The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1868, Page 3

ISSUES OF THE SANVASS, ee. Henry Ward Beecher on the Political Rostrum in Brooklyn. HIS VIEWS ON THE SITUATION. Suffrage for All---White, Black, Male and Female. Impossibility of Wresting the Bal- lot from the Negro. A General Better Fitted Than a Lawyer to be the National Executive. Last evening the Brooklyn Academy of Music was filled in every part by an audience that made the building present an appearance of the most brilliant character, The announcement that Henry Ward Beccher would deliver an address on the “Issues of the Canvass,”” was enough to produce this effect. Rarely, indeed, has the Brooklyn Academy of Music presented such a scene and never has even the pul- pit orator of Plymouth church made such a sensa- tion as that which marked his political address last evening. It may be needless to say that the immense audience was composed of the republicans of Brook- lyn and Kings county, and from last evening the republicans of Kings county must be @ name and a power as much as the old usage word of ‘the democrats of Kings.” It may be stated that if the principle of women’s rights were once established Mr. Beecher would be the most successful political campaigner that ever appeared in the region known as tne City of Churches. There was an unusual number of ladies present, who appeared to pay the greatest attention to every word that fell from the lips of the speaker, notwithstanding that his address was altogether of a political charac- ter. At eight o'clock Mr. Beecher was seen approaching from the back of the stage, and on the same instant there rose a burst of applause thai seemed to be electrical, s0 spontaneous, complete and general was it. The speaker was preceded by Mr. Edwin A. Studwell, who, on reaching the rostrum, introduced Mr. Beecher by a bow and re tired. At this moment, and while the plaudits were loudest and warmest, a scene was presented filling up the whole back of the stage, which had the effect of continuing the cheers, the waving of hand- kerchiefs and the general applause. The scene pre- sented in the back ground the Executive Mansion at ‘Washington; the White House, with two mono- Mths, one on either side. On that on the right sat General Grant, excellently portrayed, his left arm resting un the Executive chair and looking towards the figure on the opposite side. Beneath the General ‘was an upright figure of liberty pointing with her Fight hand to Grant, and looking with menace and disdain at the figure on the opposite pillar—Mr., Seymour, who was portrayed as a defeated candi- date for the Presidency and betraying all the pas- sionate disappointment of the occasion. Seymour gat under @ gas lamp, from which a nigger hung suspended by the neck, while on his left were seen the flames of burning mansions and all the evidences of mob riot. This well executed scene, towards which Mr. Beecher looked with much apparent interest, was cheered for a considerable time. When silence and order were restored Mr. Beecher proceeded with his address:— ‘MR. BEECHER’S ADDRESS. When, next March, the President to be elected by the people shall take his place in Washington it will have been four years, lacking a few days, since the war in its active form was closed. ie coun- try has during that time me through vast excitement, and events have rapidly forward until now the questions to be determined are new, but the principles are old and thesame. The issues between the parties of 1868 are not the issues of 1865. The passions remain. Parties remain the game substan’ that they were in 1865, and still further back m 3860. In 1860 the republican party achieved its first victory. It was new, young, un- practiced. It went before the country to claim the administration of government from the hands of an old party, with a long record of early giory and late eclipse. ‘rhe democratic party by being the friend of the common ple, and the whole com- mon people. Corrupted by power it abandoned the principle of faith in humanity and became the in- strument of a class, That was the damning sin of the old federal party, that it represented a class and not the whole people, And thai to 8 certain bo Was the sin an the weakness of whig party; and the Gemocratic party slew them because it did in its nee oe believe fervently in the common Beopic, and ‘an extraordinary career has stumbied into their grave! In 1865 again the two parties argued their claims to the management of the government before the people. A second time the people deter- mined that the iblican party, by its principles, by the record its deeds, by the men who chtelly its policy, 4 its tendencies— in short, by its past and by its future, ought to ad- minister the government of tho nation. Now, in 1868, the question 18 to be once more determined by the people, shall the republican party be instructed to carry on te completion the work of the past ten years, or shall the work be repudiated and the demo- cratic \y be installed in power charged to com- lete the work which the republican party has beguo? Wien Look at the meaning of the last ten years of American history. The letter and spirit of our historical institutions—of the character of our people—made it sure, sooner or later, that there ‘would arise a moral and then a po'itical protest against slavery. It was impossible in @ nation of Buch institutions, of such early ideas and of such spirit, that slavery should exist and there be no pro- test unless humanity died in the bosoms of men— ‘unless conscience became but a name. It was a matter of certainty that first or last there would be men who would feel the nature of the inward power of our institutions and of true American ideas and wouid assert them. The anti-slavery agitation answered to that necessity and was the logical se- quence of American ideas. Men did not make that agitation, It lay in the ve frame and structure and genius of our American institutions and govern- ment, and men were the instruments of causes deep as everlasting principles. Against the influence of this protest, irritated, but more ambitious of power ‘han Irritated at interference with their welfare, the South at last comiitted the supreme bdlunder of the century und drew the sword. The issue inevitable invoived the question of liberty. The republican party at an early day sought to avoid the true 1asue of the war and to maintain the Union without meddling with slavery. It was the rs of Inexperience to do this; but God's logicprevaiied. The repubiican party were driven by events that were inightier than they to emancipation, which was the logical sequence of their position; bef hesitated, but they were carried forward. © next step was to con- fer citizenship and all {ta privileges and duties upon all that dwell under our fag wiih out distiaction of color or of nationality. (Loud ap- piause.) That inflexible tendency of the principle of liverty irresistibly carried the party forward to tits, and to-day, partly by its own intelligence and volition and partly by the logic of events, the repnb- lican party 1s based upon the doctrine of the inherent right of ail men to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (Cheers.) Itisno empty pretence; it is a living guestion springing from a vital principle. It sprung from our war, from our Pama B from the genius of our people as well as from the strugg!e from which