The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1851, Page 1

eee - Sn ne == Te ae Te ee cn Ee ~ WHOLE NO. 6064. MORNING EDITION----MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1851. PRICE TWO CENTs, « outburst of enthusiasm as we have rarely witnessed. | the government of which he bad’ been the means ExGovernor Youna then arose, amidst loud and | pot all understood my course. I have been mis- THE BANQUET TO €X-GOVERNOR YOUNG, The whole assembly rose to thelr feet cheering most | Siisiorming. through, the oonaitution. “The rerut, | epehuplaatc cheering He sald: —T_beg yeu to be | 1oPTenented by a portion of the preset will mot cay J “4 in Joma). ir on); at THE Yehemontly, and waving thei handkeroblets for sere- | fy. with all le eonpth: the emecnr alae pee int, | egenzed that I Sully wppreoiate the position { eoccupy | iricntio™s they did net understand’ ‘(Loughber 7 ty, with all i ral minutes. Whenever any allusion was made to the wiih its succens inl the whig party. dismayed by | tbis evening. and the honor you int to confer; , I stend before @ New York audience, with all the pre- ‘Irving House, Saturday, Jan. 18, 1850, feet Kentuckian, during the evening, the same in- | Ht dafvaten that year—the ooptent of [84 seme ony !"ana it T mould be wanting in ext phrase to render the | Jott of socumulated property. “Yet I hare no Beet. tense excitement was produced. just ae if his name | sgsinet out distinguished poeet; oie wey “dace A? | acknowledgements whioh belong to the occasion, 1 | sauon im sping that proprietors ts lana t6 ‘neces. t se Of Partios and | were. talismanthat could conjare up at will the deep. | vinolble, our guest was checen by a tremendous maj, | trust your kind consideration will supply the ae | cpinionthen itis conjure up p- |v old be! higher than eay thet man ake —| - ven and of nature Overrides this pa above all human enactments.’ Is not tthe fy cde ‘est emotions of the human heart, ty: to administer the government ofour State (Grext | ficiency, I am scarcely with you yet; though I am Y terrse . Principles. Davy Gnanam. the president of the evening, eer pare Weatee fe map ip cecshongn: the | eighteen months in your city, I am but little acquaint. * risen 0 reverts to be governed by the then rose, and addressed those assembled as follews:— | be mentioned without Fespeot and Venerniiou—thoagh | ed, by association, with the people of New York; but hievory, where y ‘THE POLITICS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. | vetiow citizons—I need hardly soy that [ rise to per- tbs party againetishichine, sontecdes and whens’ | I hnow encogh of them te know that they breattte an | She Hebe of property. At thetime to. whok Sere fms one of te most agresable duties which has ever, | Mr Young was almost, Unknown toreoeciie: teak | atmonphere daveb fonajeou spencer melt | 3a0 600 inhabitants, held under lentes, some of whe 4 sma An: ed. course of my political career, devolved on eat of the people of this State, eo strongly had | away. (Obeere.) ve come among you wi were for long terms of years, and others in perpetuity. ee ee the toperform; and I can oly regret that the physical | D¢ identified himself with popular interests and the | ful) convicticn that your prejudices would be over. | Disaffection prevailed ¢mong them; and it is the duty it not prostration under which I am laboring, renders it ne- | Hiimselfto the wig party thet ee ie eet come by the light of truth and reason; and Tam not | Of*¥*F7 government not only to preserve the rights of property, but to inquire into grievanees, and, On Baturdey evening, « dinner was given at the | cessary tor me to draw much more largely on ycur | ten thousand, conquered the greatest man | disappointed. You have fully appreciated my motives, | ff porsible, redress them. I would not sey in Erving House to ex-Governor Young, by his friends and | indulgence than under other circumstances I weuld oa Log Nag arty. one zheng oe and bave given me oredit for higher merits than P ~ eee pe ern pe gr Naeae — ay admirers. In order to clearly explain the object of | have desired to do. We are assembled on the present yt H. of the ot our di possees. In your letter of Invitation, youhaveadverted | Reference has been made to the fact thet I differed “his movement, we subjoin the invitation and the | occasion to do honor to one who has long been identi- in thi is to be found some | to anepoch in the politics of this State more interest. | with you asto the propriety of supporting Mr. Clay tn opinton as this respoct’ That man enacts ieweie a ator miey vith ? 001 the laws ot nature as faras he can, end those laws are binding, act because they conform to the lews pat , but because they are formed by man. Now, if the Bouth expect that we are entertain the setae sentiments that they do relerence to the Question of slavery. the South will b» disappointed. yur education terbids it. From our oredies we have Jearned to abhor tlavery—all Northern feelings are Opposed to it. Therefore, when the South aeke us to R' — with an rofessio intelligence of the peo ing to me then any other portion of our history; and | for the Presidency, in 48; will you permit me toney reply: fied principles and with p: ns, which, in ‘ 5 is to be found oe | ee y Lien 3 that no man haat ail times held the great Kentuckian TO THE HON, JOHN YouNa. times past, have rendered themselves dear to the fa aa ete oabd mma wth | Yom, rent have to rotered to, thenetron, | Bye se. eyes sine halts get Kentukiat to virtue, both public aud private. ve reason to deem @ benetactor of reat applause.) Upon entering upon Jo Tam glad you have done 5 t im 1845. after the great party ati were completely prostrate. rh thie You have said | and venerated him, as you have. I have worshipped , the whigs | w&th you at the same shrine. I have sacrificed uy sniz.peta | came altar; and ff my wersbip had taken anvarthiy on of the executive goverument, he | what we kno t our leader on | shape, it would have been the great commoner of Ken ‘ new and untried poritiun. The Shas occasion was celine sR, gr ao, tue %,, ae 5a eet any aug os counter b 07; lc law of the State had undergone a yreat chaage. arr, could fully estimates oud cheers man to whom I co int af a model for my chil- pessoas Sronth thas Mee tate Fone eenTaeee ie | cuisituams ble Biting to seus