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NEW YORK POLITICAL. Celebration of the Anniversary | of the Battle of Antietam. ——_- Immense Gathering of the “Boys in Blue” at the Cooper Institute. Speeches of Generals Pleasanton, Sickles, Kilpatrick, Senator Sherman and Others. Aa Imposing and Brilliant Torch- light Procession. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM, ‘The Loyal Veteran Grant Club celebrated the an- aniversary of the battle of Antietam by a mass mect- ‘mg at the Cooper Institute last evening. For an hour before the time appointed to commence the the hall was densely crowded by an gudience mainly composed of the veterans of the ‘war, many of whom were fine specimens of physical vigor and manhood. Seats were reserved in the front for ladies, whose presence gave additional éclat to the occasion. The building was tastefully festooned with fags and beautifully ornamented mottocs commemorative of the victories of the war. Over the platforni were suspended portraits of Gen- @rals Grant, Sheridan and other distinguished generals. Ateight o’clock Major General PLEaSONTON, the President of the club, made his ‘appearance, and was enthusiastically applauded. He spoke as fol- dows:— SPEECH OF MAJOR GENERAL PLEASANTON. This being the anniversary of the battle of Antie- tam the Loyal Veteran Grant Club of Boys in Biue propose opening the Presidential campaign of 1868 fm favor of their candidates for the Presidency and Viee*Presidency of the United States—Grant and Colfax. The campaign opens under the most favor- able circumstances. Onthe right of the line the Battle has already begun with successful results. Vermont dnd Maine have turned the enemy’s flank im glorious style. The West is responding ith monster mass meetings all over their wide @omain, nd it only remains for us here in the centre ‘eo make one strong, vigorous charge in November to @omplete the rout, horse, foot and dragoons. The people are aroused toa thorough understanding of #Me momentous isues of this campaign. Therefore the democracy have avoided the main tssue of their platform and have skirmished with the subjects of Gnance, the public debt and the alleged extrava- ance of Congress. They wish to turn the pubiic ‘mina from investigating the declarations con- tained in the platform of the Tammany Hall Conven- tion of July last. Now that platform states that all acts of Congress in reference to the South passed since Lee’s surrender, and commonly known as the Reconstruction acts, are to be put aside a8 usurpa- tions, unconstitutional, revolutionary and void, and thia ‘declaration is thus made by the South in ‘the hopes of inaugurating a second rebellion, For lade jpton, who was a ynember of the Taman lall Convention, stated on his return tothe Sout that Convention that heand his friends from the South had insisted upon that declaration being Placed in the platform, and it was done as a conces- gion to the South. Besides this, General Frank Blair, the nominee for the Vice Presidency by the Tamman: Hall Conventioa, also says in his letter to Coijonel Brodhead of June 30, ‘that the army is to be compel- Jed to undo these usurpations in the South, to dis- rae the carpet-bag governments and to allow the people to reorganize their own governments.” of which means that when eymour and Blair are elected they will be the hole government. No Congress or Supreme art will be required. They will do the ‘whole business themselves with the help of the army, which will be reorganized with sufMicient elements to carry out their programme. After the white ple of the South have reorganized their ‘own government—that 1s, after the rebels have re- established slavery—they will be recognised as loyal and their dept paid, while the Union people and the Onion debWare to be turned over to the tender mercies of unreconstructed rebels. Such is the plat: | form the democratic party submit to the American poe. It is nothing more than a@ rebel platform, ‘and for a rebel platform it is a very good one. Wade Hampton, who is the plotter of it, did the best he could under the circumstances, He and his friends in the South wish to regain the power they - lost by their rebellion and thought that by joiu- forces with the democracy of the North it could ‘be done. It was their best chance and, like drown- ‘men, they cauglt at straws. But they should have forgotten the 1,500,000 Union sokliers who | = down the first rebellion are ready, able and Ming to put down a second one even If it aoes spring from a coalition of rebels, copperheads and | gach uncertain Union men as were repre- | sented in the Soldiers’ and Sailors Conven- tion in this city in July last. al spectacle our old war friends presen in | that Convention! How hard they li a | candidate for the Presidency! How they racked their brains with Bascom’s best Bourbon in thehopes of being in te but none came, They murmured about their impaired confidence and ic for McClellan, and ef the Tammany Hail Convention, begging thein tor | acandidate, The. bold sachems of Tammany, who lke a Union soldier or a man who has been tn the army about as well as the devil likes holy water, could not forego this fine opportunity of playing Jupiter to the frogs, so with queer humor they mamed the man who has insisted for the ast four years that our soldier boys of the Convention July inst were faijures of the war, | and ‘only left them the ritimatam of playing ‘the part of Dogberry, who was anxious to be written down an ass. Mark the contrast of this convenvion that glorious convention whicu met in Chicaga in last. That convention had but one purpose and a ss ‘They were determined that the principles for which they had fought and suppressed the rebelli id govern this country, and that the man who represented those principies more fully than any other ilving man should be their nominee for the Presidency. He was their first, last and only choice, ‘gnd was nominated by acclamation, and to-day the loyal masses of this great ee from the lakes to the Guif and from Atlantic to the | Pacific, have accepted him a8 their standard | for the next four years. In this the in Blue were true to the Union, true to the for which they fought, true to themselves and to their illustrious comrade, General Grant. it is not only ‘The Boys in Blue” and the re- who desire to have General Grant for lent of the United States; it is a large of the American ple. (Cheers.) They because they wish for peace end the perpei- of our republican form of government. They are satisfied the calm, steady, immovable resolution firmness which #0 distinguish the character Grant, with his pre-eminent devotion loyalty, are the highest guarantees for the at- these objects, periods when it 1s vital tothe existence that representative men should direct their these public affairs. Already in our y representative men have shaped directed our destiny, and b: gonal qualifications have prese: their great per- to us our institu- It was the character of Washington which enabted to pass through the war of the Revolution. (Ap- ) For seven long. weary years we fought it odds and.with insufficient material of war. cast down, dispirited and disheartened, ‘we sometimes Le of success, but the heroism and —e of Washington inspired fresh hopes that finally led to peace and laid the foundation of this Hation, Such services the people acknowledged by electing him twice to fill the office of President, with the proud appella- tion of “the Father of his Country,” the first in war, the first in peace and the first in the hearts of bis countrymen.” (Loud cheers.) Again, when General Jackson was President the nullification | doctrine of Calhoun and the growing power of the Bank of the United States threatened to overshadow if not overthrow our government. But