The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1860, Page 1

THE NE WHOLE NO. 8708. MORNING EDITION—THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1860. -YORK HERALD. that great metropolis, THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. Great Convulsion in the Re- publican Camp. gies Saw cal was bea Dec youned. and. i.e Soe J0 i of you as weil as to myself. Fraudulent naturalization papers in blauk, by which this was perpetrated, have been produced before a Committee of Congress. Tt’ was natu- ral that an administration thus corrupt in origin should continue to exercise power through by which power was gained; but not elge than that ipeensibility to acts of shame, which is bred by familisri- ty, can explain how all thie should be done with such ab- solute indecency of exposure—wearing scarcely so much ap a fig leaf. (laughter) Aletter from a local politi- cian, addr to the President himse.i, urging without dieguise the giying of a e contract for machinery toa particular house in Philadelphia, em, 450 meoha- pies, with @ view to Wie aprroncntag, election, was in- closed to the Secretary of the Navy with this indorse- ment, in fa well known handwriting:—Sept, 16, 1 The Inciosed letter from Col. Patterson, of Ph: phia, submitted to the attention of the tary’ of the Navy. J, BU? ter. did the President of the United States, by an now of record in the history of the country, recommend the employment of the public money, set apart for the CHARLES SUMNER ON THE STUMP. A STRONG PLEA POR OLD ABE, Another Attack Upon holders. Slave- el. The Five Fold Wrong of Human blie Service, to influence an election. Here was cor- ey. eee coin eee oan Eee a rm one and feom Ber dee, ad a characteristic instance, learn ter of the ad- Ou the invitation of the Young Men’s Republican Union discloses the President, on Sundays, in secret conclave | gf Now York, the; Hon, Charles Sumner, republican Se: | with one of bis corrupt agents, piousiy eocupiod in dis. eed, address | Custing | ces of an and how its expenses nator omnipaggsnanttin, daliveped. on apengiiie were to be met; while, at the same time, like another “from every part of the room. Mr. Sumner al! the while Jast evening atthe Cooper Institute, on the wrong of hu- man slavery and the necessity of the perpetuation of the republican party for the extermination of the evil. ‘Tho doors offthe large basement hall were thrown open 0 the public at seven o'clock, aud the crowds which had joug before assembled in front of the building immedi- ately poured in in a continuous stream until every availa- joseph Surface, he was uttering in public fine sentiments of political morality, aud penpals Prevalence of the very indecencies in'which be was It was natu- ral, fellow cits, that the President, ions gar on the lips, made himself the r of such 8 of ‘vulgar corruption, should stick at nothing needed to cam ry purpoees. I shall not dwell on the Lecompton constitution; but it belongs to this chapter. You all know its wickedness. Concocted originally at Washing- ble position was occupied. In bulf an hour afterwards it was | ton, yy the a Fo sag is =r slavery y people ot ADEAS, was execra- utterly impossible to find accommodation. The windows Lp hdl Sts ged ek ns ae d of the upper fleor opening upon the basement were cram- med with people. As the gentlemen who looked after the rem necesariam were very careful that no ‘‘dead eade’’ should slip in, and as each adult admitted was mulct in tweaty-five cente, lawful money of the republic, 4% ia to be presumed that tho Republican Club reaped a heavy harvest of dimes on this occasion. A considerable proportion of the audience consisted of ladies, for whom ample accommodation was provided on the platform. Not- with ‘tanding this, the auditorium presented an extensive show of bonnets and fang. It is announced that the en- tire procee ts of the oratorical effort of Mr. Sumner is to be devoted to the circulation of the address as a cam” peign document. Mr. Sumner appeared on the rostrum precisely at eight o'clock, and was received with an outburst of excited en- ‘thusiaem which defies all description. The applause with which be was greeted was unavimous and intense. Cheer afier cheer arose, loud and vociferous; men stood up and waved their handkerchiefs and their hats till scarcely anything else could be seen; the ladies clapped their little bands, and shouts of applause were heard when about to become # State, from voting on that ques: tion, Next, sanctioned by a convention of usurpers, who im no reepect represented the people Kansas; then pan So Br pn to the people for their votes, it was fraud tly adopted by stuffing ballot boxes on a scale never before known—thus at the Delaware Cross- ing, where there were but forty-three legal voters, 400 were returned—(Ianghter)—at Oxford, where there were but forty-twe legal yoters, 1,000 were retarned; and at Shawnee, where there were but forty legal voters, 1,200 were returned. And yet this constitution, disowned by the very Governor who had gone to Kansas as the ageat of the President, rotten with corruption, gaping with fraud and steaming with iniquity, was at once recognized by the President, urged upon Congress in his annual mes- sage, and pressed for adoption by all the appliances of un- principled wer. If the words of Jugurtha, turning his ack upon Roane, cannot be repeated, that all had a price, it was not from any forbearance in the President. (Loud applause.) A single editor was offered the printing of the Post blanks, worth at least $80,000. upon the con- dition that he should, by an editorial no larger than a man’s hand, promise subeerviency to the administration. Tam telling you now only what has been proved before a Committee of Congress. Bribes of office were added to bribes of money. As the votes of clectore had already Deen to make Mr. Buchanan President, the votes of representatives were now solicited to carry out his scheme of corruption, and the halls of Congress were Changed into a political market house, where men were bought by the head. is not all tbis enough to arouse the indignation of the people? Itis true that the President, whose power began in corruptioh, and who is the respon- sible author of the corruption by’ which his administra- ens Sacer hae. ie toeeekiell ready judgmen| gun. His own political part, has discarded him. The first avenging blow has eee struck. Incorruptible bistory will do the Yest. (Ap- plaugo.) The tablets conspicuously erected in Genoa to ‘Tho proposition having met with approval, the Cuam- { expose the crimes of , branding one as Fur Magnus MAN came forward and said:— = great gd Speed t. ee as vg ee goo Lapms axp Gexti=wen—I have the honor to present than sac aated yaa Pt io ee “wo . @ éx s rant ¢n- before you the Hon. Charles Sumner. Yon know him | asur, Shae taaer or texken freedom ‘cannot be ttood calmly bowing in response; It waa not until several miautes had elapeed that the commotion ceased suMciently 80 a8 to permit oue of the members of the Republican Union to come forward and state the objects of the meeting, and to propose Mr, me ad Mann as ‘Chairman. already asthe living Ulustration of the right of free de- | f,) * : rgotten. Applause.) Unhappy President! Af- ' ust ee mus, open fues and concealed weapons, | io, long “career of public. service, not only nw ow ary (ae ing of a pm porns freedom, it8 | togeed agide, but tossed over to perpetual memory free speech and free press. He will now again vindicate | as on example w be shunned. (Applause). Better for it, aud cute the end of bis life, thus to become a saint in the political calendar, if not a martyr, where the blood of the eaints becomes the seed of the church. Among the curiosities of the occasion was a emall mal- let, representing an auctioneer’s hammer, which, it was Maied, was made out of a piece of the old log cabin in which “Uncle Abe” used to reside when he was estab- ‘shed in the rail-eplitting business in Kentucky. nu coming forward to epeak Mr, Scmwer was again saluted with load applause. He said:— him the oblivion of common life than the bad fame which ho has won! Bat, though not himself « canditate for of- fice, bis peoullar Buy vers, animated by hia spirit, linked wish him in all bis misrule, are embodied as a and ask your votes, Simply to resist this combination and to gave the republic from ita degradiug influence, would jus. tify the fermation of the republican party; and I doubt not that there :are many who will be content to unite with ug on this ground alone, anxious to put the national government once again in pure hands. To all such, wel- come! (Applause). While this consummation neccasari- ly enters into the present purpose of the republican party, while we naturally begin by insisting upon purity Mx. P , Laps asp Grxtiewex—I have not words in which t utter my thanks for the kind, cordial | 2 tbe government, and make this one of our urgent do- and generous welcome you have given me. Lam unable | mands, it is obvious that the quickerling impulse of the to say what I feel. I believe I best d to your | !