tothe otroumstences’| Our habite of shoog hs the curtonss ef cor resnin ns | You Rave told we weiw spanciabet coneeeee e | cee eee Cheers) “Yet {differed with it month that may suit your convenience, We | which have called us together—to the fidelity ia t! far as their political ri concerned, bad under. | were. The caus youastothe propriety of presenting his name to the @ pleasure in announcing to you this deserved com- | performance of duty whi. we are eat a ‘lous change. In this sondition of | | om oer in '48. I left nothing undone in ‘44, to promote Spy from your fellow citizens, and ey hope | memorate, and the merits of the ; as called upon to administer our execa- | cetnp, and tbat treason bore its part in the discomfiture | bis election. It failed; and when the time came to or a favorable answer from you. ne meandallthe | here to honor. And in the remar! tive government. Let us for a momentlook at the | of our forces, In view of thecbaracter of the great lead- | choose « candidate for the Presidential chair, I fixed cireumetances seem to us suggestive of this entertain- | occasion to make on these subjects. while I shall 1 course which he marked out, and the line of conduc: | cr. I refraim from any minute details that would expose | upon another man than Mr. Clay. It was then said ‘Ment, and we trust that the occasion, andits incidents, | deavor to be as brief as possible, I shall feel it to bo which characterised his administration of our ex-cu- | the treachery that stabbed in the dark. But we were | that I wanted to break up the party. My objeet, and results, will ver our judgment. m7 my duty to call your attention to some points in the tive affairs, You are undoubtedly familiar with his | overthrown asl bave said. The filends of Governor | however, was to eustain and unite the whig We have just is from an annual election, re- | history of the politics of this Btate, which may not oficial communications to the Legislature of our state; | Bouck were overwhelmed with defeat, and Silas Wright | party. The battles on the Rio Gravde had been ‘markably important and interesting in ite consequen- | familiar to all of you. You all recolleet. tellow olti- id you cannot be ignorant of the fact, that in every | was trinmpbant. I do not epeak of the oceasion with | tought, and the attention of the country had oes. This election bas resulted in the continuance of zens, the irae of 1840. You sll remember the of them, with a mapliness belonging to hisocha | a view to make mention of the part [ took in those | been directed towards General Tayler. Thereis no } hat ascendancy of ss wala party in the great Stat» | joy with which the heart of the ig party— which he evinced while contending with the | tranractions but. as we are allin the heyday of life, | man here who will say that he would not been of New York, which began with your election as Go- | ‘not enly of this State but of the whol jonatry—beat | cohorts of the adverse faction—with s manliness and | thut we mey profit by a recurrence to the past. The | elected if he hed been nominated by our political ad- wegen, a iy te sie piilastads te dees nosed: a snes eeeasians you all ha aes pas Ce honesty belonging to a whig—he asserted every prin- | wbix party had no hope, Their spirits were crushed. persetinn. Bows not gee ot the manent a eme: ie! Triumph, Ls bers Bena- | convention. cause we ba revieusl ‘and, while we aro not unmindful of the struggle which | so tuil of hope ing, was turned into a cap | Cibl0 Of the whig party of this State, There was no | They numbered 44 members in the reat 4 ri ‘foes mars New Yorx, Janusry 8, 1851. whig party of this country. We are ecsembled here, Sir—A Bred ds by ied of your political and personel | fellow citizens,to pay no idle compliment We are | ‘riends, to testify their regard to you, and | assembled here, not to bow our knee to power. but to heir sense ot your long and varied services, have sp- | remember, in the gratitude of our hearte,oue dear to | the adminis: pointed uss committee to request your acceptance of | us as a brother—dear to us as a hbor, and dear to | found himeelf i ‘an invitation to meet them at a festival to be given in | usesa fellow eitisen. On an occasion likw this, fel- bs ) We may anee laws or on the schoo! la may well inqui: » Now, the Jaw rests, is that peru 3 ‘rend basis. compromise of m with him. There in- | tore; but they were men, Ponsessed of that qualifica- | bi: Had he been nominated by that convention, is | has referred toas bein; ‘has reaulted in the election of the second ot your whig | of bitterness Ab one of the fruits of that | tentionon his part to yield poo Jot Or title of the polloy | tien, courage, which ls valuable alike fy wer aud in | there any man in thistoom, any mosincbe Gunes | cree principles of the oe va Fe ee SS ot SBSHiee Se bows. And Peep Dany tap ed Me which he believed to be right; and with @ firmness and | legitletion, they oame there to meet the comseq States, whowould : aintain that he wo anet have hense aeons Tt is the wi me Df t ni =. hem apr thought of sreccas wastees, ‘a —_ - — prose autre pron ncrerares ud pls | manliness highly honorable, he presented to the Legis- | of previous disaster—to fight a battle with a party | electe ‘@ nominated him, and you have seen the obey ry out t! hietory | lature @ programme of action perfect: keeping | fivshed with success and elated with power. There is | result. I donot wish to speak of General Taylor's ad- se mance Ae ce gg fo ere _ hay: of poser. Lge yp: soe sny, — _ ie —. with the eeako the whig party cf New Viok Ths enaat rot « cireumstance cennected with those events that pg y open a ought honesty of perjces to it; ™ joal histor ar country, Nf 50 . “Goong Gepost tea ever Kaoown, to a triumph Sreatpanentn Congress,’ "You cannot. fellow | question of internal improvements as a national qaes- | i+ vot as the Imaces that cluster around the reoolies- | but I do not choose to ray more. When the historian of the country. (Ap among us willing to repudiate this dostrin, iteelf I never studied, but I have st tion and as a Btate question, tions of early childhood, What was to be done in this | writes the history of General Taylor, he will write of | tion and the arguments againstit Bich was the beginning of series that has survived pe, but remember that in that body