The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1868, Page 3

GRANT. Immense Gatherirg at the Cooper Fastitute. Enthusia:s¢ Ratification of the National and State Tickets. AN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER DEMANDED Speeches by Marshall 0, Roberts, General Fre- mont, John, A. Griswold and Others, "The republicans of this city held another of their series of caimpaign mass meetings which have marked the prosecution of the campaign of 1868 in the Cooper Institute last evening. It will but faintly convey an idea of the immensity of the gathering that assembled in response to the call that had been Issued, stating the object of the meeting, to give ‘nother and more impressive ratification to the national ticket which bears the names of Grant and Colfax. Long before the hour named the spacious hall of the building was crammed to suffocation, mumerous ladies gracing the republican rally with thelr presence. From the first moment the doors were opened to the close of the proceedings the greatest enthusiasm and ft the same time the best of order prevailed. A very fine band was in attendance, which played weveral inspiriting airs preparatory to the opening. The Campaign Club was also on the platform, and entertained with patriotic and humorous songs the ‘vast audience. Onthe back of the platform there ‘Was displayed an excellent likeness of General Grant draped around with the Stars and Stripes. Among the inscriptions were the following words from General Grant’s letter of acceptance :— OOONOIODN NA ROADNIIDE NIELS If elected to the office of President it will be m; aim to sar = = ey oe good pcre! ee economy and the view ving peace, quie protection everywhere, . 8. GRANT. OOOO IE LELOIE DELO OEOE IO AD Another inscription was:— nonroenere rete. I demand an unconditional surrender. orinth—Richmond. POLO NINNEIDLE DODANE SEDO TOLELE LOLOL EDO LE DEED In the centre, over General Grant’s likeness, the mBames “Griswold and Cornell” appeared in large eharacters. eee INITIATORY PROCERDINGS. Just before the commencement of business Gene ‘al Fremont appeared on the platform and was at vonce recognized and welcomed with vociferous ana prolonged cheering, Mr. F. J. FirHian came fofward and said:—Ladics and gentlemen, although the initiation of the call for this meeting was held under the auspices of the Republican Union General Committee of New York, yet it was and is desired that this meeting shall be & radical meeting of every republican organization that proposes this fall to support the republican ticket, 1ts platform and its candidates. (Cheers.) I have further to say that in consequence of the extra scasion of Congress which met in Wash- ington yesterday several distinguished gen- flemen who had accepted invitations to speak here to-night and who are mombers of this body were to be in attendance, but have been com- Pelled, from no fault of their own or of ours, to ab- sent themselves from us to-night. You, will, how- ever,"be addressed by some of the most able and ‘eminent speakers in the land, For the purpose of organizing this meeting I nomt- wate as chairman to-night that eminent merchant fon ame and loyal republican, Marshal 10, Roberts, REMARKS OF THE OR AIRMAN, Mr. MARSHALL O. ROBERTS then came forward amid loud plandits and spoke as follows:— FRIENDS, REPUBLICANS, MEN AND WOMEN OF NEW Youre—I thank you for the honor pyou have conferred upon me in selecting me to preside over your meet- ing to-night. I congratu! you that the sun rose to-day in a cloudiess sky, bringt her republi- ¢ans from the East and the West and from the North and the South who will electrify you with their eloquence; and if at the close of this great meeting there shall be a single enemy leit of Grant aud Coljax, Griswold and Cornell jo mark bim well; or him no minstrel raptures swell. VICE PRESIDENTS AND SECRETARIES. A list of vice presidents and secretaries was then read and submitted and unanimously elected. THE RESOLUTIONS, ‘The following resolutions were then read and adopted with acclamation :— THE UNION REPUBLICAN ELROTORS OF THE CITY OF pots YORK, IN MASS MEETING ASSEMBLED, SEND TING 2 cordially approve and hereby adopt the declaration of ‘ciples aid down by. the Union, Republean Convention ‘at Chicago on the 2ist day of Muy, 1868, and we recog: ize in the truths therein enunciated the true foundation of our republican government and the only sure basis upon which this country can find lasting peace and enduring pros- 1 personal qualities of our candidate for the Pres- dency, Ulysses 8. Grant, like his historical achlevments, are uch as to attract and justify the confidence of the loyal people of the whole country. | His modesty, his disinterested: is Hagnanimity, is bravery and bik patriotism may wall be Bold up as models for emilation. "His fidelity to duiy ata his rove that the republic will be firmness in trial and in danger aafe in bis hands, while his masterly common sense and uner- ing jug nt in selecting the right men forthe important ‘01 * reasons for our belief that his admintstra- tion will be no leas remarkable for the wiatiom of ite measures: than for the elevation of its and the consdence it will ly at home but among all the civilized nations ‘The name of Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, is a fit second for that of Viyence Sc Cras and in hie spotless life gad + ine an tOlid Jdgment, | his long | public service, "his familiarity with legislation, his devotion tof his uniformly dignified, modest ‘and conciliatory course on all put jons, are a sufficient guaranter of Bis ample fitness to fill with dighity, trath(uluess and honor th ition of Vice President of the United States, i tical balance he will never be found anti in devotion to trae republican prinbiples and the ent Interests of the country. ‘Our candidate for Governor, John A. Griswold, needs no pee peed o Apogee orp Ra sas is. Read bid let- ter of acceptanc xamine record, past, present, a1 ly uring the dark ays of our couhtry's peril; and for yourselves, Even a venal and partisan proes now ene Fecolis in ite attacks upon him, and cannot utter a word Against his lofty patriotinm, hie pure philanthropy and his epotless in He has nerved his country faithfully in the councils of ation, and we will reward bim by trium- tly electing him next Governor of this State, 4. Our candlntes for Lieutenant Governor, Alonzo B, Cornell; for Canal Commissioner, Alexander Barkley; for State Prison Inspector, General fH. "A. Barnum, and for Clerk Of the Court of Appeals, Cambell H, Young, ‘are all “good men an "and eminentiy qualified to’ discharge with signal ability the trusts about to be reposed Ip thelr hands, Firmly believing that the success of the republican ticket will bring peace, unfiy, conidence, stability and prosperity to the whole countiy, we pledge ourseites to ench otler and cur fellow citizens of the Union to give'the vote of the Empire Yo Grant Col'ax and the republican State ticket 6. National faith and national unity are the sheet anchors of the republic; we cannot impair the one without weaken- Ing the other, and the desiraction of elther will ultimate in the overthrow of both, We therefore declare onracives unnl- terably oppored to any scheme or measures tending in auy wise or manner to weaken faith at home or abroad in the Payment of the pubilo indedrodness, ant we denounce il forms of repudiation, under whatever guise they may be pre- sented, as dangerous and pernicy in thelr ten iencles wind stab al the national honor, Ot ouly to be advocated by na- tional foo'pads and unreconstracted secessionist, who would fazain dishonor and dlagrac land they have’ so recently ed in fraternal blood, in a anks are dno to ihe brave soldiers and easiors of the army and navy, and thelr herole commanders, who. “in battle's