@rty 18,t0 be found in other: which cannot pass Kinduess: my own i ‘at once | *WaY nia single election. y seeke to to the we bave come hore to ciscuss. | overthrow the sinve oligarchy in the t= Of all the men in our history, there are two whose in- | (oud aj especially at moment to stay fuence at this moment is most peculiar. , | seggression in the Territories, which through a corrupt they yet live, speak aad net in the comfret of principles, igterpretation of the constitution, it threatens to barbarize which dividea the country—standing face to face like | With slavery. Butall who seek purity in the nations two well matched . When I add that ono was | government must uaite tn this ; for only by the from South Carolina ‘and the other trom. Mase eyesinrew of tate corres eee » Which Begin ou will see at once that I mean John C. Calhoun ning in the denial of all humap ri }, necessarily shows Quivey Adame, (Loud applause.) Statesmen both | itself in barbarism and of all kinds, can a bet- of long carcer, of marked ability, and of unblemished in. | er order of things (A It is out of Slavery that al] our griefs proceed; nor can the corruptions of the. present administration be fully comprehouded without considering the nature of ap evil and its chronic influence over our government, reaching everywhere by subtle agencies or more subtie reaching example, but still in itself the original and all sufficient activity. As well attempt to explain the Gulf Stream without the Gulf of Mexico, or the origin of evil without the human heart, their days battling in Congress and dying there, each at bis post. Fach was a leader in life, but each’ has be come in death = grander leader still’ Mr. Calhoun pos- seewed an iwtellect of much originality and bold- and though want) in the culture of a scholar, mate melt * fle. in sonnel ‘and in debate, To | a8 Attempt to explain the present degraded character of Zative powers unlike, but not inferior, Mr. Adams | Our watioual government without slavery. Zuded the well ripened fruits of long experience in fo- | Plause.) As well attempt to enact the play of Othel Pog late and of stadies more various and complete } Without the Moor, (Laughter.) And permit mo to say that our warfare wi lees we attack them in their origin. these oorruptions will be feeble un theo those ofapy public man in oar history besides fan he ich The subject is 60 indomitable wi.!,and that spirit of freedom wi inspir- fs et tinent ‘ynst that I can undertake to expore it by glimpses only. polation 9 Pee aetna af tatepentence, | at the beginning of our history slavery” was universally makiig bimeelf its *Colomsus” on that floor, Sit poe tw be au evil. Nobody then 60 hardy as to vin- ting together in the Cabinet of Mr. Munroe, they con om © quned't sanctionlag the prohibition of slavery ia the eS all there was no difference either in the Missouri Territory as constitutional, and so advised the President. But here the divergence probably began— though for a long time it was not manifest. The diary of Mr. Adams shows that at that early day, when elavery had been little discossed, he saw its enormity with instinctive quickness, and described it with corre- sponding force. record { leas full with regard to Mr. Caihou but when in later ‘ife they one in Mr. Scxwer—In the Convention which framed the constitution, it was branded as ‘a nefarious tpetitution,” or more mildly called simply “ ,” and these gen- erous voices came from the South as well as from the North. Out ofthe Conventiou there was @ similar ac- cord, I shall not quote the words of W: ‘ashington, Jeffer- son, or Franklin, of Jobo Jay, for they are famihar to all. the Senate and the otber in the House of Representatives, | But as the, ¢ others spoke, and J might occupy this | each opeuly assumed the position by which he ngw holds | whole relek seely in Tectiog this testimony, Nor were these a ny wo eal: mm ie a The colleges all, by special actin, arrayed themscives oinet slavery, especially the University of William and fary, in Virginia, which conferred upon Granvilic Sharpe, the acknow! chief of British abolitionists, the Lonorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Co gen gt erg literature of the land, such as it was, agreed with the col- leges. The church, to, added its powerful voice; and im history—ome as the leader im all the pretefisions of slavery and ofsiave masters sod the other the champiyn of buman freedom. (Applause. Ue. Calhoun regarded slavery a6 & permanent institution: Mr. Adams r tas eran- fitory. Mr. Calhoun vaunted it a form of civilimation; Mr. Adams scorned itasan unques: cable barbarism, Mr, Cal oun dict not hegitate to call it the most stable basis for fren nmet™®,; Mr. Adama vehemently denounced jt as a curse, full Of weakness and mockery and doubly of- | here, amid the diversities of religious faith, we hail that fonsive ina boacttt republic. Mr. Cal not content | unity of spirit which animated all, , Methodiste , with thus exalting slavery, proceeded to denounce the | Baptista, Presbyterians and jonaliets seem al- Congregat! moet to have vied with each other in this pious testimony. The constitution was adopted; bat the word “slave” was not alowed to pollute ite sacred text; and this was in declared deference w the prevailing opinion which re- garded slavery a temporary, destined soon to pase away. All looked forward to thie glad day, which seem- ed to be slmort at hand. tom eg pet Reg! proh:bited in all the existing Territories the © A that when first Pre- eariy opiniour of the early fathers, even those of Wash ington and Jeterson, as “folly aud delusion,” to assail the eelé-ewident truths of the Declaration of Indepen- dence a8 ‘absurd; and then to proclaim that human detaxs are proverty under the constitution, and as much, may be transported into the Territories and there held in Blavery | while Mr. Adauns sided to the glory of is long aod at career, Fy , which are been President—apbold. freedom of the press ; vindicating the self evident truths | New York, took his to support the constitution, of the Declaration of $ the hateful | the flag of nowhere on the land within the character of slavery ; Prohibition tn | jariediction @ single slave. (Ap- the Terrkories ; denying the ty in man ; ) Little then did the fathers dream that the evil end repecraily and often exhititmg the unjust power in | whieh t ae a shame, and which they exerted the Natieoal Government, ursurped by what he called | themselves to probibit, would elevate its obecene crest, « the litter cluster,” Xpress yo Blavemacters, whose yoke was to him intolerable, Such, most driefly told, were the antagonist opinious of these ict destined to Pr) the world. (Applause) Little ‘aid they dream that the