the Btate of | oy. the curtailment ot executive presoncge, cad erery | ences emergency 1 Te was vot ancagh to concrete | Tre cee eng czy of, General Teylor, he will write of | tlonand the tasalnet Rs law bat again the divisions and overthrow of the victorious party Y represented by some of her boldest and | other question which had beun wdvocated by whigs | iBtegrity of the whig party. We bad not numbers to | the Rio Grande and Monterey, andto Fort Harrison, | tion acted. People speek ‘ben opposed to it. in which faith t sons. and you cannot have forgotten | from time immemorial, were presented by Governor | re’ Hleve cur defeat, © Additional trength must bean: | «nd he will rest long at Buena Vista. (Loud cheers.) | of t! , but in the main ti suandonreentngy bre an aot | lana susan of rg avg | Leathe Seeominmpy ote mein | orf daa rent mecny tt roar | (eaten nue Foun tse ting pine, fon | Rare taten of nas moadatinne iho spat » is — ¢ confusions ot! ew arty — fall teat; @ sol "e ID em. or o7 tm & defeat so great and complete] as to leave many ofthe | amid all the dismay that surrounded our couse ond | Sitiative capacity. But, gentlemen, the ws sta t yea of 1 pn Harty c rth ca doctrine emphatioally and peouliarly # doctri @ judicious modification: that the distinguished gentioman who | whig party, for which, as 5 whig, from the bottom of f thislaw would receive the il b . is most san puine, sagacious and able ot our purty in ut- | its obs: I hes moe! speak of (A Itise ee | or was just after that doteat that youen- | js our puest on this secon wae : ve ee of —-s ra ree haps edn : ish 2 Et af casion was one 8 moa! beart I think hi: fi the true republicam doctrines of the country, all Pt in * nothing extenuating, nor woul 7 ‘tered the Legislature of the State as ony of the feeb! peomins it. Ladvert to thie, geationen. not as one of thank bim in pr Be ‘ben, port = that vee © nted was to present them mp ular | down sughtin malice.” I ask you, it in the chair with him that all judicious modifications would be -whig minority. Your previous services in two Con- prominent points to which I desire to call your supremacy of the consiifution and the laws of the | firm Am obeerving man, in view of the diffcul ity of | “tate there bas been before so much et profound Very acceptable to me aud toevery one else. [am e808 of the United States, as well as in the Legisia- | gttention, but as one in connection with the history of | land must be upheld. (Tremendous oneerin, net willing naturally indicated you as the leader of the whig | our distinguished guest, which it would be improper to believe that he was afraid to speak what he thought; still less am I disposed to think that he please every body. (Laughter) The Gov- ernor has also discovered that the law itself has fur- nished tle evidence of the necessity of these modifica tions from its very imperfections. If the Governor ean overcome the defects in human law, be will be entitled to the respect and gratitude not only of the country, but of the civilized world The question —the whole difflculty—is one of fact: whether a par- tioular black man is the fugitive slave claimed by the <a I would be glad to know if the time has come buman judgmeut cannot err. (Cheers) [ am quite willing. with the President of the United Btates. to leave the law to experience. (Cheers) I know him well. ile thinks much before he acts. I willizg to leave to his experience what the “ judioio modifications” ought to be. I wish there had been whe onze have freedom on their tongue But when the question comes whether we shall sustain the laws of the country. or rebellion shall be the com- sequence, I shall be found on the ride of the laws and the constitution ((reat applause.) One word more wept take ity this si woes I will not — 0 be ignorant that some o: newspapers have obarged on me, that my purpose was to ‘divco: ot myself from my t party associations I will met inquire lot ly as to the motives which have prompted those charges. I think I know ii stances, the motive has been to giv niation to certain papers, by publishing articles that would attract the attention of matter how founded or unfounded they know there are pape publicity statements, that are by such motives. & ‘will & 0 aroribe to them malice, but [ will tectlbe to accom plitbing it, would ask, how isthis tobe obtained? | practical wisdom, since the days of Washington ! The chennelsin which the people were accustomed to go errs.) His first act evinced the character of the man. were worked deep and wide, snd unless there was some | The ard duties of the Presidential office were placed The whole count: Senator from Massachusetts asthe per- most eminently qualified for the State Departmeat. ision of the consti. | His fitness was peculiar. He had not only the capa- I may be permitted to refer to extracts from «minority. for me to omit alluding to. I intend to direct your esnagen, tl Xou had sble and judicious supporters in the Legis. | atrentionto other matters more Immediacely conduct. | by there wie eich to ota nat te Jature. Your well conceived and well directed attacks | ed with ourselves, and with the services r dered | sbow that,.on this doctrite, he was ight, and your | by that distinguished gentleman. The events which Principle which will be ever maintained by rhe whig forces of that | followed the death of General Harrison—the treachery | party of the country. In epenking, tellow citizens, of 945 and 1846, | in the administration of the general governmeat | the question which agitated the ovate at the timo of and at an early day in the session. I declared | city but the leanring and experience for the office. ratio par- | which immediately followed—the history of the | hisaccerion to ower, in reference to manorial titles e my intention to tion for | This was the man chosen by Prei t Fillmore.