Jackson, with the point of the sword, defeated nullification, and his resistance to the Bank of the United States pe a} about one of the most bitter and exciting litical contests ever seen in this country. The ik was beaten, but the victory was due to the indomitable courage, energy aud intelligence of General Jackson and his intuitive perception of the desire of the people. He gave impulse to popular ideas, and soon in his own person and by his strong individuality represented the national policy. Tue democratic party of the present day claim Jackson asa man; but his character was too strong ana decided to be led by eg 2 Te used and con- trolled the democratic party for the benefit of the | people, He maintained that gold and silver, and not greenbacks, should be the currency of the country, and democratic party supported tum in it “Renton’s mint drops,” which gold and silver ‘were then called, were as much discussed as Peur ton and greenbacks are now. The greenback question of to-day is the same issue Which Jackkon and the democratic mt down as against the ‘whig party aud the United States Bauk, and to-day | Jackson, were he alive, would be &@ republican on that jon. It ie not likely the peopie after twenmy years’ experience will reverse their decision. The baled occ: n for the necessity of a represen. tative man as! ocourred when the lay Ta = | were bo tan oy ail over Virginia, and I take my | import, | and said a coln—occupy the highest, in as representatives of the ‘times in which they lived great impuision by their evn powerful e now come down to the present time, and I ask has there ever been a penod when a tive man was more needed it the Presidential Ata time when the denocracy are demandi that all things that have ben done In the South be reversed, and when tha reversal is only to be & second appeal to arms by te men of the South who murdered our soldiers in Ba yield to such demands—a aan who, when he say: “Let us have Pym can iommand it—whose fame and glorious deeds are howehola words throughout the civilized world; who stands to-day before all Europe as the representatve man of this broad land of America? Such @ mathe country req President and such @ munthe people will have and such a man they have fouid in the calm, self-pos- sessed, self-reliant Ulysse: S. Grant. When Grant, as President, at the head if millions of loyal ple, declares *‘there must be ygace,” grim-visaged war, with the Seymours and Biairs and Hoffwans, the Wade Hamptons, Forrest, Toombs-and Cobbs, will shrink back ito their hidng places and be heard no more, and @ new era of mtional greatness will dawn upon us, and our happy ountry will truly become “the land of the free andthe home of the brave.” (Loud applause.) At the conclusion of te President's address, the Union Glee Club came foward and sang @ patriotic ode, which was sung witi such thrilling effect as to secure an encore. SPEECH OF MAJOL GENERAL SHARPE. The PRESIDENT introdied Major General SHARPE, who was warmly receival and said:—It is the duty of every soldier once in iis life to take the skirmisl line until the commaner of the oid Turd Army corps shall come here wth a part of his vestments filled only with the glor: of Gettysburg. I propose, asin duty bound, accorling to the orders’of Major General Pleasanton, to bke the skirmish line. When he (the speaker) saw te efforts which the demo- cratic party made to lue General Sherman, Farra- gut and Chase to be thi ir candidates, he felt as he and his comrades used p feel sometimes when they heard the news brought in from every point of the line that the rebels wen dressed in blue, We have ran Up our flag, there ts no uncertain name by it. They hwe run up their flag, and there is no uncertain nme by it. They have got a man whose sole repwation aa a statesman rests upon the fact that he sdd if they would elect him he would send no more midiers to the war. We have it the man whose nave is typical of victory by the ide of Generals Pleasmton, Sickles, Sherman and a host of others. Two yiars ago the democratic party asked us why we dic not reconstruct the States. Seven States were now back in the Union, and now they were opposed ) reconstruction. Why were they opposed to recontruction? They told us that these measures were ‘unconstitutional, revolution- ary aav void.” Demerats talked a2out the debt. The toyal men of the Ountry had a right to make the rebels and tie democrats pay every cent of the debt. As ebels we had a right to their lives; but we have nojtaken any. As revels we had a right to confiscate tier property; but we have not done it in a bingle ee. We have shouldered all over the length and ith of this land this debt, which is dear to us because it is the price of our Union. (Cheers.) The moonstruction measures rested upon the fourteenth anendment to the constitution of the United States, which to-day would be a part. of that instrument were it not for the opposition of the democratic party. The General discussed at length in an abe and eloquent manner the significance of the fourteenth amendment. Jeff Davis swore to protect and defend the constitu- tuon and the United Mates, and you crippled our men by thousands and laid thousands in their graves; and now, Jet? Davis, all we ask is that you will allow the people of te United States to make their own laws, The Conederate committees have held Meetings in Liverpod and all over Europe and want to shoulder the Souttern war debt on the North, on the ground that as tha United States succeeded to all the property of the South they are lable for her debts. The only safeguard we have against this | is this same fourteenth amendment. e desire that tne crippled soldier may not be pushed aside by the rebel who maimed him when he goes to draw his pittance from the Treasury. Nor do we want the widows and orphans of our soldiers shoved rudely aside by the widows and orphans of those who made them widows and orphans, The rebels and copperheads cannot bring a binsh to my cheek by any name they can call us. “Carpet-baggera!’ Why General Pleasanton and I hat off to Virginia, for the soil is baptized by the vlood of one hundred thousand of our loyal soldiers. The New York World—(hisses)—and the News prate bout “carpet-baggers” and “loi” men, ale loyal |-o-1-1; but we gan let such papers aa the Word and News—(\iases)*-sav 99 they please and prate ge ar carpet-t ers. (Loud cheers.) ie Union Glee Club theh favored the audienc® with another patriotic song. REMABES OF COLONEL DENNIS. Colonel Dennis was introduced as the next speaker and said the loyal veterans of the war were | bonnd by 4 solemn duty they owed to che country to maintain the Unton for whese preservation they had perilied their lives by their ballots in time of peace. Congress, ‘with malice toward none, with chacity tor ail” (applause), had held out to the rebels terms upon which they might rehabilitate themselves in the glorious folds of the Union fag and return within the fold of the sisterhood of States. Whatever the copperheads might apply as the epithets by which they designated the republican party, we know | that m South Carolina even the terms “rebel'? and “democrat” are synonymous ip their Our brethren, the Green Mountain bo ys, have sent us word that “all's well,” and from the summit of Katahdin came the news from the men of | the ola Pine Tree Siate, ‘We have met the enemy | and he is ours’—(applause)—and soon from the peaks of the Alleghanies and the distant. Western | prairies witli come the glad tidings that shall pro- claim that our chieftain is “first tn peace, first in war aud frst in the hearts of his countrymen.” | (Cheers.) SPERCH OF GENERAL SICKI. General Sickies Was loudly called fo: the andi. | and upon being introdaced by the ¢ immense cheering and supporting hi his crutches, advanved