Year: 1860

| Senator Seward deserves the thanks of th
country for his well considered and able ei
fort to lift the politics of these States from
the bitterness and malignant contention whie
the Democratic party has for some years ex
erted itself to establish as a permanent condi
ton. There is no need of such asperity, an,
/ no justification for the charges daily and hour
| ly made Of necessary sectional antagonism.-


There is no purpose in the prevailing part.
of the Northern States to wage crusade Oh


the South, and it was fit and timely for Sena


tor Seward to say so in the firm but temper


ate language of his speech. How can The


country be made hereafter TO believe that the


body of Northern citizens are intending te


disturb the peace by the simple exertion o.


their sacred franchise Of the ballot-box? The
Democratic agitators have taught that voting


was almost crime on the part of men oi
| Mr.. Stewards thinking, and dangerous lber-
! tv iu the use of the Middle States. They


have shouted themselves hoarse to equally ex-


cited exts~Inists at the South that we meant
them such harm as an invading army would


and that we must be estopped from the dan


gerous business of depositing ballots, or the
Union would fly in a thousand fragments The


utter absurdity of the views which we here
scarcely oyerstate, must be made apparent to
the least observing Southern man who will
read Mr.. Stewards speech. Let him compare


it with the morbid tone the rant and exag-
geration of three -fourths that Democrats of
the Senate or House put forth as speeches,
and his good sense will at once prompt him
to accept union and peace as thus explained
in place of the trouble perpetually prepared
for him by the opposite party.


Mr.. Seward has wisely devoted his speech
to the assurance of fraternal feeling, and in
dissoluble union. It was incumbent on him,
above all other men, to occupy just this ground
and for this reason we will for this time ex-
cnse him from the consideration of certain
financial and Industrial questions which lie as
surely at the root of the rights of labor as do
the principle that the laborer shall himself be
free. The neglect to consider these practical
questions is that which has rendered Mr. Sew
ards sphere Of statemanship less necessary in
the actual administration of the Government
than it would have been if so comprehensive
as to embrace them.


Let those who habitually charge upon the
body of the Northern opposition disloyal and
ungenefous sentiments, read this speech Of the
man of that division of the OPP
position charged with the authorship of so
much wrong, and see by how much they have
been uisinformed. The statements of MIR.
Seward are accomplished facts; the age does
march Forward to higher positions, and it does
advance with order and peace.


The Union of these States was not an ac-
cident, and our people are one for great reasons
which cannot be put away. They are also
governed as distinguished and distinct munich
paiilies, the boundaries of which need not be
and cannot be broken down. In this way we
are all free and sovereign within our proper
limits. The most troublesome questions have |
their solution in this distinctness of States, |
party can override. Mr.. Seward
has shsssia that mo existing party desires an
invasion of the rights secured to any part Of
the Union, and his vindication. of the purto |
ses of the party constantly charged with all |
of such offenses is mastery and unan-
North american.