— ty, xevived in every true whig heart the hope of @ | action of Congress and the various other mea- I d only mention this to cali to your mind | that purpose. Then, as n: (wheers) A distinguished gentleman from Louisiana triumph before despaired of, and which could never | sures connected with toe politieal affatre of the which have been beaped upod him, uot | pore wen to break up the whig party, und t was uppropriately appointed over the War Department ‘Dave been realized but under your direction. To your | country during that Period, are fresh in the recollec- yy his opponents, but by whige) he rays:— " ind personal positio: In the Navy Department found the best blood of ‘exertion of the powers thus ener d to you the | tion of you all. And you oannet have forgotten that ag | «1: is tho Tcmeneininis Lawl peed eff Bape oan, plea eect ene —- jew Yor! rr - | @ necestary ree ose clroumstances, the whi " onvent wi @ ame the colleague of HenryWlay? Virginia is there— proved constitution, with the subsequent and conse- | party of this State andiot the Ua 08, servance cf the infraction with convention, But we assumed we cam From age iy? Virgi an as brok baken fi h to | Western Virginia, with her undeceyed chivalry. What quent improvement jof thelr laws And while you | prostrated You cannothaveforgotton, that duritg the | they ase net eae: Shaag we feeling, | rhall we say of the Tressury? Who that looks to Obio mpath: ve ws this by # onsentaneous action with oneaeo- | whole of tbat ndministeation there avcmed tobe ae rey | pecyle ier the . moc equally @ivided wuyon the ques’ | dose not Sebis aye upen ome pout? "Whe thet tone mm of your opponents, you, by a like co-operation ‘ Sol, they shewt ppuenses or Topesles 5 ut DE rT A ‘7 portant changes | to Ohio and the sister States of the Northwest, does not mith the opposite section, secured a see of the semain ‘he lave of the Gen ME LE i. wrevght in the constitution were thore that related | leck to one Thomas Corwin, the wagoner! (Great os public works, which gave this State iteim- | sppoi viduals or communities.” ah goa to the Judiciary. The Senate constituted e major part | cheering)! Who does not speek of him as a man of pe eminence in the Union and throughout the | ever, Let me call your attention to another extract from | °f the court of last resort, and it was idle to expect | not only unrivalled nero but as porsessed of a fresh- ‘world, and by which this great city maintains.and long | raili the seme message, which related to & subject on whicn | th&ttwo-thirds of that body would wish to part with | uere and progress in keen will maintain, its place as the chief medium of com- the sepeeed te than settee te i. | that power We could not, therefore, expect to pro- | live? (Cheers.) Now, Mr. President, thus surrounded, @munication between the two continents of the globe. to power—dismayed as we | tous but on es Young da the ainatl | cure the smendments desired by legislative action. | who will doubt how this administration willend’ The ‘Thet you should be, in 1846, the whig esudidate fer | were by the action of that administration—the whig his patriotism, ond in strict complience A committee of one trom each Senatorial district had | President you all have known—I will not speak of ‘Governor of thie State, was a matter of course. You | party of the Union, when tmp nd chosen irader, | of citice. did not hesitate to dealt to been appointed. They stood four to four, and conse- | bim. I bave not spoken of him because he holds the ed wn unwilling competitor for that nomination. He ite Sette fone een ee ntly mo report could emanate : from them. | plsce which he now occupies. I have spoken of him Ald not desire it, and his name was used without his | 4 in relation to which the humble individasl seo we t the popular sentiment was making progress, | without respect to his position, and witheut regard to wii decease, rated with labors horors in the addresses you had cocasion. et on cer! <i 4 on the 24 of April, 1845, an event oceurred | the common feeling of lauding whoever holds bigh po- rere bis opinions to bie fellow cits 7 period, that Iaid the foundation for all the politionl powerthat | ‘ition, and who a on ag) high pelitical power. pla low York. Governor You: the whiga have since obtained, both im the State and | Now, these are some of the fruits of the election of iF purposes, and it le source of bitter recollect = “ nation. [remember what ccourred on that day, as | 1848 You, no doubt, think we could have beem bet- *onceived by him. We knew thet no man in the State arty of the Empire State, that it was the falter- vu hog ywe Gistinetly ae if it were yesterday. Iwas in the Su- | tered. I wish I could think with you. I cannot. You, ‘was better pleased with your nemination, or with your Of that State which resulted im the defeat of our | Unite By wha ne preme Court, when I received @ note from « distia- | 00 doubt, think if we had nominated Ienry Clay wo election. candidate o1 ber that | voluntarily plunged by ar gvisbed member from Ontario, saying the time had | would have been suceessiul. Pardon me if I say I He is now President of the United States. Youran- | then the whig cause and it ciples seemed forever | mert, the power to mak ¥ Presideotot | Come for acticn. 1 went down to the House, and the | do not think so doomed. The boldest, the mort valiant among us; nited States ai Serate; and that dovtrine which gacpie there assembled also reemed to think the time | Vorers—1 don’t; I don’t. and defeat. In the cvurse fellow citizens, the whig in its might, and in 184: dee: th But Providence had other and hig! po those whe for years fo t ti ‘Ree to mi pel lawe, whutever thir charae~ come, I never saw so dense e mans, of so much On this, gentlemen, I denot propose to differ with | nem a deep Pi and union that mighty democratic party which elected | battles; those who for pd Rw su ears wosited uF repealed, requires ot we. ae eieitement, wn prevailed im and around the galleries | yeu, but to express my convictions independent of | But I shall pro en now, if they shall im to the bigh office trom which you displaced him. | daunted champions our principles, quailed. | Ss'one of the members of the covlederany, to spo the | and lobbies of the Liowe. A resolution to amend the | party considerations, as I did in reference to the Mexi- | ever hear what I ray on this occasion, that the? have Over bis tamented Kee ke J honor ~' *, be v4 They thought that all was lont—they despaired of suc- | help of tho gcvernment agai forergn 61 ever we | Constitution bad been reported. and a motion had been | ean war. Wewere involved in that war. Whether it | mistaken their object, and that they will fatl ‘Ptrtotic hearts, long divi Y party spirit, un foresgm ene! cess—it seemed that everything must it up as | may have