to the front of the platforin | Mr. PRESIDENT, COMRADES AND FELLOW CITtIZENS— If anything could compensate me for coming here, in my present cyndition of il} health, it would be the cheers that | beard from the voices of thousands as | approached this hall and the hearty and generous welcome | have received from this thronged and brillant assembiage. Under ordinary circumstances 1 would find less gratification (at this point General Kilpatrick came upon the platform amid great cheer- ing, which was renewed when he and General Sickles greeted each other and shook hands) in address an assetnbiage of soldiers upon political topics than should at the close of the war, when the armies and fleets were disbanded, that no military element should enter into our political discussions and organizations. And if all sections of the coun- try and all classes of the people and all parties had consented, a8 it was to be expected of them, to abide by the tssues of the conditct which had cost the coun- try 80 many lives and so much treasure the unusual spectacie would not have been presented of conven- tons and meetings and columns of soldiers and satiors combining once more as citizens to preserve at the bailot box what they won with the bayonet in the fled. Cheers.) At the close of the war Grant paroled all the surrendered rebel armies; Congress offered to the rebel States the reorganiza- tion of their own Commonwealths; they were offered in the constitutional amendment the same constitational protection, the same laws that were accepted by other States, that were ac- cepted byMassachusetts, by Pennsylvania, that twenty-one loyal States accepted, is offer was rejected by every rebel State except Tennessee. She, frank and loyal in the expression of her desire and good i, Was admitted back into the Union, The Tebel States, maintaining an altitude of sullen re- sistance, proceeded to ally themselves witn the democratic party, and unhappily that party, eryi for war_and thirsty for power, accepted the alll- ance, This it is that brings together the soldiers and sailors of the old armies; this caused the ple to see that the rebel bullet is transforined into the democratic ballot, It is lime for ws comrades, to come together and stand together, shoulder to shoulder, when we see a great party claiming the possession and control of the government, taking the hand of Forrest, fresh from the massacre of Fort Pillow, and turn round to our honored chieftain and cali hima a butcher, It is time for us to come ler once more when we see Jett Davis making the tour of Europe and re- member Where Lincoln les, [t is time for us to take counsel with nh other when we sée Congress, in # spirit of magnanimity, pardon a thousand revels and then beniol the Legislature of Georgia expell, in violation of law, of right, all the loyal members duly elected to it, and place in their seats the revele who are not elected, (Applause.) Indeed, my friends, We had aright to expect that | something would be done to make treason odious and to punish traitors; but nothing has yet been done to make treason odious, It has been received | into Taimmany Hall and covered by the mantie of the democratic party. (Great laughter and applause.) Not only has the spirit of magnanimity been shown y our government, our comrades and our people to the “Sout, but” even the republican party, in a spirit of candor, going back to the old traditions of the better days of the democracy, have adopted the example of tieir true and patriotic doc: urn but it is a singular fact that no sooner do the republican party adopt any one of the true do trines of the demor je faith than instantly demo cratic leaders denounce and abandon it, For exam- ple. in 1861, when we were threatened with se sion, the republican party took the ground of Jac’ son, the great democratic leader, that “the Cnic must and shall be preserved." B chanan, Seymour and Pendleton speculate and calculate whieh the greater misforiune—secession and rebel Hion or suecessfal coercion; and the republican party was denounced for its effort to put foree a rebellion that began in violence. to a later time, as soon a republican party endeavor of she ery to he to restore the currency wold aud wilver basa, adopting ) went to Chicago, and his reflections and | some | diftident undertaker, who out of delicacy HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. Buren. imuedistely ihe democraue. leaders bring r) Pendleton, the of green- Bey, @ shin-plaster waite they prate, of a oom w economy wr Une people put forward a financial “iha‘tke pat rey at louble ices of evi has to , and of lightening the Wardens of the people adds alx hundred millions Scie at Sate ha ea ara often a many belleved, that the democratic labor and desired to uphold its Get and ind lence. We endeavored—that is, all of us in com- Mmands, as well ag those in and in civil authority—when slavery was abolished to put the man 1D of civil rights. We en- pte mace So gpenaes Rinae Wn ote rights in Wi freedman can—b; ‘ion of the ballet. ‘Then we hear from Wade fampton, & democratic leader, the formal announcement to the laboring masses of South Carolina that they must vote the democratic Ucket or starve. But we did suppose, however, we had been disappointed. In the refusal of the demoerats to accept any of their old doctrines when we presented them for adoption—that when Grant, in accepting the nomina- tion, accopted it on the platform of peace, then they eventually did look for a large accession of demo- cratic strength, for they all knew that they had been for peace throughout the war. He saw thrpugho,, the South @ determination to wage a war of e'xfgimination against what are called the carpet-l Who are these carpet- baggers? They are yorthern people, who, in the exercise of undoubted constitutional right, have set- tled in the Southern Staves since the war. They are discharged soldiers, mechanics, merchants, school- masters and railroad employés—thousands and tens of thousands of people, who, to better their condi- tion, have exercised the ht to emigrate to those States. Whatdo we see? Howell Cobb, a rebel neral, declares a@ war of extermination against em, and not only against them, but against any of the people who presume to espouse the doctrines and princtples of the republican pas. And this war of extermination is echoed by Frank Blair, the democratic candidate for Vice President. It is taken up by Forest and Toombs, and the cry [ep along from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. My friends, there are several kinds of carpet-baggers. We have had one in this country within tho post few years. ‘The rebels sent a few of the sort here to New York during the war. y came mysterously, with their black bags contain- ing a very small amount of nen a very large quantity of combustible material. ‘ith this ey undertook to fire our hotels and barn our city. (Great laughter.) There are some other dis- tinguished rebel c: t- ers of whom we hear occasionally. John Slidell one in Paris. Benja- min is another. He carries, I think, a green carpet bag in London. Brick Pomeroy is a car- pertececr. The chairman of the National mocratic Committee is a carpet-bagger from the Rhine, Counsellor O'Gorman is & very fine specimen of the - r from Old Ireland—(laughter)—who taken taht ts session, and if O’Gorman’s Lome bee is not it must be a very big one, or else led to profit by his opportunities, which no one suspects. (Laugh- ter.) Then there is Saunders, the “Jem Baggs” of the rebels, who saunters over Europé. But there is a carpet-bagger belonging to a some- what different race. The whole West is peopled by William Penn was one of @ race of carpet-baggers. the right sort. Daniel Boone, of Kentucky, Louis Cass, Stephen A. Dor , Of Illinois—these were