The national Republican., 1866-07-26
W1ILTAM m. sEWARD.

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WILLIAM n. sEWARD.
On the 11th Of September, 1860, William
II. Seward said at Madison, Wisconsin: ut
has been by simple rule Of Interpretation
have studied the Constitution Of my country
That rule has been simply this: that by no
word, no act, no combination into which l
might enter, should any one human being Of
all the generations to which belong, much
less any class Of human beings Of any nation,
in the least degree in their efforts 10 rise to q
higher state Of liberty and happiness. Ap-
plause.l Amid all the CLOSES Of the times,
amid an the essays and discussions to which
the Constitution OF the United States has
been subjected, this has been the simple
plain, broad light in which have read every
article and every section Of that great instru-
ment. Whenever II requires Of me that this
hand shall keep down the humblest Of the
human race, then / will lay down power,
place, position, fame, everything rather than
adopt such construction of such rule"
The William H. Seward that uttered these
noble words no longer survives. He has
been succeeded by another William H. Sew
ard, who believes in keeping down four mil
lions Of human beings "in their efforts to
rise to higher state Of liberty and happi-
ness" and who nevertheless holds on TO
"power, place, position" Let us keep green
the memory Of the old William II. Seward,
while we pity and forget that other feeble
and servile individual who claims the same
Journal.
What Is the reason that you use mo thus'
1 Ilovsd you ever. But It Is no matter.
Let Hercules do what he may,
The cat viii msv and dog viii have his day.
.s o. --Shakspsars's Hussket.
HAMLET was represented by the historians
Of the twelfth century to be "a prince who,
IL his good fortune had been equal to his de-
serts, would have rivslled the gods in splen-
dor, and his acts would have exceeded even
the labors of HERCULES" Whilst unraveling
the conspiracy by which his father was assas-
sinated by the connivance Of his mother, and
his uncle wrongfully seated upon the throne Of
Denmark, he was annoyed with all the ISLANDERS
which that malignant murderer and his hired
defamers could invent. But "their arrows
were too lightly timbered for so loud wind"
" He persisted in his purpose" says MALONE,
(although the tragedy of SHAKsPEARE fails to
notice it,) until he secured the crown, res
cued Denmark ..slavery,,an re-estab-
lished its glory. His recompense was the
profoundest gratitude Of liberated people"
Among his assailants was one LAERrEs, whom
he fondly loved, and whose enmity therefore
he least expected. But the "wind of preju-
dice was loud" and he fell upon him at the
burial Of his beloved OPHEILA.
The migrate son Of loyal and noble father
who wrote the article above quoted, has had
too many proofs Of Secretary SKwARD's
affection to have taken up the occupation of
cats and dogs. But he knew that do what
that distinguished statesman may just now,
the radicals assail him. And so forgetting
all that he has done and suffered for the
country, his heart was foul enough to pander
to the morbid sentiment Of the times. And
here we should leave him and his miserable
effusion to the contempt Of his neighbors, if
it had not been caught up by other members
of the kennel, and mewed and barked over
again for the entertainment Of the people
not so well posted in the tricks Of the tinkers
now having the control Of Congress.
The WILLIAM II. SEWARD who made that
eloquent speech in Wisconsin is the WILLIAM
ii. SEWARD Of to-day. The sentiments he
then entertained he just as fondly cherishes
now. By no word, act or combination of
his will any human being or any class of
human beings Of any nation, race or kindred
be oppressed or kept down in their efforts
to rise to higher state of liberty and happi
ness. Rather than to do so he would lay
down place, position, power, everything
which appertains to his public life. And
our contemporary must know quite as well as
ourselves that he has never at any time
given SO much as hint to the contrary.
The fippant statement that he now believes
in keeping down four millions Of human be-
ings in their efforts to rise to higher state
of liberty and happiness is ridiculously if not
maliciously false. ..
But he believes that neither the whites nor
blacks in the South can rise to higher state
OF liberty and happiness without a restoration
of the peace broken by the war. That, in
his opinion, is condition precedent 10 any
further educational, political, moral, or re-
ligious improvement whatsoever. In other
words, he believes just as he ever has, that the
Union Of the States under the Constitution
is essential to the liberty and happiness Of
the people Of the States, black as well as
white. Those who pretend that he has gone
back upon his own dial in this the smallest
fraction Of degree either do not know
whereof they speak, or intend to falsify the
truth. But it is no matter. SEwARD's place
in the temple Of fame has already been as,
signed him:
at Is beside Lsonidas and Washington,
Whose every battle field 10 holy ground,
which breahss Of nations saved not worlds undone
tr' PERSONAL.