ben involved tu the ar, and what ite causes | made to rete, ead the member from Ontario had moved | vas just or not,or whether it was brought on by the It was at this geet the Rutory ¢ four party or objects _ ee f 7 7 to amend by inttructivg the committees to report the | enemy or not, wasa question unimportant in refer- Purpote. If their object is to sever the coanestion aT stage ie at this period of defeat and reverses to which we were And yet, fellow citizens, will it be believed that there | bill for s convention of the people of the State. Inthe | ence to our porition. We were engaged in a contro- | Persons with whom I am associated they will t uent testimony of a republican peo; = Teas te faithful and diligen' 3 Sites | Sas fe Sebati eh Pee | doomed— that it beeame our duty to turn our eyes to | are within the borders of the men professing to | ranks of our politieal opponents, it was known there | verry with & foreign country, and m. om was | sustelns its principles, so long sustain parate | the distinguished gentleman who is our guest om this | be'whige, who Dave dououseed Conse eee eee manyiin favor crane = | that'tne goverment must be’ sustaiged, and that our | ‘Bem. (Applause) “I” hnow that thie purpove’ hed Srom each other, in partisan strife, the children of our | occasion, and who, undeunted and undismayed, stood | the expression of sentiments 0 patriotic and posed to it. Yet nota must be snstained. whether the war wae or | deem ted in come degree im the leet com- common mother--our one whole cou! fromthe Lakes | forward as eur champion in the Legislature of our | ae these! avor of compelling a report. The hour of tw ), There hae been & disposition te | vase for Governor of this State, amd I have who willunits | State, and there again raited aloft the whig banner, to | Vorcrs—“Down with them! down with them ook came. The accomplished Speaker, for e In this Particular, aud the strong | mo concealment sbeut my porition in that particular, ai of your | float in triumpb, eventually, over the whole country. | It was on there principles, fellow-citizeae, t some of you bave ree oppored | +xpressions I have used have been stated as ad ithe true that I scoepted office under the government cits. may bave opposed your nomination in 1846; Great applause.) In the ture of 1845, after the | ‘ng the administration of Governor Youn, pecial | gerd of the grounds on which the 7 eee ~ «tthe United Staten, but it is also trae in the wo~ i order. | gegein awar. I beg of you to yw me to say if | cession of the present Presi of the United States, [ presenting the native American party, | you will read my language in this connection, you will | informed bim that whenever the position of parties or with us mow. J1it be so,it but shows that menand Mr. Young, at head of s small minority, planted | opponent ot Governor Y: ‘aiged to power in the city of New York, | see that my position is entirely different. I did not in- aie. should require it, it was at his servies Not their merits, and the memory of them, will ever as now, | himself on the integrity of the principles of the whig big party of this e—to point to. . Lrecoliect | tend to arsume or to rpeak of the boundaries of Texas. | wit! reer any! that. have reta: gurvive persoval malice and detraction, and party dis- | party, and proclaimed there what was so soon to be | of his which was in betrayal or “ was thet as the general government was | and whether [ shall hold my ofil, ‘tinction and names. realized im his own person, the success triumph of d meny others of may have opposed your election; | disesters to which I have referred - after the whigs of wnd some we kno ho advocated both, will mot be | the whole —— seemed dispirited and de«ponding— thus promulgate G@ 7 on the Speaker jounced was commenced, it ent or not, I shail express m: ‘We should be misled from our purpose by our fesl- | those principles. (Applause) He found then, fellow | nt of thin bta people bad 1. Yy the inspiratic : aon fogs, if we should attempt further to trase your public citizens, a part; in numbers, flush ith tri- | stitetion. to which I and the feeling was as intense In the gallery as on th mm 4 acy Fa ye t ial feativit vat yet be dared to march against Eve bach a! in Leg) on ee the — Cea derir to meet you In social festivity, ince of the enemy, to lift i dec! vote to 4 trends wih a friend whove "Gaingetsbed public #0 recently, bur not i perl shout, but @ voice are other priaolples wht: jevolve on us to express our wioes we ac mire and appreciate, aud whose many its, gentlemen, hed sustained us. think of the measures of gove ot—whetherwe opiniens of public men, thet privilege I shall enjoy agonal exceliercies we are proud and happy now t A motion was made to think them improper orjnot— iple of maintaing | as long as I am permitted to entertain any opinion om Know from intimate association m. Is ther there a whig or a democrat—but is there within this State, who will hesitate Si tol. The adopted t stitution andthe laws must be supported. | any question. It is true, | wasopposed to the nomina- one word more In this connection. | tion of the present Governor ; he knows the ressone time that the length ot the war | why | was opposed to his nomination; he knows that I joes than two years since, oom- and when the . depended ypon the tone of public oj know, that aiter the late administration came into you occupiod. | demoera’ Fm ‘t instrumens was carried out under the 7 If Mexico oeuld be assur {| power. the Governor of this State together with all the brie! period, toa high name and distinotion the 1 istration of Governor Youn carried into | everythi Pr w aspect. - | in this country. oo r. dn eabits end poittionl parvice, yo ded attach. | he omen At length, genticmens his aiminie: | plaure) Vou kuow the reet. The bill pasced, and. ae | there existed in this country dlvirions of opinion that | Btate oilicers, Availing themlver of thelr public ha- mente which epring from personal strengthen- | but it wea the desite of thee eho Tepresented th Creer te tee eee eee eee eee Te ee eee aj ener he 29veinS: ctnatnenies, Se | PERS See Oe Bere eens St See D | Oe, Ce Evens and conten hes Wem ‘4 by pertons! worth. terosts, not only of the whig party, but himerit to the meed of approdation—“well done, thou | Whigs returned minety-three members of the