all carpet-b rs; and 80 he find that onr been Reapied by The Mayflower country, North, East and West, an emigration of ¢ baggers. brought a colony of them and planted it upon the shores of New England. William the Conqueror took some Norman carpet-baggers over to England and captured it and founded a nation that has sent its carpet-baggers forth all over the world, most of which they own, or profess to own. (Ap- plane) Our carpet-baggers carry not only in- Higence, civilization and enterprise wherever they go, but they are not to be bored out or excluded from the South at rebel dictation, Had tt come to this that in three years after the war it is a question to be decided atthe ballot box and proposed to be enforced by the bayonet whether or no a Northern man has a right to live in @ Southern State? If this be a serious question, as recent events have shown, itis high time that Grant should not only be Com- mander-in-Chief, but that he should be President of the United States. (Great cheering.) ‘This brings me to a brief review of the candidates presented to the people. Seymour you all know. I know him well. He says his friends have plunged him into a sea of trouble—(A Voice—“Watermel- ons.”’) I suppose they sent him that betause they knew he was addicted sometimes to melancholy, (Laughter.) Isay I know him well, and I am not here todisparage hum in any unjust sense. I desire to accord to him all that can pe proery claimed for him. He is cer- tainly a smart politician, bat he oftener out-ma- neeuvres his associates than his adversarics, His nomination was the triumph of a politt- cal intrigue and the, reward -of a success- ful _ politician, Governor Seymour is a man of force. He has filled two oftices respectively of local employment—a_ member of the Legislature and a Governor of New York—never held office under the federal government, never in Con ) never = that must cost him $74 28%, that considerable eos i sum | hours. Meantime two calcium lights gave the bril- Pend! share of the ne. aevee Aud inte in what tio 4 democracy call a paps ‘at int i eras arching oy regiments of , man, wees 9a on loyinent it was, igh sure, fora be ~_ torchlight yng peony anies statesman to calculate toa farthing, in dollars @nd « Blue, e Various - cents, how much the preservation of their govern- | bly districts, ‘and gradi as the evening wore on Byeut and Vion Nad Got he peace met What ering: inane toe thane late evening mareb. Ww rous t must have suffused \e- com was loudly Passing the ted face of the arithmeticlan when he had done | different Altogether the scene was one of sum! Imagine Benjamin Franklin counting the | a most enlivening character, the immensity of the cost of the Declaration of Independence! Think of | crowd, the confusion, noise of exploding rockets, and Wiliam Pitt i nnies st | orators, and cheers, and bands of music pl; suite Carnet caicuating the value of | siavultgueously wultitudinous patriotic airs, 97S England! Imagine Carnot calculating the value of the life Dessaix gave to France on the field of Marengo, then look at this states- man, Pendleton, carefully computing the coppers the rebellion cost the copperheads! New Yorkers will never forget the noble lives sacrificed on many a field and many a sea in the war for the Union, No gold can compensate the mother for the son she lost at Antetiam, nor the orphan for the father who went down in the Cumberland, It was reserved for Pen- dleton to recount his pecuniary bereavements and to display thein before the multitudes he addressed in @ New England patriotic State. Let me here, then, in the name of the soldiers and sailors, or who have already made unnumbered sacritic let me offer such Consolation as I can to these bereaved The Fireworks. A feature of the outside demonstration was a unique and artistic pyrotechnic display. There were two pieces, the first giving medallions of Grant and Colfax and the second # representation of the memo- rable contest between the Monitor aud Merrimac, The Procession. it was half-past ten o’clock when the different organizations of the Boys in Blue were marshalla| in order for the procession, In the whole line there te ; do offer them in the iy ‘of | Were fully nine thousand men, made up of pera the soldiers ana sailors to mani em, | tions in all the A: bl Jota in this cil ie one “and. al, Yor “thait sectidigs ae $1428 ot henente ee a German Grant light artillery of this city and about fifteen hundred respectively from Brooklyn and Saas ie ead rand ceon ove Jersey ity. Attending each was a band of dl the consequences a action in the contestnow pendiage It isto. iate wo | Music and-banners and flags—some flags that had divert them from what is of peters inapereance to | been borne through many a bloody battle—and trans- these mere secondary questions of debt taxation, | parencies showing @ great variety of political sentl- We know full well the great cost of the war for the | ments, and each man bearing a swinging lantern. suppression of the rebellion, and we know that the | Dressed in bh and = military head, payable in Confederate money. My trienas’ it is too late to ask tl ts country to divert their attention 1e issues 3 charge of the naturalization of foreigners, Mr. An- drews asserved that the frauds so systematic in past elections would be Monee if it took @ Vigilance committee to accomplish it, His remarks were loudly applauded and the committee adjourned until next Wednesday evening. ‘The Split Among the Germans. It has already been recorded in these columneé that among the democratic as well as among tne repub- lican Germans there is an internecine war going on, promising at present to assume extended dimen- sions and an unusual character of bitterness, Itwas stated that among the republicans there are two cen- tral organizations, to unite which some abortive attempts have been made, and yesterday one party— that meeting at the Steuben House, under the lead- ship of Dr. Muhr and Dr, Naumann—pubiished a flerce declaration against their rivals, the organiza- tion presided over by Drs. Schuetz and Erbe. They charge the rival body with being inconstant as re- publicans, with telling intentional falsehopds, being & self-constituted body of men, of no infifence and With no party behind them; with seeking to control the offices, and, ag shrewd’ business men, also wish to handie ‘the large sums of money to be expended for the campaign among the Germans, The ovher Party has not as yet replied, Among the German democrats it 1s no better. The German Democratic. Central Ciub also rushed into puns yesterday ‘morning with a long address bitterly hostile to a rival organization called the “General Committee of the German Democratic Union party,” in which the latter are charged with having forsaken all democratic principle, watching for a chance to go over to the republicans “body and breeches,” but that now, when there 13 a proba- bility that the democratic party may control offices and patronage, they assume again the leadership in their ue capes rebels now in the democratic party, who com- | caps, Say made a neat and tasteful appear- pao of this debt and taxation, put dollar of | ance; and as they marched through the streaeh, lead he burden upon us. We know ‘that Gov- | by Dodworth’s band, and the marshals having direc- ernor Seymour, by his action at the | tion of them, the latter easily desiguated from Chicago Conyention,” in declaring that the | the others by their different and more brilliant war was a failure and in the encourage- | uniforms, the old Wide Awake times were ment he thereby gave to the rebellion added athou- | vividly called to mind. But thia procession sand millions to the public debt, What mockery, | in the brilliancy of its display, far exceeded therefore, for him and his associates