The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1857, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY. DECEMBER {8 1857. THE DEMOCRACY IN THE PARK. Grand Rally of the Unterrified Straight-out Democrats. ‘THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE ENDORSED AND THE ADMINISTRATION SUSTAINED ON THE KANSAS QUESTION. THE TRAITORS READ OUT OF THE CHURCH. BREAKING DOWN OF THE AOSTRUM. SPICY STRONG SPEECHES, &e. RESOLUTIONS, &e., &C., ‘A meeting of the straight-out democracy of this city was held in the Park last evening, in response to the following call: — To Tur DexKocracy oF New Yore—Rau NUPPORT THE ADMINISTRATION ‘The Council of Sacbems of Tammany Society, by A vote of eight to one, has directed the dvors of Tammany ‘Hall to be closed against the mass meeting called “for the pursose of Considering and responding to the policy of the national ad ministration, as expressed inthe first message of President Ray, Rauy— Buchanan.” ‘The undersigned therefore announce thet the meeting will be f Ta whe! proposed the street, in fre nany Hall, the demoer! this city and cou express proval of the national administration’ without asking sion of these would be dictators and autocrats, 'y supporter of James Buchanan be on hand Having been thus ousted from the shades of Tammany, the faithful pitched their tents or their rostrum in the space between the Hall and the Park railing. At 7 o'clock salutes were fired, and the Drummond lights flashed out from the Park. The night was cold, cheerless, and an easterly rain storm set in just before the hour at which the mecting was called. At intervals a aasty, drizzling rain fell, and altogether the weather was precisely of that fort when itis very comfortable to be indoors and quite the reverse to be outside. In spite of this, however, there was quite a respectable attendance at the time of the commencement of proceedings, which was considera- Diy increased during the evening. At a little past 7 o'clock the meeting was called to order by Mr. 8. P. Resseit, who spoke as follows: — Fellow Democrats—I congratulate you that we are en. abled to assemble if not in Tammany Hall, beneath the Dlue vault of heaven. (Cheers.) You are aware that the Sachems of the Tammany Society have refused us the use of Tammany Hall, in which to hold our meeting to consi- der and respond to the policy of the national admin’ tion, and though they have declared that no body of Citizens have a right to call a democratic meeting, without firet consulting themecives, who claim to be our master: Tbave strangely mistaken the character of the man with | whom they have to deal if he does not resent the insult which bas been put upon his friends, and teach these disloyal Sachems that they have reckoned without their host. Inomiuate as your presiding officer Mr. Richard Schell ‘The nomination of Mr. Schell was confirmed by acclama. tion Mr. ‘Dane B. Taytor then read tho following list of Vice-T'residents and Secretaries: — VICK: PRESIDENTS. Charles O'Conor, Stephen D, Dillaye, James T. Souter, Roya! Phelps, dJobn H. Brower, Willem Schirmer, Andrew M. Mount, Wi H. Leonard, James B. Murray, Wiilham E. Wilmerding, Richard F, Carman, Stephen F. Cambreling, wil Wilson, John Wheeler, James Sheids, Michael Murray, Jobn A. Williams, Charles McCay ‘Thomas Maloney, Michael Ryan, Alex. C. Morton, Charles 4. Brown, P.G. Moloney, John J. Tait Vincett Lecompte Jobn M. Mimne, Benjamiu Ray, ‘Anthony J. McCarty, Thomas Fitzgerald, William O'Donnell, eph Rose, Geo. P. Bickford Robert C. McIntire, Andrew MeGaron, Henry K. Hoffmire, Walter Roche, Thomus Stevens, Wi'son Small, Bartholomew Healy, John D. Dimon, John Creighton, Heury H_ foward, Martin Gilmartia, Matthew T. Brennan, John G Seely, Wm. W. Judson, Gideon J. Tucker, Danie! E. Delavan, Arthur J. Delaney, John C. Mather, G Philip W. Engs, Wm. J. Brisiey, ‘Thomas Lawrence, Wm. H. Dasenbury, Michael Kuntz, Geo. A. Jeremiah, Jobu Van Twe, Joseph Cornell, Francis I. A. Boole, Thomas Blake, kaward Costello, James R. Steers, Benjamin F. Rhodes, Willam Gage Bartlett Smith, James C. Willett, k 8. W. Galpin, Frazier, James H. Lyneb, MeCouneil, Charles K. Smith, Frederick Germann, Michael Tuomey, Henry P. West, David hissner, Thomas Dunlap, John McDonneil, Charles D. Mead, Aaron H. Bean, Jobn BH. McCuna, Thomas Jones, Jr. Smith Ely, Jr. Andrew Mulligan, Prosper M. Wetmore, George ©. Genet, Wm. N. Melatire, Peter Halpin, John Gregory, Charles G. Cornell Joun W. Chanler, William Coulter, George E Baldwin, Theodore J. Fonda, Thomas Morrell, John J. Bradie: George Wier, Thomas McSpedon, Anson Herrick, Oliver Chariick, Wilham McConkey, Henry Arcularius, Henry W. Genet, Noah A. Childs, Thomas A. Dunno, Hermann Ewisch, Charles H Haswell, Edward A. Moore Amos F. Hatfield, Richard B. Connolly, George F. Thomson David I. Chat Conrad Swackhamer Michael Conn Jolin Dougherty, Wilkam Ne seCHETARIES Jamee t, John O'Grady Edward H. Maxwell, George J. Gatla dames White, ber, ae J. Barr, Anthony T. Gallagher, trick Wade, Benjamin Wood, a A. Tipper Philip Becker, ‘eter Crawiord, Asahe! Reed, William Dodge, Aaroa B. Rollins, Wm. H. MeCorkle, James Burnham, Edwin Toute ‘Thomas H. Ferris, Terrence Met James Neary, John Tilley, Faward Hain/iton, Michael Murphy Charles . Johnson, Fogene A. Koalay, Lawrence Turnure, Taniel W. Geery Thomas N. Carr, € 4. § Michael Rign Wiliam A Turaure Joseph Lyneh James Reed, James D. Yorgan. While the list was being read, the rostrum gave way, and the officers. reporters, ‘musicians, and out ® ame to the ground together. Luckily the plat was not avery elevated one, and the damage was y slight. A heavy democrat fell on a very laht one somewhat to the latter's ciscomfort, and some of the re perters lost their notes, but otherwise, beyond sume bark ing of bins, there was no great harmdone. This is the third platform that has broken down here within two years And we advise people to keep clear of them After this accident the meeting adjourned to the City the “ball,” ae one enthusiastic demo Howed to “ g ers were read “xh by one of the Secre LETTER FROM HON. D. &. DICKINSON. Bixonamtoy, Dec. 16, 1857 just returned from a neighboring cirenit, and find favor of the 14th, inviting me attend aod a4. grand democratic ma # meeting to be held at Tam Hail to morrow evening, calied to consiter and re the poley of the national admin jon, as ex meesage of President nan. The ») ng receives my hearty »robation, fod I regret that circumstances prevent my being with you, but my law partner ix {,and upon this brief notice I am unat * business engage ments which re fas marrying a wife did the nan in the parable. for “T cannot come.” But I can join You With ny Whole heart in considering, responding &, aye, ip approving the poticy of the adminixtration as foresbadowe® in President Duchansu's recem message, for in my judgment it suits arid gratifies the high expecta. t thy of 8 conliditg people Its foreign poley ie © which extends freely to an and exact justice from al) stic affairg and the prartical ‘worth mare to the Amer: ing theoretic aber actions which half a century, What the people of ® nation Urb equa view ot onal liberty, healthy pre aul a ea; and neither of theer are to be gained by practising over-worn-out footbelis, between toctie or poliical parties, to the neglect of the great general interests of the whole The question currency deeply concerns all clases, borrower and lender—the rich and the poor. It can now be considered and discussed free from the prejudice nd passion which too often unfortunately mingie their ‘ements with questions of the highest moment. The bh. ation of the President will be hailed by all Tee nd sound bankers as wise and Foot. in its wiedom will make provision tary @& = *- gradually, and at a reasonably early day from for oe ull bank notes of a less denomivation than tem Circulavot, since the Immense gold coinage is entirely Collars, whi will confer an incalculable by upon Practicable, u"™, the aliment upon which sound banks the people ping f ready rearh, and erect a barrier Subsist with in fm Which the wa vee ef Oot carry awa, Mesars. Mary we, BRAS aper contraction and expansion can D. & DICKINSON ©, Committee. ‘ORN VAN BUREN. wd o Levee FROM © Naw Your, Der - ndand address a ti have receive, | Your insta nt at Tammany Hall, #emocratic m , tobe held icy of the national ad «40 comaider cade Scyond 4 nemage of President Batuistr ation as ery reawed in the yon '* Cngagement pre "and fe Ye mo great pleasure to President Buchanan than the oné you propose. A careful and, I believe, di jonate observation of his whole Pre- sidential action, with some knowledge of his personal cha- racter, has lett on my mind & deep cunvietwn Lusi be aots from ap earnest and uuseilish desire to promote the best interests oF the whole country. He has great ability and experience to aid hitn in accomplishing this desjre, and it seems to me the duty of every patriot, under such circum. | stances, to give his administration a cordial and generous support’ At the same tine I would not onty tolerate, but | invite a full and free gisiative