it came forth. And thoirfaith they have witnessed on all the battle fleids. It has gone through fire and been baptized in blood. it is the faith of the republican party; their 1aith in the lib- erty of the Wile common people. Now Ido not undertake to say that the repnblican rty has cominitted no errors. It was made vp of bien, and that is to say that it did commit errors, Polittcal parties do not represent celestrial things ta this world, and to attempt to clear a party from as- persion and blame ts to misconceive one’s interest as well as tho truth. All parties are but clumsy wa- chines, and are themselves acted upon as wel! as actors. Lam far from saying that the repubiican party eee without a blunder and without a mistake. No party should claim to this, But admit that it has been both on the one side too cautious and the other side too rash. Admit that the party lost a golden opportanity daring the firat years following the war. Admit if you choose that it lacked the subtie art of conciliation and the 8kill to mani men that is 80 much to be desired in parties: admit that In its eagerness it has been less lerant of dissent and of free speech im its own councils than was to have been My pep Admit that there have been men leading in it or seeking to lead that were not at heart in agreement with its pur- bog h J] os Admit all these things, and en what ? it, therefore, unworthy the con‘idence Of the Amexican people because it has stumbled or esitated—pecause tenes in many ts had fauite that may be proved upon it? Does it foliow that tho American le should no longer repose the gov- ernment in its hagds? They have not been errors of panini. They havo been faults on the bark and ‘Tuore he oy ata h all its fault ty stands, with al nits, on A plattorm boil up of doctrines pf impartial Justice NEW YURK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. +28 F a i it was waged arty has vindicated ‘he ay tial unity of responsible, standard currency of the money that was borrowed to feed the soldiers and to defend the government. (Cheers.) It has proved itself a party of patriotism, of unity, of liberty and of commercial idelity, (kenewed cheers.) Now, shall the work which ten years has seen thus deve- loped be consummated by the men who have con- ducted it thus far, or Bhall it be put ito other hands? That is the question of to-day. Has the republican party been a failure? Has its fruit been unsatisfying? Are we to reverse its policy, or, if we pursue tie policy, are we to select better leaders and better workmen to carry it to tts fnal execu- tion? That is the question. " If a change is mado it must be either that the country is dissatisfied with the policy of liberty (and no man will believe that) or that it chooses to put the development of liberty into the hands of men that will better pocorn the task than the republican party has. ‘There is but one competitor for the place of the republican party and that is the democratic pagy. 1 ask you to-night has the democratic party earned the right to admin ister on the goods of the republican party? Has it been one of freedom? Has it been one that has stood in the emergency courageous and effectually wrought a victory for this land? Now, as a_ party it 18 not to be denied that 1t was particeps criménis antecedently to the war with all those counclis which brought on the war. The democratic party were in sympathy with the South, and but for the assurances that were given to them by its leaders I believe, and you believe, that the South never would have ventured into the most monstrous blun- der of that great war. When war came such was the spirit of the democratic party that the truly loyal members in it, and there were @ reat many noble men in it—(applause)—they found it impossibie to maintain in their party thelr standing and yet be true to their instincts of liberty, assuming the name of war democrats. They became substantially republicans. The party op- posed the war either openly aud frankly or insidu- ously and silently. Give mea man that strikes fair blows at me in the face. , Deliver me from the man that takes me by the ‘beard and says, ‘How art thou?’ while he smites under the fifth rib with a hidden dagger. (Cheers.) Every Lo gains the progress of the war by the repub- licans—emancipation, the enrolment of colored men in the army, their self-protection by suitrage—at every step of development the democratic party was in opposition. They lung heavily on the wheels, not of Pharoah, but of the Is- raelites. They resisted by one plea or another and under one pretence and another every step by which the republican party sought to work out the problem of liberty during the blaze of war. And if you were to select a party that was to carry out the great work of rendering liverty to every man tn the land; if you were tosearch the world over it seems to me you could find no other party by its antecedents and by its presentgleaders less qualified to do it than the demo- cratic party. Here onthe one side stands a party made up of men loyal to penclpie, Joyal to their country and loyal to Union, who we given their sons, Who have given .themselves, many of whom haye come home maimed and wounded, who poured out their blood and thelr money, and have counted nothing too dear for the salvation of the nation by liberty; and this béen their constant and unvarying course. Un the other side, tnere comes @ party that for ten years has leit untried no expedient to undermine the cause of liberty, to rivet the old doctrines of oppression upoh the country and now, at this last moment, they come before the country’ and claim the privitegs of Shee of the government and ousting the republican party: Gentlemen, do you remember the parable? W ‘the bridegroom came,the five vir- gins that were wise filled their lamps with oll and trimmed them and were ready to go in with the bride- jon. Now comefthe tive democratic virgins, say- ing, “We have no oil; give us of your oil, for our lamps have gone out.” (Laugnter,) It is too late. While they were gone to buy the door was shut and rant elected. But it by them sa eae mies dy tari rpSoesnsans e the coun! y Tepublicans have been false to twee trust, selfish and self-seeking; that they have overslaughed the great principles o: ithe a that they will reverse the policy republican party and undo all they have - done, eclaring it to be constitutional, revoluiionary and | void. Let ‘us, then, see what they propose to do if they shall be elected to power. There is at least this merit—they have proposed ly their me. All the States that have been brought in according to the democratic purpose are now to be cast out again; thoy are to pass again into confusion by the shock and recoil to be turmolied anew, as if nothing had been done. And yet for the last four years no com- plaint has been more incessant than that the republican ‘party were keeping out the Southern States, and for own. purposes, Now that they are brought in the democrat Ps they shan’t stay in; they shall go out again. They would not receive the Southern members when they offered to take the tron-clad oaths. The republicans have admitted them; bui the democratic party says they shall be kept out and they shan’t stay iu Con- ess. Now that. vernments have been formed in the South and the machinery working smoothly tle democratic platform proposes to overthrow it all, suppiant the governmonts and plunge