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do not appear before you for the purpose of doing so, and for several very substantial reasons. The most substantial of these is that I have no speech to make [laughter]. It is some what important in my position that one should not say any foolish things if he can help it, and it very often happens that the only way to help it is to say nothing at all. [Renewed laughter.] "Believing that is my precise position this evening, I must beg of you to excuse me from saying 'one word.'" Seward was also serenaded, and made a speech, in which he announced that he was "sixty years old and upwards," and that forty years ago he fore saw, "opening before this people, a graveyard that was to be filled with brothers failing in mutual political combat." Attending to his hope that this would be the last "fraternal" war on this continent, old Peckeniff gave the following picture of the expected subjugation of the South: "Then we shall know that we are not enemies but that we are friend