to taunt us | anything in the Lorehlight with the cost and the sacrifice their own folly and | up§by the Wide Awakes, or, their own crimes have ed upon us, No, the people of this country see and appreciate the necessity of retaining in loyal hands the bree that the confederate democracy showed itself unable to pre- serve, Financial policy, tobe sure! “Policy,” to be sure. Why, do you not remember that Howell Cobb, now General Howell Cobb, of Georgia, was Secre- tary of the Treasury for the democratic party the last time it was in power? He found Poe line gotten fact, by any political organization ever formed in this city. Through the route of the procession thousands, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, blockaded the sidewalks, watching them as they ed. Doorsteps were crowded and balconies and windows were filled, and while the volcea of lusty men rose In deafening cheers numberless women waved their handkerchiefs in token of their favor, As they moved along the street they seemed a moving mass of torches, aud with the our credit fh and strong, he found our | music and shooting of rockets the scene was inde- Treaeury full’ He left us bankrupt in credit and | scribably grand, The procession came a Witlout a dollar im the Treasury, and he to-day is @ | halt in mt of the Union Teague Club leader of that same party that proposes to resume | House corner of Madison avenue and Twenty-sixth control of the vernment and proposes to | street. From the balconies of the building floated restore Cobb to the ch ‘of our finances. (A | banners, and there were also Chinese lanterns and voice—“Never.”) Why 1,1 as soon think if | calcium lights. Such a brilliant scene is rarely pre- Floyd were living of putting’bim in cl again of | sented as that in front of the Club House and for a the arsenals and armies and Toucey in charge of the | long way up and down the street. As the procession navy, and then we would find when we came to look | halted a perfect storm of fire rockets filled the air, for money—as we found when we came to look for { and the enthusiasm was increased by the firing of armies ang rr eat they had gill been placed at | cannon, the necvingte 6 rebellign. We Rave recently THR SERENADES AND SPEECHES. ced, patronage and fat pickings. Thus in both Parties ne ght goes bravely on, KINGS COUNTY POLITICS, ‘The Central Union Club, A large meeting was held last night in the ball cor ner of Fulton and Concord streets, under tlie auspices of the Central Union Club, The meeting was called to order at cight o'clock by the chairman, Mr. GRiswoLp, and after some sing- ing by the glee club H. P, Crozrer was introduced and spoke at some length. He said when they vis- ited ker Hill, Concord, Brandywine and other laces of the Revolution they felt proud to think hat the men who fought the battles of the Kevo- lution were their forefathers, They were baptized afresh with patriotism, But they need not go back to revolution, for they must know that three or four hundred thousand lives had been given up in the recent rebellion, and as Lincoln said, when standing upon the grounds to be consecrated for the soldiers, they had been already consecrated with the lives of brave men, The democratic party had controlled the government for sixty or seventy years, and had @ very specimen of the confidence On the lower and main balcony of the Club House | Slways set .themseves up as the champions felt by the pened in democratic financiers, Some | were gathered the leading members of the club, and, | Of equal righta; but this was false, for they ig- few weeks the Hon, William M. Tweed was | in fact, all the leading republicans of the city. After | nored the ys of the poor negroes, They were elected a di yr of the Erie Railroad, and as soon | the procession Dodworth’s band dis- | unfaithful to the cause of struggling liberty. What as that distinguished financier and statesman had | coursed some of its sweetest music. Two | “id they do when Austria crushed Hungary and taken his seat the stock fell sixteen per cent. Now | or three pieces being played, General Sickles | When Kossuth went through the country? He went if Mr. William M, Tweed, the distinguished munici- | came forward, and responsive to the serenade made pal financier of New York, causes the stock of a re- | the first speech. Such a sight as that before them, table railroad corporation worth many millions | he said—a sight so many had gazed on that night— of dollars to fall sixteen per cent what would be the | thrilled with delight the loyal perp ie of New effect on our State securities of electing the | York. The spirit of loyalty that showed itself chief of the “ring,” of which Tweed is a] in 1861 was agam showing itself in 1868 member, as Governor and the high priest pugs this spirit of loyalty the rebels were fought of Tammany as President of the United States? | with the bullet and conquered. Through the same There is @ problem that I commend to spirit they would now fight rebela and conquer them Mr. Pendleton, a3 he is fond of speculating on the at the ballot box. The members of the club they rise and fall of the finances, But 1 do not.think that |-had assembled to serenade had stood by Mr. Seymour could overstate the financial ruin that | the Boys in Bine during the war of the would follow. No, the people will not pause to read | rebeliion and they would stand by them Mr. Seymour's figures about expense, which have already been decided to be entitled to no credence or respect, nor will they listen to his homilies about taxation, for they know that the democratic party is no more trustworthy to restore the flnances of the government than It was found to be capable of pre- serving the Union under Mr. Buchanan. What im- pudence of that party to ask now to be permitted to restore the Union, when, in 1856, they found the people prosperous, strong and happy, and at the close of Mr. Buchanan’s term of ofice left it shat- now. While those whom he was addressing were fighting the enemy at the front the members of the Union League Club were fighting against the democracy in this war. He had made two or three speeches during the evening and he might make more were it necessary, and he and. tiey had fought several battles in the past and they stood ready to fight more in the future if necessary, but he hoped the ensuing battle at the ballot box would terminate conclusively the contest. In conclusion he begged to introduce Mr. John Jay, the President of the Union tered, and, but for the exertions of the | League Club, Tepubliean party and Mr. Lincoln, destroyed, Mr. Jay, who was heartily cheered, followed Now we look forward to the administration of Grant. | in a brief speech. He appreciated =the But the people, we are told, want achange. Well, honor and so did all the members of the the republican party will accommodate them—th Vnion League Club of the serenade tendered will give them a change from Johnson to Grant. The | them, He confirmed what General Sickles had democratic party proposes to change from Johnson to Seymour. Your ill natured people might say that the remedy is worse than the disea but I, who do not like to be iil natured, will only say that I don’t discover that that would be any change at ail. Grant we know and can trust. If trouvle should again arise im the nation Seymour would hesitate and would not know what to do; Grant would bleed it to death, (Cheers.) Grant will put patriots and true men into ofice and give the sol- diers and the sailors all that is due to them, Grant is a3 well known by his licutenants as by his ated as to how the League had stood by them during the war of the rebellion. They were now fighung shoulder to shoulder, and bh rophesied victory as the result. The Boys in Blue had shown themse!ves invincible on