eoprtitution, from which they had carefully excluded the very werd, would, in of reason and common sense, be held to protect the thing, 80 excgy it could mot be reached by Congressional pri the apinions of John C. Calhoun. All that the bli- | within Copgressional jurisdiction. Little did they dream ean party now maintains may be found in John y | that the text, which they Jeftso pure and healthful, Adams, (Loud ay .) Choose ye, fellow citi: 1, | would, corrupt interpretation, be swol- betwen the two. rule of “Principles, and not men” | jen into such a bideout ¢lephantiasic. ' (Applause. ) te hardly ae toaman whose life now bears the | Two cireumetances, civilizing im themecives, bave ex- pecred seal of death, and whose name is the synonim of | ercieed an unexpected influence for slavery, Gret, the ‘Priel yet Ido pot hesitate to may that our cause is | abolition of the slave trade, which Sbyftakiog away the appreciated te ta precise chtecte end oleae, Proud | supply bas increased the value of rlaves; and + the es we may be to trend where C4 Adams leads | \ucreaved cultivation of cotton stimulated by the’ {n- the way, d en. ‘ef more commanding authority | vention ofnew mach! . ‘The last has been of especial found in’ the et laws of right, and the concurring | influence; Indecd it is ly too much to say, that out mendates of the conetitotion itself, when properly inter- | of this slender cotton tore have been formed the ma- Preced, which teaches tae duties of a good citizen. (Ap | nacles of the American slave. Thus, rntater plause.) Such is the guide of the ican party | iofluemees, and the wickedness of men, Is made the which. T amy fearlessly, where most known, will be mos | minister of wrong, Next after Chris Cokambus, trusted, ant which, understood in ita origin, wH | who by be sublime enterprise the pathway to the | New World, Eli Whitney, who’ discovered the cotton gin, has bern indirectly and anconseivasly a clef agent in the bondage of the African race on the North American conti- be seen to be no accidental or fugitive organization, for a day caly, ar merely for an election, but an leresiatible ne pent a6 the evi moral and political, which it | nent,and surely a proper gratitude for the ate of is called into existence to oppose aud counteract. | which we enjoy in such large store from these two dis- Let us dwell, then, on the republican y, ite ori- | coveries must prompt fs to increased activity for the gin, Ite Gocemmity, and its permanence. All must admi | welfarc of these unl beings, who Yalu, have beew that 'f no ‘rapa ica existed now—even if the’ | euch bovere where we have been such (Ape balcyon dey 80 often promised by cajoling politicians het | plause.) This change of opinion, eo di ite re- come, Ve el ot a there = wae Pp - by tow | its 6ue- would be a politics! necens! ‘& great party cessive stages, by t nqui ‘become Sition to wet'aa a Cheek on the admipisteation. "A kindred | manifest tothe whole eountry til 1820, shen # buret forth in the Missouri question. Then, for the firet time, slavery qgwnly showed itself violent, , bel. ligerent. Freedom was ehecked, but saved something by a compromive—called, at fhe moment of ite adoption. Ly eminent Southern witharity—Charler Pluckney, of South Carctim— a triumph South,” where, in con: aideration of the admission insouri a& a Blave Stato— thas securing an additional preponderance te the slave —it wae etipniated that slavery should hited in certain outlying territory, at the time wages. Then lull, during which the change was still at work, until cotemporaneous with the abolition of slavery im the British Wert Indice, the dis- cussion was lighted avew, Meanwhile flaves had aug. mented in price, and slave masters had become more de. h when the corruptions of the administration dragged to light by recent commit the = alone le cue the goverpmen! teste t fact that Mr, Buchanan corruption. Money, familiarly known a8 @ “corrap- ton fund? first distilled in ermall def cided in opinion. At first, im timid doference to the [en Garkh and. petty — officialn, was swollen by | world, and a& if coneclous of their guilt, they ventured the larger contribations of merchants and contractors, | on no defence of slavery in the sistract but at Inet, bolder grown ander the of Mr, Calhoun, they threw and With thir accumulation votes were aside aM reserve, openly assailed the opinions of the fp in the streote of Philadelphir, enough to turn the election ia and in the chain of cause and effect to assure the triumph of the democratic candidate. same corruption | PRICE TWO CENTS. Fathers, sndaniovaly denied the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence, and by formal reso- | jution asserted the new dogma of s'avery in the Terri tories. This was in 1647. A letier from Mr, Calhoun of that day, addressed to a member of the Alabam. Legislature, shows that there was an element of policy in the exuggeration. His desire was—mark the expression, if you please—‘‘to force the slavery issue” on the North, comes from the masters, notwithstanding -lavery. And, besides, there are exampes of the gu rious Futhers of the , who, looking down >" slavery and regarding it as an evil, were saved from its contamination, To all these I render heart fett homage. But their virtues cannot save from condempation the essential wrong Which 1 now expose. I mention thei to show that 1 do not willingly eet them amide, but uce all they have believing that delay was dangerous, as the slavemasters | done, and offer it in extepuation, , fellow citizens, than they wou oth rally ahd Fay | a eet itt made kepe. ot home, i would ever . At last the end has come. | on society. as i a ; %, # it did not stalk into the ‘national Neradicdioe, ‘and euler Elavery Is openly pronounced wt one time “the black anotber marble keystepe of our natioual arch;” at time | into the national it, within the reach of our ; i ‘ 'y votes, J should Aa ummon you on this occagion % unite “the corner stone of our republican edifice,” then it is Vaunted as “the highest type of civilization”? ir); | against an peal prped whatever may be the prompt- thep ag “a blesping to the master as well as we: } ings of eympat of pesike philathropy,, sothing is and then again ‘‘as ennobling to the master if not tothe | clearer ‘that our tical duties depend absolutely slave.” It ie thé only first step which costs, and there. gra Fee responsibilities; and weare not fore the authors of thee: opintons, eo shocking to the tically responsible for slavery ip Charieston or in Con- moral sense, do not beritate at other opinions equalty | #taptinopic, 0 in neither place have we any political du shocking to the reason which pretend to impossible | ties in regard to it in either of those | wo capitals. la ment it wherever it exists we must, und surround its vic tims with our prayers, but our action while inspired by these sentiments must rest within the landmarks of the law and the constitution. (Applausc.) And here th ficld is ample. Indeed, # slavery existed nowher within the ational jurisdiction, ag it clearly does, ou duties would still be urgent, to grapple with and counter- uct that pernicious influence, which, through an oligar- chica) combination of lave masters, unknown to the constitution, never anticipated by i founders and exist- ing im efiance of their example, entered into a? resbed the pational goverpment, like av evil spirit. is influence, which, wieldipg at will all the powers of the na- ganctions for slavery in the constitution. at to these extravagances, who would not exclaim with Jonson in the play? Grave father, he’s possert; again 1 sa) Possest; nay, if there be possession sda And obsession, ho has both, reese, And now, fellow citizens, what no question merely of curiosity or_pbilant rony for when the national government, which you and Yat.the North help to constitute; is de to be ita inestramen and all the pational Territories are