agata these States into confusion, if not into actual revolution. At least, gentlemen, there js the merit of frankness in this enunciation. It is said, however, that they are in these States by conditions and usages which de- stroy liberty and vivlate the constitution. Now what is the nature of these new constitutions that exist in the Soutiern States, and by whom have they been ordained? It¢ is said that they were constitutions that were framed under miliary coercion. Ah, gentlemen, in the olden time I stood in Norwich, near the old church and ground where our Puritan fathers used to goto worship in the first settlement of that town. They were obliged to come with their rifles, and had their sentinels standing out because the Indians prowling would perhaps otherwise steal upon them in their worship and destroy them. Suppose some one had raised the charge that these men were singing psalms under the coercion of these men that were sianding by with their rites? Mere were Legislatures that were attempting todo the work of reconstruction, Violent men in the South attempted to destroy them; our army put sentinels there to protect them from those wild imen, Did they form the constitutions under tne protection of the bayonet? The bayonet was a protector, not adespot, But it is said these constitutions were not formed by the whole of the Roope. No; they would not have been 80 good if they had. (Appianse.) It the mea that had before. that formed laws to execule iniquity, untaught and untamed; if the old plantation ciass that had done the thinking and the legislation for tne South for fifty years; if they had their way to form these constitutions, I venture to say they would not have been just what they are now. Who were they formed by? Theyewere formed by the common people : very common they are down there. They were formed by the peopie, it Is said, who were the poorest. Ladics and gentiemen, there is no class of persons that know what they want as people who have been ground under the heel of op- pression, There 18 nobody that can tell the doctor where the ache 15 80 Weil as the man that aches, Have they revolutionized the courts? Have they in any manner changed the civil procedure? in no whit bave they changed the course of commerce, nor have these constitutions introduced monarchical ‘leas. The charge that has been made against thera is that they are excessively democratic, They are constitutions that compare favorably with ours in the North, and ia te light of tue experience of the last fifty years the constitutions of South Carolina, Florida and Georgiaare in many respecis better than the constitutions of New York and Massachusetta, They have not equalled them, they have copied othe that un- them. They have carried out many reforms | for which we have striven, and yet have been | unable to carry th out to fruition, 1 ask no other thing to test the fruit of this great revolutionary war in behalf of the black peore of the land than to poiut to the constitutions made by the voles of (he black meu, I point to these constitutions and I challenge the worui to find « stitutions with regard to tie conservation of libert for the perpetuity of liberty and equalization for rights and jor the ‘destruction of class influence—1 a world to those will = point constitutions as unequaliod in al other constitutions. They are the marvels of the time in which we live. Cheers.) That which Svuthern men object to in hese constitutions is uot that they are despotic, but that they are all for liberty—iiberty for all. That ts the trouble, They have broken down ali political distinclions. They hive enforced an element of af- fection. They have givea to every man an equal chance fn the battle of life. ‘They have not given to any of those hitherto accustomed to control powor and place any superior jafusnee, These constituiions have made the people governors of the people. (Cheers.) That is the whole trouble—that with all hese things the blacks are made citizens, A man will vote to be @ citiz« fine as he will not vote to be a slave. The machine that made to run by wind cannot be ran by water; another machine made to run by water cannot be run by steam. God Almighty made man to run by self-made forces, and whenever you apply outside motives to man you rvert the machine and you make the worst to, Man was made @ slave, but to be o self-governing il men were made #0, ne same attributes were given to the black man as to you; the same ideas put into his woolly head that were ut into yours. Hope, spirituality, reason, percep- ton, reflection, love of children, companionship, agpirations. All these things are in the making up of the colored man as much as in the making up of hing of that you can put man not f be mad 4 creature, and the white man. (Cheers.) And to attempt to make animals of most mischievoas ve t & to make machines of men, 18 that could be attempted in the order of nature and in the decrees of Almighty We conform to God’s low ae epeeee: ee educated to vote. ithout aiming often. In every miss he makes on board he is being trains wit the ing ed to aim correctly, At the aoe time there are many men in the South in their interest Do you would trouble themselves with perp to the reasons for and it sucl licy if they did not care for the talisman of the vote. I the vote makes men orators, turns the politi- cian into a schoolmaster, makes them professors of black universities. Give a man a vote and you make every other man interested in that man, The vote, which is to educate these men as well as the school- house, the vote will bring the schoolhouse, and the Schoolhouse will bring the church, and the church will pring that liberty which created it, They say that the hordes of black voters do not know how to read—do not know what the word suffrage means; they think, perhaps, that it is an idol or someting of that sort. This may be ridiculous, but I could point to gangs of emigrants who will vote before long on ideas as ridicuious as that. Ido not think the Southern plantations come up to being one-half as bad as the wards of New York city, (Cheers.) ‘The plantation votes, and the emigrant ship votes, and both vote, one as blunderingly as the other. It has done it in the most eritical times, and if we would bear the pressure, the wholegburdens of this gigantic war and bear the burden of these foreign misapprehensions while taxing the people and levying recruits, and if even then under those Strains and tests the masses suffered we could stil maintain the commonwealth in spite of foreign votes. If we could stand that test we could stand any test that could be put uponus. But, for one, I am not opposed to the emigrants’. vote. If I had the power I would shorten the period of naturalization for foreigners and not lengthen it, I would do it because I believe and hold it to be safer fora man who is going to live in this country to have the Sg pee ity of goverument on him than for him to live among. us without it. 1donot say thatit is without its evils, but I do say that the ft resulting trom it ig greater than the evils are. t is @ most disagreeable thii to have the whole fabric of Southern society broken up, to have the social system of a people overturned, and I do not say that it is pleasant to the plantation owner, educated in Cambridge or Oxford, coming home one day with a thousand men to serve him and to find to-morrow that he ts nothing more than they