and popular commendations. This is the natural and honorable of the American people, and through it they Dring forth those iilutinations of intellect, experience and patriotism which have always, under Providence, guited our cour try to the path of safety and honor. J. VAN BUREN. LETTER FROM HON, GREENE C. BRONSON. New York, Dec. 16, 1857. Thave your note of invitation, and it gives me great pleasure to gay that the policy of the national administra- tion, as mani by the message of the President, mees with my hearty approval. ‘The only leading fea- ture in relation to which there can be any diversity of opinion among democrats is that relating to the affairs of Kansas. I should bave boen better pleased if the whole constitution, instead of the slavery clause alone, had been submitted to the decision of the people of the Terri- tory, But as it is, they will have the opportunity of passing upon the question which has so long distur their peace, and agitated the people in other quarters of the country; and I cannot doubt that the public welfare will be best promoted by giving Kausas a State, instead of a Territorial ome without further delay. It will transfer a troublesome question from Congress to the the inhabitants of Kansas, who, like the peo- of other States, can then reform their constitution at ure, and make their institutions such as they deem best adapted to their con tition, While I fally agree in the policy of the administration on this sete will not quarrel with brethren of the same political family who, | though they may eutertain aud express « different opin: ib, are nevertheless ready to acquiesce in the decision of the majority. Let us have no needless divisions. The peace and prosperity of the country depend, in my judg- ment, upon the continued ascendency of democratic ‘prin- ciples; and with a formidable party arrayed against us, we ought to exercise a tolerant spirit among ourselves. GREENE C. BRONSON, LETTER FROM HOX. AMASA J. PARKER. Decemner 16, 1857. I have received your invitation to attend the meeting to be held at Tammany Hall to-morrow evening, “to con- sider and respond to the policy of the national administra- fion as expressed in the first message of Mr. Buchanan.” ‘Though Lam unable to be personally present, I beg leave to say that, in my opinion, the sentiments of the message are eminently wise and just, and should meet with a cor- dial response in the heart of every true patriot in the land, AMASA J. PARKER. LETTER FROM HON. SAMUEL BEARDSLEY. Unica, Dec. 15, 1857. Approving. as I do, of the policy of the administration, as developed in the message of the Presi tent, I should be much gratified to attend the democratic mass ‘Theeting to be held at Tammany Hall on Thursday evening, but my | engagements will render that impracticable. e domes- | uc difficulties which beset the administration at this time, | aside from those growing out of the monetary condition of | the country, arise, in agreat degree, from the disturbances in Kansas andthe Mormon rebellion. The Kansas questions—although I know it is not complimentary to the people of this country tosay so—seems to me to have been, from the commencement of the agitation, of the most frivolous character, and such as should hardly have dis- turbed for a moment the good = of that Territory, although we have seen that they have ali but broaght | more than twenty millions of people, who claim rank with the most enlightehed on the tace o! the earth, into a | state of downright civii war. trust that the vote of the lectors of Kansas on the slavery question, and her speedy admission as a State, will make @ final end of the almost tragic farce which has been in @ state of rehearsal and performance for the last half dozen years. The Mormon outbreak calls for speedy and effectual repression, “peaceably if we can, forcibly if we mast.” The Presi- dept has met the crisis as it deserves, and we should assume that his patriotic efforts will be readily and vigo- rously sustained by Congress. SAM. BEARDSLEY. LETTER FROM HON. HORACE F. CLARK. WasiineTon, Dec. 16, 1857. Your letter of the 14th inst., inviting me to attend and address a mass meeting of the democracy, to be held at Tammany Hall, on the evening of the 17th inst., to con- sider and respond to the policy of the national administra- tion as expressed in the late message of the President, is received. My engagements here preclude my acceptance of your invitation. ‘The polioy ‘of the administration with reference to Kansas affairs will doubtless attract the special attention of the country, and become a mark for the assaults of our political adversaries. And it is not im- possible that many democrats, desirous and determined a they are that the institutions of Kansas should be fixed in conformity with the unquestioned will of her inbabi- tants, nmay regret that the President did not discover in her organic law gome provision which might render the submission of her whole constitution to the people prere- quisite to her admission into the Union, Many other per- sons, finding in the preposed constitution of Kansas features of government which, although rese nbling those now ex- isting in the older States, are, neverthelrss, deemed more or less subject to just exception, will regret that such objectionable features bad not been hibited by her organic law. But the President of the United States, find- ing nothing in the organic law of Kansas, or in the acts of her Terriorial Legisiaure, which required the submiesion of the complicated details of ber whole constitation to the review of the people ata popular eleetion; and, farther, finding that provision has been made for the submission to the people of the vexed question of domestic slavery in a form so simple and free from complication that an op- ortunity caupot fail to be afforded to every citizen of the erritory to express his will, bas, as it appears to me. suggested the mode and the only mode in which this distracting question can be driven from the hall» of Congress and from the arena of our national poli. ties. This mode is the admission of Kansas as with or without slavery as she may come, when shecomes in other respects entitled to admission. Then, and not till then, will Kaneas be really free—free from intestine com- motion—free from the unwelcome interference of those who have no real interest in her welfare, and who rely upon the excitements and the discussions to which the set- tlement of ber civil institutions give rise aa the means of keeping alive their political organizations. The democracy of the bation will respond inthe affirmative with one united to the question, whether the peace and quiet of the who'e country is not of greater importance than the mero temporary triumph of either of the poittical parties in ~ HORACE F. CLARK. LETTER FROM HON. JOHN KELLY. Your invitation inviting me to address a meeting democracy on Thursday evening, the 17th instant, is re- ceived, and I regret ghat the Dusiness of the session will not permit me to avail myself of the pleasure, and there fore will be compelled to decline, The object for which your meeting is called is a worthy one, and particularly so now When many of our party are hesitating on a ques- tion ef eo much importance to the country as the disputed neae question is. executive has taken astand in * water which is deserving of and if bis ubt of the estions are carried ont there is on to the sa honestly at heart. »stion that has divided political parties has been submitted to the people y the Convention, and while | would rather have had Ue whole submitted, 1 cannot forget the fact that if it had been, the matter iteelf never would be settled by the re- publican party, who desire to keep it an open question, for political purposes; and hence it would stand as before, an eyesore to the whole party. The constitution itself, with bat exceptions in its provisions. is about the ti of has the predomi- s the reservation is still with the people to alter and nance or amend it at their pleasure, and for the common good ofthe whole country, let it be said that the temple of the democracy of the greatest State of the Union is the first to take ground ip sustaining the Course of an administra tion which cannot have any other motive than the whoie country JOHN ra LETTER FROM JOHN COCHRANE. Wasiixato, HOcs OF RRP Kick TATIVES, Dee. 16, 1857. I bave received your invitation to attend and address @ grand democratic tase meeting at Tammany Hall on Thurs- day evening, the 17th instant I thank you for the invita tion, and regret that my Congressional duties will not allow me to accept it. The object of the meeting is laudable, and doubtless will be accomplished in the approval of the volicy of the national administration as expressed in the resident's Inte ¢. Please to couvey to the meeting my concurrence in both object and policy. JOHN COCHRANE LETTER FROM FON BLAH WARD. } Hovee ov Rernesetatives, Wasiriwetax, Dec. 16, 185 Tregret to say that my public duties prevent the accept ‘ance of the invitation which you have kindly favored me with, to address a democratic mass mecting to be held at | Tammany Hall on Thursday evening, the 17th instant, called to consider and respond to the policy of the national Administration, as expressed in the first annual message of President Buchanan. 