deadilest eid,” have cemonstraied to the World that the people of this frée republic ean and wil gov. nthemseives, Immortal honor to the memory of those who id to thy ia the profoundest yrati- tion they have saved. in the Kast; ali hail. the glorious victories e Pine Tree and Green Mountain States. The bat has eet in will sweep over the land in Nov Im"? tte apurious democracy of the com ical grave that whl never again Lave ® reenrrec- SPRECH OF GENERAL FREMONT. The CHAIRMAN then Introduced. General Fremont, be first Kya eneral PXBMONT, On coming forward, was greeted with @ tremendous burat Of spplanine, in which the — joined by the waving of handkerchieis, He LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—I did not expect the leasure of meeting you here to-night, 1 must 4 fiat the public is generally weil informed in regai to all the subjects connected with this campaign, 80 that arguments are hardly needed. Our meetings mow are held less for the discuasion of these aubjects than for the rtions of personal in- fluence on each other and to strengthen the convictions already formed and to stimulate to greater eiforte in our work. (Cheers.) My personul relations lor many years past, both before and durm, the war, were formed chiefly in connection wit ‘Western inte: interests witch led me westward, aAccordi it had been arranged that such sérvices as [ courd render should he given in the West, Hitherto the campaign has been conducted with a eort of silent energy that seems to have been hor- rowed from the character of our great ieader— (cheers)—that has shown itself only in stccess, (Wheers,) But understanding that the meeting here to-night was to be a representative one—that it was called to draw together and give new expression to the republican feeling aad influence in the State, Dut especially to retverate to the country that we Tely with unbounded confidence ti our cause and in our leaders, Grant and Colfax. (Hatnusiastic cheers.) Sympathizing with ail this I have come to join you re to-nieht, but more as 4 listener than as A speak. @r. However, in the litte | have to say T will refer only to a few of the thought | ruppowe are upper: NEW YORK HERALD, ‘Most in our minds to-night. ‘che points are few and very clear. : ‘Now I gay it is hard to understand that there are any grave to divi@e the North to-day. There is nothing unforeseen in the situation. Carrying our minds a few years back, it is a matter of surprise that a party has here us to demand from the people of the North a deliberate denial of all their work—not only to deny it, but that tiey shall repudiate it, ana to do other things that would afllx a to all concerned in that work, But the situation to-day is the direct result of the war and the direct purpose with which the ple en tered on it. We do not undertake to say that every. thing that was done was right, but we do say that ag a whole it is $0, and peing the act and will of the people, that it must stand, (Cheers.) To reverse it intone oa wth pss eu ag the wo e peo , ing ideas of the war were theirs, and the he was always ahead of the een. (Cheers. ) The ple grew op with the ideas of the war, and were 01 ly on all the questions involved and which grew out of the war. ‘The newspapers of the couutry were constaut!y sending forth their re- People on earth ever enjoyed ihe great bene 10 on ever e gre and blessings of such a prest; The reporvers of the jae were everywhere. No council of war—no ‘abinet council barfed them, Wherever the storm of battle broke out, there they were on the very crest-comb of the wave. And s0 the people always acted on the information and the clearest knowledge, How would it be ole, then, that they could go back on whai have ‘done or undertake to But the Praga were right and they know ties were theirs, and they now intend to meet all these responsibilities. When hostilities ceased the older nations were amazed at the mag- nantinous clem which the people showed to the Southern States. nations found it diMcult to realize that such a war could be closed without the infliction of the usual penalties mm such cases and the gratification of the usual revenges, (Cheers.) But the ‘North remembered always that we are one people, and they kept the fact always in view, and also kept always in view the harmonious and 1 Union which they had resolved to re- establish, The eee of the North chose to mis- represent this ing and to accept it as an ad- ion on the part of the North that it had been always in the wrong and to argue that itcan be brought to repudiate both their acts and their obli- gations. ‘Their acting grew out of the war and their ions that they incurred in it. What the ple think about all this Vermont and Maine haye just told us—(applause) As to the debt is pernent le not a question of to- day, but the good in which we incurred it is. Cheers.) Beyond a simple dec! ion we in- nd honorably to meet all our engagements both in letter of our contracts, coheses} ent of the debt has no If it be touched at ics will seize upon it, and the discus- sion that will follow upon it will cory Nene to depre- ciate our securities and to lessen value of the notes of the people. We see that doubts thrown ground the payment of our debt advance gold twenty-five cent and take one quarter off the value of the curren of the country. tion be let alone an administration be laced in to meet our engagement honorably gold in a year or two will be at par and our securi- ties everywhere will increase in value, But debt is not our immediate concern. It 18 not the country that will have to pay it; it is not the antry of to-day, with its disorganized and turbu- unoccupied territo: but it 1s @ count fifteen years hence, with its population oy or fifty per cent greater, with all the States restored to har- mony, with its commerce revived and its fag again covering the seas, with ail its Pacific Railroad com- pleted (cheers), fertilizing and ocoanny: wealth over the Territories: with the ports of New York and San Francisco the centre of the world’s commerce and its exchanges. That is the sort of country that will have to bay the natitonal debt—so 1a sp resently now, and so insignificant then, in view of the im- misnen Reagurogs that will be brought to meet and pear Now we are told that the West wishes to repudiate this debt. But we know that to carry on the war the West ae profusely of its best blood, and I believe that the West to-day is willing to give good money to meet the nation’s debt. (Cheers.) We cannot enter on this career of commercial prosperity in the character of prosperous bankrupts. You have earned a splendid reputation for military heroism, and you have givena noble example of recognized charities and: clemency in the midst of war, and it only now remains to establish an equally high char- acter for fil honor, (Cheers.) And if the democrats of the country everywhere took their full part in the war why is it that repudiation is adopted as a democratic measure? Icountita thing that I lived @ considerable portion of my life in intimacy with the chiefs of the old democratic party, and { remember something of their w: of thi how this word repudiation sounded their ears. How would tte proposi- tion to pay the securities of the national debt with paper money have been re- ceived by the democratic Benton? The true lace for every democrat in this contest—of every rue dem is under the banner of the republican party. Th’s question of national honor is among us more distinct an individual concern than in a we oe ale We" have oo build up families or pile up lcent. buildings: ss descendants, But we have a national entailed estate, in whose ‘andizement we can all aid each other— an estate which cannot be broken up, paralyzed or divided. That is the American Continent, stretch- ing from the shores of the Atlantic to the shores of the Pacific, entatied upon the ea. people as their inalienable and undivided ite. (Cheers.) ‘This, then, is the general programme of the repub- lican party, as I understand it. We have resolved to stand by the measures which Congress has adopted for the security and quiet to the country. We believe that power enough has been centred in the hands of the government to accomplish this purpose, and we ask nothing more from the States, And we shail stand where we at present stand in this respect, So as to the debt, we shall have nothing to do with it, with no other portion of it than to build up the pros- perity of the country, and so provide the means of paying it when the time comes. In this domestic fae icy we Shall be glad to see the government work- ing With a wise economy to develop the resources we already have, and not engaging in costly acquisi- tions of territory which, in a few years, would come tous by the force of gravitation. (Applause and cries of ‘‘Hear.’’