are and no longer the mas- ter of these black men. But it has never been plea- sant for any class of people of any nation to have the ciass below them placed upon a footing with them- selves. There never was a time when the burghers thought the people were their equals, It is not likely that 1% ever will be so, and you will never get power to be distributed downward, It has to come by revolution from the bottom upwards, (Applause.) And as to the inconventence of this state of things, we did not know what 1i was to be, and we did not begin this war that brought about this state of atairs, We did not put up five men and rate for them with artillery. The South did so; they staked their institutions and fortunes on the re- suit of the issues and lost, and we don’t take the in- conveniences of the war. They do who brought them on themselves, and we are sorry for them. But I hold more than this: aside from the natural rights of the black people of the South they earned the rivilege of sufrage by their participation in the war; yy their efforts for the government, and by their en- terprise ever since they have been made free they have deserved better than to be made the objects of ridicule or abuse. (Applause.) They have earned the right of self-defence and to be free, and in order to maintain these conditions they must be upheld in them. ‘hey must return to slavery or they must learn to vote, and I believe voting is the best means that can be given them of . exercising self-de- fence. I hold it to be justified in the event; it 18 the only way in which we can relieve ourselves of our obligations of honor to them. We accepted thelr services la the army and gained through them, in part, the victories which made us a triumphant nation, and it would be grossly unjust now to leave them to be ground into aust by those who hate them. (Applause.) upon us to see that these poor creatures do not suf- fer harm, and if you still doubt the wisdom of giv- ing suffrage to them doubt it, But it is given to them. They have got it. There are many things that 1 have learned in my life it is folly to do. I remember once running after an express irain as it was aye | the depot; put I never do it now. (Laughter.) Ani when 8 8 once Put into the hands of men catch itif you can. For the sake ofargument I will concede that it was injudicious to give it to them, but that is now a issue. They have got the vote and will keep it, and you might as well say that they ought not to have been born biack, but they are black; or that thelr hair should not be curly, but itis curly and will remain 60, ‘The question is to-day, ‘is it wise to tuke away the vote, now that you have given it to tiem,” Now. the republican bes | ge it to them and will rivet what they gave, and the democratic party says they will strip those men of the suff: ‘hat the repubilcan party gave them. They mean do it because what the people did in giving this suf- is “unconstitutional, revolutionary and void.” These are the men of peace, and they are the men who mean to settle the eM ne ae That the prosperity of the South is, for the time being, in- jured and delayed I cannot doubt; I shall hever forget the impressions made upon me when in South Carolina I went into the streets and villages, and intp the paemg yO and found the land lying deso- late. Tue things I had read of in history of the deso- lation of ancient lands were brought home to me there, and a more sorrowiul thing could scarcely be felt by me were | in the house of my own dead, “But has Tepublican legislation put one single bur- den upon them? The distress of the South arises from its own mistakes, from the fact that it is suddenly thrown into a chi which it has itself produced; but beyond that time, that change, the seeds of prosperity are sown. We shall yet see the South materially, socially, intellectually advanced toa degree that it could never have ob- tained under its old bad system. {Appiause,) It is the misfortne of their own conduct that bas brought it upon then. And here lam reminded of a letter which was onde to me by a friend andin which he asks some questions that 1 will read. BROOK: DFA 8tR—As you are ina tew daya to make the citizens of Brooklyn on tho irsues of the political can- vase, upon which, in my cstimation, may not improbabi depend the continration of our republican government, make bold to suggest to you several questions presented this canvass, which I, with many other lovers ot our const!- tution and country, would desire to hear discussed by one who occupies to tiikh a position as you do among the citizens of thiscliy. The following are the questio 1, Does the republican pariy look upon the mass of the Southern whites as «till in rebelion, because of their treat- ment to the loyal men of the South ? Were the reconstraction measures passed to protect the iata and to make the rebels love and respect them ? we not the reconstruction measures bad a contrary effect? Are not the loyal men of the South worse treated t+ day than in the summer of 1465 7 ‘2, How many more reconstruction acts will be required be- fore peace, Inw, order and justice will be the rule, and not 1e exception, at the South ? 5, What is or was the nocessity of Congress actin side of the constitution ince the close of the war an out. Venting the United States Supreme Coust froin passing upon Bald reconstrnotion measurce 6. Is it safe to lay aside tho fundamental law or constitu. tlon of a country whenever a majority (?) desire to act oute wide of it 7. Why did not the republican party inform the South In 1865 what was required from it, instead of asking for certain acts to be done, and when done asking for others, an: in continuation down to the present time? 8. Would notthe wes be prosperous and happy Mberty and fraternity exter in the whole country 1¢ at the cron of the rebellion in A) Dongres ad admitted those Southern represeutatiy: and would have taken the Clad oata, and pun ich 1 e Somlern leaders cveliion as the peace and dignity of the country ro- da nt fo quires? 9%, How can an honest, patriotic, Intelligent Christian citizen support the republican party? have the honor to be A SUPPORTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, To Rev, H. W. Bescurn. You have here, in several nutshells, what is every day discussed in the street aud in the newspapers, Here you have ino drop wiat you will get in. the New York Worid ia @ projonged squirt. (Uproar. ious laughter.) To the first question of this letter I would say, “No; but the Southern people still in the condition in which the rebellion leit them. If a man breaks his leg it takes him two months before it ts set and wellagain, The surgeon performs his task, perlaps, in a few minutes, but the patient hes to. endure & couple of months’ suffering before he can feel as he did before his leg was broken, They broke their leg very effectually, and it don’t get well in a day or in @ year. When children get the moasies precautions have to be adopted against a recurrence of the dis- ease, a8 secondary symptoms are considered véry dangerous.” To the second question my answer is, “No; they were A 10 protect the whole people, the whoie community, whtte and black, loyaists and disioyal. The object of the reconsiruction measures was to ensure the common good of the whole peopie. 