proclaimed open to it barbarism, and the constitation itself wo 18 perverted sanction its ensions, the whole gobject logically and tional government—cycn those of the ji 'y itself—has necessarily Mae ces oer pelts oom.” (ap. | veceme Srentable to Srendoms eversmbaresciotching, vie Plause.) Tt cannot be avoided; it cannot be blinked out | HePtly at the Territories, and menactg the free Statce of sight. Nay, you must pase ‘upon it by your votes at themselves, a8 Witness the claim still undecided in the the coming election. Futile is the plea’ that we at the courtof the last resort of a citizen of Virginia to hold slaves in New York on she way to Texas; Uhis influence, I say, North have nothing to do with slavery. Granted that we diane unobserved, even have nothing to do with it in the South; we have much } BW S¢ vaulting, was for a long b | while exercieing a controlling power in our politics. lation tad juct te bone es thes Ietioval pretensions are | Ab firet titnid and eby, from wn undoubted consciousness ged, clayery must Ke discur@d. Te muse be laid bare | of WA gut, ib avoided discussion; but Ib was uo less de- inte pomtnicy, peeriesty sa tee fh were re | termined in its policy. ‘The Southern Senator who boast ed that for sixty years the slave Blatex had governed the country, knew Well their constant inferiority to the free ctates im population, wealth, manufactures, commerce, echools, churches, libraries aud all the activities of a true civilization, kuew well that the slave States had contri- ing to the literature of the country, even in po- oncmy and the science of government, wirich they anaee yeharaenily protuaseds nothing except the pow forgotten “forty theory; knew well that by no principle of justice could this “Jong predominance be ex- plained or vin¢icated; but Re forgot to confess the secret agency. True it is that, in the game of office and legisla- tion, the slave States have always won, They have piayed ith loaded dice—loaded with slavery, The triek of the omaton chess player, for so long & time an incomprehen- ed with sinular Success ip our politics. Let the free Stat move on the board, and the slave States have heck.” Let them strive jor free trade, and the cry has been “check.” Let them move toward protection, and again it is “check.” Tet them move toward internal improvements, and the cry is still “check.’’ Wherever they moved, whether for- ward or backward, to the right or left, wherever they moved, the free States have been pursued by so inexora- ble “check.” But the secret is now discovered, Amid the well arranged machinery, which seemed to give motion to the victorivus chess player, was concoaled a motive force which has not beep estimated—the slave power. It is the slave power which has been the perpetual victor, saying always “check”? to the tree States, And it is the clave power Which, according to the boast of the Senator, on the floor of the Senate, has for sixty years governed the country. (Applauge.) The actual number of slave Lolders was for a long time unkbown, aud ov this wccount was naturally exaggerated, It was often represented to be very great. On one occasion a distinguished repre: sentative from Massachusetts, whose nose will be ever cherighea for bis devotion to human rights—I mean the late Horace Mavn—(applause)—was rudely interrupted plant it bere in New York, (Loud applause.) Nor can buch @ wrong—foul in itself, and fouler still in its preten- sione—be dealt with tamely. ‘Fumeness 18 surrender; and charity, toe, may be misapplied. Forgiy. ing those who tres against us, I know not if we are called to forgive those who tres. pase Reed othere ; to forgive those Rid tres- ass age! a race ; to forgive those who trespass against the republic ; to forgive those who ‘againat civilization; to ‘forgive those who trespass against & whele race; to forgive those who t against the universal buman family; finally to forgive those who tres- pags against God. emendous applause, lasting for several seconds.) Such trespassers how exists among us ing the organization of party—poesessing the coptrol of the national government—constituting at this Moment @ colossal power—and ‘ what seems its bead the likeness of a President bas on.” (Laughter.) Surely if ever there was a moment when every faculty should be bent in the service, and all should be invigorated by an inspiring zeal falsely rejected by the heartless diplomatist it is Dow, while the great battle between civilization an ‘varbariem is still undecided, and you are summoned in the name of freedom to resist the last desperate shock. b gon enthusiasm.) To this work I am not equal; but T jo not shrink from the duties of my post. Alas! human Janguage is gentle, and the human voice is weak. Words only are mine, when 1 ought to command thunderbolts. Renewed applause.) Voice only is mine, when like the ancient Athenian, I ought to cary the weapons of Tews on the tongue. What then, I repeat, is slavery? ‘The occasion forbids details; but enough must be present- ed to place this outrage in ite true light—as something worse even than a constant state of war where the mas- ter is the constant aggressor. And here I put aside for the moment all the taies which reach us from the house of bondage; all the cumulative, crushing testimony, alike from slaves and from their masters; all the barba- aut sible marvel, has been rep Tous incidents which have helped « apouse a yet too fee | MAN Ruirmes Arie | . : : ‘ ‘angress by a member trom Alabama, who ble indiguation; tn, ebort, al, the glimipecs wien bard | averved Gat the wumber of slaveholders was ws many as come to us from’ this mighty Blue chamber. aL teak om, eon am 8,600,000. (Langhter.) cifcicl document by which this extravagance could be corrected. But at iast we have it. The late censue, taken im 1850, shows that the whole number of this peculiar class—embrating nev, Wor-ep and children, all told ‘who arc #0 unfortunate as to hold sleaze, oF be intoren in this so called property—was only 347 ; and of this number the large part are ewall slavebolders, euving only 91,000 pereons as the owners of the great tags of slaves wnd the substantial r tatives of this dominant class. et this small y, odious in origin, without dation in that justice which i¢ the essential basis of “every civilized association, stuck confederacy in all the five wrong of slavery, and iwim—a great these B curefully put aside, not because they are of little moment io exhibiting the true character of slavery, but because I desire to arraign slavery on grounds above all controvel lave , impenchment or euepicion, even from 8) masters temegives, (Applause Not on triumpbant story, adorned by the genius of woman; not even on indis- prtabie facts 60 J now impeach this great atrocity ; but om jtg character a8 revealed in itsown simple definition of iiself. Out of its own mouth do I condemn it. the law of slavery, man created in the ae fearfully and wonderfully wade, with sensib: of plea- eure and pain, with - abe with ee for im} ent, With a sense of property, a foul like ourselves, is divested of his human character, Ard ee pstituting in itself! a Magnum Latrocini: Sn Oe ete cate to give at iongth al 1 | febbethood-—has by the cobfession of one of ite own Feeeen eels tie din aacliiins Eetll hat length all it# | leaders, for sixty years governed the republic: To this in this rimple definition is contained the whole incaicala. | CUf two things have concurred. | Firet, its associated wealth, being the asserted value of ite human tiesh con stituting a flagitious capital of two thougond millions of doliar#; and seconc!y , its peculiar representation in tho House of Representatives, where, under the three-fifths rule of the constitution, ninety members actually hold their gents by virtue im part of this flagitious capital. Tiweare the slavemasters an euormous poration or ble wrong of slavery; for out of it, as from an inexhausti- ble