The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-09-16
sIEEcH OF award IN OREGON.

speech Of VIM. H. Seward, at Salem,
Oregon, on the 8tb, fro0 which VI
copy the following ::
The older States, situated eastward Of the
Missouri, and below the base of the Rocky
Mountains. have complete industrial, social
and political systems and fixed habits.
The traveller there il intrusive, II. under
any persuasion, he attempts to speak OF
their peculiar resources, policies or duties.
Difference to this principle determined me,
when I left Auburn, to make no wayside
speeches during my present journey. The
magnet. when brought into the presence OF
iron. finds it no harder to maintain its own
polarity than have found it to adhere to
my prudent resolution, ever since passed
the banks of the Mississippi. 1 am trav-
cling in regions grand and vast. but COM
paratively new, and among communities in-
completely organized, needful Of immigra-
ton and capital, and therefore ambitious
that their resources. advantages and attrac-
tons may be made known.
Art has seldom produced = more striking
picture than the abandoned infant Hercules
defending himself against serpents in his
cradle. How poor that admired conception
appears when contrasted with the precariOus
ergy of emigrants from the Atlsrtic shores
settling and establishing new States-mem-
bers of the American Republic-ih the ma
tive forests, wildernesses and deserts which
extend across the American continent.
Relying upon their own energies, as all the
States Ofthis Union at every stage of their
existence must rely. they disdain the SYM
rathy of all foreign nations. Do they re-
quire too much in asking that their capaei-
ties and 10y atty to the Union shall be known
and appreciated
1lv, hold
fast to these several political convictions:
First-That If a nation desires to be indie
pendent and prosperous, and enjoy peace
at home and abroad, it must expand itself
cOmmensurately with its resources and ad-
vantsges- Second-That human bondage
is Incompatible with successful Republic.
Third-That the permanent continuance Of
European or monarchial government in
the Amer can hemisphere would be injuri-
Gus and cangerbus to the United States.
Fourth-ihat in the expansion of the Re-
public, the establishment and acceptance OF
new States on the same footing as the
original States, is essential for the security
of civil and religious liberty. seem, in
deed, to myself to have lived chiefly for the
purpose of laboring to defend an inchoate
Republic against external and internal dam |
gers, and to expand it upon the principles l
have mentioned. Let the world judge, then, |
of the satisfaction enjoy in witnessing the |
success of this policy. and of the gratitude
feel in being so kindly received here, at the
Capital of the new State of Oregon, as
have been received before at the Capitals Of
the other hew States and Territories which
have visited. You will excuse me If the
habit of nationality of thought and reason
ing which l have contracted has rendered
me incapable of considering Oregon as an
isolated State, or of separating nv ideas Of
her condition and products from the general
ideas which l have found of all the States
and Territories, mutually connected with
each other. and subordinate in their proper
relations as parts Of the whole United States.
In California there is no longer need for
encouragement. The highest ex
pectaIioDs Of its settlers have no: unjustly
ripened into absolute assurance. San
Francisco is firmly established as the Con-
of American empire, and Cali
fornia exercises fully and wisely an import
aat political influence in the United States
and Throughout the world. The other new
States and Territories have hot vet secured
an equal position. The dwellers in these
States are constantly asking OF every WISH
tor, What do you think we shall be, and
when l must answer with the same
confidence which, among men of little faith,
has sometimes procured for me the charac-
W,
he Cinderella, has already became lead
ng and effective member Of the political
amily, by which she was despi>ed. Ne
,raska, standing up n the west side Of the
Missouri. has seized the railroads of the
Atlantic States, and welded and riveted them
With the system of railroads which has sue
.essfully begun to traverse and ramify the
states and Territories of the Pacific shore.
" yoming, Colorado and New Mexico, sur
Indian troubles and reckless spec
llations, have reached point of civil and
ocial establishment from which it need not
,e feared they will recede. have not yet
,een able to visit Arizona, but l have
earned enough of Idaho, Montana and
Utah to know that they are reasonably as
ured of a successful and prosperous career.
Nevada, although politically separated
rom California, is a full sharer in her
prosperity and greatness. Considerations oil
not choice, carried me north
yard before was able to visit Oregon. The
Territories Of Washington and Alaska,
with the exception of British
Columola) from the 49th parallel of latitude
,long the islands and coasts of America to
he Arctic Ocean, ore, as might be expect
ID, feebler than the more southern States
md Territories. Nevertheless, l realized,
{, indeed, did not discover, in those Ter
torres a new, peculiar and magnificent
leld of commerce and empire. found one
onrnuous and expanding archipelago
dong the coast, from the base of Puget
sound, in Washington, to Mount St. Elias,
II Alaska. l found land and sea teeming
With provisions for the subsistence Of a
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