1 answer to the next question, ‘Yes; they have been worse treated, but the reconstruction acts were not the cause of it. It is the hope that has been inspired that they can be able to undo and lay aside all that has been done by those measures. Let it once be understood throughont the South that Mr. Blair will be President--with Sey. mour for a vell—and there will be through- out the South @ renewal of disorder, con. tention and discord; but let it be fnderstood that General Grant, by the overwhelming deterimt- nation of the people, is to be President, and tn leas than one month all theso turmoils will be crashed and disorder coasé, To the fourth question I auswor that we have our It is an obligation*® tf : 34 ublican party was obliged to constitution or not at all.’” fess I do not feel so sensit who stood four years in my ye tlon—(langhter)—and yet 1 have great respect for ity but there oy em just now in this most affectionate interest of theirs in behalf of the constt- ro nao » constitution. ghter. ‘Why do { love the constitation? Because I believe it breathes and creates liberty are they so solicitous for the constitution? Because it breates liberty everywhere. That is the trouble. ‘The constitution that they mean is the old constitu- tion that Taney constructed; it is the old constitu- ton that was brought before the courts when South- erm men put Sonthera jud; in_ the courts fore- sworn to make decisions In favor of slavery. I mean that otuer constitution which our fathers made, when they, under that wild, divine magnetism, built it tor liberty, What have we taken out of it that will circumseribe the Independence of the indi- vidual or that will make liberty narrower? The very causo of offence is that we have made liberty so broad that there is no creature form of woman thot does not become a citizen under that constitution, My friends, you are invited to attend the funeral of the constitution, ‘The late members of the democratic party and the Southern people in general are all of them affection- ately invited to atteud the funeral. See them going in procession after the constitution, some reeling with grief or other things. (Great laughter.) Sec them going with thelr bowie knives and revolvers. Hardly have they wiped their red hands of the blood of the last assassination. See them going, the men who fought your sons and mine and who have spilled the blood of loyal and valiant sons and children like water. them pining and mourning over the constitution. When Sodom and Gommorah sit round about the tomple in Jerusalem praising its beauty and longing for the prevalence of light that shall ‘shine out of ‘Zion, then I shall believe that these men who are erying out “Constitution, constitution,” have any love for its eeseutial principals or have any right to say anything about it. (Applause.) In answer to the sixth question Mr. Beecher said, ““No,that was the very reason why we blamed the South. They had no = to go outside of it; we brought them in- ‘To the seventh my answer is, perhaps because they don’t know themselves. Do you suppose that every member of the republican party was a prophet? That they were all inspired, or that they were gifted with foresight? How did they know the temper of the South? ‘The intrinsic difficulty of reconstruction Was go vast it isa marvel to me that we have done 80 well, I believe miatakes were made, and that they tried to forestall some and rebuke others with ili success. Counting in the mistakes I think the work of settling the country and of reconstruction, second only to the war itself, was victoriously carried through. When they sala why didn’t you see all at first, do you suppose the things to be done were as plain asa bill of items? We had to feel our ray we were like men crossing a ford that never Bit been explored—they had to feel their way on the bottom, with many @ ‘‘souse” at that, before they crossed the stream. We were like an army in a foreign country, and were obliged to plant cavalry on every side. To the oth question I say I don’t know; no man can tell what would have been the result. My father once said to ne at the table, “Henry, 1 came very near pee Nancy Eaton; if I had married her instead of your mother, would zou be yout”? Cae laughter.) Now, if any bod: K & look at e Vast and complex question as it stood in 1865, and undertook to say if it had been all different from what it was we should have had a very diferent state of things from what we have. To the last question I reply by saying how can an honest, peices intelligent Christlan support the democratic Tlf That's the question, (Applause) It is sald that General Grant is a drunkard, an it 6 said that General Blairis one also, but I don’t belleve-either of them are. I know too well how these stories rise and grow. We know it because there may have been, under the privrtions of army life, times when they, in common with many of our of- cera, might have relied on too much stimulants {that there may have been such times I don’t deny. I don’t know. But that General Grant or General Blair are habitual drunkards and are liable to any such charge that should affect the confidence of men I don’t believe @ word of it. But I free to say that if 1t were so I would rather have Grant drunk than Governor Seymour sober. ok at these two men. It ts said that Genera! it knows: ot ioe civil affairs, It is certain that GQ or mour knows nothing of military af- airs, Itis said we need a statesman. There is a deal of deception about this word “statesman.” have always thought what we wanted to make a Presiient was a great deal of common sense and @ great deal of uncommon honesty; that is all. If General Grant is not the impersonation of com- mon sense, who would you select? If he is not hon- est, gentlemen, I think we may give up all trust in human natore. It is said that he is not a us. He is nota genius in the sense in which General Sherman is—the man who follows him with the most enthusiasm. He has a genius that is brililant be- cause the imagination ig very largely a part of his ius. But General Grant 16 not a man of imagina- though he is a man of genius, bat it is the jus of common sense; less lendent, but more safe; less shining, but truer and deeper, more com- prehensive and enduring. GRANT'S CAREER, Now, what has been Grant’s carcer? Where can < find a man so modest? His modesty is such that ‘am afraid Americans Will not vote for him, ay mo- desty 18 not in vogue among them in these days. Laughter.) So unself-seeking, so m: mous to is equals, I don’t bolieve there has ever been such & spectacle as that presented in the friendship which exits between Gens. Grant and Schofield, and Sher- man, and Sheridan, and Thomas. (Applause.) Notlong ago I received the following anecilote from head- quarters (1 do not mean from General Grant):—When the democratic party were casting about for a can- didate for the democratic platform some Senators visited the Secretary of War, General Schofieid, and urged hiin to be their candidate, after laying their plans and desires before him. Genera! Schotield went to his friend, General Grant, and told him what had been done. General Grant listened, smoked on and saldnothing, (Cheers.) Nextmorn- ing General Grant went to Schofield and said to him, “Schofield, it ts certain oue or other of the candidates of the two _ parties must be elected Prestdent of the United States. Now I don’t care anyting about that, but I do care that the country should have @ sound ian, and I don't see how you can consistently