} As a member of the family of nations we shall be pleased to see the government maintain- ing our old policy of no interference in the affairs of other nations, maintaining friendly relations with all, exaggerated intimacy with none. (Cheers.) We should regret the exhibition of partiality for one nation which would alienate the good will of any other. Rusela is our only natural rival for the trade of China and Japan, to which we are looking and building up such great tain the future, But we must keep in view contingencies that may hap- — in that future. I was reading lately the first num- rof @new monthly just published in San Fran- cisco, called the Overland. The editor, with the fol tht of a poet and the oma orga of a young American on the Pacific shore, has put upon the cover of his book the track of the Pacific Railroad and across the track a bear snarling and rowling as he looks in the direction of the coming train. If it should happen in the course of events—I trust it never shall— but if it should ey apd that the Russian bear should place himself on this track of our Eastern commerce, or should any lion get on this path—great cheer- ing)—let us hope that we shall be in a condition to Ray what the great engineer Stephenson said to a Parilamentary committee before whom he was urging the introduction of the steam engine on rath s:— “But,” objected one of the committee to Stephenson, “gup] that when the train is going at this pro- digious speed (ten or twelve miles I think it was in those days), suppose,” said the English cominittee man, “suppose an obstacle got onthe track? sup- pose, perhaps, a cow got there, what then? “Then,” said Stephenson, “it will be worse for the cow, my hee i (Cheers and laughter.) The apeaker then re- tired, Music by the band—Red, White and Bine," The glee club then sung “The Union Oath.” SPEECH OF JOHN A. GRISWOLD. Hon. JoHN A. GRISWOLD Was .then introduced as “the next Governor of New York,’ amid great ap- lause, and, after stating that this was the firet time ne had ever been within Cooper Institute, and y= ing an eloquent tribute to its founder, related an anecdote in the course of which he had to inform an inquiring friend that he ‘need have no anxiety about the country, as the peopie had it in harge.”’ The people of this country understood he iasnes, and the ople throughout the long contest and trouble of the late war had always been in advance of the leaders, and those who were perambulating the country now endeavoring to in- struct the people are trying to teach the pore that which they understand best themselves. He believed that the people for the last five or six years had been in advance of the leaders; it bad been the fate of the leaders to follow the people, and not of the | pie to follow the leaders. When President uchanan announced to the people of this country in his regular message m the Executive chamber that he had no constitutional power to coerce any State or States from detaching themselves from this Union the people for the time stood paralysed. They wondered that they had lived under a government so long that had been re- jed ee ag at once a protection and as an as- surance that forever hereafter it was to protect all who lived under it. When told by the Executive that that government was but “a rope of santi,” to be broken at the will or caprice of men of any State or any number of States, ana that there was no consti- tutional power to coerce them and preserve the gov- ernment, the st stood paralyzed But this condi continue; the people axioms and doctrines of its leaders, or leader, and sald to themselves, “If you, Mr. President, cannot find Ca ge in the constitution of the United States reserve this government then we, the people of this country, will see if we can devise the power.’ (Applause.) They saw no constitutional right to dissolve the government of the United States, they recognized no assertion that there was anything. unconstitutional in protecting and pre- serving this Union, and for four years the ce of this country, acting on their own convictions and setiing aside these axioms of poiit'cal leaders, wont forth to battle to sustain what they believed was worth sustaining, and through those long years of war a for the integrity and perpetuit of this Union. When the contest was over they hi the right to LA cong) that at all events the doctrine of secession had been eradicated; pat had the right to suppose that the people of the Soath, who tad array- ed themselves againat the government, were, at al events, not to be agaiw put forward in antayoniem of ten or with the loyaitty and of the people of this country. ey felt that tuey had been called upon to make @ secrifice essentially ior the petuity of those sacrifices and the governinent,and after making after crushing out the armed rebels wiio were against this goverment, t! felt indeed that y had a right to believe that no longer uny such issues | would be again Presented. Now, our antagonists tell us we are “till harping upon the war,” instead of meeting the issues which the demo- cratic party presented to us, instead of their charges of extra ce, Of, official corruption, of violation of pubhe duty, of wrongs in the govern- ment, that were hurled Ls he us pesto demo- cratic on » 1 desire ask audience here it is the fault of the republican Party that tl are still called upon to de is already settled by the gage of battle? Have they uot, by the announcement of their panic 8) ers: and resolutions, challenged us again to fight the bat- tles of the Union as we have done in the past? Cheers.) Gentlemen, the leaders of the late rebel- jon felt they were forced by those batties to lay down thelr arms, and were in & condition to accept the result of the war and abide by its consequences; and 1 the people of the loyal North were ready to ese assurances from the South and to i with them with a liberality and ity with which no nation could find fault. I believe that if the South ai the close of that terrible conflict had really accepted the condition of and had been wi to from history or hich haa been ht out membrance. the issues w! afuth Gouuvess every solitary State, that went Into ninth Congress every 60) the repellion would have been represented and that to-day Lo questions would have arisen growing out of the differences between the North and South. But instead of accepting the re- war, of being wang by-gones be _ by-gones,’’ insteas @ determination to accept the condition upon which the present Presidential cam- paign should be wi they came here, Mr. Chair- man, to dictate the platform and policy of the party with which they were allied; they came and have prescribed the conditions upon which this great national contest should be waged, and they have in- jected into that platform the annunciation that