
make new efforts and sacrifices for our
suffering country, mustI haee eeenlnd
querulous aud ezacting5 and when
? either public or private anxieties denied
me the privilege of even temporary rest
and calmness. Who that labored under
the weight OF disproportionate feapon-
ability, could have rested orr been at
ease when the land which be ought to
love with more thfn earthly affection
was threatened every day with a violent
dissolution OF Tia political Institutions, 10
be quickly followed By domestic anarchy,
and afterward by imperial, and possibly
foreign, despotism. Would 10 God that
the patriots Of Mexico bad mayer 10 tho
midst of her civil connections, taken 10
themselves the comfort Of indifference
and rs,,ose Ffrt9 n158ItEE
But all ia now thaneed.6 The civil
war IL ended. Death has rem0ved his
victims liberty has crowned her hetoaa,
and humanity has canonized har ma e.
tyrs the sick and the strickonaFe cured;
the surviving conibatanta ave fraterni
zng and tho country, the object Of
our just pride and lawful affection, once
more stande collected .Pud composed,
irmer, stronker,hId more Iilai 3stio than
ever before, WITHOUT one cam10t dAe9
gerous disconteht az home, and without
an enemy IN the. world Applause
Why should sge not ieiicitate each other
on this change, and upon the new pros
pects which open before Us z These
prospects,, however, cover q broad field
| could not Eighty tax your kndnaas 50
much as TO survey the whole Of IA and
even II | were willing, you would Kindly
remember that III the present moment
my power Of speech isnbfidged OnIy
magnaninoua themes are worthy Of your
intellectual understanding, or scompati-
Bile with the feelings which have moved
this interview. ~.s .s stsn
LINCOLN AND JOHNSON, IA
We have lost the great aud good
President, Abraham Lincoln. lbs had
reached a stage Of moral constellation,
when hia name alone, if encircled With
n martyrs wreath, would be more ise-
full 10 humanity at large than his person..
al efforts could be beneficial 10 any one
country ag her chosen Chief Magistrate,
He III now associated with Washington.
The two American Chiefs, though they
are dead, still live, and they arc IeAdfng
the entire human race IN moro spirited
progress toward helds of broader liberty.
and higher civilization LApplause.1
In the place Of Abraham Lincoln wu
have new President To most Of you
he Is personally known. The people
around me, with their customary thought
fulness, are inquiring Of those who are
nearer to him than themselves what
manner Of man Andrew Johnson is, and
what manner Of President be may be
expected to be. When, in 1851, treason,
laying aside for the moment the already
obnoxious mask OF slavery, aud invest
ing itself with the always. attractive and
honored robes OF democratic freedom,
flashed its lurid light through the Sen
ate chamber and announced, as already
w. n
then, q Header, who should be at first q
Senatorial and afterward q popular lead.s
or, was required TO awaken sleeping 10y
atty and patriotism throughout the land,
to rouse its unconscious hosts aad in
spire them whit resolution needed 10
rescue the Constitution, suppress the re-
bellion aud preserve the integrity of tho
Republic Applause i 10 me, reason
seemed 20 suggest, in this case, as o ne
cessity resulting from circumstances,
that the leader, while he should be u ca.
pable, inflexible and devoted patriot,
should also be Gil y F.u9 8 hesi.atsng
bordeS State--a stakeholder IN prac.
tice, though not in principle, aud
yet in principle and association
q Democrat Audrey Johnson, of
Tennessee, completely filled those ,eop :
pick conditions, and, With thelconseht Of
the whole American people, he assumed
the great responsihihty2 kILeudl up
plause The inslrreciion soon became
hagitious, insblent, defiant, and annopn-
ced, to the astonishment Of manklnds
that the pretended free empire which it
was building by ugurpation within for
hidden borders, was, founded upon Sthe1
cornerstone Of slavesyll THe1newly-in-
augurated President, Lincoln, with de.
cision, not unaccompanied with eharae-s
teristic prudence, annonnced4hat heaee-1
forth slavery should be deemed and
treated as public enemy. [Applause I
Andrew Johnson ACCEPTED the iiaw con.i
ditions of his popular leadership which
this announcement created, and thence.
forward he openly, freely and honestly de-
clared, not only that the erection Of the
new edifce should DO prevented, bur the
cornerstone Of slavery itself, the rock of
all our past as we'll as our then future
dangers, should be uplilted and removed,
and cast out from the Republics Re-
newed applause Whatever may have
been thought byyous or by me, oE1y 9TH
ers, at that time, it is now apparent that