refase to become the candidate of the party if they put Ft on @ good platiorm.” “But,” said General Schotleld, “i am a Grant man, and cannot go Lopes soy “Well,” returned Grant, “1 thought it my duty to tell you what | thougut about it,” and he then left. Now 1 think that is almost as good as declining a nomina- tion and accepting it. I believe Grant ges @ man of adminis- tration. I beileve he has not only jaid the country ‘uader obligations to bir which we can never repay for the services he rendered during the war, but I believe he 13 destiued to lay the country under greater obligations. tHe will give us an admuinis- tration so temperate, 80 divested of passion, free from ail malign influences, so wise in his sejection of men, 80 judicious in carrylog out measures that we will see date froin his administration @ recontinuation of the ad- miloistration of Washington bimnself—(cheers and ap- 4c) —@ man Who la many important respects he bles—(appiause)—and in no respect more than tiis—in his wisdom in taking counsel of wise men and in making his personal decisions redect the wis- dom of wii tie Councilors he can gather around him. if General Grant sits at the head of the gov- ernment of these United States there is not a single workingman in the nation, not one poor emt- cuit, not one duaky creature iat by his pine knot jie reads his spelling-book that wiil not feel that isecure aiier General Grant is Presi- dent—wi ow that the repubiican party is the party of the common people, the party of universal sutlrage, and every human being ia the United States will know that the power of the government and the party of enlightened and Cnristian people will be aliia favor of the greatest security aud the yreatest measure of liberty toall. (Cheers.) THM QUALIZIES OF SEYMOUR. What is his antagonist in private lile? A gentle. mian not only Most respectable, but most Kind and aimiable, of polished and wianing manuers, agatost whose private character no man has brought a shadow of reproach, But Seymour is not a man of ideas; he {8 not @ man of victorious will; not a man who in dark and dificult days setzos the right path, and then though all men leave fim follows it to the victorious end. Ne.ther soldier nor general; he is @ man that will be managed by those around him; without @ record in the war but abad record, he would bang his bar- dens on the government, He is not the man that ought to be euirusted to shape the policy of an cra of liberty, Never by speech or by any act of his life has he shown himself to bo the right man to place in power on those terms of liberty, A lawyer mai the best statesman, @ general makes tie best civil! ‘The man of ideas ts tie man under whow this nation Will rest most secure and sate, Tits TWO PLATFORMS AND THE CANDIDATES, And if with such platforms before the people, looking back to babylon and & radiant with all the elements of trae liberty; the other retrogressive, with two candidates; one repre- senting all that is young and true and ail that ta advancing, all that is great and novie; tue ower retrogressive, timid, time-erving—it with these two the same people that carried the country through the war, if you choose the wrong one! lad almost said Eeuould lose faith in democracy. But I ssc no faith In the peopie, The people will complete ho work, The people are iscerning; they know both the mieasures and the men, and 1 believe whatever takes places in New York and Bbrookiyn=1 believe that ere four weeks have rolled Away the voice of this nation, speaking searcely less subline tuan the thunder of that Vole that souaded from Siuai; no Whit less gel tol gen Radical Republican Congressional Nomina- tlons. The republican Congressional conventions met last night, but owing to the eplit in the party but few absolute nominations were made, the conventions for the most part adjourning for the purpose of con- ferring with the other organization. The following Gre the detailed reaults:— Fourra Disrrict.—The radical wing of the repub- Means held a meeting of the Congressional Conven- tion for the Fourth district and appointed a com- ttee of five to confer with the conservative branch, The chairman appointed Mr, H. Winans, Isaac L. Sayer, Jno. Kelly, Frederick 8, Bogue and Samuel jamie such committee. The convention then ad- Firra Disrrict.—The radical convention of this district met at Runk’s Hotel, 247 Grand street, last evening, with Mr. Henry 3. Jennings in the chair and 8. 0, Parrissen acting as secretary. Upon a vote being taken for candidate for Congress for this district Mr, James M. McCartin received the unani- mous nomination, and when the result was an- nounced there was appiause, A committee was then appointed to inform Mr, McCartin of the action in onvencn, IXTH DistRicr.—The radical convention of this district (the Ninth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards) met and selected William Orton as thelr chairman. On motion of Colonel Conklin, an informal vote for acandidate was taken, resulting as follows:—John D, Lawson, of the Fifteenth ward, received 21 votes; Abram Lent, ex-Senator, 12 votes. A conference committee was then appointed to see the conserva- tives and try to agree upon a candidate, with in- structions to report next Friday night, to which time the meeting adjourned, after giving cheers for Grant and Colfax. SEVENTH DisTRIcT,—This convention met last evening at No, 2Lavenue D. Some commotion was caused by a fuil delegation Saget: being sent from the Eighth Assembly district, only a portion of this district being within the boundaries of the Seventi Congressional district; but the matter was finally adjusted by admitting the whole delegation and yet giving it only five votes. The convention adjourned without making any nomination to meet on next ‘Thursday evening. a , HIGHTH Disrricr.—At a meeting of the Republican Nominating Convention for the Bighth Congres- sional district, held last night at the Everett Rooms, corner of Broadway and Thirty-fourth street, it was Unanimously resolved tiat a committee of seven, tn- cluding the chair, be appointed to canvass tne district for a suitable nominee and report at a future meet- ing, to be called by the Chair on recommendation of sald nen the delegates to be notified in iting, NintH Disrricr.—In the Ninth Congrossional dis- trict Dr. Francis A. Thomas was nomimated by accla- mation for Congressman. Conservative Republican Congressional Con ventions. Fourta Disrricr.—In the Fourth Congressional district the conservative republicans held their con- vention to nominate for Congress last night, at No. 141 Hudson street, The convention appointed a com- mittee of conference and then adjourned. Firta Districr.—There was a meeting of this con- vention last evening, also at No, 274 Grand street, and after organizing the chairman said the conven- tion was called together to make a nomination of a candidate to represent the Fifth Congressional dis- trict. Mr. Horace Greeiey was then nominated and received the votes of all the members of the conven- tion, and Mr. Greeley was then declared the unani- mous nominee of this convention for this office. Dr. J. B, Snodgrass then made a few remarks eulogtstic of Mr. Greeley and of the wise choice the convention had made in selecting him as their candidate for this gy ge position. ‘The convention then adjourned, ixXTH Disrrict.