The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1872, Page 3

THE PRESIDENCY, Anti-Administration Mass Meeting | at the Cooper Institute. E TERM” ADVOCATED. THE “ Senators Trumbull and Schurz on the‘ Presidential Rampage. THE SOREHEADS IN COUNCIL. The Cincinnati Convention and What is to Come of It. LETTER FROM SENATOR FENTON | Bitter Denuueiation of President Grant by the Peripatetic Senators, SP: ECHE: » RESOLUTIONS, &C. The mass meeting at the Cooper Institute last evening, initiative of the opposition to the candi- dacv for the re-election of President Grant, was @ biz thing as far as numbers went, It partook @ good deal of the Chinese system of carrying on | @ hostility—a fourish of tomtoms, a beating of drums, shaking of old bones, plenty of chin mMusi¢e, but ttle harm done. In the words of one of tne principal orators of tne evening, whe question might, indeed, be asked, what were they going to do about it? A question more easily ask a than answered. Of course Carl Schurz was there, aud his copatriot, Senator Trumbull, and they did all the talking. All the political “outs”? and sorebeads were on hand 1m the corridors, on the platform aud in the body of the hall, and acted sometimes out of all order, and moat inopportunely as claquers to the | speakers, There was @ very noticeable ab- | sence of influentiai citizens on the platiorm, which was altogether given over to old Cus- | tom House men and ex-officials doing nothing in | particular at present, but waiting for something to | turn up in the good ume coming after the Cincin- nati Convention, Senator Trumvull was in good vein, and spoke with his usual vigor and force. Cari Schurz spoke his speecn from a manuscript be- | fore him, faliing to excite the sympathy or feelings of mis audience throughout his long address, even When most denunciatory of the administration. That the anti-Grant men could not nave Jt all their | own way under any circumstances was pretty evi- dent from one incident im tne proceedings; tnat Was when Trumbull made what he and his friends | deemed a mast palpavie bit against the President, the cheers and applause following upon which were equalled, 1f not surpassed, by the hisses and | groans of the friends of the President. As a | whole the meeting was very orderly and | quiet, though lacking in the principal ingredient denoung public sympathy and support—eatnu- | siasm, The only speaxers, witn the exception or a | few words from Mr. Greeley, were Seuators Trum- bull and Schurz, whose speeches will be found | below, Avery full list of vice presidents, headed by the name of Frederick A. Conkling as Presideat, and secretaries was read and confirmed, THE PROCEEDINGS. ‘The meetng was called to order by Colonel Fred- erick A. Conkling, who ina few words tatroduced the first orator of @e evening, Senator Trumbull. Senator ‘Lrumouils Speecd, Senator TRUMBULL Uen spoke as Lollows: FELLOW OrTizens—It 18 Now nearly sixteen years since I have had the pieasare of wadressing au audience in tne cily of New York. We were inen jus, entering upon What Was Known as ine | Fremout campaiza, ‘She question then before we counuy Was Whether siavery should be spread ito the iree Territories of the United Siates. Many peopie Uought Laat tue goverament of the United plates, then controlled by the siave-ruling power, was oppressive and unjusi, aud a party was ten organized and did not succeed m that election; but tne seed was then scaticred, which bore fruit in 1560 1a tue election of Avrabam Lincoln to the Presidency of the United Staies. The slave-holding power rose 1n arms aud reiused to submit to an admunstrauon woich saould | be even coutroiled by tue frieuds of freedom ; for it | Was Well understood tuat there was no lulencion on | tue part of the republican party, and no constitu. | uoual right, to interfere with Slavery In the states where it exisied. Bul tie siave-hoidiog power, un- williag to retam siavery = simpiy where it Was, undertook uismemver the — Union and seb ap government in one-naif ol the Union =wWaich should ‘est = upul slavery as its uhief coruer stone. hen followed a | great War, carried on ior Lie purpose of the mainte- naace of the Union, and sia Went down, never | more vo rise forever. (Applause) In that great struggle many @ patriot lel, ani many are si among Us bearing ou their persons the wounds sus- tamed im freedom’s cause, snd the coantiy will ever cierish tie memory of the heroes wiio fel, aud has provided amply, by pensions, for the widows | and orphans that remo among us. The war closed, the armies were disvaaded, and slavery | Was lorever prohibited by cousuitudonal amend. ment, Then the equal rigits of ail Were esiablisned turoughout tue land, and provision was made tha the deot incurred tor the mwalatenauce of tie Union aud for the payment Of peusions and voun- | ues to soldiers should be forever sacred, | and that payment the debt of the revels and payment for slaves shouid never be | made, Slice then provision nas been made by Wuicn the dept jacurred 1s in a gradual course of | exunction, All tne States are restored to veut tor- | wer reintious in we Union. And whet now | 13 there to) disturb) the happiness — and | peace of this people? (ilere an interraption | ‘was caused by the peopi¢ comme, down aud occupy. ing te aisles Of the ball.) Senator ‘irumvuli con- Unued—1 Was about inquiriug What it was that caused this gencral uneasiness ubroughout tne country, There are severai causes for (te dissatis- Jactiod of the people, which I can oniy brieiy wiude to on the present occasion and siali not touch upon, But there is one cause of complalut | which produces alienation in vine late insurreciion- ary States and keeps aitve the hate aud animosity | engendered by te and that is the con. | Uauance of politica disabiliues aiter the occasion tor their imposition lias passed away, (Applause.) | 4n couseqoence of this continuance the govern. | iments Ol the late rebel States have falien into tae hands of inexperienced and In many imstances of | corrupt adventurers, who nave pluadered the pso- | wo a ple of those States scarcely leas than you la the city of New York have plundered by your former city government. ure Uhose disabilities continued? Why are they not | removed and all the peopie entrauciised? I tuink there are two Causes, aud two alone, wich prevent it—one mercenary and ine other political. (Applause.) The mercenary one is With (hese adventurers, who, by excluding from ofiice In ail those States the former teading men that resided tuere—and although tuose men were trai tors during the war, they Were not thieves or plun- | derers—lave thrown [bose governments into the | uands of men who have used theic power to plunder | tue people over whoin they ruled. The debts of the | Southern States have been swollen in some instances | twenw-fold what tney were before the war | began. The debt of Alabama was less than six millions of dollars in 1880, and at the present ume 18 contogeut and alebt 43 near forty million dollars, “Lhe \-Porida, which was but $200,000 at the comm ment of the war, Nas been sweiled to $15,000,000 Wal Of Georgia from $3,009,000 LO $44,009,000, Aud eve people do not Lave What even you im the city tNew York have to show for the money expende lar I beuieve you have varpeis aud some furuitare. Applause.) These peopie have very litue to suow for these Vast debts which nave been incurred. | Another reason for conupuing these political disa- oldies, 8, a8 I have said, of a parusaa character been Why | absolue t dept th The mea in authority use tue — political divabilicies “as 80) much political capl- tl upon = wWaich to trade, fo iilustrate what J miéan, | Will refer you to what took piace In | the State of Georgia a jew years ayo, wien a indo by the name of Bullock Was 1s Governor, When | tae Legisiadaire of tat State Wax about to be organ: | ized, if Was Understood that Certain personas had peen eiected who were laboring under poiitical disabilities, They were given to uuderstand that | Uiose Of them who would sustain the Governor could have tmeir political disabilities removed and | tuat those of them Wuo Would nowy could not be permitted to take thei seats in the Lewisiature, and | the result was twat the politica disabilities | were removed of such persons 4s acted with the government, while the otners were excluded, and so Governor Bullock bad conirot | of tat Legislature, aud he succeeded in fastening Uupou the State ® debi the discovery of | which of jate Mas Caused fim to fee the state to | escaye the puniatuneut whiek would have solowed, So tt 18 With members of Cougress clecied from puthern States. They promised to remove Usabinties Jrom Jiwiyiduas—they ary | elected im taking the vath aud | paid aad Was received. do that, because by Joing that they can gatn favor. (Here Horace Greeiey entered ana Was greeted with joud applause.) After which Mr, ‘Trumbull said:—Very appropriate are those cheers in hover of the first champion, I believe, in the country to proclaim boidly universal amnesty, One great measure which 1s demanded in the name of Nonesty, in the name of peace, in the pest mierests of all, is the passage of a gencral