House, | was apparent to every observer that it would perpetu =< view to affect the patronage, and clothe the Htlorotetrest our spirits by ® recurrence to the | of thie State, that mearon gues ane ta wnt" he retired from the cares | and twenty-four Sensters. Will you pardon me if { | atethe war. It isa inatter of history that accountsot | whig tevators with power in Tefervnce to the ape ever remembered and glorious tolls and triumphs of - | with which he was honored, and sought enjoyment in | advert to one feature in this pertion of our bistory, as | differences of opinion in the United States, in oases p Se in . is State, I do not speak of ‘the political labora we dd with you—to atir should be adopted im their rtend. | the bosom of domestic associations, Within a short | imetructive tothose who will partiolpate largely in to that war, yA BI AE Sl moat ce ie ‘anew the full and healthtul currents of unity and na- sion. Mr. Young. an leader of the whig | time be was calied on by the general government of | lities hereafter ’ For myrelf, my path lies in another | army, and that they gave strom A Gua, | atte taeees bie mains eee oe tonality, that should run through ail whig hearts in | minority, stepped forward, lie said that although the | the country to fill the duties of am important office, | way. The paresge of the bill for # convention defeated | Now. gentlemen. { know | have auifered in the esthma- | me fantonwnes taote ae te ee the Btate an swell as to evince seincereand | des yarty was strong in recent triumph, and | not of legislative or exeoutive character. but full of | Gem. Carr, ond elected Gen Taylor. (Cheers) I asy | tion of rome by the course Ge 1 ote that ques- ptr onehndaped wows thet was opposed t him cordial receguition of a community of citixenship be- | the whig party were weak from recent defeat, although responsibility, and involving, on the part of thore who | nothing of bis administration. And {t has placed in | tion; but, if it tended to #1 sandr lle - mo ne eyes nergy i Ay Sg fee tween usin this great moetroplis, that we tender you | there was confidence to he placed in the Integrity and | conterred it cn him, the highest couddence im his in. | the Presidential chair bis ruccessor, in my opinion | hour, I have ee ton | ishacntes under whieh he wee sisea’ B this expression of our sentiments personslly to | intelligenceot the people of this State, and that on an | teprity aud benor. As far as bis repre: ninth Se ee a etee TESS Tae ee Oe | eee oe ere enone te tat ok. tale ten | soe idetations whieh tude yourself, and ask your p won this festive osoaston. | appeal to t ch amendments to the covatitation | gisiative, or executive character is noneerned. Werbington. (Cheers) How hes it done so? Upon | thet I took im reference to that war. eeets | Gasarmee selene I ob bee We remain, with high respec could berflected as would restore tothe people their ochridered as baving passed Into retirem the secession of Governor Wright, one of the | fully compensated Ifcne sister's sobs were spared | this course. His assectations I did not lik ft - y Tam fully comp sequently, evid Your friends and feliow just rights, and break up the power of the party at | elore of bis term ns Governor of this State. At thi sblest men this country bas ever seen, he tound | if ove mother’s tears were save Haag! | GRAHAM, ) | Albany, which bo down the State for 9 pre i that t be be t bis party divided and distracted 6 adopted | # Now, gentlemen, | have referred to these mat- | pate evertheleen, Faulks VAN NOSTRAND, Ceding, (Appl Ab the secegniced lender of the | pele -tappinusey) cue ie nome ie fee the policy ‘of supporting ‘both sections, ‘Incesd | tere in which up gore tb ve differed, to some extent, | the nominee of the as bad my ©. 8. WOODHULL, (Applause - | whi, Seuntehe— as the recoguized leader not — eative which w wil have it; bat not im consequence «f crushing either, He firet assisted o: with the people of New York. [ have not intend eny JAMES § THAYBR, | of thet minority, but s* the exponent of the sent y proper ho the otber t argue these propositions with the view of sank be orn sy swoon s Ido not com HENRY SUYDAM, Jn. } Cor, Committee. | ments of the great mass of the people of this State—he | ledge the m his duties, | s¢opted 1! o measures ie MARSHALL O ROBERTS, at propered to that Legislature areform of the constitu- EDMUND GBI | ton of the State. Hehad seen, as we all had seo aure, which lasted for | his perty. as @ brother, a neigh a G t PERT C. WRTMORE, that the atren itizens, he roor Wright it ma: ROnN F, BUTTERWORTH had contende: ‘of pubile life, he bas yet ‘arty. Hut they could b position, will eatiely you of th sition. | Thequestion wae wheth the ban performed the highest and imost rerpovsible duties of #0 desirable to them. If they bad sel Seat Wels ipanmieee a id pot; end I eboore to state th os Bee © A. ee Oe caly ich the i Hie bas not felt himeelf at liberty, when ery ot | 08, 90 a to prevent. mi Ly twee} 3 4 ken. was to give to tl opie th to refuse theex- Guarisves :— I have had the pleasure to receive your | ‘rarchioes gt Lt | = oe. questions of vi: | thai we elected Mr Se etter of 1 loch inat . inviting me to meet my whig Griends at « dinner in New York, at an early day, au to represent the people. T based cur eympathie, 7 desire to ati hy heir connect true It was wit P + merge A . yearn before, ina #i Feepor sibility in tl . uesting me te designate such ‘xX that te Ag ox Sudevenes, ae (the mep I bare Fo wy. vor bp nn aE to am protout ly Co gp nee mo go he bad discovered, the weakness of our opponents, he were carried me, and of om the Legielat: th to Gattering allusion to my conduct in the various posl- | sao, lied togeth convention by (Ayplause ) Our d'stinguiebed every. | The principle L was too oleae tions to which, by the generous confidence of whig | whe under which we are now living # believed in the principle that the whig thie question should be discussed to admit not & question party, [ had — —_ on, gentlemen, and those ot your ty of the country is a great. broad, comprenensive, a yet it in discussed It cannot,be that the pport the whig party; a we 8 mont iikely to be with you onsuck an occasion, [ cou snd sloricus national party (great spplause); that it bondred slaves in the District ef Columbia can be ; laced in charge