Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-06-06
MIR. seward's speech.
Everything is lovely and h Goose
-.! 10 hangs high" .'

Everybody knows Mr.. Seward, of the late
firm of Seward, Weed and Greedy, author of
the 'irrepressible conflict" &c. The individ-
uaI who, as Mr.. Lincoln's Secretary Of State
tn 1861, pledged US that the rebellion should
be put down in 80 days I? The same person
that made the speech at the. Cooper Institute
on the 22d of Feb. in support of A. Johnson's
veto and. the next day telegraphed to his
excellency with sSch enthusiasm, that his
speech delivered at the White House in
which he accused Senators and Represents.
tiVes in Congress of a desire to procure his
assassination, 'sEas alright and the country
would be happyn f5s-t III ID l
This most amiable gentlemen has recently
been to Auburn to deliver another Of his
cheerful and pleasant speeches In support
of a. Johnson's Hmy policy" No body
doubts but if MI. johnson should proclaim
that the north inaqgurated the rebellion,
and that the South were the innocent VIC
TINS, Mr.. Seward would acquiesce and go
north and make a speech to sustain that
view. In fact it looks as though it might
come to that at last. -
Here IS one. Of the opening paragraphs of
Mr.. Stewards adreit and plausible speech:
1.-THE whole disfoyal, community IN that
blighted and desolate region, accepting the
conditions of partial amnesty and the invi-
tations to returning Allegiance which were
proclaimed by the administration all at once
renodnced the principles practices and pol
icy of Secession and Dishnion, rendered as &
new covenant of loyalty sealed with their
eaths and brought forward with aIacfity the
remains of their long.cherished institution of
Slavery and cheerfnliy threw them to be
burned upon the Constitution altar which
they hads 80 newly restored3i H. .Io sai
z Upon this false assumption he builds his
beautiful theory of ereeQnoilistion,H et...
No man with any reputation to lose, who
had been sober one day In six since the res
bellion collapsed would have hazarded such
a statement. So far from those rebel COM
munities, having accepted the conditions
Of partial amnesty proclaimed by the adj
ministration," it is notorious that their ar
mics surrendered at the point of the bSyOnet,
and went home as paroled prisoners OF war
after having fought as long as they could
possibly hold an army together. They ae.
oeIted the situation with the alacrity and
cheerfulness that d malefactor accepts the
halter. So far from r~enouncing the ''prinei-
piles and practices of secession the treason
and deviltry that was partially thrashed out
of them by four years of bloody war, was
warmed into renewed vigor by the mistaken
i~enieney ofsthe President.
Mr.. Seward says all we want nov IS q
very little reconciliation; the Government
has not been destroyed and needs no recon.
struetion. In his mild way he says, "the
Southern States during four years were de-
ranged and d~isorganised in their constitu
tional relations to the Union" There hasn't
been much of a shower after al-no body Is
to blame for what has happened, and Con-
gress must be made up of paltry set Of Gus
ses if they can't forgive our Southern breth-
rem for butchering our Unien soldiers, and
attempting to overthrow the Government,
and give them control of what they could
not Observation-Disclosures Democrat