fountain, are derived all the unrighteous ives of the master. These are five in number; and | know not whieb is most revolting. these five claimed by the side of which the United states can bola proverty in map, forgettul tbat, by a law older | jon tte Rey iicty millions of capital, aud without Sen oll yanee. bs. Bare feasible J shy peculiar Pepeccentation, fw dwarfed ihto insignis 1 feel ‘umsbied when I dwell on the cxbee, amazing BR pag op per eayll disproportion of offices usurped by this oligarchy—as aelivered over to concubizage oF Prostitution, it may be Peas ta cocpront pase of tas repeblio=the Pres: with whouseewee 1 may’ be, it ja. the name, for with doreryihe Wied trenteesey, cente tn a oo ties ‘s ble, as they afe always in the Supreme Court—seem to have been almost per petually iu their bands, At this moment the free States, with couble the of slave States, have only four vot of the pine Jv of the So) Court; and of there four it must be said that three are Northern men with southern prineipler; and in (he bumbier places at the departmente the same extraordinary disproportion “conpled,” never married. ‘Thirdly, The absolute nullification of the relation of Parent and child; for the infast legally belongs, not to the mother who bore ft, but to she master who bought tt. Fourthly, The absolute denial of instruction; for the pate always, ee oo | eae welue rrevalis. | Out of the whole, number (1,227) there em- from learn Fead, and thus ployed, 421 are from States, but moetly with theee gates of knowledge which Open such vistas on earth | [1° 00> Tr veines, and 806 from theslave States. These rene ‘org by the original an Hi game law under which every man has a title to himself, he bas also a title to the fruite of his own labor, sacred and inde- ipetances are Speco There is nothing in the national nmevt which the oligarchy does not appropriate. 'n to this moment it has held the keys of every office, from the President to the humblest Postmaster, compel- inj 1t organizes Cabinets. It or- feaable, amounting in itself to a sacred property, which | SPP ganizes Courts. thearmy and navy, It mana. ot , however called, whether despot or master, caN | Yi ery department of public businers. | It presides Over the eens ‘eously appropriate. . (applause. ) Peay aera eenvetset aecmenty of staves. Lock ppuen chaugaratmamer sen at them, and you will confess that this institution founded by Ub mote the interests of mankind. And it subsidizes forth aa — Bh ae — the wational prees, alike im the national eapital one. Of these ‘and ji to | “2d in the | remotest Village of the North. In ther pa * will berms exist. Take | ™Alutainnig i's power, the slave oligarchy has sch; “Is he honest? Is he capable? Is he faithful to the constitution” These things are all forgotten, and now in the single question, which signalizes the great change which bas taken place, “Is he faithful to slavery?’ With arrogant ostraciem, it excludes from every national office all who cannot respond to this test. So complete and irra- tional has this tyranny become, that at this moreent while 1 Low speak, could Washington, or Jefferson, or Franklin, or Jobn Jay, one or all of them, once more deacend from their epheres above, to mingle in our affairs, and bless us with thelr witdom, bot one of them, with his recorded, wnretracted opinions on eve could regeive @ Romina. tion for the Presidency from cilher branch of the divided democratic party, or from that other political combina. tion known a the Coton party, which held ite convention hter)—nor, stranger still, could either id Incredible as it may scem, it cannot be denied that th right of aman to bimeelf, the right of a husband to his wile, the right of « parent to his child, the right of a man to ingtruction, the rightof aman to the its of his own Jabor—ail these supreme rights, by the side of which other rights are petty, are trampled down, in order to or- panize that five headed selfishness, practically maintained by the be pcsathow 3 * it as you , bas Pe siogle object compulsory labor w thout wages. : plasec:) ‘That slavery thus constituted can be good ‘or the mootter i one of the hajlucinations of the system— something ike the baliucination which can only be com- = of *¢ yainted patriots, whose names alone pared to that of the opium cater. | Fascinating, powibly, | a perpetual fovutam of gratitude, in all your hearts, y q sing be confirmed by the Senate of the United States for political function whatever, not even for the fice of Poetmaster. What I now say amid your ai astonishment, T bave offen suid before in addressing the people, and I have more than once uttered from my seat ip the Senate, and no man there has made anewer, for no man Who Lag rat in its secret sessions, ere learned the beet which is p:actically applied, ond Task you to accept this state: ™ pony, derived from the experience * mmy Wt. Yes, fellow citizens, this test prevailed In the cartier days, Washington, first in war, tired in peace, first iu the hearts of his countrymen, id not bave been created generalissimo of the Ameri- can forces; Jefferson could uct have taken bis place on the Committe to draft the Declaration of Independence; and Franklin could not have gone forth to France, with commission of the infant republic, to secure the in- valuable alliance of that ancient kingdom, nor could Jobn Joy, as first Chief Joetice, have lent to our infant judi. Clary the grace of bis name and character. (Applause. ) | be in the end. ‘That slave masters should be violent and | tyrannical, that they should be regardless of all rights, | especially where slavery was in question, and that the hipber virtues of character should fail in them—all this | might be inferred, even in the abeence of evidence, accord- ing to the frresistible laws of cause and effect. No man can do injustice with impunity. He may not suffer in worldly concition; but be must suffer in bis own nature. He only becomes Lardened by the condition of things around bim, aud the very unconsciousness in whieh he lives aggra- ‘yates the unhaj influence. Nor can feu with the scenes of slavery fail to exert hardening influence. Persons become accustomed to scenes of brutality till they witness them with indifference. Hogarth, that master delineator of human nature, has portrayed this tendency in his picture cf a disrection at # medical col- lege, where the president maintaing the dignity of ine Fibility over a corpee, which he regaris simply as the onject of a lecture, And Horace Walpole, who admired the satire of thie picture, finda in it an illustration of the jw do nas esc teed cat sake ohio aoe Starding on the bent necks of an enslaved race—with four | this eimple truth in ite most generat application illustrates of bomen beings a8 the black marble Carys upport ite power, the slave oligarchy ¢reets itself lordly caste wh brooks no opposition. But en | speak of caste T mean nothing traly polite ; and when | epeok of oligarchy } mean nothing traly aris- tocratic. As despotiem is simply an abuse of monarchy, #0 an oligerchy is simply an abuse of aristocracy, unless the condition of the slave master. can he show sensibility for the common rights of fellow citizens who eocrifices dally the most sacred rights of ly to secure lal without wages. With him a false standard is necessarily established, bringing with it a sense and clouded one, that pla ed from slavery, and having mean, he does not bluah to . Here, again, 1 | | er ee y ‘bear Teeson * he interests Of slavery always in view, our oligarch} | og mytoegllh- CA tatetlock blending net peta y take ite Tearecter from thie five headed Sens fire Ste rte cesta v y timo men; ‘of nperring figures linked with r4 array of un! might employ, And I might pro- rong. “Things bad begun make strong themselves by il on All that ie bad in Flavery—its audacity, ite immorality, erring facta; all these { i its erueity, ite robbery, ite m ite