all that had been done during the war, all the legisia- tive enactments, all pro; towards reconstruction and reunion—that all these things, in consideration of their being held together with the demo- cratic ry, Should be set aside and pro- noun unconstitutional, null and void, I do not know what the people of the North may think, but I believe that while they were willing to regard these men as having, perhaps, a right to come in and again pauniranete the legislation of this country, wl hey were willing toextend to them all the alliance that could be demanded iis them—I do not believe the people of this loyal 1: are ready to permit these men, just from the ranks of the rebel armies, just from those scenes of violence with which they threatened to break down and destroy the free. institutions of this country, to dictate are read, to their terms, oF accept them not only as equals, but as the victors, I don’t believe the people are pre- pared to have them come into the councils and dic- tate what pol shall govern us. And our demo- cratic friends find fault with us that we should thus Lire these questions. = say, why not rop the past? They warn us that if we are again to nave a Union indeed, that if these our Southern brethren come into this Union jn @ spout of ie mony, they say that we must it m kindly. own re- of evincil I say amen to I have not, for one— and I believe I speak the sentiments the party with which I act—I nave no resentment to cherish against the South, no spirit of animosity, no wish for retaliation, but I would put poe the hand of renin ane and conRNCL them to recognize things as they exist and to recog. nize the power which exists in the hands of the loyal peopie of this land, who have said, through battle and through strife, that this country shall preserved forever for them, for us, for ours and for theirs and our children. (Cheers.) ide for these them at the I would not act as a blind people; I would not have tol outbreak of this trouble that the battie would be waged here at the North; I would not have told them that if blood was to be spilled it was to be first pi in the streets of New York city, or that the struggle should be made over the dead ies of the Northern people, I would have told them that the patriotism of the Northern Lede would not look upon them and see them array themselves in arms for the purpose of destroying the republic, 1 would not have sent letters expressing sympathy with them and their cause, and regretiing that no sti er evidence of that cag tg 4 could be put forth in their behalf. I would not have told them that whatever might come they had only to prolong this condition of affairs and that the Northern people would finally yield, but would have told them that sooner than see them prevail, sooner than see the in- stitutions of this count troved and this republic pulled down and another bulit on it, the corner stone of which was to be slavery—I would sooner say that that corner stone of slavery was tobe crushed to powder, and all the imstitution of it forever annihilated in this land. (Cheers.) But I am reminded that there are other gentlemen here who propose to address this audience. I presented myself not for the purpose of making any very protracted remarks. (Cries of “Go on.”) I could, indeed, cornay the attention of this large crowd of hearers by reading page after page of finai cial figures. I could show them how utterly w foun‘ ed the charges are against the present admin- " ana tern OF Sune utinwcraute Oraors we (0 extrava ama ance in every department, upon the public debt, Goon taxation and all those incidental questions; but I fear it would not be the most entertaining sub- ject for this meeting. The speaker then proceeded to argue that not- withstanding these charges were made by the pari; that im) the burdens by the people, he coul show that since the close of the .war the debt had been reduced one-quarter, and that to-day we are pay- ing not less than fifty thousand dollars per year by reason of their arena and weakening of the public faith in the national credit. But so far as extrava- gance, corruption, honesty or fidelity in the manage- ment of public affairs was concerned, he would not attempt to enlighten the citizens of New York. (Laughter. He would not characterize its half built court house, its rotten wharves, its ill-conditioned its market places, as they should be spoken of, or its jobs, with corruption reek- ing in every department of the city govern- ment. If he ome, it he might be charged with personality. ‘he republican had not only borne the responsibility of the war but also of the —— to Pager The ona abo party, had nd Tesponsibility of placing the debt upon the people. (A voice—*‘Let’s have more about the municipal gov- ernment.) The taxes of this olty are twenty-five million doliars; and if it were in the same propor- tion to population in all other towns and the ‘dierent States, we should taxes amounting to seven hundred million dol! (Cheers and laughter.) He again wished to say he no right to comment bo the munici; affairs of this city. (A voice— «You wiil have.”) He would also remind his friena that he was not running for Mayor now; but when- ever in their wisdom the people of New York should place the responsibilities of that position on him, he- would try to reduce their taxes and expenditures ‘a little.” (Cheers.) ‘The meeting was then addressed successively by General J. B, McKean, who made an eloquent appeal to the Boys in Blue to rally to the polls in November, and complete the work so bravely carried on for five ears with the buliet by the ballot; by Martin I. ‘ownsend, of Troy, in @ very humorous and felicit- ous yg , Which kept the audience im roars of laughter, and by General Swift, of Boston. ‘The audience at the call of the chairman rose and Joined the glee club in singing the “Army Hymn,” the band leading. This was announced as the close of proceedings. At its conclusion the immense gathering quietly dispersed, GEN. DIX ON THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION. General Dix, the American Minister at Paris, has sent the following letter to a friend in New York, It was not written for publication, but the gentigingn to whom it was addressed has consented to give it to the public:— at Pants, Sept. 4, 1868, It was my hope that my distance from home would have secured me from all participation in the politt- cal excitement prevailing there; but [ notice an an- nouncement in one of the newspapers that [I am heart and hand with Mr. Seymour. I am not aware of anything in the present or the past which could rightfully subject me to such an imputation, have been acquainted with Mr, Seymour more than a quarter of a century. He isan amiable gen- Heman, of unexceptionable private character and of op yee talents, But you know as well as I that he has not a single qualification for the successful execution of the high oficial trust to which he has been nominated, and he is especially deficient in that firmness of purpose which in critical emergencies is the only safeguard against pnblic disorder and calamity. He has been twice, at different times, Governor of the State of New York, and he has in neither case had the talent or the tact to keep the democratic pay of the State ther more than two years. I should regard his election at this juncture, when steadiness of pur decision and ‘seif-con- trol are so much needed, as one of the greatest ca- lamities that could befall the country, Moreover, he has ‘veen put in nomination by a convention Which has openly declared the purpose of those it represents to pay the greater part of the public debt contracted to preserve the Union in de- reciated paper. Such & measure would, in my judgment, be a palpable violation of the public faith, plecged under circumstances: