The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-29
Speech II. e, OF = SECRETARY SEWARD.


ssThank you, go Will L"
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SPEECH OF SECRETARY SEWARD.
.zHs sp1vHRaENoE" BErwEEN THE PREspEAr AND
-. THE RADIoAIs-THE UNION ALREADY REcossrHuST-
sHp- -REooNsrRUpT1os THE ONE THING NEEDED
- - ~ '-'-'', - . ~. :, ''''' SS' 80.
:, Secretary SEWARD. delivered . long speech at
Corning Hall, Auburn, New York, on last Tuesdsy
evening, before crowded audience, Mr. SKwARp
said: 81 ~ iJ;@t. ai,; lli@ as-'fI ne -
10 I'VE were together here inn October last. The
national condition has undergone some maternal
changes since that time we were hen on .he .Se
States The leaders who 30 pertnsaously Claim
to be Democrats organized with thar customary
machinery and 0rations. They had Wlsefy ceased
to denounce as failure the war for the Union,
= which at last became glorious success. They
thought to undermine the distinctive party OF
: the Union by affecting newborn admiration Tor
its chief, Andrew Johnson. They seemed anxious
to prove their devotion superior to ours by COM
mitIng themselves to support him as candidate
. for the Presidency in 1885, They inscribed our
administration notices OF reconciliation upon
their, newly. wrought banners, and reorganlzing
s as az ehssaed wsn psr
tiisSn, mot patriotic victory -" > -sT
III What led the Democratic leaders to make THE
change WAS the striking, I may call II the marvel
= iqus Phenomenon which was then exhibited IN the
sSe66 df Efe recent rebellion, The whole disioyA
yeominunity in thatblghted and desolated region,
accepting the conditions of partial amnesty and
she to returning allegiance, which were
I prools aimed by the} Administrations an st once re.
the nSp prasS,Ses ana nse p0Ss sove
nat,t al LOYALTY. and sealed with their oaths and
brought forward With alacrity the remains OF their
long Cherished institution OF slavery sRd cheer.
fully threw il TO be burned upon the constitutional
sbish sAsy haa g s.n nsxy TaatS5sa ss attitude o,
POLITICAL advefsaties, once 80 obstinate, natnrslly
enough exoIted suspcions, jealonses and appre-
YhmsfDusiamoug loyal and tried Union men. IL
Mss the olacase Of William Of Orange, Tno. nav.
and Pspists the rights OF dtizenship. ~ isi the
cass Nhich las ever occurred; sndn which must
4orevSr more oeeutp at the endo ssuccsssfu re-
rastsncs 10 rebellion (! oti .s.m o. .ssri .2irs :
rs,,Hov could Democrats and Rabels be converted
NO the support Of triumphant Union administra-
zion The work Of reconciliation has outr1n ex:
4humgn affairs, with internal commotions and
disturbances less eorious than those which some-
4tiuuu attend popular elections in free country
in time of sr.ofaund peace theI heretotore dis
loyal people Of Xrginis, Tenpesses North aasos
sinni Ionisians. Fcsids and fsfas, successiyely,
nay almost mnltaneoaSly, tsssem5led and
adopted new Constitutions In conformity the
/; Constellation Of the United States They uptuIned
the rebellion, all it, fsrspreading roots and
III its poisonous fruits, and they accepted and
ratifed,th then pending Gengresaionst ernends
imenSto the Constitute Of stha United States,
sSss a sss asss sss Ssy s s
en- III themselves, By freel and uncontrolled sas1
frsge, Governors, Legislatures, Judiciaries, ann
municipal authorities. Between the Federal Gov
ernmeht and these restored and reorganiEed
Ik-k
plete and practical harmony than has ever before
prevailed ,besween the Union And 80 omAuy OF tts
members aimee it was hrst established Within
this period the Executive Department. Of the Ont
people of these former disloys1 Ststea' The State
Department speaks for than, with their free con-
sent. 70 municipalities and powers The TREASURY
collects the national imports and. .taxes there. This
p rWss Department distributes Its forc9s whenever
9nsrantee peace between the inveterasebut fast
expiring factions. The navy OF the United States
'bSrs. Tie Possofiee .DsPaftmens cifegletes,
Through every vein and artery there, ,athe Mowi-
edge 1hichis the revivfsins lseodot p npised're1
The people Of the lately disoysi satss desiring
to pass the last stage Of restorstfon Us speedily
~ np5ssible, have CHOSEN Senator'S 70 represent
them n the House OF REPRESENTATIVES, and
Chose representatives are daily waiting at the
Capitolloc % s6r - q =, vi:sggs' = ,r,c--ns '
,Hhreughout the loyal States industry ignspre
y vigorous and efeoGye than eyer before; In the
lately dsloyal States capital aud 1sb6r Combining
and cooperating under free contract system,
= which to them is altogether new, are beginning
with success to obhterate tho tracesof fainj and
devastation.a ~ ~" sVf-.i<.f ;fHT.iS,.i : - st.
1.-The feature of affairs which disturbs the public
mind is q supposed divergence between the
President and the Representatives, in Congress of
the National Union party, from which he and
they have derived their respective but co-ordi-
nate powers. i.-:.,i
gether more desirable, that the work OF recon-
struction, 30 happily begun and 80 successfully
prosecuted heretofore, shall be continued and
ended under the auspices OF the National Onion
party, and Of the President and Congress, as the,
representatives OF that party. Iagree, therefore,
that it would be sad misfortune il divergence be-
tween the President and Congress should work
decline and downfall Of the National Union party.
1t is deart to me, for am identified with its
rapid rise, it's msjestc progress and it's glorious
work. Both the President and Congress might
well expect to be equally involved in the calamity
which should dismiss the Onion party from the
nationa! councils, and see with modification, the
great responsibilities to which the party had, in
that case proved itself unequal, assumed and dis
charged by some new yet undeveloped political
organization. o
are of little real account in my estimation, when
weighed against the national life. The nation al
life lately hung on the issue Of victory won in
war. It now hangs on the issue Of reconciliation
in peace. The nation must live forever, whether
it receive the needed care in any emergency at the
hands ofon President, Congress and party, or at
the hands of another.
reasoned in this way about the triumph of the
war. reason in the same way now in regard to
reconciliation and peace expect thatin year
henceI shall be found to be right now, as am
now admitted to have been right one year, two
years, three years ago. don't think, however,
that there is any necessity for separation between
the President, the Congress and the party Of the
Union 80. - - :. ~:
I admit that the jsalousies and suspicious of the
ast summer we're only temporarily alIayed, not