the battle fleld. They would show themselves likewise invincible at the ballot box. Hon. Joun A, Guiswo.pd, who had been repeatedly called for, was now introduced by General Sickles as the next Governor of the State of New York. He was most vociferously cheered as he made his appearance. He felt, ho said, that standing abroad. He distinguished for his provincial views of pubilc affairs. His sj hes—and they are almost innumerable—upon almost every ‘poiltical topic abound in fierce and exciting discontent against the uational government, and it i# one of the renarka- ble phases of his character and of his pol- icy that he seems to have a natnral hatred for the government of the United States, His speeches and his essays abound im attempts to excite national jealousies between different sections of Sh Union, and he is especiatly ill-pieased with evel ‘pose noth! ing has ever displeased hitn more than the recent misconduct of Maine tu giving us 20,000 ina- jority. (Laughter.) Governor Seymour, in 1861, was unable to decide whether successful rebellion or suc- cessful coercion would be the greater calamily. Grant about that same time drew his sword and pro- posed to cut the knot. Seymoar in 1863, as you re- member, came to New York, derided our disappoint- the doctrine of public necessity was as good a doctrine for a mob as for a government, and then he pointed to his mob and defled Lincoln to reinforce our decimated armies by conscription, At that same moment Grant was be- fore Vicksburg, toiling day and night through forty days and forty nights to achieve what he did achieve— one of the greatest victories of modern warfare. (Applause.) When asked how long he would stay before Vicksbarg he made a_ ver, ri speech. He | Said, “I shall stay Ull I take it.” In 1864 about the war and about the national government culininated in a resolution passed by the Chic: Convention when he and his associates solemu clared that the war was a failure, But there were brave men in the eld who were | resolved that it should not be a failure ; and so while Seymour snaried at the. draft and sneered at our reverses and snimed over our taxes ragut, lashed to the maintop of his flag- ship, destroyed the last rebel feet in the Gulf. (Great cheering.) Thomas—pot ad tnerim Thomas— yghter)}—hat the real Thomas, crusted Hood's | my before Nashville. Sherman marched to the | sea. Sheridan awept through the vailey of the | Shenandoah, and Grant, silent and stern through battle and siege, has toiled night and day, through { carnage and death to victory and peace. Grant t# a | man of work. While Seymour makes ches | Grant fights battles and wins victories. | (Cheers.) While Seymour suggests compromises | and a cessation of hostilities to talk | with the enemy Grant demands unconditional | surrender, (Loud Lo poet At Paducah, where | Grant first showed his genius to command, he saved Kentucky tothe Union by a march. At Belmont, | when surrounded by the enemy and asked if he would not have to give up, he suid, ‘No, we will cut our way out as we cut our way in.” At Shiloh, when asked by Buell if he hat transports enough in case it became necessary to | Pome! os red i = ot answere: ve not des} whipping em yet; when R by Buell and tod That the tr rts that he had would not take more than ten thousand men across the river Grant answered him in a way worthy of a Spartan. He said, “If I have to retreat, ten thousand will be all 1 shall need transports for."* Grant’s character must be sought for always in his acts; Seymour's in what he has not done. Grant, in 1865, after he had achieved the final overthrow of the rebellion, filus- trated instantly the magnanimity and his character. After he had paroled army and laid down a basis for the action of other commanders he was asked by President Johnson how soon the time would come when Lee, Hampton, Forrest and others would be ponishes, Grant re- plied, ‘Not until they broke their parole.’ In 1360, when the unhappy conflict between the President and Congress had in, Grant lent the weight of his counsels on the side of the people, and said the Presiden “This is a vernment in which the will of the people is the law of the land, and I that their voice may be heard.” (Applause.) In 1868 he is presented as the candidate for the Presidency of the United States— not for any service that he has rendered to a party— not as @ politician, but as the saviour of his country and fer the services he has rendered to America. (Cheers.) Oh. but we are told immediately by the democratic leaders that the attention of tlie peopie must be entirely withdrawn from all that has oc- cArred during the past seven years and fixed upon delt and taxation; and Mr. Seymour presents to u4 vast columns of figures and endeavors to show that he is as capable of managing them 1s Grant was to inanage columns of soldiers. Seymour being aware, I suppose, that figures are generally | and naturally dull, has attempted to impart to thei: | the interest of fiction, not able with the eloquence of Gladstone to impart a charm even to statiatics. | He has attempted to make his figures lively by Gling them with unscrapnions exaggerations and un- stinted misrepresentation®. We ts fall of sympathy | with the bondholders, is very much like the syinpa thy he now professes for the soldiers when througi- out the war lie lent all his influence to deny thera the poor privilege at the front of a ballot. Seymour seems to think that his only chance for snecess ia to impress the people with a deep scense | of the musfortune they suffered by incurring | a large debt to save their government, and L think | | cannot do better than commend to htm the example | of that undertaker mentioned by Dickens— ry ways forhore to inquire after the health of any of his friends lest they might suspect him of vetng less an is for their longevity than for a job in his line of business. (Laughter, 1 then along comes | Pendleton and goes al! ay to Maine h his | columns of dgurex. What has he veen calealating? | Why, he went ali the way io Muine to | the people ihe War for the sevelion hyd a= that comes from New England; and I sap- | lifts that they may | and received a warm greeting. | cannot refuse in retnrn for your kindness to pre: | myself before you, but not. to make a speech, ments, sneered! at our reverses and proclaimed that | } in the forthcoming general election, a series of who hal not only the control | eqally energetic vituperations of the democratic ey of the city, but all at the disp | candidates and assurance of their defeat on the 1s! | of November and general and immediate overthrow | was victories, (Applause.) He will dina around him loyal and patriotic and intelligent followers. His foreign policy will command respect and adimira- Mion. At home order, prosperity and peace will bless our land. Oh, my friends, let me ask you to remem- ber the brave men who have been ‘sacrificed, and before such an array of gallant men, before those who had fought 80 bravely and #o weil in 80 many battles and before these mutilated fags and tattered banners, that he had no right to intrude his presence upon them on the present occasion. When the war of the rebellion was over, when they had that we may have the ‘privilege of resolving here | defeated the rebel armies, he thought, as to-night that we will defend that Union which they | many others thought, that the time of fighting fell to preserve in war. Think of them—strewu in ] was past, that peace had been restored: and every valley and along every hiliside throughout the South, Listen to their voices, as t heaving sod us. They tell us— “Brothers, preservesand defend the Union we died | to save.” (Trementons, cheering.) SPEKCH OF SENATOR SHERMAN. Senator Sherman was introduced by the Pi Cheers were The Senator sai