ignorance, its ppb a lly ay ar (Lrcughout boeite cater: | barbarous Gieregard of human nd ita barbarous into offielal conduct, and even mounts into 09 disregard of human obligation, must all be reproduced in wbere for a long (ve it has exercised a vulgar domina’ | iis representative, If the slave oligarchy hesitates at tion, But I" that not open thie Eh, -f- bothing to Ferve ite selfith ends, it simply acta in barmo- does not allow me, Tout there f# one frightful eireum. | SY with slavery, from whic it draws its life biood. If wer it ie like the Wunchbuck Richard: if in rtance, upbappily of frequent occurrence, which pro claims Fo Cleaely the character of the social’ bred -opies Tage, and if in character it is ae brute by slavery, had Teal be pardoned for it, 1 | 88 the uptought Caliban, refer to the roasting of elaves alive at the stake, an in- Whieh any 4 of goodness will not take, stance of which bat lately occurred in Georgia; not ster Being capable of all iil: ‘8 public trial, according to the forme of law, as at the free of Smithfekl, who in yembie ininisters of @ cruel Aye, if in all these respects it surpasses its prototypes be not astonished, fellow citizens, for it acts simply ac- cording to the original Jaw of ite birth and the inbora ne- cersiticn of ite being, (Applause.) The soul sickens in which seems to have become part of coptemplating the acts of dishonest tyranny which have tomary law of slavery, may well cover us all | been perpetrated by this domineering pewer, 1 cannot with lumiliation, whem we reflect (hat it has been | give their bittory now, But looking at the old Miesourt renounced by the colored savages of our it, | comprom ke, founded on the admiseion of gen 4 asa from whom tt was ty det during the pre- | slave State, and in consideration thereof the prohibition rived; white, rent century, more instances of it have occurred among our slave masters than we know of among our savages since that carly day when Capt. Smith was saved from this fate ‘by the tenderness of Pocahontas. Perhape no other revenle with such fearful distinctnces the deep A rigeg influence of slavery, offensive to civilization, poate to law itself, by virtue of which it pretends to live, joeulting to humanity, shocking to decency, and utterly heedkes of all rights, forme or observances, in the matn- tenance of ite wicked power But, fellow citizens, let me not be oe just to slave mastere, Some there are,} know, of happy eatures, uncorruy by the possession of tyran- nical power, who render the condition of their slaver to a certain extent endurable, and in private virtues emulate the graces of civilization; but the good in these eases of slavery i certain outly ing Territory, and seeing how— afler a acquiescence of thirty twa years, and irre. clairoable porecenion by slavery of ite especial ehare in the provisions of this Compromise—in violation of every obligation @f hover, compact and a pod neighbor- hood, and in contemptacus disregard of the outgushing rentiments fan aroused North—this time-honored pro: hibition war overturned, and the vart regicn new known as Kaneas and Nebraska wae opened to slavery; look ing next at the joggling bill by which this waa nc. commplisbed, declaring that it# object was to loave the peo ple “perfectly free to form their domestic institations in their own way? —endseving bow in Fpite of these express words, the courageous settlers there were loft a prey to invading hordes from Missour!, who, entering the Terri app ed @ West for office very different from that of Jeffer- | it be jibat moet vulgar of all, the “aristocracy of the | tory, organized & usurpation, which, by positive law proceeded Us fusten slavery upon thet dewutiful wail, a to surround it with w code of death; loaking at the Le- compton constitution, that maser piece of wicked con- trivance, by which this same people, ip orgupiaing fOr © State, were fraudulently prevented’ from passing upon the question of glavery—and seoing bow the {nfa- mous counterfeit, though repudiated by tse people, Was openly adopted by the President, and by him corruptly urged upon Congress, with all the power of hia admin .- tration; looking at these things, and others which 1 the wind, I teel how vain it is toexpect truce or compro: mice with the slave oligarchy. Punic in faith, no compact can bind it, while interpretations of the constitution friendly 'to freedom, though sanctioned by court and Congress iD continuous precedents, aro un- coremmonioualy’ ejected. Faust, in the incomparable poem of Goethe, un being told that tm hell itaelf the laws rewail, RAY Now tba 20, then, one may, in fact, in bell my inet Mephigtopbllen replica in bell. ver, whic! replica: iigieaee meee in our pee may pe ‘We strictly cary into act. But po compact or promise binds the gentry of slavery although in their books it may find entry. (Applause. Of course, fellow Capers Sg ‘are now ready to see that the corruptions by whieh present administration has been cegraded are the natural offspring of the immorality of slavery. (Good, good.) They have all occurred in Rustaining the policy of the oligarchy, and in the cage'of the Lecompton constitution, in a direct effort to fasten slavery upon a distant Territory, and they are atl marked by the effrontery of slavery’ Snuolled attributes the peculiar profligacy of England at a particular period to the demoralization of the South Sea bubble; but such an induence cannot be comparable in this respect to slavery, which, indeed, if it were not a crime, might well called abubble. Buta government which vindicates the tale of buman beings need not hesitate to purchase the vote of an elector at the polis, or of a mem- ber of 3Congrese. The two ‘transactions belong to the same family, though unquestionably the fo js much lees reprehoneibie. chase of = avote Fellow citizens, would you arrest these corruptions and the digastrous intiuence from which they spring, involv ing nothing less than civilization on shia continent, republican perty tells you how, and in telling you how it vibdicates at opce its origin and its necessity. The work must be done, and there is no other organization by which itcan be done, A party with such an origin and such a necessity cannot be for a day or for this election only. It cannot de less permanent than the hostile influence which it is formed to counteract. Therefore, just so long as the present false theories of slavery prevail, whether eon- cerning its ebarneter morally, economically and socially, or concerning its prerogatives under the constitution, just £0 | ag the siave oligarchy, which is the sleepless and unhesitating agent of slavery fp all {ts pretensions con- tinues to exist ag a political power, the republican party. must endure. (Applause.) If bad men conspire for slavery, good men aust combine for freedom. (“Good good.) Nor ean the holy war be ended until the bar- barism now dominant in the republic is overthrown, and the Pagan power ts driven from our Jerusalem. (Ap- plause.) And when this triuinph is won, securing the immediate object of our organization, the repub- lican party will not die, but, purifed by its long contest with slavery, and filled with higher life, it will be lifted to yet other éfforts and nobier aims for the good of man. (Applause, with three cheere for Lincoln.) At present the work is plain before us. It ig simply to elect our Candidater—Abrabuin Lincoln, of lilinois (renewed applause)—whose #bility, so conspicuously shown in his own State, attracted at once the admiration of the whole country; Whore character no breath haa touched, and whose heart is large enongh to embrace the hroad rep’ lie and all ite peeple—tim ye thusiastic applanse); and pls and ample’ exper: nthe Senate Chamber ean Electing these, ), we shali pat poutive De- y and activ jomn ; © will be of incalculable influence-—not oly in the harbinger of the future. First and fore- ‘ail Dave the