The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-29


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"Thank you go will l."
SPEECH OF SECRETARY SEWARD.
THE "D1VRRGENoE' BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND
THE RAD1cALs-THE UNION ALREADY RECONSTRUCT
RECONSTRUCTION THE ONE THING NEEDED.
T., Secretary SEWARD delivered a long speech at
{ Corning Hall, Auburn, Nov York, on last Tuesday
evening, before crowded audience. Mr.. SEWARD
said:
We were together here in October last. The
national condition has undergone some material
changes since that time. We were then on the
verge of a series of elections throughout the
states. The leaders who 80 pertlnaclously claim
to be Democrats organized with their customary
machinery and oratons. They had wisely ceased
to denounce as failure the war for the Union,
which at last became q glorious success. They
thought to undermine the distinctive party of
the Union by affecting newborn admiration for
to prove their devotion superior to ours by COM
mting themselves to support him as candidate
lot the: Presidency in 1868. They inscribed our
ther newly wrought banners, and reorganizing
ane1r stTaggling lines as well as they SO hastily
could; they vehemently charged around for par
What led the Democratic leaders to make this
change was the striking, may call it the marvel
Ious phenomenon which was then exhibited in the
scsne of the recent rebellion The whole disloyal
community in that blightod and desolated region,
accepting the conditions Of partial amnesty and
proclaimed by the Administration, all at once re-
nounced the principles. practices and policy Of
brought forward with alacrity the remains of their
long cherished institution Of slavery, and cheer
July threw It to be burned upon the constitutional
a an ayvlv .
Ihese unexpected changes in the attitude OF
political adyersaries, once 80 obstinate, naturally
hensons among loyal and tried Union men. anpif It
was the old case of William Of Orange, who, hay
ing in civil war put down the Tories, afterwards
found it necessary to cede to re9enting Jacobites
and Papists the rights of citizenship. It is the
case which has ever occurred, and which must
forever more occur, at the end Of successful re-
How could Democrats and Rebels be converted
to the support Of triumphant Union administra-
pectation. Indeed, it has never had parallel in
human affairs. With internal connections and
disturbances, less serious than those which some
in time of profound peace, the heretofore dis
loyal people OF Virginia, Tennessee, North Caro-
Lima Lima; South Carons Georga Arkansas Mass-
nay, almost simultaneously, assembled and
adopted new Constitutions in conformity with the
Constitution of the United States. They upturned
the rebellion, with all its farspreading roots and
all it's poisonous fruits, and they accepted and
ratified the then pending Congressional amend
which abolishes slavery thenceforth forever. The
people Of these States have, at the same time, chos
en- for themselves, by free and uncontrolled sut-
municipal authorities. Between the Federal Gov
ernment and these restored and reorganized
State goyernments there exists now more COM
plete and practical harmony than has ever before
prevailed between the Union and so many of it's
members since it was first established Within
Stat6a fha
people of these former disloyal States. The State
Department speaks for them, with their free con-
collects The national imports aud taxes there The
War Department distributes it's forces whenever
and wherever it seems necessary and expedient to
expiring factions. The navy of the United States
rides freely in all their reopened ports and har-
bors. The Postoffice, Department eirculates,
through every vein and artery there, the knowl-
public. 0~'' - " ''''''''
to pass the last stage OF restoration as speedily
as possible, have chosen Senators to represent
them in the Senate and members to answer for
them in the House OF Representatives, and
those representatives are daily waiting at the
oshsSl; Hbsoaehout the ,ovsl States Dsu.trv !, NOR.
vigorous and effective than ever before. In the
lately disoyal States, capital and labor combining
and cooperating under free contract system
which to them is altogether new, are beginning
With success to obliterate the traces OF ruin and
devastation.
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 agree that it is altogether easier, and alto
gether more desirable, that the work Of recon-
struction, so happily begun and successfully
prosecuted heretofore, shall be continued and
ended under the auspices OF the National Union
partys and OF the President and Congress-, as the
representatives OF thet party. Iagree, therefore,
that 1t would be sad misfortune II divergence be-
tween the President and Congress should work q
decline and downfall OF the National Union party
1t Is dear to me. for I am identified with its
rapid rise, it's majestic progress and its glorious
which should dismiss tho Union party from the
national 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.
But President, Congress-, statesmen and parties
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
1t receive the needed care in any emergency ut the
hands of one President, Congress and party, or at
the hands OF another. - -
I reasoned in this way about the triumph of the
war. reason In the same way now in regard Ia
reconciliation and peace. I expect that in q year
hence shall be found to be right now, as an
years, three years ago. I don't think, however
that there s any necessity for separation between
the President, the Congress and the party Of th.
"a Onion.