1 most fully concur in the object to be attained by the proposed assemblage, and trust that the democracy of the city of New York will give a cordial response to the policy thus indicated. Your prompt ac tion will exert an important inflaence at this crisis, and be earnest tion—it’ hax the confideree of the people, aud should re: ceive & decided and energeus support from the masses KLAJAH WARD. LETTER PROM HON. GRORGE TAYLOR. Wasinxotos City, Dec. 16, 1857 I have had the bonor to receive your polite invitation © attend and address the mass meeting to morrow even: ing. Permit me to say that I fully endorse the action of the administration, and will sapport it, in every partion lar, Ron up the banner and nail it to the mast, and keep t there, or fall with #. GPORGE TAYLOR LATTER FROM HON. ISRARL T. HATCH. Wasiivaton, Doe. 16, 1857 I bave to regret my inability to attend the democri merting at Tammany Hall on Thursday evening 1 rfully inthe objects of the assemblage, as I do in r notional admmmistration. Kansas affairs have assumed, suddenly. a new phase, and the Presitent has been unexpectedly called on to dedine a policy for the future. It is paoifle hut determined on the only ixsue be rm the policy fore ua—that i«. whether the subject of slavery shall still Continue to distract our wational councils, or whether, in accordance with the recommendation of the President, and, as I believe, with the desire of the country, it sha'l be confined within the boundaries of as Welt Our opponents aro dissatisfied with th tion of the Lecompt’ They hoped and prayed that the slavery question should not be submitted to the peo ple. The Convention wisely did submit it; and shall the free State party, 80 Called, Row be allowed’ to excape the issue? The verdict of the people of Kansas must be theit political death, since they only lived by the agitation of the slavery question, while & postponement of it will be equally sure to endanger the best interests of the conatey. Ifthe verdict is in favor of freedom there can be ho more agitation; if in favor of slavery they, must them selves be held responsible for the verdict, and the tem porary creation of a slave State. In their despair, accord | ingly, they ery for enabling acts, und even for the Toombe bill, whieh they once refused—for anything that give them tame for agitation, I will not Yenuture to © not required such sul predict result in Kansas, but I beTieve there will be ound and honest men enenyd to go W the pols ty vive a fair expression of the peop, aid that Kansas will come ip asa free State. CN Madness should stitt rule in the councilk of the free Stite moa, if each voter sball have a fair opportuy te deposit his vote without anyefraud or viclebes marking the proceed. ings there, 1 beueve it will be a rative cuty to stand by the policy of the administers dicated im the ful swing extract from 4he Message When once admitied into the Union, whether with or with i slavery, the excitement beyond her own limits will speed- ily pass away, and she will then, for the firs time, be lef. ae she ought to have heen long since, to manage her own atthirs Inher ews way. Tf her constitulion, on the subject of slave Fy. or onany olher aubject, be diaplousing to x majarity of the people, no human power can prevent them from changing it Within & brief period, This is the doctrine of human rights, as laid dowa in the Declaration of Independence. It is the natural, in- alienable right of the people of the States to change, mo- dify or abolish any form of government under which they live. Ineed hardly say a crisis is before us. Tue false in principle and the infirm of purpose will desert as here- tofore. But it is no time for timid action or to take coun- sel of our fears. The man whom the insticctive wisdom of the masses sought out for this emer- gency was the veteran statesman Lancaster; and he has ca'mly surveyed fhe future and pointed out the pathway through the wildernesss of difficulties before us; and though our vision may not be able to penetrate the darkness, yet, girded up with our democratic faith, it is our duty to God and the constitution to move fearlessly and firmly on. In face of this howling factional opposi- ‘on indecision is imbecility, and our hesitation cowardice. We or they must triumph. The democracy of the Union must be sustained in its rey ntative, or black republicanisin and wild fanaticiem will exult over the fail of (he latter, and riot in the ruins of the former. ISRAEL J. HATCH. LETTER FROM EDWIN CROSWELL, ESQ. Wasuiatoy, Dec. 15, 1857. While 1 regret that it will pot be in my power to accept our invitation to be present at the deuocratic mass meet- ng to be held on Thursday evening at Tammany Hall, to consider and respond to the policy of the national adminis tration, as expressed in President Buchanan's message, it is a gratification to feel assured that the democratic masses of New York will come with alacrity to the «up- port of the principles and policy of the administration of their choice, The democracy everywhere will stand by their guns, and all the labor of agitation will be in vain, The able and statesmanlike manner in which the President has presented the various publi> questions that will claim the consideration of Congress, is conceded in all quarters, and has added strength to the confidence of the people in the patriotic aims and successful working of his admioistration. Of these questions, the admission of Kansas is of more immediate interest and importance. The aspect in which this question will come before the present Congress, while it may lead to renewed excite- ment, will not, { trust, disturb the unity or impair the vigor of action of the friends of the administration throughout the Union, for the maintenance of the princi- ples aud policy so gignsliy approved by the American people in the late Presidential canvass; nor ought we to doubt that every proper effort will be made to put an end to there sectional agitations, by Tecelving Kansas into the Union, in the spirit und direct terms of the organic law, “with or without slavery, as their constitution may pre- scribe at the time of their'admission.”” Whatever may be the action of thepeople of Kansas on the 21st inst., their inherent power at any future time to modify or remodel their constitution, will remain, and may be applied, if need be, as a corrective. Thus the slavery question, ex- peiled from the national legislation, would be sonfined to a single State, and if an element of exzitement and mischief there, would cease to cast its baleful shadow over the de- liberations of Congress and throughout the country. Can we doubi that the reflection and patriotism of our country- men, of all sections of the Union will respond to the senti- ment of the President, that the peace and quiet of the whole country are of greater importance than the mere temporary triumph of either of the political partics in Kansas? BDWIN CROSWELL, LETTER FROM HON. JOHN C. WRIGHT. Seuxnecrapy, Dec. 15, 1857. Your invitation to address a mass meeting of the de- mocracy at Tammany Hall, “to consider and respond to the policy of the national administration, as expressed in the first message of President Buchanan,” is duly acknow- le¢ged. Icannot be present to speak my approval of the sound democratic and statesmanlike opinions and recoin- mendations so,frankly put forth and ably sustained by the President in bi message. 1, however, avail myself of the occasion to say that the whole people of this country, irre- spective of party, may well be gratified at the exhibition which this important State paper presents of their re- sources, wealth and successful enterprise; and they can point with proud satisfaction to the enviable state of peace and commercial prosperity which it exhibita of our rela- tions with the whole world. President Buchanan has been fortunate m his policy in regard to the disturbing and dis- turbed elements which have so unfortunately agitated the le of Kansas in their efforts toemerge from Territorial Bowuage into the full liberty and equality of an indepen- dent State. He has sought to carry out that cardinal, per stone doctrine of the democratic Lod lit ay ever sove- reignty, upon which he was so triumphantly elected—in all his instructions to Gov. Walker, and in every pub- lic act in reference to the Territory. Ido not understand the suggestions in the message in regard to the action of the Lecompton Convention in its attempt to farce a con- stitution upon the of Kansas without their approval or rejection, as indicating aa opinion in conflict with the well understood and pan Md interpretation of the pria- ciple of the Kapsas-Nebraska act. The President ex presses his regret that the Convention did not provide for a full submission of the entire constitution to the popular vote, This regret is shared by a very a, ™ of the