which should have been binding on ail honorable men, Mr, Seymour has made public speeches toghow that it is our — to pay the debt in specie. In accepting his nomi- nation to the Presidency he adopts the declaration that it ought to be doin per, I know nothing 80 humiliating = in fie history of American politics as this tergiversation. li was ran not unfit that Mr, Seymour, after presidin; in 1864 over the Chicago Convention, which declared the war a failure, should preside over the conven- tion of 1868, in which @ proposition to discredit the debt contracted to carry on the war was received with “tremendous cheering’ and that he should be po en instrument lo execute this act of national urpitude, 1 do not believe that the wishes or opinions of the great body of the democratic py are fairly ex- pressed in these proceedings, Tix ave nothing in common with the statesmantike views of policy and the high sense of national honor which guided tie party when Martin Van Buren, William 1. Marey, ilas Wright, Lewis Cass and Stephen A. Dougias were among Its most Conspicuous members. I see but one source of for the country under existing circumstances, and that is the election of General Grant. In his decision of character, good sense, moderation and disinterested patriotism, I be- | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1868. F ae demonstrated, to Neve the South wit! have afar better hope of regain- ing the position in the Union to wiich itis entitied than under a man whose policical career has been in nothing wore conspicuously marked than in an utter inirmity of Lys gered Independently of a!l these considerations I should be gi y. surprised if the people of the United tes were to elect as their Chief Magistrate a man who was making at the Academy of Music on the 4th of July, 1863, a speech deficient in all the characteristics of an ele- vated love of country, at the very hour when General Grant was carrying the victorious arms of the Union into Vicksburg, and when thousands of our fellow countrymen were pouring out their blood on the eens of Gettysburg in defence of their homes and the government, which Mr. Seymour was doing all in Lis power to embarrass and discredit. I amt quite wilting that you should show this letter toany iriends who may take an interest in my opinion in regard to the coming election; and I am perppulary desirous of removing (he impression. if it exists, that (amin favor of iar. Seymour or ihe repudiation of any portion of the public debt. JOHN A. DIX, SEYMOUR. Meeting of the Young Men’s Democratic Union Club—Speech of Andrew Jackson Rogers, ‘The rooms of the Young Men’s Democratic Union Club, corner of Broadway and Twenty-second street, were filled last night by an apparently intelligent and anxious audience to hear Mr. A. J, Rogers’ ad- dress on “State Governments and the Duty of the Democracy.” The speaker confined himself ex- clusively to the question of State government, prob- ably deeming that the flerce democracy know their duty by this time and any advice on the subject would be superfluous. A gentleman from Washington, D. 0., having made afew preliminary remarks, retired in favor of Mr. Rogers, who was received with considerable ap- Plause on coming forward, He said:— GENTLEMEN—The history of four thousand years me at least, that men have ed in all the time of that period upon some subject or another. It is not, then, strange that in this period of the history of our existence men should ve divided upon the great political questions which agitate the country, and I have charity enough in my heart to accord to those who di with me the same honesty of intention that I claim for myself; and I am to know that it has been the habit of democratic speakers in this campaign— at least of most of them—not to attack the character or personal reputation of those who have been put in nomination inst our ticket. es cin not believe Sa ue hs cam] im successfully cal yy any party who deals alone in vituperation and abuse, and therefore I have made it my business, during this campaign atleast, not to aitack the character ef General Grant or his b ovritger reputation, And I will not in any remark I will make at this or at any other meeting take one laurel from the fair fame he has achieved in the numerous battles in which he been e1 red. I have come here to night to makea speech of a different character from those which I generally make, and one that will not have #0 much vim or tend go much to excite the Deane as those | usually make. Ihave come here to discusg in as methodical a manner as I can the right to locak gern of the people of this country, the rights f the States and the rights of the federal govern- ment. Andin order to moke a discussion of this kind eden oe) because it is more or less @ legal question, it is necessary that we should ascer- tain the condition of the affairs of this coun- try and the relation which the people of this nation bore to them before the present constitution of the United States was made. I aflirm, at the commencement of these remarks I am to make, that there has been but one idea uppermost in the minds of the American people, and that idea com- menced in the minds of some of them before the. first left the old country—that the right of local self- | serrate was the palladium of liberty. And to U they have always been true in this couitry, as the most precious of their birthrights, History informs us that the discovery of this country by Columbns awakened the attention of the maritiine States of Europe, and stimulated by the love of glory and the hope of dominton and gain, many of thei started enterprises here— some to found colonies, some to search for precious metals and others to exchange the products of the Old for those of the New World. The speaker then traced the expedition of Cabot at the instance of King Henry the Seventh of England to those shores in 1495, the foundation of colonies here, and alsofthe charters granted by James of England to Thomas Yates in 1606, as well as the disturbances in the colo- nies at that time, which compelled the Governor to grant them a iegislative assembly, which was the first that ever met in this country. From that time to the present the people always had the right of local self-government, and that right had never been interfered with ex- oy the Amer- cept by the Parhament of England an jean Congress during the time the radical party have been in power here. He claimed that* the American governiuent was not a nati : it att oY government is a government of States, resting upon tates, and when you ane the rights of the States you destroy the fede: government which based on them, and there is an end to liberty regulated by law; and this old doctrine “of our fathers, handed down to their descendants, of local self-government, is frustrated and destroyed. A majority of the whole people have not power to elect a ident, because our electoral system, being based on State rights, requires a President to have a majority of the electoral votes; and tf he has that majority it is im- material whether he has one-third or two-thirds of the people to support the ticket on which he is ran, For instance, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, if this gov- ernment was a oneness of power, was not clected President of the United States, because he did not have @ majority of the votes of the American ple. There was @ million of votes against . The colonies owed allegiance to the British crown, but each colony acted for itself, and there was not a common altegiance of all the le of @ common country to a common head. All their actions were each separate from the other, and ‘ae ¢ eee reserved the rights of local sell-control, I admit the allegiance of the peopie is first due to the federal governinent because the