—The Conservative Republican Convention of the. Sixth district met at Bleecker Buildings but made no nomination. A committee was appointed to confer with the radicals and the Convention adjourned to next mein night. The committee are George Hepburn, Hu, Gardner, G, E. Hill, J. Pangburn and James W. ‘Farr, The con- vention declined to-permit the reporters to enter the room, SEVENTH DisTRict.—This convention met at the Bowery Hotel last Svening, and after appointing a committee to confer with the radical Congressional convention of the same district, adjourned, subject to the call of the chair. EiguTu District.—In the Eighth Congressional district the conservative convention met at No. 435 Fourth avenue and effected an organization by the election of chairman and secretaries, lutions were adopted to the effect that the interests of the party would be consulted by securing unanimity of action in both branches of the party, and the con- vention adjourned subject to the call of the Nunta District.—The Congressional Nominatin; Convention of the Ninth district was held at Third avenne and orga by the election of Colonel Joseph Yeomans, chairman, and Mr. J, C. L. Hamilton, secretary. A resolution appointing “a committee of five to confer with the convention of the Twenty-second street organization to secure unity of action and @ unanimous nomination of a candidate for Congress of the republicans of the onal district” was adopted, and Messrs. John Cooper, Jr., Samuel Wallace, S. J, Campbell, Abijah i and Joseph Yeomans were designated to act as such committee, and in con- formity to the resolution proceeded to the headquar- ters of the radical convention at the Forty-sixth street wigwam. Democratic Congressional Nominati ‘The Firat District Democratic Congressional Nomt- nating Convention, comprising the counties of Suf- folk, Queens and Richmond, met at Jamaica, L. L, yesterday. During a pleasant session H. A. Reeves, of Greenport, Suifolk county, was nominated by acclamation. A party of outsiders, who had par- taken pretty freely of bad whiskey, attempted to get up an Bi pte candidate, but the movement was frowned down and condemued by the thinking men present. ii GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN FOR CONGRESS. Large and Enthusiastic Meeting at the Apollo Rooms—Speeches by General Nagle, Cape tain Goulding, Mr. Archdeacon and Others. ‘The call for a public meeting of the citizens of the Fifth Congressional district last evening, at the Apollo Rooms, in Prince street, to endorse the nomination of George Francis Train for Congress from this district, filled the hall to its utmost capacity, The meeting, though enthusias- tic, was very orderly. Mr. Thomas O’Connor was chosen to preside, General W. J, NAGLE was loudly called for, He promptly mounted the speakers’ rostrum. He felt it his duty, whatever other duties might demand his attention, to be present at a meeting looking to the political advancement of George Francia Train. (Applause.) This noble man was dragged from the deck of a steamer and thrust into a jail at Cork. For four days he was kept there, and then, as nothing could be made ont against him upon the charge of being connected with Fenianism, he was held on a bogus charge of debt. George Francis Train was the first man who gave him a dollar in the prison ‘where he had been confined for eight long, weary months. (Applause.) George Francis Train troubled the government of Great Britain by his lectures. (Applause.) Had it not been for George Francia Train no would to-day have becn hewing stone with Warren, Halpin and others now held in British prisons. He, of all others, felt his obligations to George Francia Train, ‘ihe next day after bis own release and that of eight others from prison in Dubin he called on George Francis Train’ in the prison where the latter was contiued for the small matter of a debt of seven hundred pounds. “You want money,” said George Francis Train. “Here's ® hundred pounds for you." (Boisterous applause.) This was a man they should (More applause.) George Francis nm Working ta tue cause of benevolence ever since iia release frqui his debtor's jatl, He hat sued the English government for damages for shut- ting @ jall againet him, He would, he believed, heavy damoges; bat all might be assured that evory dotiar would be devoted to the benefit of Ire- land and her noble sons. (Loud cheers.) It pleased many to call George Francis Train a chariatan, George Francis Train Was no charlaian, It pleased many to call George Francis ‘Train a specalator. George Fraucis Train was uo speculator. He was, on the contrary, everything goo A more generous man does not live, it was no new thing, his zeal on behalf of Ireland. et land. (C! true to Ire. ( r here read Several speeches and letters of George Francis Train, spok@n and written by him at intervals of the past eight years, The reading of the speeches and letsers elicited continuous outbursts of applause. Reverting to the suoject of his enlogy, the speaker said that Goorge Francia Train when he uttered and Wrote the sentiments that had been read had no idea of ever becoming a candidate for Congress, But he Was @ canditae now. (Loud applause.) He had not been trotted out for any bancombe, (Cheers.) He Was brouglit before the people with a serious inten- tion to elect him. (Lond and continuous cheers.) Branching off from this subject he ailuded to Charles Fraucis Adains—(hisses)—and his antagonism, as Minister to England, to ireland. He mentioned Reverdy Johnson and his speech at shef- field, which brought out another storm of hisses. He to'd of tho rumor reaching him when in’ prison, and how it deiighted his heart, of the net of General George B. McClellan a4 Minister to the Court of St. James, Witch clicited @ loud outburst of cheers, Going back to George Francis Train, the speaker descriped his parting with him ona Britisa steamtag on British Waters. George Francis ‘train buried defiance then Gud there against the British government. (Ap- 3 lange.) Francis Train was not afraid of Pee meee de tan, het cae reat wee {Additional t cheers.) Francis Train was not afraid of 8 cheers.) A prophet was George Fran ahead of the times was George Francis Train, acumeén on national finance and on home and topics had never been country than had been 10 Was the best George Francis Train. (Loud Spplause.) Who would not be satisfied with subordi- nate positions on subordinate committees? George Francis Train, (Renewed applause.) Who would stand 2 for the workingman in Congresas George Francis FE ‘ain, (Boisterous Applause.) ‘ho would stand up for berty everywhere? George Francia Train. (Cheers. ) Who ‘woul speak out boldly for Ireland? Georga Francia Train, (Tremendous cheera.) Who 01 tho Paciflc Ratlway scheme? George Francia Train. (ewplass) There were those who calied Geol cls Train eccentric, His eccentricities were tho eccentricities of @ master intellect. He hoped he woud Be chosen to represent the Fifth Congres- he ne. prolonged cheering.) ot Oe, CAPE Ae “When will George Francis Train be in this coun- try t”” asked some one in the audience at the close of the General's speech. “He leaves for Queenstown next Sunday,” replica the General, which announcement called out the most thorough demonstration of applause of the evening. Captain L. G. GOULDING was now introduced. He 2 with speaking in general terms of the demo- cratic candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, and commenced launching out