democratic party,and the impolicy, if not manil wrovg, of withbolding from the people their approval or rejection of that entire instrument, cannot well be doubted. The President does not, as I @ message, seck to commit the democratic party to the doctrine held in some quarters, that Congress and not the people of the Terri: tory shall judge for themselves what form of constitution they will adopt. Such a position would contravene every professionjand publicly avowed opinion of thé President, fe the representative bead of the great democratic party of the nation, and would stand out distinctly in opposition to | the platform of the Cincinnati Convention. There are no | well grounded apprehensions that any considerable num- ber of the democratic party will yield their approval of a | political heresy, which acknowleages the principle of | Congres#onal intervention in the formation of a sonstitn- ) tion for Kansas, or which takes from the people of that or ¥ other of the Territories the unrestrained right and power of framing and passing upon, by a popular vote, the constitution which they are to obey. The democratic party are committed to the maintenance of the principle | of popular sovereignty in its broadest sense and applica | tion. Its future triumphs will be achieved under this | broud banner. Its sure defeat will happen when this banner is trailed in the dust. JOHN C. WRIGHT. LETTER FROM HENRY W. ROGERS, RSQ. Berrato, N. Y., Deo, 15, 1857. Your favor of the 14th instant, inviting me to attend and addres# a grand democratic mass meeting to be held at | Tammany Hall on Thurseay evening of this week, has been | received, Tam flattered by this invitation and sincerely | regret my inability to accept it. You propose to consider and respond to the policy of the national administration, ne expressed inthe firet message of President Buchanan, No loftier or more patriotic duty could engage the atten tion of the democracy than this. When treachey in our own ranks is doing ite utmost to despoil us of all that we gained by the brilliant triumphs of 1856 and 1857, and render the national administration [gegen sho good, it is meet that the masses should rally to rebuke the one and to vindicate the other, The message, from the begin- bing to the end of it, is statesmanlike and patriotic—jast what we had a right to expect from a man the whole of whose public carcer has been marked by an earnest and faithful dedication of bis great talents to the best interests of the country. It is gratifying to see that the true sons of Tainmany still stanc by their guns, and to use them as vigorously against traitors from their own camp as they bave ever done in their contests with the common enemy. HENRY W. ROGERS. LETTER FROM ION. WM. B. MACLAY, New Yor, Deo. 16, 1 Thave the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your in vitation to attend the meeting at Tammany Hall on the 17th inst., “to consider and respond to the policy of the pational administration, as expressed in the first Message of President Buchanan.’ 1 approve the object of that meeting. and have no doubt it will be appreciated by all who have at heart the best interests of our government. The present chief strate of the United States is emi- nently worthy of the bigh position to which he has been elevated by the sovereign will of the people; and it is the | obvious duty, as it is the distinguished privilege, of all who participated in his election to acquiesce and eo-operate in every Just measure and recommendation of bis administra. tion. “A distinct expresasion of your confidence in the wis- dom of his policy ,and the integrity of his purposes, and « decisive demonstration of year unflinching adherence to the principles on whioh he was elected and by which he is governed, ae s abundantly proved by his past political career anu his late message to Congress, are peculiarly Appropriate at this time, when the slighest occasion is giving rise to needless complications in the peaceful set tlemeat of a vexed question of public policy. For the peace ‘and prosperity of our common country we had all hoped that the national Legistkture was to be relieved from further egitation on the subject of domestic slavery; and there really seems to be no good reason why this hope sh wet be realized. The discnssions of Con greet and the investagatons of the judiciary have thrown much light upon this subjeet, and produced im) changes in many minds, leaving the control and the ¢: ence of political institutions to be determined, not as heretofore by arbitrary geographical lines, but by fuoda mental principles of civ ow OKO which are eminently adapted, as they are ab solutely exsentml, to the permanent peace of our Union. The doctrine of pooular sovereignty, as embodied in the Nebraska Kansas act of 1854, and laid down in the Cincinnati platform, whi asthe President bas said, ancient as free ‘operly refers the question of slavery or ho ® y people of each State and Ter. ritory of the Union, by Whose sovereigoty alone that in- stitution fs legitimately sustained or abrogated, and upon whom alone rests the responsibility af determining its ex. istence. In accordance with this elementary principle of self-government, and in pursuauce of numerous prece dents, the Territorial Legisiature of Kansas provided for a convention of the people of that Territory, to be raised by a popular election, for the purpose of Traming a State government ftaelf, constitution. The members of that Convention were ac: cordingly chosen as representatives of the people. And the organic act of that Territory, so fur trom probibiting the people from acting ‘finally upon the constitution through their chosen representatives, and requiring its submiseion to & direct popular vote, not only left them “free to form and regulate their domestic institetions in their own way, (that Is, as it mast be understood, either by a direct popular vote, or through representatives of their own choice,) hut positively estal lished the doctrine of pon-intervention, and dented the power of prerogative of any and every officer, whether of 4 State, or of a Territory, or of the federal government— either in of out of Katiaas—to interfere with the legally constituted authorities and organizations of the people, when proceeding either directly of through their oS sentatives choren for the purpose, ‘to form and regu’ their domestic institutions in their own way.”’ So long, therefore, as the democratic [at had ig ad sove- reignty and uon intervention are observe, neither the President not the Congress of the United States has an: power t9 compel a constitutional convention of the in any State of Territory to submit their work to a popa- lar vote, when the creating that convention have iseion The question as to whether q copstitut’oo shall be ratified by a popular vote belongs alove to the people for whom that constitution i made, aud they aleve havea right to dedide id, either through the Legis lature au borizing the convention, or by sending to that copyenticn suck members as faithfully represent the popu lar wilen that svlyect. Foreign interference in this mat erly repugnant tg the organic act of Kansas Ter ito the establicl distinctive doctrines of a cenwcrat government. Whether it is alway» expedient for tle people of a State or Territory to require such a popular ratitication of their constitution is not so clear as to care the approval of all impartial statasmen, And whether, under existing circnmatances, in a Territory of sparse population, as yet unsettled, and distracted by teuds within and focs without, it would be wise for the people of Kansas to undertake the adoption of a State constitution by @ popular yote upon every article, section and clause, is, to say the leagy, farly ques- tionable. To argue that the constitution framed at Lecomptor by the chosen representatives of the people of Kansas is tobe forced upon that people against their will, and iz violation of their rights, because it is pot sub- inittedas a whole for adoption or rej :ction by the popular vote, as if the people of sah erry were to be compelled to live under a government which they have had no hand in creating, and which they have no power to abolish, is purcly fallacious. For, bot only is its formation really their own work—done through their own chosen represen- tatives—butthe very actof its inauguration, by or through whomsoever it may be effected, placed it in the power of the people to change itas they ehall see fit Some have ob- jected to this constitution that it cannot be amended till ‘after the expiration of several years, strangely forgetting, or disingenuously ignoring the fact, that the so-called To: peka constitution (which the same men claim to be a fair expression of the popular will, but which was in fact the work of a revolutionary organization), prohibit- ed all amendments for “a much lor period. ‘Apart from the question of slavery, there is nothing in the Jecompton constitution which the people of Kansas would be likely to change within a few years even if it were adopted with the power of