The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-06-14
Mr.. S1WARO'S SPEECH.

The chief point in the great speech OF
Mr. Seward the other day, to the effect
that nearly everything has been accomp
lshed in the restoration OF the Union
except reconstruction, should com
mend itself most strongly 10 the good
sense OF the American people, if they
are ever to hope for good government
and happiness and prosperity again Il
they will but reflect that it has ever been
the policy and vocation of dem agogUe>
who want power to get the country into
a ferment. to so excite passions and
antipa;hies that. As champions OF one
side or the other, cabblers and hraUier>
10y profession should he able to toss Ileit
arms over fancied injustice, and 80 get
the people To put them in office, they
would utterly discountenance all such,
they would not permit themselves to he
led into excuses by personages mentally
so small, that except for fortuitou- cir
cumstances they would never he heard
OF in the nations affairs.
And when such men as Mr.. Seward
and his associates in the Cabinet, men
who have guided the nation through
perils and perplexities such "a never in
the history Of human affairs were eQuall-
ell, when such men whose fame will be
the nations pride to its latest existence,
achieved by them for free government,
to counsel moderation does it seem pos
sible that their voices can be overhone
by the piping notes of pennywhistle
politicians, and will the American poo-
pie pay themselves so poor a compli-
ment as To desert their most iIlustrious
advisers and benefactors to run after
sach?
The war IS over, and it is easy enough
now for the great herd of small poi.tici-
ans who never were thought of in the
nations EXTREMIST perils, TO rush 10 the
front and assume "A direction that would
have been secuted and laughed at in the
height of the terrible struggle. What
heroes and statesmen they have suddenly
become, now that the only thing left for
them to do, is TO manufacture n cheap
reputation by assuming to trample out
the embers of that civil war whose surg
ing and red waves swept over the land
How brave, how implacable arc all such
in bearing down on PROSTATE and help
less antagonist, and how god like and
severe the Justice they preach Nir
tuously and fl ,rcely in lignant, they step
quite in advance of such men a the
Secretary of War, whose hand in the
height Of the conflict launched with
gigantic strength the thunderbnltS Of
the Republic, and as for the illustrious
Secretary Of State, a man whose @pleu-
did talents are acLnowled yed in ali tnds,
he must resign without u word lhat helm,
the management of which has been the
wonder of the abtest statesnoa of the
age, to give place to tae pi9:nicS who
now strut in his presence. II i. in
credible
The natiol In, won inperish3hia 4lo
res in putting down the rebellion and
those who engineered il Let it now
complete the shining record, By putting
down the little knot of pestilent agita
tors WAC are making themselves The
nations plague in rostponing "recon
citation 1t is necessary we should
have peace, whilst it is not necessary
that their housing schemes 70 attain
notoriety should succeed, anil il the
masses of the people do not see this.
heed it, act upon the advice of those
whose counsels and labors have so far
saved the Republic, we are in danger Of
anarchy itself, as tho dread climax of
faction. = Baltimore Com.