The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-23
Address or seere,nry llseI,ynr,l.

Address orsee+etary seward.
NEW YoRR, Oct. 2l.-Secretary Se-
ward yesterday delivered an address to
the citizens of Auburn, his home.
Alter ratnlating the country up-
on the return OF peace, he referred 10
Andrew Johnson, saying, that in the
opening of the rebellion IL was neces-
sary that a popular leader should arise
in behalf of the country. A man from
hesitating border State, n Shareholder
III practice, though notin principle, and
yet in principle and association u demo
crat. Andrew johnson, with the con-
sent of the whole American people, MS
sumed the great responsibi lites Of Presis
dent Lincoln dthatslavery
should be treated us public enemy.-
Andrew Johnson endorsed the an
nouncement of the attempted reyO.
ution which eliminated when our NATL
Onal banner was successfully rdplanted
IN Tennessee. From that time,
cute the war with such ener-
giles as human nature had never
before eXerted, 1t wHs equally needful
to prosecute the beneficial work of re-
storing the Union. The abolitiouof sla-
very was thence forth equally an ele-
ment OF persistent war and returning
peace. Andrew johnson WINS fitlY APP
pointed the first ofthe Provisional Cows.
for the prosecution of these double and
desirable purposes of war and peace,
md was subsequently, elected Vice
President, and in the end, constitution
ally innugurated President of the
United States. Wenre constantly hear
ing debates concerning the origin aud
authority of the plan of restoration
New converts, N Qrth and South, call it
the Presidents plan. All Speak oft as
II 1t were a new and recent develop
mellt to the country. Wenow see that
1T Is not specially Andrew Johnson's
plan, nor even n new plan. In every
respect it is the plan which abruptly,
yet distinctly, offered itself to the last
administration Mt the moment when tho
work of restorntioIAwas to begin. 1t is
essential that the insurrectiOnary States
shall accept this plan.
This tsswhnt meant whenI said to
Mr.. Adams that in the sense in which
the word subjugation was used by our
enemies, 1t was not the expectation or
purpose of this government that tho
southern States should be suIjugated
but by the plnn adopted they would be
brought to n voluntary return to their
allegiance. The plan therefore recorr-
nizes not their destruction but their ac!
tive existence. The absolute existence
ofthe States which constitute the RepuI-
lie is the most pnlpable of nll of the facts
with which the American statesman
has to deal. bespoke of the American
Union MS system to which the States
were attached rs limbs, and said If a
limb is broken of it must be restored
to soundness before due constitutional
health and vigor can be brought back
to the whole system. If limb offend,
we can cut 1t Off and cast it away: but
by doing so we would be doing whit
other nations less wise than ourselves
nave done, that have submitted unne-
cessarily to amputation, and given up
n material portion of their strength to
save themselves from unprecedented de-
struction. Jt IL8E- ls8fE 90 i
He argued that the reconciliation
adopted was the most wise course to
pursue. The plan, he said, gives us a
great national advance in the progress
of moral and political elevation which
nre now to be made FIST and firmly
fixed, for 1t secures a voluntary ADOLF
ton of slavery by the insurrectionary
States, and secondly an efTectunl adop-
ton by the late slave States themselves
stitutions prohibiting slavery forever
i'll any part of the United States.
In this work of reconciliation he
urged, in the language of the President,
1--WE must trust each other" AS to
fears of too much leniency on the part
OF the President, he said, except those
who have been wounded or bereaVed
none had suffered more of wrong, in
suit and insolence at the hands of tho
leaders of the rebellion than the Presi-
dent, and cannot we forget where lie
can forgive. His terms of amnesty are
Tar more rigorous than those offered by
Abraham Lincoln. MIR. S. guaranteed
fidelity and filithfIlnss on the part OF
Andrew Johnson. He had never in his
life met n man moro free from personal
caprice and selfish ambition; none more
purely and exclusively moved in public
actions, by love of country and good
Will to mankind.
MIR. Seward then passed in review the
different members of the Cabinet since
the first Inauguration of Mr.. Lincoln,
speaking highly of them all.
Concerning foreign relations Mr.. S.
said he was permitted to say in general
terms we have claims on foreign ma
;tions for injuries to the United Suites
and horciGzenS, and other nations hnvo
pretended claims against this govern
ment for alleged injuries to them or
their subjects. He believed tho Presi-
dentwould conduct these afInirs in such
II manneras to yield and recover indem-
mites justly due without any compro-
mise of the national. dignity and honor
With whatever jealousy wo may adhere
to our inherited principles of avoiding
entangling alliances with foreign ma
tons, we must continue to exercise n
just and ibeniticent influence in the i'm
lternat10nal conduct OF foreign States
particularly $hose which are near tosus
on this continent and which are espe-
cinlly endeared to us by their adoption
of republican institutions. He was
sure the President had not lost sight of
this important interest and he expected
to see republican institutions wherever
they have been heretofore established
throughout the American Continent
speedily vindicated, renewed and re-
invigorated.
The WiFz Commission.
WASHINGTON, Oct. q. The Wirz Mil