immediate alteration. And the Convention very properly decided to submit the slavery clause, which involves the only important question in dis- pute, to a direct vote of the people. And this ought to Satisfy the most stidious partizans, Kansas has been too ome ihe subject of unreasonable agitation, both in and out of Congress. And there is too much reason to believe that this agitation has been kept up, not so much for the sake of freedom or slavery, as to promote partizan pur- poses. The time has come when this strife should be ended. The people of Kansas have now a fair opportunity of coming into the Union, with @ constitution which, as @ whole, is equal in excellence to that of any sister Stato, and of determining for themselves whether they will have lave State oF a free State, and may we uot earnestly hope that this opportunity, go 'propitiously presented, will be improved, and the patriotic wishes of the President realized WILLIAM B, MACLAY. LETTER FROM HON. WM. New M’MURRAY. York, Dec. 16, 1857. Ihave received your letter inviting me to attend und address agrand meeting of the democracy at Tammany Hall, on the evening of the 17th inst., convened for the purpose of responding to the policy of the national admin- istration as expressed in the meseage of the President. As Tsball not be abie to address the meeting, I beg to assure you of my sincere and hearty concurrence in its objects and purposes. Considering the many delicate and em- barrassing questions whieh of late years have arisen in respect to the policy of our government as affecting its re- lations, foreign as well as domestic, we have reason to be thankful that we have at the head of our government a man whore long career of statesmanship has inspired our people with a well grounded confidence in his patriotic purpose, as well as in his executive ability. Though un- mustakeable indications have marked a rapidly Fait) popular confidence in the administration, as also an in- creasing strength in that party in which, through the vi- cissitudes of nearly half a century, the people have in the main reposed the task of illustrating and exemplifying re- publican institutions—though in the State election in No- vember the people have discarded those who, in the arro- gancelof their skort lived power, have trampled munici- pal freedom under their feet, brought disaster oa our public works, discredit upon our State finances, and heavy taxation upon the people—though a democratic adininis- tration never stood stronger in the confidence of the peo- ple than at the present moment—still the mecting you pose is opportune for one purpose, ifno other; and that Fito give notice here and elsewhere that the democracy of New York intend honestly and manfully to support the national administration, and to give fair warning of such— their purpose—to any and all not to lend a ready ear to hair-sphitting casuistry, or to the vagaries of those dis- posed to indulge too free'y in the exercise of their own conceits. Washington may be regarded as the political head of the confederacy—the seat of thought from whence emanate political ideas and measure; New York is the heart whose pulsations throb through all the members; the other States, the body, and the limbs of more or less consequence, according to their locality the Territories, laying far off on the bor- ders of civilization, may be likened to the digital and pe- dal extremities—no very copsequentialmembers, but yet very irritating ones if too tight! . However ex- cruciating may be the pains of Kansas, it is not at all like- ly that an bem 3 very serious will come of them—as sen- sible, well thinking people at the North really care very little about its domestic institutions for the time being— knowing that inevitably, when they acquire sovereiguty, they must accord with the tastes and interests of the peo- ple. The most important matter, at present, is to bring the question to a solution so that the delicate susteptibili- ties of Harvard and Yale sentimentalists may be permit- ted to seek out some new Jeremiad possessing the stima- lus of novelty. I have no doubt that such a solution will ve arrived at, and Tonly bope that the administration may adopt that which is the quickest, WM. McMURRAY. LETTER FROM E. Hl. BROWER. Tuvrspay, Dec. 17, 1857. T have this moment received your ‘notice’ of yester- day's date. My residence being ten miles from the city (at Flushing) will prevent my bemg present at “the mass meeting of the democracy”’ this evening “to respond to the policy of the national administration as enunciated in the first annual message of President Buchanan.”” But while I must deny myself the pleasure of being at the meeting for the reason stated, I may assure you that there will not be a man there whose heart respouds more fully and cheerfully to ite purpose than my own. I hope, and canpot doubt, that the nation will triumphantly sustain its executive head, whose fidelity and firmness to the principles upon which he was elected so well entitle him tothe r of his position and the gratitude of his country- men, and that this evening he will receive new proofs of democratic devotion to the great charter which is the bond of the Union, and in conformity to which he so faith- fully administers the government. J. HL BROWER. FROM THE HON, DAVID L. SEYMOUR. Troy, Dec. 16, 1857. Geyte—I regret to eay that by reason of indispensible engagements I cannot attend the democratic mass meet- ing to be held at Tammany Hall on the 17th inst. I ayail myself, however, of this unity to declare my m1 ‘aud unqualified approval of the administration,Ais de- eloped in the message of the President, While our foreign relations are in the main on an amicable footing, tions of great importance are pending be- puntry aod foreign Vowers., With the govern- ment of Spain we have for years past had serious dim. culties. Wrong upon wrong and insult upon insult have been heaped upon our citizens, and as et our claims for reparation bave been unheeded. e ‘yer? of the President respecting our relations with Spain i# the bold and straightforward policy of promptly discharging our just obligations » ber, while we submit to no wrong at her hands, but compel her, at whatever cost or hazard, to do justice to our claims. The Central spirit of caudor and decision. Desiring to continue amica- ble relations with England, whose interests of trade and commerce are 80 Closely interwoven with ovr own, the President proposes to strip the question of the entangle ments which the Clayton Bulwer treaty and the diplo- macy connected with it bave woven, and to maintain the just fights of our country against the # t claims of the Britich Power. The means of perfecting easy and uninterrupted inter. course with our posseseions on the Pacific. and the reme: dies for the financial embarrasements of the country are wisely comeived and clearly and forcibly stated in the Message. They cannot fail to commend themselves not only to the democracy but to the candid and of ail parties. Nor have I any doubt that the country will, with equal unanimity, adopt the declaration of the Mes. save that “Kansas has for some years occupied too much of the publi attention.’ After along and exciting conflict the Karnas Nebraska act was passed by Congress. No friend of the Union of the States can desire to revive the bitterness and sectional jealousy which arose out of the pacssge of that law, and the action ander it. At the last Presidential election the democracy triumph ed upon the great principle of popular sovereignty — annonneed in that act the power of the people to organize stablich thei a This power was to the Territory of Kaneas by the organic law. Vith eedulons care has the President provided for the full and free exercise of this power in the Territory. Able and experienced men were appointed to its chief executive offices. The military power was present in force sufficient to preserve order and assure to every Jewal voter the free exercise of the elective franchise. The ballot box was opened, and the people of Kansas in vVited to exercise the sovereignty secured to them by the organic law. Those who chose met in their primary assem. bfhies and exercised at the ballot box this sovereign power. A® must must necessarily be ina large Territory, they delegated their powers to their representatives—and the constitution framed by them is according to the theory of all republican goveruments, the sovereign at oo the people of Kansas, through their representatives The submission of the constitution to the people was not required by theorganic law, That made it requisite to sub- mit only the question of «lavery a a domestic institution of the new State, This submission the Convention has provided for according to the law, Whether the other provisions of that constitution ehould be sulmitted to the peeve ‘was not declared. Thix question was left with the Nonvention, to ty 4 by them. If the opponents of slavery in Kew have neglected to exercise the power given them by the elective franchise, for the vention of slavery in the new State, and have