con- stitution expressly declares that that constjtution and laws made in pursuance thereof shall be the supreme law of the land notwithstanding the will of any State to the contrary. Therefore the democratic part do not pretend that their allegiance is first due the State Wg they admit it ts first due to the federal government. But it is based on the lawful exercise of power on the part of the federal V raghne is and when it undertakes to set aside the constitution and usurp powers which the constitution never gave it it is a revolutionary act, by which no man, according to the fundamental law of this country, is bound. The speaker theu pro- ceeded to show how the colonies, as such, were al- ways independent of each other. They had no com- mon Legislature, no common military power, no common treasury, no common judiciary and were unlike in organization. Some were provincial, some chartered and some were preparatory govern- ments, Now the first Congress that ever assembled in this country met in this city In 1765, and its ob- Ject was to protest against the arbitrary exercise of power by the British Parliament in attempting to regulate the internal and external affairs of the people. Delegates were sent by each of the colonies and were sent by each inae vagy f without re- gard to what the other might do, and each colony was entitled to one vote, no matter how many deie- iy ithad. Now you will see as I address you hat local self-goveroment was the bean tal of the people tien, and was considered ile only safeguard for civil and religious liberty. The Kory then gave @ detailed account of the conduct of the colonies in their quarrel with the British gov- ernment and how jealovs they were always of their respective rights. He traced their course down to the assembling of the Congress in Philadelphia in 1774 and what came of that continuous session until, on the 4th of July, 1776, they made the Deciara- tion of Independence, (At this part of his speech the speaker was interrupted by @ baud of = muatc assing up — Broadway, when he said:—“They are playing the ‘Dead March.’ It must be @ radical crowd.” (Laugiter.) In that Congress each delegate had one vote, and none of them dared to vote even on the Declaration of Independence autil he received instructions from his State authorizing him to do so, The delegates who made the declaration had no authority to make a consolidated unity, and if you look at the instructions given by the States to the delegates you will tind these instructions, with one exception, authorizing these dele- gates only to declare the freedom and s#ove-. reignty and independence of these Spates severed from Eugiand. New Hampshire authori its delegate to vote for a union, a consolidated union, but every one of the twelve other States voted against it, Our fathers were called rebels by the British government, and those who adhered to the Britush were called loyalists, To-day the radicals call themselves loyalists—the prototypes of King George—while we are calied rebels hecause we are in favor of governing ourselves, Now I here assert | that sr te is kd ing to destroy the intent of the fathers of the constitution by construing its ex- press terms in such a way as to take away ail the rights of the States, The speaker then detailed the causes which led to the constitation being substituted for the articles of confederation | and then continued, It was State sovereigniy | made this government:—it is based on the rights of the States, And when you withdraw the power of the States from the constitution the federal govern- ment is suspended and will have to stop. ‘The ques tion Lam discussing apphes to all our business, (0 our comfort and our very lives, if we cannot hand down this government ‘to our children as we received it we wiil place them in as bad @ situation as the down trodden people of Ireland, Hungary and Poland. Afier citing many cases which all tended to show that the States always and at all times were tenacious of their rights, and tracing the course of the different Sta down to the breaking oat of the rebellion, 1 speaker quoted from several authorities to © that Congress had no more power after (he war over than it had before it commenced, and that | constitution Was as much the paramount law of the | land now as before the rebellion broke oul. He ailirmed the federal government was the creature ot | the States, and had the rightto exercise such power Ouly a8 the States gave it, We relied on the Stave exclusively for the protection of our lives and | Of standing property, and to restrain the strong and pro tect the Weak and could not exist without —TRIPLE SHEET. . it. Without the federal government we would stil! be secure aud could enjoy the blessings and advan- tages of well organized government, After reviewing the course of President Johnson in making a State government in ‘Tennessee during the war, and the course of Chief Justice Chase in the McArdle affair, and after praising the honesty of the late Thaddeus Stevens in acknowledging that bis party were acting ontside the constitution, Mr. Rogers concluded by saying that many persons in the United states did not understand thetr own constitution, never having read a single page of it, and for that reason people were dntly witnessing usurpation after usurpation by the vadival party, and seeming to sanction tiem. THE CAMPAIGN IN BEN BUTLER’S DISTRICT, Programme of the Opposition to His Nomina. tion—An Tné)youdent Convention to Be Called to Nominate General Schouler. Boston, Oct. 22, 1868, ‘The campaign in the Fifth (General Butler's) Con- gressional district has begun to assume a decided shape, and, in the words of one of the admirers and supporters of the Fort Fisher hero, the opposition to his renomination promises to be @ great deal more formidable than a majority of his friends an- ticipate, The conversation between’ Butler and the HERALD reporter at the Astor House has been re- published here in the papers circulating in his dis- trict, and inasmuch as it comprises many of his views not furnished in his speeches it creates con- siderable comment. The regular republican conven- tion will be held on Monday, and Butler will be re- nominated with little, if any, opposition, It has been stated that hi to stand as an independent candidate, uncomm! toany policy, but this an- nouncement has no foundation in fact, although it is probable, if he is in Salem on the day of the con- vention, that he will be called upon to address that body and state more definitely than he has yet his Piet ies of policy, especially so far as it relates to inane. ‘The effort working against him will not seek to prevent his renomination at the lar republican convention, but it will be chiefly aimed against his re-election in spite of a regular nomination, To this end a large number of prominent republicans in the district have undertaken to call an independent con- vention, which will probably be held on Kriday of next week. Their reasons for opposi Butler are set forth in the following call, which 1s being exten- sively circulated in every town in the district and has already received many signatures: To THR ELEoTORS OF THR Firtg CONGRESSIONAL Die TRIOT OF MASSACHUSETTS :—~ The election of a member of Congress from this diatrict is near The present incumbent, General Benjamin F, Butler, has formally announced himsdlf e candidate for re- He asks your votes, ‘if the people of the district think he has faithtully and earnestly served them”—making his own record his only platform. He does not allude to of a district convention, and {t 1s generally understood that he wil} be a candidate, whether regwarly nominated or not. He thus appeals to f bond for an endorsement of his whole course in Congress, Everyone who votes for him in effect sanctions his course and encor