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THURSDAY, MAY q, 1865.
mr.. SEwARD,s SPEECH. /:
As a literary contribution TO CONC future
edition OF the yo1unainons "Works Of VIM. |
q. Seward" and as finished masterpiece Of
composition. Mr. Seward has sell
dom uttered aaTthing more thoroughly artis,
tic than his recent speech at Auburn. Eaeh
every thought Is painfully set In words Of
gold, as 1t It were jewel. instead ct PASTE
As study In oratory, It Ia excellent. AZ q
Of political views. ii is Ike the
double.toneued uttcrnnces With which Mr..
Seward received the rebcl pcacc commits
sloncrs in 1861, ana Ills illusory md baseless
promises Of "peace In sixty days." which
showed the. superficial character Of his
easacity during tho same period: IL defend
ing Eivcu course Of policy, no poll
ucaan csn be more plausible or Ingenious
than Mr. Seward. In adopting md original
tng policy he has never exhibited the IN
stInct of creative genius, with which every
great statesman must be endowed, In oraer
to render hin III to take the helm of affairs
ia periods when the uatiou's life or great and
honorcd principles arc at stake. Without
this be becomes q treacherous and timid !
guide, though, lie may he never 50
valuable as IN advocate. It Is very
doubtful whether Ind AIr. Seward,
instead OF Mr. Lincoln, been President In 4
1861. any attempt to restore the Union BY !
1urcc would Duve been made. Mr. Seward |
would have announced that "tbe Confede- |
rncy Is fixed fact aud the two counties VIII
De happy" with all Mark Tapley's DISPOSE |
ton 10 b, happy under difficulties. It Is al
most certain that under no circumstances
would war for the Union have led, II pse~
sided ovcs by Mr. Seward, to tho abolition ot
slavery, although twenty years before, he had
said ut Cleveland, "Slavery mast bc abolish"
cd and sou and must do it."
Great rs AR. Seward is In tho at Of pla1l-
siblc statement, hc Is weakness itself when
brought fucc to face with the decision Of nd
n,inistrative questions where siaTcTy rhetoric
will not avail and action If required. The
talcnt that con '' bend thc supple knee" to
rebels demanding tie keys to Sumter, 10
John Bull blutiiv calling 1or the surrender Of
Mason and Slide'l, to Napoleon asking non.
Intervention by ns In his Intervention In
Mexico, to Copperheads roaring for The retcn-
tior OF Mcclellan In command, and now to
rebels claiming not equality, but superiority
orpolftical privileges at The expense OF loyal
mcn-all this talent for conccs-
s,on, Mr. Seward has manifested.
But unaccompanied and uuadarned by Mr.
6eward's intellectual abilities and great
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, tLis = talent" fot yielding
his ground with emooth words to the enemy,
would be styled spanicl-likes mere coWardice.
and II dispInyed BY a private IN tho army,
would subject him 10 be SHOT. These quail
ties arc sisnaly illustrated "a his Inst speech,
In which the leading ideas are that the rebels
Of the South have conc up to the support OF
the administration, instead Of the aanfnistra-
ton having gone to the MD of the rebels, that
the country Is under load Of obligation to
the rebels for conscntins 10 come bacl into
pomer. although they fought till they could
fight no longer, and hall gear aitcr their
leaders and Generals lnew they were whipped
hcyoud hone; That the Southern States do
no1 uoed RECONSTRUCTION because nothing
destroyed, though johnson
- 9th state, in the p1oclomntions
'.-:,ion, that "an civil Govern
,-ss - seeded States had been de-
49, ,.-%saAey ~ssaea th-t Ass.e unlsoa
- - x 80 guarantee to them Repnb'
- et"! 'oEc1pment Has 6one ana 70,
;,'' '@i'':r~ naa oecn dsstto!eo Ut neeoso
= c:s;'e1cted! But Ar. seward lnAnks
- :'eds reconclhaaion, ou1S IN
i ~ 'ao7c-" very we'll fass Ia