Territories from the five headed barbariem of slavery, keeping them in their normal con- dition, as they came from the bund of God—free, with freedom written on the soil and engraved on rock. while the winds will whisper it in the trees, the rivers will murmur it in their flow, aud all nature echo it in joy unspeakable, (‘Good,”’ and great applause.) Next we shall seve the country from Sha ceving aay of the glave trade, whose opening anew, as now 4 is, indeed, but a logical consequence of the new theories ofslavery. if slavery be the ‘“Dlessing” it is vaunted, then must the slave trade be beniticent, and they who ply it with the fiercest activity must take their places among the misrioparies and saiuts of humavity. (Laugh- ter.) Ni ve the Conititution, at least within the phere of executive influence, from outrage aud per- version; so that the President will no longer lend bim- tclf to that wildest pretension of the slave oligarchy, as Mr, Huchanap bas done, by declaring that slavery is carried under ¢he constitution into all Territories, and that it now exists in Kangas as firroly as in South Caro- Mina, As outof notbizg can come nothing, So out of the nothing in the constitution on Unis subject can be derived no eupport for this inordinate pretension, which may be beet diemiseed in that clasgical similitude by which the ancient Romans rebuked groundless folly, when they called it as's wool, auchter), ‘which is something that does not exist—and plainly said to its author asiné lonam quevis. (You gather ass’s wool)! (Continued laughter.) Next we shall help so eave the Declaration of Incepende now Giehopored and disowned in ita esgen- tial life-giving truth—the equality of man. (Applause.) ‘This tranecendent priveiple, wh ch appears twice at the creation—first, when God said, “Let us make man in our own image,” and secondly in the unity of the race, then divinely established; which appears again in the Gospel when ft was said, “God that made the works and all things therein, bath made of one blood all vations of men;” which appears again inthe primal reason of the | world, anterior to all tnstitutions and laws, bslongs to thore self-evident Wuthe, sometimes called ax }, Which no Tan can quistion without exporing to quertion bis own intelligence or honesty, (-Good.”) As well deny | arithmetieally that two ard two make four, or deny goo- metrically that a straight line is the sbortes; distance be- tween two points, as deny the axiomatic, self evident, beaming truth, that all meo are equal. As of the sun in | the heavent—blind is he who cannot perceive it. Of | Course, this principle, uttered in a decleration of rights, is | applicable s amply to rights; and it is achildieh sophiem to allege against it the obvious inequalities of farm, character and faculties. AS an axiom, it admits no ex- ceptions; for it is the essenge of an axiom, whetber in geometry or morals, to be universal. AS an abstract truth, it is aleo without exception, according to the es. sence of such truth, And finally, as'® elf-svident truth, so announced in the Declaration of Independence, it is witbout exceptions, for only such truth can be seif evi- dept. ‘Thos, whether a8 axiom, a abstract trath, or self- evident truth, it i always universal. Io vindicating this principle, the republican party undertakes a grateful daty, to which they are moved alike by justice to @ rouch in jured race, excluded from its protection, and in justice to the fathers, whore well chosen words—Ot foundation for wn empire—bave been Crped into mockery; nor can the madness of the propagandis's of slavery be better illus trated then in thie assault on the Declaration of dependence, etuitifying the fathers for no other purpose than to clear the way for their five headed system of compulsory labor without wages. And finally, we ehall help to expel the slave o garchy frcm all its seats of national power, and drive it back within the States. This alone is worthy of every effort, for until Uhis is doue, nothing else can be complete. ly done. Ip vain you seek economy or purity in the Ha- ernment; iu vain you seek improvement of harbors; in vain you seek homerteads on the public lands for actual rettlers: (great applause you te pity and peace in our foreign relations with Jost sympa thy f struggling freedom everywhere; while this sel nd corrupt power holds the national purae and the yal sword. Prostrate the slave oligarchy and the r will be open to all as principles; prostrate the slave oligarchy and liberty will become in fact, as in law, the normal condition of ail the national Territories. Pros hy and the national government len A from slavery anb the national policy will be changed from slavery to freedom. —V’ros trate the #lave oligarchy an’ the North will no longer be the vaveal of the South, Prostrate the slave oligarchy and the Nerth wilt be admitted to its jot share in the trusts and benore of the repnblic. Prop trate the flave oligarchy and a mighty vietory of won, Whore Influence on the future of oor of ‘mankind ne imagination can paint |, exposed, and permanently expelled from jll- power, the oligarchy will soon cease to exist as itieat conbination, ‘Tte final doom may be post. ving, it may live yet y die, Yee, fellow-citizens, sare- sappolnted jn {te purposes—driven ack Within the States, and constrained within these Himity—it can no longer Tule the republic as a plantation of slaves at home; can no longer menace Territories with ite five leaded ¢ pel labor without wages; can bo longer farten upon the constitution an interpretation which make# merebandise of men, and gives a disgraceful immunity to the brokers of boman fleeh and the butchers of bumon hearts; snd when it can no longer grind flesh and blood, greane and sight, the tears of mothers and the cries ef children into the cement of @ barbarous political pow er! Surely, then, in ite retreat, smarting under the indig. pation of an Aropeed people and the concurring jodgment of the elvilized world, it must die—it may be, as a poidoned rat dice of rage in ite hole, (Enthusiastic ap- laure.) Mes good omens are ours. work: Quickened by the triumph now at band— epublicnn President in power—State after Stats, quitting the condition of a territory and epurnmg slave: Ty, will be welcetned into Our plural -unit, and, joining together, ¥ ili become as a belt of fire girtabout the jave Staten, in which slavery mast dic; or, happier sttil, hands together, they will become’ to the slave zone of freedom, radiant, like the ancient cestus uty, with teanstorming power, (Applause) It only remains that we should speed these good influcnees. Ottiers may dwell on the past ae secure. Bat tomy mind, under the kwe of a benefionnt God, the fotare also in secure, on the single condition that we prers ferward in the work with heart and soul—forgetting seif, turning from the temptations of the hour, and, mtent only oa the cause, With mean compliance ne'er betray our trast, Nor be so civil as to p jwaet ed by @ bow to the A the close of the lee ture, and in an jostent boret of applause fol lowed, repeated aud repeated again, with a epirit which indicated how completely ail prerent had entered into and participated in the feeling, or, at all events, the senth t bad sub mente of the maker. When the by three cheers were galled for Lincoln, wh to with considerable of lung, after which the whe! ing quichly dirpersed. THE APPROACHING EXECUTION OF HICKS. The False Rumor of his Suicide—A Visit Cell—His Pretence of Freema- sonry. About half past two o’clock yesterday aMernoon, some of the bulletins of the evening papers were emblazoned with sensation placards to, the effect that Hicks had com- mitted suicide, The report gained some credence in con- sequence of McDonald having recently defea'et the law of & victim, Marshal Rynders, accompanied by his depa- tiem, De Angelis, Clackner and Dugan, immediately pro- ceeded to the prison, and found Hicks