him to puraae it. dersigned, true to the ee of tie zepubiipay arty} and heartily supporting the candidates tomliated al Eiicago and Worcester, cannot consistently support or vote for General Butler, and with them opposition to his election 1s fealty to the principles and the candidates of the republican ty. PAW6 take his record as he has made {t, and are not to be in- fluenced by professions made on the eve of an election. We do not agree with him in his financial schemes, and so far regarding them as important we deem them fatal to the national credit and the national honor. ‘His well known opponition to General Grant upon mal grounds renders him unfit to be a hearty supporter of his ad- ministration, aud we prefer to send to the next Congress 3 warm, unquestioned friend of General Grant rather than @ bitter and persistent enemy. We, therefore, republicans of the old Fifth district, proud of its historic fame, call ‘upon our fellow citizens who are op- posed to returning General Butler to Congress, and who can- not with honor sanction or become responsible for the issues he has bimself raised, to meet in Salem, in mass convention, on the—— day of then and there to select @ candidate whom we, a8 republicans, can consistently support—one who will do what in him lies to heal the national wounds, main- tain the publiccredit, bring the States once more together in harmony and union, and by kindness and justice in the ways of peace assuage the terrible ravages of war, thus to secure the rights of all men, of whatever color or nationality, and to demonstrate tothe country and the world that tho gallant men who fought on the land snd on the sea and laid down their lives for the preservation of the Union and the rights of mankind did not ight or die in vain, General Schouler, Butler's particular enemy for the past two years, will of course be the nominee of this independent convention, and his republican supporters hope for the ald of democrats in secur- ing his election and the defeat of Butler. Whether or not their wishes in this direction will be realized is doubtful, for the democrats seem inclined to reticence untl! after the republicans have ‘shown therr hand,” and if the split In the party is suffictent to warrant success they will make an effort to elect General Sutton, old and wealthy democrat, DEMOCRATIC UNION GENERAL COMMITTEE. An adjourned meeting of the Democratic Unton General Committee was held at the Masonic Hall, 1 t, it Tetinaucue orgdutenon SUORuCe’ he TOMOWInE list of officers:—President, Smith Ely; Treasurer, E. Barke; Secretaries, P. Kerrin, ©. Blauvelt and E. Timpson. Mr. Ely was elected by acclamation, and on taking the chair addressed the meeting on the subject of the work before them. The office of vice chairman was abolished and the other nominees of the committee were duly appointed. After some discussion it was moved and carried that the report of the Committee on Contested Seats be deferred and the meeting was adjourned until Thursday next. THE NATIONAL GAME. Eckford ve. Atlantic. At the Union grounds yesterday @ very small num- ber of the admirers of the game were assembied to witness the contest between these clubs. Those who ‘were present, however, could not safely say that they had enjoyed the dispute, It was very tame and too much one-sided to be of interes’. Holmes acquitted himself creditably as catcher, and Eggler at centre field covered himself with glory. He was “sure death’? to a bi that went towards centre field, and is entitled to the highest credit for general ood play. Crane missed a chance for a very dim- cult catch, which he tried hard to get at, but otherwise the playing of the Atlantics was Very ood, few points were missed and the batting b; poth cluba was more than ordinarily fine, although the Atlantics, as the score will show, were more for- tunate in not falling in the way of the flelders, The score of the game is as foliows:— The columns ahow the number of times the first base was gained on hitay dys ewnght, lett om bases, outs and ru Me Oe. B. FL. 0. Re BF. L. 0. R, oO d 1 8 B13 1 036 108050 one BO1812 O08 6 A 922311 00465 Bedell, a. #. gig) tiaé Patterson, ddb. 8 2 9 BB Oo8u4 Davenport, r.f.0 00 42 0068 Holmes, c. 1212 $125 anal — as Total e271 7678 Cube. ay bah. be 1h. Mh. 90h, lust & le js TH, he 5 2 () He 1 U 16428 8 8 1-8 Fergnson, 2 Out © Atlantic, bay Foul bound catches—-Aliison, 1; Hol Struck out~Davenport, 2; Zettlein, 2. ble plays -MeDonald and Start, 1. |—Kekford, 6; Atlantio, 3. era, of the Exercise Ulub of Now York. — Menara. Watson and Delaney, of game ~Two bours, Base Ball Notes, The Matnal4, of New York, and the Olympics, of Philadelphia, played a game yesterday at the last named city, which resuited in the defeat of the Mujyals by @ score of nine to twenty-nine, “rwere will be a spirited debate to-day on the Union grounds syould the weather prove favorable, The “Quilidrivers” aud “Tukslingers’’ are heavy wrestlers, Neither nine plays for gate money and a fine company 1s expected to be present to witness “ye flerce encountre.”” ‘Th Cincinnatis on Satarday last defeated the Great Westerns in seven innings wiih a score of 38 to 2. The Cincinnatia started on their Eastern trip yea terday ning. As this is the first instance of a vestern club coming on a playing tour to the Kast, the “Red Stockings” may be sure of a hearty weil- come and a “fair feld” in every contest they enter upon in this vicinity. They will play their first game in Washington to-morrow. They will come thence by way of Baltimore and Philadelphia, and play theur first game here on October 1 with the Atlantica, ‘To-morrow the muffin kings of the Empire and Rureka Clubs will piay their return game on the Manhattan cricket ground, The Chicago folks are quite sanguine of their play- ers eventually taking the leading place among the clubs in the Northwest. ODD FELLOWS. Second Day's Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the United States—Election of Officers, BaLrimMons, Sept, 22, 1968, The Grand Lodge of Independent Order of Oad Fellows last night visited Washington Lodgo, No. 1, the first lodge formed in America by Thomas Wildey. ‘The meeting is said to have been of the most in- teresting character. The two only surviving mem- bers of that lodge were present. The old treasury box of the lodge Was an object of much interest. The Grand Lodge met this morning at nine o'clock, ‘The session was devoted to the reception of reports committees, At ten o’clock tlie body proceeded to the election of oMcers for Wie ensting year, which resulted as Farnsworth, of Tennessee, Most D, Stuart, of the District nd Sire; James L. Ridgely, nding and Recording Sect es of Maryland, Grand Treasurer, roceeted to the Giimor Hous Hities of Messrs. Kirkland & he lodge reassembled and Doli ja, Deputy of Marylin 3 tary; Joshua Vanea) At noon the Tor aud enjoys oO, | transacted business of @ private character, 3 _ —_ = THE NATIONAL LABOR CONGRESS, Sec: Day’s Proceedinge—Report of the Committee on Credentinle=—The Propertiog Between Labor and Capital in the Northerq States—Appeintment of Standing Commltq tees—Aduiission of Elizabeth Cady Stantes to a Seat—A Lively Discussion, The Congress assembled yesterday morning in Ger- mania Hall, President ©. C. H. Whaley in the chair and Henry B, Mulhall secretary. ‘ A discussion ensued as to whether this was the second or third Congress of the Labor Union. Mr. Jessup held that it was the third Congress, and that the first and second were held respectively in Balti- more and Chicago, The President decided this waa the second Congress. ‘The Committee on Credentials reported the follow- ing, who were admitted to seats in the body:—Johu Berry, Journeymen Gliders’ Society, New York; John E, Musdman, Brassfounders and Finishers, New York; James H. Mulligan, Albany