for any reason chosen to leave the election of a Con mvention to their political opponents, eurety. stityitional neither the President nor Congress is responsible for the reenit. The President is not called upon to interfere be- tween the people of Kansas and their representatives. He bas nobly discharged bis duty under the law, It onty remains for the people of Kansas to act upon the proposed question of slavery and the work is done—Kaneas is an independent State of the Union; and who will then say that ae an independent State she hns not the same power over all her domestic institutions, and her people the game attributes of sovereignty, as the + of Virginia or New York have today? at memorable declaration of President Buchanan, in hie Inaugural Address, ‘ \t is the imperative duty of ‘the Tnited states to secute to every resident inhabitant the free and independent expression of his opinion by his ‘vote,’ has been faithfully carried out in his administra. tion of the affairs of Kansas. The beneficial effects of this Niey have already become apparent. Sectional agita ion and the fanatical ils of disunioniate no longer orcupy the public mind to the excinsion of all other pen col considerations; but they have re pines to that love of country which holds sacred and inviolate the ri of each and all the States under the constitution. Ay sur con haracat fhe cantly” eit Se poy 1 CO ;, but ‘wise the President will be sustained by the intel Feat nad withdraw him eee while all attempts he confidence of any portion of the democratic party will ‘fe prompt and decided as have the ef- American question is treated in the Message with the same | forts of our political opponents to organize a sectional ~~ flied sow the seeds of disunion. Very reapect- ly, DAVID L. SEYMOUR. FROM HENRY M. HYDE, ESQ. New York, Dec. 17, 1867. Tam prevented from attending the democratic gather- ing to-night. It would give me pleasure to make one among the thousands who will, their enthusiastic as- sembling outside of Tammany Hall, demonstrate how ut terly unavailing are red tape contrivances to suppress & expression. The national administration is enti- ted to receive at the hands of the democracy of New York an unqualified approval of its present attitude and foreshadowed policy, gud to receive it pow. HENRY M. HYDE, FROM THE HON. A. BIRDSALL. | Hixcnamtoy, Dec. 15, 1857. | Yaur favor of the 14th instant, inviting me to attend and | Sditrens 8 Gren? democratie mass meeting to be held at Tammany Hall on the evening of the 17th instant, 1s re- | ceived. ‘I should be most happy to respond to your insi- tation in person, but my engagementsa ¢ such as to forbid | it. I hope and trust the meeting will be such as the oc- casion calls for, and the assembled democracy of the great metropolis, with united voice, will prociaim their | cordial approval of the policy of the uational sdministra | tion as expressed in the admirable message of President Buchanan. Very truly yours, ‘A. BIRDSALL. FROM THE HON. LYMAN TREMAIN, | ‘Aunany, Dec. 16, 1857. Thave received your favor inviting me to attend a mass « meeting at Tammany Hali to-morrow-evening, to respond to the policy of President Buchanan, contained in his re- cent message to Oongress. Engagements before the Su preme Court, now sitting in this city, will deprive me of the pleasure of accepting ycur invitatiou. I concur fully in the sentiment expreseed by our Chief Magistrate, that Kangas bas already occupied too much of the public atten. tion, and now that all parties declare their approval of the | great democratic doctrine of popular sovereignty, 1 hope and trust that no differences of opinion concerning the de- tails will prevent the early admisé ion of Kansas as a State, and the final settlement of the questions that have so long agitated the country in relation to the‘local affairs of that Territory. . L. TREMAIN. ‘The following resolutions were read by Mr. S. D. Dil- | laye :— Resolved, That the democracy of the city of New York does indorse, approve and support the administration of , James Buchanan, Fresident of the United States; that in | the formation of his Cabinet, whereby he called around him gome of the ablest and most experienced statesmen of | our party—men who were devoted to national xentiments, | untinetured by sectionalism, and pledged by thir past lives and reputation to the unchangeable principles of the democratic faith—he gave to the American people abun. dant assurances of the high character of his administration; and that, in his noble inaugural address, he afforded still further evidences of the wise, safe and honorable policy by which he would be and has ever been guided, Resolved, That in President Buchanan's first message, recently delivered to Congress, we recognise the language of a patriot and a statesman, and the principles of a true national democrat; and that now, as at all times since the fortunate day when the suffrages of his fellow citizens elevated him to the high position he fills, he justifies their preferences by his prudence in council, his decision of action, and his unfaltering adhesion to the Cincinnati platform: aud that we pledge the unchanging support of the New York democracy—of the forty-one thousand good and true men who stand by their colors alike through good and through evil report—to a chieftain so worthy of our regard and esteem. Resolved, That we claim without hesitation, and will ia- sist without exception, that wherever an official holding under a democratic administration, opposes, whether openly or secretly, whether by vote, by personal in- influence, or by pecuniary contributions, the candidates, the interests or the measures sustained by the democratic organization, his instantaneous removal from oifice should follow: and that we emphatically approve the promptness and fearless decision with which President Buchanan and his Cabinet have commenced to act upon this principle, in recent instances. Resolved, That while we would have preferred that the entire constitution proposed for the State of Kansas should have been submitted to popular approval, we congratulate the people of that Territory upon the opportunity now pre- sented to them ef passing upon the question which has so long disturbed their peace and destroyed their material osperity and progress; that nothing but the wicked and ‘tious pertinacity of yg oor agitators can now stand inthe way of the early admission of this new State into the Union, with the unqualified power remaining in bor people to alter and amend its constitution thenceforth as to them may secm best; that while we fully and unre- rervediy concur in this view of the case, we desiretourge ; upon all democrats the necessity of conciliation and good feeling among brethren, upon this and all similar ques- | cheering. | out nigger-worshipper—not a single votary and thus commenced—“Yet, T have left me,” said the Lord to the Tishbite,”” “seven in Israel, ali the knees whieh have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.” We have left us, brother democrats, over forty thousand men in this me- tropolis who have scorned to bend the knee to treason. We have left us forty thousand men in this city and coun- ty, who, through good and evil report, in spite of bribery and corguption, regardless of the ayren song of clam, despising alike the tinse! of fashion and the phara- saical phRanthropy of guiyy speculation, deprecating example of shameful and ungrateful traitors, and unse- duced by the deception of a heterogeneous coulition, clung: to the fortunes of the democracy; were loyal aud true to ite usayes: and until the sun went down on tne first of this month, and until time put @ limitation to the contest, those forty thousand citizens forsook not—in heart, im affections or in rout. it cause of which Fernando Wood ‘was the representative. (Applause.) And when morn- ing came again, and with it our defeat made known, al- though the unwetcome intelligence brought mingled and gloom to the soul of every honest democrat, still, 4 those forty ove thousan 1 law abiding, constitution ad citizens who supported the claims of Mayor Wood, reason to rejoice. (Applause.) Ths brand of Cain waa not upon their brows. Their several consciences were free trom the corroding guilt of treachery or deceit. (Cheers.) Passing or repassing through our highways und thoroughfares, although dejected at the resuit, their ce was manly and independent—their faces were not werted from’ the upbraiding glances of old political friends and associates, whose cause they had 50 cheeks did not grow pallid, nor were they suffused with shame and confusion at the scund of “treason,” and a bribe, which even Judas would scorn to accept, did not swell their purse. (Great applause.) The enemy was not composed of any one particular political party, but, by @ peculiar anomaly, it embraced each and every faction and organization which was opposed tothe democracy. Argus could not see at ouce, nor Bririus catch their va- rious colors. (Loud laughter.) There was uot an aboli- tionist in New York who did not religiously vote against us. There was not a bearded patriaroh whose code of “morals? were the “elective affint- ties’ that dit not piously retail the bruta- lities of the Tridune against Fernando Wood. The most notorious stock gambler in the Wall street Mammon temple joined in chorus with the sardine and train of * aristocracy’ in calliog bim ‘‘raseal.’’ (Groaus.) There ‘Was not an atheist who denied the existeace of a God or the theory cf a firat cause, who was not opposed to him. (Seusation ) There was not ia our city « single straight- ‘ot che myste. ries and orgies of the dark lantern—not a solitary disciple of the non-connubial bestiality of Fanny Wright—not a devoted believer in the superior nutriment of cold water and green peas—(laughter)—not & thimble-rigger or pro fessional shoulder-hitter—not a nonentity who lived upoa the bounty of a courtezan, or whu derived a wretched livelihood from being u pimp to dens of vie mouthed reviler of the constitution and the la Py short, a special fanatic who contributed to the formation of the generai fanaticism of this age of cant, but regis- tered his vote on that day against Mayor Wood and the democracy, became momentarily contrite and virtuous ia reviling the personal character 0: the former, and ia branding thegattoras “the unwasbed,”’ “the vulgar,” and “the unclean.” (Great applause ) Yet, notwithstanding this unholy coalition ,which like what Petersaw in his vision, was cotrposed of ‘nasty, unclean and creeping things; notwithstanding that an organized electioneering corps of two thousand special policemen, many of whom voted twice and thrice were bought to work against us; notwith- standing that stock gamblers, sarsaparilia men, paint manufacturers, and the “codfish upper ten’ generally, distributed like corn in seed time their iligotten pelf, with the hope of purchasing yotes for ‘liemann; and notwith standing that for months previously the black republicam press contained diatribes. against the private character of our candidate, so brutal, vile and scurrilous that the senses became nauseated. disgusted and sickened in their perusal—the very thought of our unity, of our patriotism , and of our numbers caused the combined enemy to quiver and despair. (Cheers and groans.) The great democratic majority cast in favor of the election of James Buchanan in 1856, and in favor of Tucker and the State ticket which he headed in 1867, struck the enemy with dismay. Mea- suring and comparing our strength with their own, | they gave up the fightere it was commenced. Immed! ately after the result of the State elections in the city was declared, the opposition journals confessed at once | that without treachery in the ranks of the democracy, any | combination against it must prove unavailing. Then did the traitors, the tricksters, and the wire pullers set to work to complete the foul plot which long previous!y bad bees imembryo. (Cheers.) Had they met the democracy face to face, upon a fair and square ssue—had they pre- | gented to the people of this metropolis pen Fate} Clear light the questions to be decided—had the voters | been led to the ballot vox and asked, as intelligent beings, to cast their influence in favor of municipal rights, or tions, that, especially upon the floor of Congress and inthe hewspaper press, no animosities be engendered and no division lines drawn, which may militate against our fu- ture harmony and success—believing, as we do, that upon. the ascendancy of democratic principles mainly depend the safety and perpetuity of our Union. Resolved, That in remarkable contrast to the pretences which our political of ents make that the people of Kansas are deprived of the right of self goverament, we point to their legislative enactments with respect to’ the city of New York; that our chartered privileges and im- memorial a and respected even by Bri- tish sovereigns, have been wrested from us by these iden- tical partisans, and the voters of the first municipality in America permitted to exercise no voice for the approval or rejection of any one of the unjust acts forced upon us by atyrannical Legislature; that the city of New York, though oppressed beneath these burdens and grievances, stands ready, with her forty-one democratic voters, to renew the battle for principle at all times, to contribute to future party triumphs and to sustain our de- mocratic President. Resolved, That the recent defeat of the Leewecsenncwd yom of this city in the person of its able and poplar chief ma- gistrate, Fernando Wood, was brought about by the open treason of some and the connivance or indifference of others, whom our party had in times past fostered and elevated to cons ‘and influential positions; that while we regret ‘howe defection to the enemy, and accept the inevitable separation from them as political asscciates which must ensue, we point with pride to the mighty phalanx of voters upon whom their example and exer- Uons had no influence; and that we tender to our worthy May or, in his defeat, the assurance of our cordial sympa- thics and support. Resolved, That we reprobate the narrow and jealous policy which induced the majority of the Sachems of Tam- many Society to refuse the request of our Committee of Arrangements. and to bar out the democratic masses from Tammany Hall this evening; that we recognise no masters in the democratic party, and will acknowledge no right of dictation or control over our meetings; and that, especially at this moment, there should neither have been any delay nor any division of opinions in giving a prompt approval of the President's position and inviting the participation of all democrats. ‘Those referring to the Presideut’s message, Kansaa af- fairs, the recusant officeholders, and the despotic sachems: of Temmany, were received with much favor. At the conclusion of the reading of the resolutions there were loud eries for “Wood, Wood," “Hofman ,"’ &e, Mr. J, A. Horrmay was then introduced, aud aid— Fellow citizene—For the privilege open air to-night, damp and cold aud it may be, you are indebted to the action of the Sachems of the Tarmmany Society who haye taken mar themselves to ex- clude the democracy of the city of New York from the halls of Tammany where they hayg been accustomed to meet on all occasions. Three groans tor the Sachems. They have assumed to say that the democracy of this city shall not meet within the halls of Tammany to en dorse the policy af the administration of James Buchanan, unless it is with their consent and by their cali, and for what they have done [ hope one of these 8 ay you will thank them in own peculiar man- er. 1 Taughter, and three more groans for the Sachems. ) God that although the light of democracy can smother within the halls of the wigwam, it can burn brightly beneath the blue vault of heaven: and though the voice may be stifled inthe cabin of the sachems it can ring in the open air, and be heard in the capital of the nation and the uttermost of the Iamd. (Cheers.) This meeting hae been call bf oe Begflrds nd Tes. pectable and leading democrats of the city, to endorse the administration of James Buchanan as declared in his first annual message to the Congress of the United States. Ppropese to speak for that purpose, and in referring to that policy, whether it be that of the able review by the Pre- ridcntef the Sancial affairs of the country—whether # be upon the able review of our foreign relations, upon one of these euhjecte or all of them—whether it be upon the subject of Kansas, which bas the attention | of the people for so long a time, I shall except to not one word of that message—not one jot or {ittle— bet line upon line, pt upon precept, word upon word, syllable upon syllable, and letter upon letter, I shall stand by it. (Cheers.) Why ie it that this vast as. semblage is here to-night? We are not upon the evening of any important election. No important nomination is to engage your attention. The grand contest in which the democracy of thie country engaged @ little more than « year ago ended in the vietory of the party, and placed in the chair of state the choice of the people—James Kucha- ban cucers) The democratic party bad adopted the jeeue of popular sovereignty. and the great question which ‘wae submitted to the people then was whether the ques. on of slavery in Kanaas shoul! be submitted to the peo- ple of Kanens? The struggle took place; all the political elements of thie country were involved. Woe knew that if we were defeated ruin would overwheim usall. Bat when the news came tn that the democracy bad triumph- ed, we hailed the election of James Bachanan with joy. Now, in hardly atweive month from his election, there feems to be some power at either directly or indi- rectly, attempting to inflict a d blowfupon the admin- istration, and it is proper aithongh we are upon the evening of no election?and though no candidates are before the people, that the democracy of the city without waiting for the call of organizations, or the direction of sacheme, should spontaneously assemble in their might nnd declare unanimously that they endorse the