in bis cell in conver- ation with his spiritual adviser, the Rey. Mr Dusenquet, clergyman of the Roman Catholic religion—a faith which the unfortunate man has recently relied upon for bis gal- vation, having previously belonged to mo particular re- ligion. Hicks beld a crucifix and beads ia hia band. ‘When the Marshal and his associates entered the cel) Hicks arose and chook each by the hand: He apoke but in whisperé to the Marshal, and these were to express a desire as to the drees he was to wear on the approaching occasion. The Marshal told him that his wish ip every respect chouid be gratified. He smiled his thanks, and appeared to bo reconciled to his fate, but bis hand was warm aud clam. my, and his muscular frame gave evidences of the action of the mind upon the body. ‘The Marshal said to Hicks, ‘I will do ‘all that I can for you under the circumstances, and Iam glad to seo that You are reconciling yourself to your fate.’” We understand that Hicks made a request that bis wife should be permitted to remain some time with him in big cel on Thursday (this day), the last day the law allowed him to live, and also that Deputy Marsha) Do Angelis, who has bad him under special charge, should bo pear him at his execution, ‘The Marshal promised that his requesta should be com- plied with. It was rumored that Hicks professed himself to be @ Free Mason, and on this, to>, he desired to see the Mar- shal, who is a Mason of long standing; bat the Marshal and some of bis deputies, and one of our reporters, who are members of the honorable craft, left the cell satisfied, without any inverrogation by word, that Hicks does not belong to the ancient fraternity of Free Masous. It will also be recollected that Hicks cannot either read er write. The following are the orders iseued for troops to aid the Marsha) in his duties:— ‘ HIRADQU ARTERS OF THE ARMY, New York, July 11, 1860. Sm—In accordance with instructions from the tory of War, you will furnish to iwaiah Rynders, Exq., ‘ted States Maréhal fur the Southern District of New k, such aspistance of United States troope as you way be able to afford on the occasion of the execution ef Las Hicks, which is to take place at Bedloe's Island oo Friday next, the 18th iuet. i. me arraugements will be made in concert with Marsha) yynders. By command of Trevet Tievtenant General Soot f. D. KEYES, Military Secretary. Major T. Horne, Governor's Bund. Brevet Colonel Broww, Fort Hamilton, Troops will accordingly be furnished both from Fort Hamilton and Fort Columbus, Governor's Island. Fire in West Washington Market. DESTRUCTION OF FOUR SQraREs—anocT 160 eTALLB BURNED OUT—LOSS ON STOCK AvOUT $30,000, axD ON BUILDING $20,000—NoBLE CONDUCT OF THE FIREMEN—EYFICIENCY OF THE STRAM FIRE EN- GINES—GRAND PANORAMIC VIEW FROM WASHING- TON MARKET, BTC. Between ten and eleven o'clock last night a fire broke out at the lower end of the Vesey etreet pier, in West Washington Market. Owing to the eombuatible character of the sheds the flames spread rapidly, The wind was blowing freshly from the west at the time, and drove the fire across four blocks. The flames were headed off by the firemen when they reached Centre avenue, and had they been Jess faithful to their daty, the entire proper ty would undoubtedly have been destroyed, Too much praise cannot be awarded to the firemen for the manner in which they performed their duty. Tho heat from the burning masa was ‘ulenee, and when the flames reached Centre avenne, the struggle betwoes duty and heat was manfully met. Nos. 30 and 42 engiue companies , on Broad avenue, headed off the fire, apd stopped its progress across that avenue. No. ld engine company, on Merchants’ Rowe, etood their ground manfully. They were compelled to wrap a blanket around the engine to prevent its being blistered. Nos. 8 and 6 engines, on County Rowe, and No. 24, on Dey street pier, cut off the fames in that di rection. No. 8 steam engine was on tho Veacy street pier, and No. 38 steamer had @ hydrant at the corner of Washington and Fulton streets, They both rendered efficient aid. ‘They briliiancy of the {lnmination rendered the scene one of grandeur and beanty. The roofs of Washington Marke! were taken poreceelon of by the epectatore, and converted into am immenae coliseum. There were not lees than 6,000 persons seated upon the building. Capt. Jamiegon, of the Third precinct, assisted by platoons from the Firet, Second, Fourth, Fifth apd Sixth precincts were very efficient. Chief Engi- neer Decker and his serietanta were very active and by their exertions the tire was finally subdued. Owing to the late hoar it was impossible for oar re porter to obtain any reliable particulars, either of the hemes of the persons burned ont or the losses, The following are the names of some of the enierers-— mark, Anthony MeMurray, A. V. Suyder, Andrew MeAndrow, Henry Brivker, Joba Malaney, Boyee & McGovern, Win, Woolley, —— Duryer't, Putrick Tully, Patrick Keenan, Jake Brennan’, F. Monolan Cas. Spieen, W. N. Lloyd T. Egan, Peter Lawiesr, Wm. Frost John McMurray, Brady & P, Lebuing & Co., R. Smith M.M. Coben, Rog & Murphy, Haven & Jolinson, ie Graff, 1. Kerr, Brown, Tilton & Co, J. 8. & 3.3. Stout, SM. Bogert, D. Mockiemaw, Bul, Gibb & Jobneco, Cc. W. Ide J City Intetligence. Tue Free Cowmmeroxnns held a special meeting last evening at Firemen’s Hall, the President, Henry Wileom, Feq., in the chair, The complaint sgainst Engine Com- paniee Now, 21 and 13 for riotous conduct on the 3d of July was brought op, and withewes on bebalf of both companies sworn. The Commissioners found great dif enity in obtaining Aefinite teetimony whieh would fo to show that any of the members of either company were enpaged in the fight. Thongh many of the membere of both companies were badly injured, and the eagine of No. 18 wpeet and broken, berides having several bullets pat in the box, yet nota ringle member could tell who the parties were and how they got burt, The swearing was beautifully carried out, which re‘lects great credit on both companies, and but for cuteilors who chanced to wee the fight it would be a difioult matter for the Com. misvlorers to give a decision. The case will be reeumed on Monday evening. Mme Lava Pom will rend, by epecial request, in the parlors of the Metropolitan Hotel this (Thureday) even- ing. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Seeing a notice in your paper concerning a etabbing af- fray at Biddie’s Grove on Monday inet, | desire to make the following #tatement:—The company referred to ts the Murketeors; it war their therd annual picnic. The ing affray occurred in the grove; it waa caused by 'y of Sixth ward Dead Rabbits, who came down to the grove in the Staten Inland Railroad for the express purpore of making a fight. After stabbing the young tan they ran away to are and made their eacape. MICHAEL HEFFERN, Chairman. Wricome to Mr. W. V. Warrace —A nomber of artiste and amateurs, numbering altogether about fifty ladies and gentlemen, aseembled at the rooms of Mesers, Hall & ‘Sone, Proadway, Inst night, to mect Mr. Wallase, the dis- tinguished composer, who makes a flying vielt to the United States, Mr. Wallace, who joins te umdemiable merit ag a composer a very growt degree of social popu- larity, was very warmly greeted u bis friends. Subse. quently Uhe principal pieces in Mr. Wallace's Inet and work, “Lurline,”’ were sung by a number of rorident ar- Urte. The soles were given by Mre. Mozart, Mise Hawley, Meeers. Simpeon and Geary (tenors), and Mr. (baritone). The choras was rmall, performance wae under the direetion of Mr. Bergé, ecenipanied the singer® upon a grand Dr patent, the power and quality of tone rally remarked, The melocies of “Lar i ial 5 last evening are exquisite, and gave the w Ratiefnc- tion to the efife andience, It is to be hoped thnt the gene. tel public will one day have an opportunity to hear the whole of thie, the composers masterwork,