that the future of the country was to be prosperous and happy. As General Sickles had sald, the war against rebels was not over and must be fought again. Happily the next war would be a bloodless and living one; butin its results frought with as Inomentous interests as the war of the rebellion, As the Boys in Plue fought the frst contest to iso | a suecessfal termination so they would — tins | Present contest, Vermont and Maine had already on Vai | literally a carpet-bagger; J} am on my way to look ulent given for General Sherman. test, and he felt sure that New York would show the ame result. The soldiers of the war who had | after Andrew Johnson. (Langhter.) As you have | achieved such brilliant victories on the | ; been #0 kind to mel will bring you a mes: of | battle field had a right to expect — that | Joy and glad tidings, and of it iam sure that 1am | they would be exempt from farther servic no false prophet, because Ihave been where | now speak of, [assure you that Indiana, Ohio and Penn- syivania will follow the lead of Maine and Vermont, This was not to be. showed it. ‘The demonstration _to-ni: ‘The vast coucourse of Boys in Bla stood before him was incontestible proof on this With these few remarks I leave you to be addressed | point. They felt that their services were by a brave and noble soldier, needed and they stood ready to give REMARKS OF GENERAL KILPATRICK. They bad a right to expect that Major General KILPATRICK Was the next speaker, aid upon rising was saluted with astorm of ap- piause, which prevented hun from going on for sone | minutes. He paid a graceful tribute to the soldiers ‘ade Hampton aud the other rebel generals would no longer stand up as traitors to the government. Bot battle had been ‘lared, It was theirs to Aight the battle and victory would be on their side. | of the army and tothe women of the country, tu M iswold closed bt speech he was whom the nation owed a debt of gratitude that Rounds of cheers e given never be repaid. In proceeding to discuss t and the procession took litical question of the day he said that in 1866 the at few iminutes after | republican and democratic parties had their first | midmght for the Fifth Avenue Hotel to serenade the contest, The democracy was wealthy and strong; | N * An hour after midnight the the republican party had searcely commenced to "of the marching party might breathe. On the question of slavery the issue “ard in the streets, and #o the music was fairly defined between them. fn 1860 th issue ripened, and three candidates were in the fleld, each with his own distinct motives and principles, The best element of the democrat arty withdrew from it and allied themselves with publican parry, and carried the fag to the Capit and planted ti there, where it has since remaine and will ever continue to wave over a free and ind ndent people. In 1860 the oy ges party came Into power by the election of M neoln. ‘The | Breckinridge element of the democracy attempted to subvert the government, while the whole Douglas | democracy, true to the principles which had once | lost nearly half of its effective foi in the battle. A characterized the old party, came over to the repnb- | marble slab, on which are inscribed the names of all lean ranks for the support of the national life and | the members of the Turner Bund who lost their lives honor. lu that battle was exhibited in the hall, and The speaker then proceeded at considerable length | General Sige! was called upon to express his senti- to trace the history of the war from the bombard- | ments. He spoke briefly, but well, reminding hia ment of Fort Sumter to its close aud the course of | hearers that the Union for which the friends named the democratic party in its relation to the Union. | on the slab fell has yet to be established and that Allnding to the democratic cry that the war was # | many obstacied were in the way of it, which, lie failure he admitted that the statement was at one | hoped, the living friends of thy 4 would, by their time in @ measure correct, for General McClellan ballots, not bullets, put aside. Many other spe was defeated and #0 was General Lee. He closed by | were made, and the compauy finally, an eloquent appeal to the soldiers and sailors of the | cording to the old German Union to rally once more as the: days gone by, and, by asserting their might at the ballot box as they had done tn the field, to carry the country on to a safe and glorious delivery from the evils which the war had it upon it. eee ‘ug! any bends, While still burst and sp Jing to the light their bearers hor regions of the i the many hued i-noving rf th in k 8, ead pward bowled, Antietam and the German Turners. ‘The Turners heid a very impressive celebrativa euing ip commemoration of the battle of An- tietam, From their ranks came the Twentieth regi- ment of New York Volunteers, and that regiment custom, resolved tt- haa often done im | seif into @ conclave of ‘students,’ and as such the proper respect was paid to the dead and to the living. The stab mentioned above ¢ontains the names of allthe members of the Turner regiment who féll at Antietam, and above it the inscription, The Union Glee Club then sang “Marchi “The falien of the Twentieth (Turner) regiment, New Georgia” and the band played @ patriotic air. York State Volunteers—Hatteras, Norfolk, Seven General Pleasanton then announced that the meet- | Pines, Savage Station, Malvern fill, White Oak ing was adjourned, and stated that the club had | Swamp, South Mountain and Antietam.” prepared some fireworks for the amusement of the audience, but some miscreant had set oif the prin- cipal piece—a mimic representation of a naval com- bat between @ rebel rar and @ Union iron. ‘The immense assemblage dispersed about eleven o'clock, amid cheers and great enthusiasm. The Outside Meetings. CITY POLITICS. The Union Republican General Committee, This committee assembled at its headquarters, corner of Broadway and Twefty-third street, last At an early hour the large esplanade in front of | evening. The attendance was large, Thomas Cooper Institute was filled with @ vast assemblage, | Murphy occupied the chair, Rufus Andrews such an assemblage for compactness, for general | offered resolutions, which were adopted, au- orderly behavior and for enthusiasm as has never at | thorizing the Executive Committee to issue & any previous political outside gathering at this place | cali to the Assembly associations for primary been collected here, Two stands for speakers had | meetings, to be held on the 20th inst., to elect dele. been erected, and very soon meetings at each were ws to the several nominating conventions the coming November election, The com- organized and speakers talking in atrains of serions mittee was also instructed to prepare and and forcible earnestness to the vast sea of upturned | jue an address to the Union General Committee, of which F. J, Fithian ts chairman, re- questing that the delegates elected from that or- ganization be tnstructed to meet in joint convention to nominate candidates for the purpose of producin harmony, preventing conficting nom{nations, and iving strength to the repnblican pat Brief addresses were made by Isag Webster and Rufns Andrews. The last nam tleman, in speaking Of the present contesi, declared e time had come for action; that the faces. Captain Nelson presided at the easterly stand, near Third avenue. After a brief speech he was fol- lowed in turn by Colonel Wagetad Colon Badge Colonel Tremaine, Colonel Morgan, Mr. Lambert, Dr. Moore and others, Ali the speeches were cha: terized with the energy usual at out-door political gatherings—a series of grandil it eulogiums of the republican party and their chosen standard bearers, Grant and Colfax, and promises of victory National Democratic