Typographical Union No. 4; William H. Silvis, Ironmolders’ Inters national Co-operative and Protective Union; EB, H. Heywood, Worcester Labor Reform League, Wor- L. Saxton, Workingmen’s Insti» cester, Mass.; H. tute, Boston, Mass,; W. B. Goodenoug! ‘Typoa, No. 72, Hartford, Conn.; L. F. Pariol, Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union, No. 87, Hartiord. donn.; J. Jones, Labor Union No. 2, Grand Rapids, Mich.; J. O. Hor vey, Workingmen’s Union and I. 0, of Friendship, Black River Falls, Wis. A communication wasread from the Practical Painters’ Protective Society impeaching Mr. Mule hall's poner in the Congress. {t states that Mr. Mulhall was a member of the painters’ society. and thence delegated fo the Workingmen’s State Assem- bly, but was subsequently compelled to resign, charges having been preferred against him that he ba working ten hours in violation of the eight our rule, Debate followed, some of the delegates desiring the whole subject laid on the table, others preferring its reference to a special committee. On motion, nae ree it waa decided to lay the matter upon the le. Mr. L, O. H1n#, of Ohio, obtained the floor to offer some remarks upon the proportion between labor and capital in the Northern States. He putdown the population of the twenty-seven States as composed of three classes:— The moneyed class, numbering.... wn" 1,000 The middie class... 1,710,000 The wages class... 2,750,000 TOtAl. serecresrerees setaeeecese «4,900,000 By this table it will be observed that tie waaes class is twenty-eight percent greater than both o! the other classes, He classified the incomes in the, following order:— 20,000 persons have. 140,000 persons have. Income, $30,600, 5, —-——— $3,730,000, 000 0" one-tenth of the people get egate income, while nine-tenths r hal ceive but theol her half, By the next table it will be seen who it is that pays the taxes:— the aj ‘The moneyed class, 440,000, ‘pay. The middie class, 1,710,000, pay. The wages ¢lass, 2,750,000, pay Total......s.eseeee see eeeee s+ $350,000, 000, 4 plan equitably arranged for the taxation ‘of ‘the’ eople:— gg Peclasses. Average. Aggregate, Tax. . Reventic. 8,000 each.... $75,000 $225,000,000 25 $56,250,000, 7,000 eacl 85,000 231,000,000 20 pope feed 10,000 each... 15,000° 150,000,000 16 225 009, 140,000 each 8,500 490,000,000 10 Erg 4 280,000 each.... 1,000 280,000,000 5 — 14,000,900 In_ direct ty coliected in 1863- say 2,000,000,000, of which there has been pi ‘he moneyed class The middie class. The wages class. Total.....ss0s Costing for e: ear, te) JME. Hie then offered a resolution, Which wal adopted, that a committee of five on taxation be ap- pointed, whose first duty it shall be to report on t! expediency of national grades, income tax for th payment of the expenses arising out of the war, and also to report on the p ment of so much of the ni tional debt as may no! needed for the entire an: exclusive currency of the country by the annual i portionment thereof among the several States, to Foal oscandtate 1a levied as to bring it out of the mam amet’ Mr, MULHALL offered a resolution that the vacancy caused by the absence of the Treasurer, Mr. John Hinchcliffe, of Illinois, be filled by the aan of Mr, Alexander Campbell, of La Salle, li). Unani- mousiy adopted. The following committees were then sh ca Committee on Co-operation.—J. U, Donohue, A. "4 Stockton, J. E, Musselman. roe and Means.—A. 3. Cavies, Alexander Camp- bell, uel R, Gi Apprentice anes, T. Mellor, award Gridiey, E peers, nf nn igegs 8. Tomlinson, James Grogan, J. 5 in. Female Labor,—Miss S. B. Anthony, William J. Jessup, J: W. Lee Barnes, Messrs. Kellogg, Putnam and Gordon. Labor Organ.—William H. Sylvis, William #. Clarke, J. C. Fincher. Constitution..»A. H. Troup, Wm. 8. King, Phillip McGovern, W. R: Goodenough, E. L. Koseman, = + Platform.—A. ©. Cameron, A.M. Puett, Wm. Ly Stockes, Mrs. Mary Kellogg, Mrs. Macbonaid. 8 Prison Labvor.—P. N. Stockton, John Prince, J. As jourke, Obnoxious Laws.—John J. Junto, A. Turnbull, Conrad Kuhn, } Destruction af Human Li tn Bulldings.—Pat, Walsh, T. G. Walsh, Join McHees, Unfinished Kusiness.—Muhimeister, Sylvis, Tom- linson, Wm, 8. King, H. L. Saxton, rata he Finance,—Lucker, Hine, Batory. Gricvance.—Cameron, Hovey, Moran, Afterne’., rsésulon. The Congres Tésiimed its session at three o’eloce “rhe following gentiomét presented thelr creden- tials, Which Le Ba the gentiemen ad- mXelson W. Youn Printers’ 90-0per4- jelson W. Young, Journe: Y Qo-ope tive Association, New York citys ee a gil Wht Maguire, Workingiuen’s Union of Ming. Wty, and Joiners’ Union, No, 18, S. J. Wallace, Carpenters’ WE poy os Motion was made to go into an election I~ cérs. It was amended by a motion to lable the Sab ject, and the yeas and nays were called. The mote to table was carried by a vote of 460 16, ‘vhe sul vae hehe oo y je Committee on Credentials reported that had received the following credential ‘wth bod confessed they were unable to decide’ upon, inas- Mauch as tt Was not from a labor organization; — WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, 97 Pank Row, Room 2, New You, Sept. is, tobe Elizabeth Cady Stanton Is hereby appointed ‘as dv.egate your Congress, to act in bebalf of the workingwomen America tary Women’s Sutter se nay Bs ANTHONY, Erizabetw CADY STANTON) MwOm % America, Mre. Honack Ozeriey, o 8 B. ANTHONY, } Central Commitiee, a Horren Ginvone, To the President and Wenibers of the National Labor Con grens. The reading of this document great of interest. onauaghteepaa Naa A Wesiern delegate took ground that the creden- as it tial should be recetved, suffrage and woman's laughter.) T. KEATING wanted to know why, if Mra. Stanton was the great “1 Am’ of female ew why she did not commence with the lowest classes of her sex and elevate them from their degradation? Said he:—+ “The two ay political parties of the country havé sent out their gat against the cause which Mra, Stanton represents here to-day.’’ Mr. SYLVis said he did not see why the Nation: Labor Congress of America should blush to admit one of the leading friends of the working people. (Great applause.) Miss ANTHONY here arose, She sald:—We cannot elevate the men until the women are up also. Todo this the ballot must be given them, ie team tappion Mig cen men are the work: ng women. (Applause,| yi itlemen, strike in the printing offices, females w! ithe put in your places. (Applause.) You know well that the wi of the workingwomen are less than those of the ene ‘het seg kept at low rates by aad of Operatives, We desire to co-operaty you BT 6 cape 3 length on the ‘ ba) NTHONY 8] ie al power ot the ballot, and she pant that were it not for this weapon no workingman in New York would be reapected, So soon as she was t! up jumped half a dozen gentlemen, who the iy 44 be heard. Much confusion ensued, but the suffrage element predominated, Mr. PHRL?s said he was one of the delegates to the National Labor Cy of Baltimore, and he con- sidered it @ proud honor to find in this national con- gress ® representatives. Here delegates arose in all parts of the house, al the cries of “Question” were constantly repeated A man who was not a delegate was put out of the Mra, McDonarp soid:—Gentlemen, you see here @ repetition of those scenes witnessed fn our Vil (Mount Vernon) the other day, where, had it m been for the presence of ladies, the disturbance would have been much ter, The yeas and nays were then called for on the qi tion w: eter Lo gy be bag an delegate. Many of the deleg as thew we re calied arose and explained why they voted they did. The excitement was great, mat the members grew quite warm during the bal Mra, Stanton’s credentiala were accepted by 4 large majority amid prolouged applause, Neogily al 4 of tie leading delegates and officers v jor her adaaseiod. with Mt