his denunciations of the fitness for the same offices of Gxenh ana Colfax, when the audience would not stand tt, “Talk about George Francis Train,” calied out one. “What was this meeting called for? queried another, The speaker switched off the track he had taken and took the George Francis Train and was listened to without further interruption. General Nagle’s speech, however, was so exhaustive on the toplo that he found it diMcult to add anything to the former's speech. In conclusion he said he would retire to make room for more eloquent speakers. “Goodby,” spoke out some innocent person, and with this goodby lingering in his ears the speaker took his seat. GORGE ARCIDRACON was the next speaker, He talked with a vehemence of utterance adapied to an audience covering a ten acre lot. He had been in an English dungeon. (Loud cheers.) He was not in one now, for which God be thanked, He had his naturalization papers in his pocket when he was put in a British prison, and though wriiing to Seere- tary Seward on the subject had not yet got them; but he did not mean to be cheated out of voting at the comimg election for ail this, aad voting for George Francis Train asa: of the next Congress. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) He wished fifty such as George Francis Train could be sent to Congress. He wound up his speech with ad- vising the Irish voters of the eily not to be sold. J. Ul. G, McGionr followed in a long speech. Michael Dwyer followed him, and at tie close ¢ hibited a sash and some resolutions presented to Mr. Train by ladies in Cork and Dublin, A sorties of res- olutions moss warmly endorsing Mr. Train as their candidate for Congress was next read and cnathusi- astically adopted. With three times three rousing’ cheers for George Francis Train, the next member of Congress from the Fifth district, the meeting adjourned. TELEGRAPHIC POLITICAL NEWS. Democratic Demonstration in Piilaclphia, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9, 1308, A Seymour and Blair torchlight procession and meeting were held this evening by blind persons. Several speeches were made. One young man, al- luding to the assertions of the republican press that great numbers of republicans joined in swelling the McClellan procession, said he did not be- lieve they would be 60 Inconsistent as to do honor to the man they had denounced as a tralior after the battle of Antietam. Seymour and Blair were en- dorsed amid much enthusiasm, the bands playing some national airs. Immense Democratic Gathering in Scranton. SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 9, 1868. An immense democratic mass meeting was held here to-day. It was the largest gathering of people ever seen here. Thirteen thousand persons were present. Speeches were made in the afternoon by James E. ng Sega of Boston, and Francis J. Kier- nan, of Utica. Another mass meeting and @ torchight procession took place this even- ing. The procession was over one mile long and contamed about 5,000 _ people. Speeches were made by Judge Woodward, Mr. ern: Mr. Fitzgerald, Colonel Bennett, of Iowa, and Dr. Remak, of Philadelphia. Great enthusiasm prevailed, Ten thousand people were present at the meeting. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company closed their shops to allow their workmen to attend the demonstration. The delega- tions from the towns throughout the county were i Nothing occurred to disturb the harmony of e Accident to Mr. J. Q. Adams. CoLumaBiA, 8. C., Oct, 9, 1868, Great disappointment was caused here to-day by the non-arrtval of John Quincy Adams, he having been detained at Charlotte by a railroad accident. He will arrive to-morrow. Extensive preparations have been made for his reception. Great Turnout of the Detroit Tanners. Dernorr, Mich., Oct. 9, 1868. The “Tanners” are parading the streets to-night, with torches, transparenctes and music. Thejturnout is estimated to be tile largest of the campaign. The Campaign in Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Oct. 9, 1868, The campaign has beon carried on in this county with unusual vigor. Both parties close to-morrow by @ procession and meeting of the republicans at the Buckeye Base Ball grounds in the afternoon, and a torenifght procession and meeting at the Fifth stfeet market space by the democrats at night. Republican Meeting in Waterbury. Warersury, Conn., Oct. 9, 1868. ‘The republicans held a large and enthusiastic cam- paign meeting to-night, which was addressed by Senator Ferry. There was a parade of the “‘Boyagn Blue.” Split Among the Minnesota Republicans, Sr. PAUL, Oct. 9, 1568, The anti-Donnelly republicans yesterday noml- nated General Andrews, of St, Cloud, for Congress, in place of General Hubbard, who has withdrawn from the contest, Naturalization Frauds in Easton, HAstos, Pa., Oct, 9, 1368. Developments of fraud in the granting of naturall- zation papers have been made to-day tending to show that ont of 500 naturalizations obtained tn this city over 300 are illegal. The court has discharged the persons who were prosecuted for perjury in some of these cases. TELEGRAPHIC MEWS ITEMS, John Tyler, Jr., of Boston, has challenged Walter Brown to a rowing match, for from $1,000 to $3,000, on the Hudson river at Troy. At Jeffersonville, Ind., Thuraday night, a German saloon keeper named Munch was fataly stabbed ta the abdomen by a drunkard named Hetp An up freight train on the Georgia Cen! ran off the track yesterday al tho cight posi, demolishing fourteen cars. ‘The schooner Forfar was sunk off Muskegon, Wis. on Lake Michigan, Thursday, and four person whose hames were unknown, were drowned, ‘The oficial count of the vote for mont 19 ag follows:—Page (repub! wards (democrat), 15,239, Page's majori George W. Stockton was found drowned ja Wolf river, at Memplus, T itis supposed he comuil In Memphis, Mollie Everett, ® negro woman, was cruelly beaten by her husband recently and died yes- terday afternoon, fer husband was arrested aud committed to jail. The Alabama Logistature has resolved to adjourn to-day to reassemble on the second day of Novem- ber. No election bill has been passed, aud it is gon. erally understood that registration cannot be com- pleted im time for the election. ‘The weather at Savannah and Augusta, several pointe ta North and South Carolina for the seagon aud rainy, Al Lyachburg, ¥ Memphia, Tenn., the frst heavy irost of this season fell on ihursday night. Rev. Thomas H. Stockton, for several terms chap- lain to the House of Representatives es Washington, and weil known a8 @ minister of the Methodist Pro- testant church, died last evening in Philadelphia, aged sixty years, ‘Tho base ball match played at Buffalo yesterday afternoon between the Cincinnati Club and the Niagaras, of Buffalo, resulted in the defeat of the fens by @ score of 24 to 8 in a gawie of eight in- mings. The second of the series of home ana home games of base bail between the Harvard and Low was played in Boston yestorday afte ame was exciting throughout and resulled in a de- feat of the Harvards by a score of 31 to 3k Mr. John C. Chapnian, of the Atlantica, of Brooklyn, acted as umpire. ryan the miter of Angle on cumaan, sory in the murder o! Cy Ne ¥. Yeamo up tn the Court of and Terminer at Hudson yesterday, and upon application of de- idant’s coungel was postponed entil the exe Joseph Brown, Josepuine’s alieged accom im crime, was hanged mi May last, Indicted 8 acces