Committee, who were deter- New York and obtaintug and confasion of the democratic party. th mirol Of it# affairs for the purpose of robbery. Colonel J. N. Marshall presided over the second | phe a result os on ts stand, near Fourth avenue. He led off with an ¢lo- | they could control politics in New York and steal, as quent introductory speech in commendation of the | they had done for twenty years. Not adoliar of the Noys in Bine and their late chieftain in fighting the | vast amount at their disposal, he ventured to assert, war of the rebellion and promi ing their united vote | wo be spent in Pennay iner Statea, It for him as President at the approaching election. He followe 44 ¥ in @ simfar strain by General Gates, Mr. k. G. Squier, General Sharpe and others. For the most as at the other stands, the ages Were listened to with moat earnest atte tion. Occasionaily some of the anregenerated de- moeracy would essay a cheer for Seymour and Blair; but Superintendent Kennedy's “boys in blue” very apeesity DEL an estoppel on their disturbing prociivi- ge. The speaking outside continued Dearly two be kept here to olers and continne ' lease of power. ‘The decree had gone forth Jobo A. Griswold should not be Governor if igh money could be stolen to prevent it, For bon information of ali hea he stated that machinery Waa at Work quietly to prevent the tration of the frauds tor which the ring was Rott No man could vote nice he was entitied to do #0 Without sabjecting pimseif to a criminal prosecution. AIOE eRINK YUMpICIODA WYO the Courts wou have i r proclained what was to be the result of this cou- | | | to Washington and lils eloquence fell like molten lead upon the ears of the Hy parce he of the party there. He referred to their refusal to support, equal sathage in the Distuict of Columbia, and con- eon WHAg hey never did anything for the liberties of the people. The eve Matthew Hale Smith was next introduced and made a few remarks, saying that he was de termined to continue working until the war Was ended and they were a nation in fact. NEW JERSEY POLITICS, Democratic Banuer Raising in Newark Immense Mass Meeting and Torchlight Pro- cession. From the inactivity which has of late character- ized the movements of the Newark democracy ‘t had become current that the party had made up Its mind to let the city go by the board over to the opposition- ists, Last evening, however, it was thoroughly and unquestionably demonstrated that such was not the intention of the “great unterrified.” To witness a simple banner raising in the Fifth ward there were assembled fully Jour thousand, people. besides from one thousand to fifteen hundred uniformed Jackson Guards, bearing torches. As the banner, whieh is a fine large one, exhibiting portraits of the democratic nominees, was hoisted, a national salute was fired ‘A piatforin, erected in church, by the Jackson Artillery. front of the Second Dutch Reformed notwithstanding that it broke down at first, afforded an opportunity to Messrs. D. V.. Cale vin and James ). McClelland, of New York, and Judge Frederick H. Teese, of Newark, to ventilate their views of the present political issues. The houses in the vicinity were gally tluminated with Chinese lanterns, as was also the speakers’ stand, Much enthusiasm prevailed. While the speechifying was going on a parade of the torch bearers through the principal streets took place. In point of nuinbers and general character ihe affair ‘was quite imposing. Democratic Meetivg in Mudson City. A democratic mass meeting was held in Hudson City last evening, at which a large gathering assembled. Mr. A. C. Davis, of New York, spoke for more than an hoi nd presented very forcibly the NISCELLANEOUSS POLITICAL MATTERS. The Mal h from Augusta, September 106, Returns have been received from 446 cities, towns and plantations, embracing all the State incorporai ed for election purposes, with the exception of about one hundred smali.places which will not sw majority very matertally. These returns are mostly oficial, and show that in the 346 towns there haw been cast a total vote of 121,290, Governor Chamber jain having a majority of 14 over Mr. Villsbury. This majority is above the estimate of the Siate ite publican Comumittee, owing to the unexpectedly large increase of the republican vo! towns. The remaining towns may vote up to 127,000 and give a repub: between 22,000 an tmously republican with Elect! says ne we exception of tion from Knox county, where den! elected, The dominant party will be str numbers in the House of Kepresentatives th, last winter, while in the list of member one or two names of democrats of any prominence in public life can be found, Programme of General Gran Administra. tionPatriotic and Statesmaulike The Trae Reconstruction Policy. RicHMOND, Sept, 16, 1868. To-day [had a conversation with an. infuentiat gentleman here who has had intimate and frequent intercourse with General Grant and his family, He says that Grant, if elected President, which be con- siders certain, will be opposed to universal or negro suffrage, as inimicable to the material interests of the country. That with regard to the States Grant will be guided by judicial decision as far as suffrage is concerned, and that if the Supreme Court decides of the States regulating their own suifrage accordingly. On one particular my in Jared Grant would be positive, and that jon men should be protected in the 5 That because they were they should not be oytraged and proscribed, said Grant would be conservative in Views nie administration, and that he would effectually check the excesses and corruption of the radical party. As for the idea of converting the republic into an ¢ pire he entirely scouted it, and said tha’ uf more than Grant had an implicit confidence in th wisdom and soul-loving freedom of the American people, whose liberty he was rmined to protect and whose interests he would advance. ‘The negroes he would see justly and fairly dealt with under the constitution and laws of the country, New York Radical Congressional Nominn- tions. The Albany Argus (democratic) states that the radicals in this State are havifig serious times in nominating their candidates for Congress, The squabble over the spoils in many districts is fierce and bitter in the extreme. Inthe Cayuga district 122 ballotings were had before Pomroy could be over. thrown. But it was so decreed, and he had to go. In the Stenben and Chemung district the Chemung delegates claimed the candidate, but Ward, of Alle- gany, the present: member, had “things fixed,” and the beg | delegates withdrew from ty Convention in disgust. In the — Livings! and Genesee districts similar dissatisfaction « ists, In the Ohenango and Delaware district the radical Convention was in session si days and balloted over five hundred tines be- foro @ choice could be arrived at. les a of Delaware, was finally nomin . great to the disgust of the other canli- dates. These severe squabbles for Congressionat honors grow out of the impression that to become + radical member of Congress insures @ fortune. The pickings and stealings are enormous. Militons are divided in fat jobs, land sales and loose appropri «- tions, yy radical Congressmen bg ing oh tones, and hence this strife fol pal. ambitious gentiemen who have beea left at home wie ecki that the republicans of Genesee county fre not aatisted at the nomination of Judge Fisher for Congress. Mr. Seth Wakeman was their prefe:. ence, but the delegates (row Wyoming and Niagaca ced Mr, Fisher. Dethawepablicans of the Second district of Otsego nominated Cliford &. Arms for the Agsembiy. e republicans of Delaware county have renomt¢ 1 Jobn Ferris for the Assembly im the Bighteentty Hepianso Ss. Barreti um tie a seco.s

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