adminis- tration. Do you give it that support? (Cries of “Yes, Do you endorse that administration? (Cries of “Yes, yes."") Do you endorse the policy of James Buchanan as declared in his Meseage? (Cries of “Yes, yes."") Do you believe in submitting to the people the question of slavery as the vital question in Kansas? (Cries of “Yes, yes.’’) S000 1, and when James Buchanan hopes that the whole constitution will be submitted to the people 1 am with him, but if the vital question alone has been sub- mitted, is not that sufficient? (Orins of “Yea, yea") at. versa—and bad the verdict been against us, I would not murmur; however indignant I might feel, my sorrows and regrets should be silent rather than loquacious. Applause.) I should bow with unfeigned respect to the will of the majority. If my fellow citizens were tired of democratic rule; if they declared themselves adverse te democratic principles; if they desired more toan they have already ‘had of’ black republican ascen tency apd Diack republican legislation, I would, as in duty bound, submit to their desires and let them profit by experience —nay, but [ would pray that Lan might have it, untill half satiated, half nauseated with it—until it corroded into the core of the bedy politic, putrefying it by cor- ruption, so that at length its rottenness migot stench in the nostrils of society. (Rapturous applaase.) But such,] take it, was not the case. Our opponents never bad a positive existence. They have always lead a negative political life, and opposed the natioual and posi- tive policy of the democratic party on'y when actuated by love of plunder. Place and emolument are every. ‘thing to them; principle nothing. So in the charter elee- tion, they cunningly evaded all discussions relative to the true nature of the contest, and conteated themseives with blackening the private character of that exalted citzem who was our candidate. (Groaus.) They even treated our organization with unusual deference and respect. It | is true that Mrs. Biddy Bigelow, of the Evening Post, de- | nominated Mayor Wood a representative of “ bighway- | men,”’ thereby implying, of course, that the forty-one thousand citizens who voted for him were unacquainted with the ethical code of Bowen & McNamee and their brother saints in the Ninth and Fifteenth wards. (Laugh- ter.) But, as a general thing, other journalists were wo prudent, too politic or too wary to follow the example of this perverse and misguided Swedenborgian dupe. (Re newed laughter.) Their motives were too deep and too dece:tful to ag pg be the part of Boracehio. were partice to & villainously concocted plot—to a plot bot new, indeed, or original, but of so di & nature character that its application tw noble cause bas almost invariably been crowned with the most fatal success, apd until their anticipated re- sult was brought about, these guileful editors resolved up- ‘on being prudent, well bred, polite, and seemingly gone- rous. They Well knew that the infallible blight of bumam freedom was, and always had been, treachery, (Ch: They well knew that the vanity and weakuess of Eve ——firet brought sia into the world, ‘With all ite woes,” And that as to her sons, “The trail of the serpent followed them all.’ (Loud applause.) They weil knew that the patriot canse im every land—the cause of independent nationality anu hu. manity—bad ever suffered most from tbe rotvenness and guile of the traitor. They knew full well that by the tres. chery of the caiciff who “‘sold the pass,” so far as the in- dependence of Sparta was concerned, the blood of Leo nidas and his heroic little band was vainly shed. (Ap- plause.) They perfectly well understood that disappornt ed aspirants and politicians it was who first introdueed in- to Attica, for the parpose of subverting her autonomy and civilization that they might themselves be rewarded and revenged, the mercenary Medes and Persians. Ob! none more fully comprehended than they that the cause of Poland the cause of Hungary, the cause of Italy, the cause of Ireland, perished by treachery. (Cheers , ‘That but for the protecting and approving hand of God. aided by the sword of justice, Benedict Arnold's trea- son would bave heaven, we are not) Majesty, Victoria of Brunswick. (Great cheering.) Hia- tory taught them that they never could obtain from the people, office, trust, or emolument, but through the ri- vairy, bickering, jealousy and dissension of heartlesa Jeaders in the democratic camp; and as in ali parties there always have been men without principle or truth, the combined enemy sought and found a few in our or- ganization. “There are,” reasoned the representatives o' the opposition, “men in the ranks of the democracy who would readily betray that party. Let us sedace them; lot ox coalesce with{them. To do this successfully we tmust tickie'the vanity of some—we must endeavor togra- ify the revengeful and Satanic malice of others—we must buy the friendship of those who fecl Judas. ke inclined — ‘we must flatter the ambition of s afflicted with thas divorder—and we must deceive the timid, the wavering, aud the unwary, What matier how we coin if we have the pelf. We have tasted of the sweets of corruption and 1 emen already, drawing salaries of eight or nine hundred dotiars cash.” We have under our control 6 Board of five Police Commissioners, at salaries of $2500 each ; a treasurer to this Board with an annual salary of $3,000; a chief clerk, with « salary of $2,000; six deputy clerks, with of $1,000 each; a general superintendent, A tel two deputy saperintendents, wi o at’ te —— of the New York Cit; Reservoir, and of ihe port wardens. Let us be wise. This is something worth caring for. Itis our last ba We have. since 1836, squandered over $30,000,000 of State’s money, and, consequently, the State is Low almost bankru ished as robbers and traitors from the nat! capitol—as indisereet plunderers, if not as per. jorers, from our State caphol—this a, et Strengthening and reconstructing our forces was x dential. Our good lack, it's true, may have been me: accidental; and it may be tem. y. We must im, Let us select some nominal democrat from among the jeaffected—some weak and silly biped, to whoae sup- ort all the combined elements of unprinewpled J hip may ratty. (Cheors and groans " ewe triumph his election—if we secure the greatest city in the natim, here the democracy seems invincible, who knows hat itmay open our eyes to achemes of greater gran. eur and greater itude, even to the possessivu of ational power!’ (Approbation.) “80 gloezd the tempter, and his proem tuned: Into the heart of Eve hie words made way, ‘Though at the voice much marvelling '' (Applause) ‘This Kanens question has been too long oecupying the tention of the country, an¢ it will be soon fairly and pro- perly settled when the pepple of Kansas shall have ‘an opportunity to vote a ‘@ constitution red for ‘onventi them by a legidmate ion, under form and authority of a legitimate Lrgisiature. The policy of James Rucbanon has been to submit this question fairly to the people of Kanens. When that shall have been done the commotion will have ended, and we shall see the judi cioneness of fe President in taking the course that he has. Where are the men who have opposed James Buchanan tn this matter? They are the men, and presses, and parties, and the leaders in the battle against pogne sovereignty. ‘Their ‘policy has been to keep up the agitation of t avery question to make capital for their successors in he next Presidential campaign. A Vorem=8peak louder Speak louder? It is impossible, gentlemen, in this at- mosphere to make one’s eelf heard without sacrificing one's throat. I did intend to say more; but it is impossi ble for me to do justice to the message, and | must yield this stand to some one with etronger lungs, but not with a stronge iM. t acianos, Feq., wae introduced amid loud Actuated by such motives—stimulated by such vile 90. histry, and plumed with such despicable hypocrisy, the missaries of the enemies approached their victims; nderstood their natures, and were conversant with antecedents and characteristics. With Caiphas Grunter Gunther the work began. | (Rouge of laughter.) | He felt not have taken @ at once, altmost by intuition, Metternich to seduce him. (Laughter.) — Like a weak. minded woman, gently touched upon the bump of beanty, he was “open to conviction.” (Lai .) Some wag thaps a mocern Wamba—in an evil hour, whispered to im that he should badd ! (Oh, oh, and groans.) The soft and dulcet wooing of Titania was not more balmy to the lug of his great anti-type, Bottom, than that whisper was deadly to the little sense which Gunther had lef, (Cheers and langhter.) Having, however, politically eelf- immolated himself to the manes of irony,’ charity érteth, “let it So be it then, And in the caresees of Greeleyiem, may his negrophobia dreame be congenial, while we direct our gaze to others in the ghostly and solemn raters. ‘creat cheering.) Now, featiemtn, lov again, and ‘exulting, upom the ruin’ of impulsive and vouts ite acceptance wronier approbation of | will OPPCOR OF 0K mor,