of his paper a young m: ie ® party not Ii ihe discharged bie daty faithfully by | the ceure ct this, oF of t L- correct fiatements of what ocourre partiertof the country. because, on this subject, thi no person then to intrigue and publish | are very few who claim there should be pM HS gg Ny EN * } ty Calternie. te. ous, slater, reepectod and cher Albany, # been bier GC oceur were carefully ruppressed. (Roars ot laughter) | i w 0 ‘ Jenat sundays capil fellow citine: apee @ Lr) ‘among us whigs. too, I | To this cireumrtance, we are in no inconriderable de- | tebed |. - bas 7. her own het ge toy = }~ A Say Bm 9 at" = ener = ‘ir interests. Thet great measnre | em rorry to copiers, men who do not belleve in those | gree indebted for ruccens, In the remarks you have | Teeards that ar t ‘4 bg ogee eon he . th t out éuthes to the. 0 etituth ‘ of thi Vaited ‘cane broke up the czntral power I Albany; it gave back | brcad end comprehensive prineiples There areamong | mee, Mr-Pretident. you hare spoken of rome portion | pletely deposed of | There is no apprehension that cur duties to the constitution o an ae Lee wot Pree decdad, | tthe people the rights which belonged to thom: It | the whig party, men who would engesft om our greet | Of MY eMicial concuct na Governor of the Slate 1 | cn the eterile lands ot New as eg ds ee EO demand. | adopted the principle of reapomsibility by representa- and gloricus standard the narrow ‘contracted keues | Dave never teken the trouble to contradict the | i* to give way to Aftican slarery ave hear: Re. conce if ev we of the Inws of mature y high regard, | tives to thetr constituents, For these great measures, of 4 | ttatements of certain newspapers on thie subject, thing of this, Who apprehend, or who looks tor, the are to prevail. we must incur the risk of rebellione 5 ld I advert to the matter now. but that | fect prints of the African in the almost Perpetual revolution, Therefore, I am not prepared to admi i deem jt due to you. es you have mentioned the | rrows cf Utab’ If not, then let me ask what remains? pentiments that could not admit of any other com feet that was alleged to have taken place during my | Dees this ngitation--thia discussion look beyend | struction. But these things have transpired The soministration prior to the elea. | tlevery im the District of Columbia; end address keel | Syrecure convention it passod—the Utica convention teen, I hed om opinion that those persons | to the abolition of slavery im the States’ Ail men pto- | ir parsed and the election ts ever. Weare here; and Set week Bees nt Flote ovght to be pardoned. | fern to ray it does not, and yet I rently twar Jé does. | whatever the public papers may fay, { will be witht reat whig party of our r dented the charge This opt | [ repent, Lareatly fear it does. I fear that it is the | you while you are with yourseiver: % expressed in @ | determi n of Certain partien to keep this sgitation | tent to follow im the wake of such men as Henry Clay alive. on the principle that man cannot have property | snd Deniel Webster. (Afpiause) For m than @ that whatever human lows may aay, the laws A century, whenever the Ship of Sta’ d of Heaven override and overrule them red dangerous tras ; whenever the te that while men profess not fo be apxio swept ber decks turd HMavery where it exists, if the argamen go beyond the States and Territe they themrelyes intend ited to rections in its interest. Ite at- its. ite duties, oF ite prinetples; but that its de tign and object are to promote the perpetuation of our glorious constitution, and to tr perations, the ine should support the constitution ie) The question was whether the * of thin State were to tnke ® position adverse stitution of the country or in favor of it. oung read an extrect from Mr. Seward’: which he said, takee in connection with scarcely at any time forego; and I more readily yi a tH because [ am led by your Epics to po r at whic ail jects noticed in your letter but Bae oy Zosulr a of that now posers the tne people to muggest ths 18th inet, asthe | 1m teference to ‘un youre. | itution of our State—if there were believe I am addrecring whigs of the city ot } 0 jg | BOOthers in it--the people of this State might well with where rentiments I pre The attendance was large and respectable, compris | Fatee 8 voice ta preies of the distinguished gen' lem: Know and believe there in and among | Who occupies the porition of eur guest on this orca | and that without the Ii the rae ety proors tarp oa at aah totin, sion. (Cheers) If we view thove measures merely a& | but few—who ore willing to admit © princtolie if we regard them without reference to | should be brought within the guished men of the democratic party—for instance, | joftier or more patriotic views. let me nak you whe wntry. (Good, good) We of the | ther there is = debt of gratitude too great for us reat princip! jeorge Law, proprietor of the Southern line | to pay to tho euthor of reforms 00 gitat us there? o P P United States mail steamers, The strength of the democratie party consisted | coi David Graham, presided, and ot his right hand in the concentration of power at the eapital, | spplause), and come y, Hor ex-Governor Joha Yor at the extreme ri; and ro long as it possessed that strength, they | of wlich we are members, 1 am sure Tem cot assami Judge Paine. On the lett of the chair were Senator were, a8 @ party, invincible wit ; det | too much when I bis ia the only priociple 8. P. Hell, of Binghampton, the Hon. Mr. Meleao, | was rent back tothe people, and the responsibility ' ) that I never gave an: J that there on which they w eof which they | is it not fair to areume th the instant that power was broken up—the moment it | which we will re (More cheering In thit principle stands the gentlem se) Never hae coreaful ; and m mort poten 1y’ Let us examiec this proporition | enpied @ more d us and more pe ib the en, Raters Seees Fes Sem: ond as 0 sevudh the whip ps fatag Lo Nees the hance ta Dak Os hermes Linea | ibinb. Susy Jeotifca iy the clevemecemers of the ou that vithough by the constitacion | athe o 4 during the ot re:— Dr. Jamon R. Wood, first bead ng to bow the knee to Baal—to forego his a1 one nited States property im #laves is recegui ie mapmade ni 0, Rebeste, svcend, det; Jone | cient plecges--he har been made the eubject of dem