The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-11-16
SPEECH BY SECT SEWARD.
Vindication of the Policy Of the Ad-
ministration.

spoke at length on public affairs. We
copy report Of his speech from the
New York Times:
MY Coon FRIENDs:-A meeting with
you here from time to time, as oppor-
tunity serves and duty permits, is not
merely a privilege, but even blessing.
Your greeting on this occasion comes in
a season when fruits are clustered
around us, although the leaves above
our heads and the grass beneath our
feet are fresh and green.
After some further friendly prclin.
inari3s the speaker spoke of
LINCOLN AND JOHNSON.
We have lost the great and good
President, Abraham Lincoln. He had
reached stage Ct moral consideration
when his name alone, if encircled with
martyrs wreath, would be more useful
TO humanity at large than his personal
efforts could be beneficial to any one
country as her chosen Chief Magis-
trate. H is now ass sociatcd with Wash
iugton The two American chiefs.
though they are dead, still live, and
they are leading the entire human raco
in a more spirited progress towards
fields of broader liberty and higher
civilization. Applause. In the place
of Abraham Lincoln We have a new
President. To most of you he is per.
sonnlly unknown. The people around
me, with their customary thoughtful
ness, are inquiring Of those who are
nearer to him than themselves what
manner of man Andrew johnson is,
and what manner Of President he may
be expected to be. When, in 1861,
treason, laying aside, for the moment,
the already obnoxious mask Of slavery,
and investing itself with the always at
tractive and honored robes Of demo
cratic freedom, flashed its lurid light
through the Senate thsm Der and an
nounced, las already completed, disso-
luton Of the Union. then, a leader, who
should be at first Senatorial and after
ward a popular leader, was required to
awaken sleeping loyalty and patriotism m
throughout the land, to rouse It's uu-
conscious hosts and to inspire them
with the resolution needed to rescue
the Constitution, suppress the rebellion
and preserve the integrity of the Re.
public. Applause To me, reason
seemed to suggest in this case, as a nc
cessity resulting from circumstances
that that leader, while he should be {
capable, ibfexitle and devoted patriot
should also he citizen of hesiiatina
border State; a STAKEHOLDER in practice
though not in principle, and yet IL
principle and association Demo crat
Andrew johnson, of Tennessee, com
plctely fled those complex conditions
and with the consent Of the whol
American people, he assumed the erea
responsibility. Loud applause Th,
instruction soon became f,gitous, fl in
solent, defiant, and announced, to tn,
astonishment Of mankind, that the PR
tended free empire which it was build
Ing by usurpation within forbidden
borders was founded upon the corner,
Stone of slavery The newly i1u
gurated President, Lincoln, with decis
ion, not unaccompanied by charac
teristic prudence, announced tha
thenccforth slavery should be deemed
and treated as public enemy. TAP
plause Andrew Johnson accepted tb
new conditions for his popular leader
ship which this announcement created
and thenccforward be openly, frcel
and honestly declared, not only that tn
erection of the n,w edifje should b
prevented, but the corner stone ofslave
ry itself, the rock of all our past os we
) as of all our then future dangers, shoul
be uplifted and removed, aud cast OF
from the Republic. [Reuewed az
plouso Whatever may have bee
thought by you, or by me, or by other
at that time, it is now apparent that IL
attempted revolution culminated wbc
the national banner was for the iy
time successfully replanted by our ga
liant army on the banks of the Cum be
land, and when Tennessee, first an OF
. the Border States which had been r
q. luctantly carried into the rebellion, Q
: fered once more foothold and restil
place to the authorities of the UDio
p From that time, while it was yet neeC
sary to prosecute the war with such Q
d ergies as human nature had never b
~ fore exerted, il was at the same liz