which abend pes tome a taemuch ne by the lave of Ged and nature, ley more tb Gut 1, Butterworth, third, do; Ald, Edmand Griff fourth, do J. Ii, Hobart Haws, fitth, do. A good substantial dinner was on the table at six | pistory. Th orclock, served up in the best style of the Irving | {New Terkt the you may thank our distingutrbed cheers for Governer Young) 1 bare the —Thave the aa, the conatitation ot cannot have property ip ted States is void and inoperative Are you are bere to-night to sustain bim with an approving aie | voles, end to tell him that he bas our warmest t e thie c olve >, NO. HO. Fortund tharks for the honest performance ot hin dae | w/ve COM Teitted there were. probably thres thousand A ae arnt tier. (Great spplavee.) I Know there is in store for | * ho participated, more or leas, in the commission of | ps DG nowied Zou, fellow oliisens, @ treat tas beyond what it le in | there cflences. Ie every civilized country, ofences of | then ae ches than thet “Uck Giee antes Tivaven that the peri ct hall conse to exercise ite | Influence on this broad country; when it dose, there up trom the women and . igber then (bet) Weil, then. gentlemen. as city village. and hamlet, from every farm house, “ . | ton, that it wae to hi b Nd ‘ th & political character bave been treated with great | nothing hig - ef all A House, The table was adorned with the following or- | Hom. that it was to hi Slecene Union vate wraced selore you tm much | lenleney and pradenco, The moet remarkable oxcep- | on abstract propornion, pardon me if I dlengree with to the mahtee eeereniar orn. eitte mamente:—Castia Garden, as it appeared Deo. 0th Stenger Gad better language than mine, which you | {iee to thse role, in modern tenes, wastbattn whieh the | 3cu The lave oa pet the upplicotion Of thin tow to | teers Sith these Of Gomashbed and oolohemte fon of the great Usioa meeti ens Re | Sill eppreve, On your beball, waworthily Bonered tm | Diet Bleed 6t Uesgery wes shed by the Austrign go. | ssted by mani Wick Lean nee dleruasing. to ta sub: | { oppreciate the state Of tetas hes Eh tame coma 1000, om the cocasion of the gi 7 iment feel. fellow | the peettion in which laced, phystoaliy unable | Yertment. Will you pardon ‘mei Tactach wofiicient | tbe principles hich Fam now disenssing. is in hee fomity © ey joan Prosperity; Washington Monument; Chi position in whic em pleced, phys! y une sence te ticle fi ‘corning paper yesterdey, | revron of all lew, and would lead us into a # ere can be po calamity equal to that wi Amer! P to own the name ot whic, | to perform its duties, I can only, in conclusion. thank | )*pertenc article in e morning papery 7, a to cont jate. Let ut disew i mow pa nd yet the course of nature will not be nese Tower; (oddess of Liberty, American Steamship; ide could be rendered for such great | yeu for the attention you have given to me, confident | 10 refer for ome moment to another topic. When I | of enarehy drendtul to contemplate, 1. 3 , } When ma es from bis primt- | dieturhed New parties will be formed: the seasona Nogan Flower Baskets; The Freemen of America ; (Tremendous applause) Fellow thet you will render to Governor You Seat Inte the Keaisiovure tn 1008. ube peace of the sate ps = gages te soutety, he yields to conven. | will come and go; but when, oh when, will men Fraite of Indus. | Citirens, it will be a matter of no surprise to you to re mage for the fidelity with which he has e wae dirquieted by what was called the manor dificul ve ote Jronveniional obligations. Does that | listen tothe pro‘ound wisdom, to the brilliant thoughts, Fountain of Health; Peace Ofering; Fra collect, that alter the services which bad been rendet- | maintained the great principles of our party. Andto | ‘tr. (Fantirent excitement We had hardly teken | fiona! rules and conven: hich existed price to his | and the perrussive eloquence of @ Clay? The world has ‘ry, and Union Temple, Tho tast, which was very | cq by Governor Young. lathe promotion of the my friend (shoking hands with Gov Se cere ae a een wae SiSNEe SE ate | Crrenape mentee of sebuag 10 te 604 tan won | comitten hie. Gursepanen cbetiny tet parer On eeae taateful and suggestive, was en the head table betors | sures to whlch I Pave only incidentally alluded that | Yo you sir, nthe tame of thors hy whom T ain sont Seeelt bore Ue Whe Dengtcre sheet,” Gate edna, | tesipet Rove property hn mao, becouse it faim violation | oby time present the speetecic Waieh, be pesseaten the President and the guest ofthe evening, Thesoom | Pt {it For) Oy ane been designated: tp, “Se coasts pen ever the question wae tested there was alway #8 ar Hi the laws cf mature and of God: but will it do to ng the recent stroggle to which C have referred. it te country where conventional laws ever was a tent of his extraordinary capacition was beautttully lighted with magnifeent chandeliers | mous voiee of the whig party, as thele candidate for | pe BY Ta oad | 2017, Vea bave u form.” Your solabhor comes and | until the strogeis thicugh whioh we Rave Tent paasede justi ce having been done to the long bill of | the Ss obatr Long Gefve the for proper ere wae nota je recerdes sae behave risntto it. You rhow him your tite peed tigate ye are, and the wines, which were of the oholoeet devorip, | & Siteenen Seletion of delegates 46 co Sec | cords, He telle you, they are mere, paper ; they on When storm and tempert gathered on ite brow, 1 Jom, the cloth was removed, preparatory to the com. | inet convention—the wi tala no power; hie rinete power cow intellectual part of th dings tigede towards thet mee, ont (here was met forna | Papire Olty. (Tre he intellectual part of the proceeding mratitnde towar man. wi fou a ae peotewar Deaworth’s bent” within our borders the fret whig te utter any other dn un tee tae y. down, ond three cheers for Bs sentiment than that John Young should be intrusted | Governor Young, of the mort flattering kind, were “Blore’s to you Harry Olay,” which p with thesdministration of the affeirs of this State, | given, troy there in in bree You ray. by cone ot the country th It stawds unmove: ive me possesion and con‘rol ofthe farm that there should mea tich! to rjest you from it t you tres | The feeling appeared to be, ante » May he not answer and say “the | amy more specohos, and the company them seperated, billows at ite feet,