Mill re- moving pe disabilines, Another cause of complaint among the people 1s the manner in which the patronage of this government 13 used, as i it were $0 much money to carry elections, not in the inierest of a party even—it does noi even rise to that high dignity—but in tue tuterest of w faction of a party. It is notortous—you all Know it 1n the city of New York, for tt has been recently disclosed by an investigating committee which sat in this cliy— that your Custom House is filled with men who, instead of having received their ap- pointments in consequence of their fidelity, of their abihty aod of their capac to discharge the duties of the offices for the best interests of the country, hut because of the influence Which it 18 supposed they can exert al some pri- mary election or State convention, or in teacning you, the people, whom to vote for at the polls, ‘Ths civil service reform of one is the parent of many, very many evils which I cannot stop to-meht to point out. ‘fhe officers in many localities (aud 1t is Su here) are taxed a poriion of Weir sataries for party purposes, and if they do not pertorm always ready to te political duty required of them they very soon are removed and others —sub- stituted who will be active im politics, Passing from this question of civil service reiorm, which Would Occupy an hour to discuss properly beiore you, 1 come to another measure which 18 creating alarm througout the country, and I allude to tue assumpuon of unwarranted Power on the wrt of the federal government ano its departments. During tae War extraordinary powers were exe cised by the government—powers never betore cailed into being, and although 1m my opinion tuere was never any Occasion at any time during the war to exercise any unconstitutional authority on the part of the federal government, all the power neces- sary Lo be exercised even in War or in rebellion is now exercised by the administration, ‘The tederal government 18 encroaching upon the rights of Vhe States, It isdoing so by legislation to sume ex- tent, Recently, at almost every session of Congress, laws are passed taking away from your Sie tte bunais various forms of jurisdiction and transfer- ring them to the federat governmet. Some of these Jaws lave aiready been declared unconstiutional by the Vourts, Bulls are aiso introduced into Con. gress creating additional circuits throughout the Whole country for the appotntment of judges and marshuls and attorneys in every small district of country, And Ii (his Koes on few years will elapse betore you will have to seek your rights and re- dress for your grievances, not mh courts estabiisned by yourselves in your own State, buv in courts pre- sided over by judges appointed by the centrai power, and over whom you nave no control. Encroachments are also made, and, perhaps, the most alarmtug ot ali, by the military power. The milttary power has come to assume the duties belonging to civil officers, and that In deflauce of law. Alluding again to ihe State of Georgia, wuich was recon- structed under the reconstraction acts, and nad elecied a Legisiature in 1668, some dificaities had arisen inregard to the organization of the Legisia- ture in Georgia, and in 1569 and 1870 Congress passed a law declaring that all persons who nad been revurned as elected by General Meade, who at the time was commanding oiiicer in that military department, should take a certuin vath and qualify as members, and the law pro- vided” that i should ve @ felony, pun- ishaple by imprigonmeut in the penitentiary. NOt less than two and not More than ten years ior any person to interiere with any member thus p rticlpauing in Lhe session of the Lagisiature. And—wouiad you believe 1i?—with such @ law as that upon the statute book, Vhe military officer in command in Georgia issued Qu order prombiting certain men to sit 1n the Legis- lature, and aliowing ovhers to take their seats—a direct detlance of an act of Congress, which should have subjected that officer to imprisonment of not Jess than two years in the penitenuary. Has any noice been taken of iif Yes; tue matter was re- ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary in tne Senate, and o report was made, drawn up by Senaver Edmunds, an ardent frieud of the ad- ministration, expressing in mild terims that the committee was constrained to say that the actiun Oi the military authorities was contrary to law. A Jew years ago Vongress passed anotner law that no oficer of the regtlar army should discharge the functions of @ civil office, and yet who does not know that the White House 1s filled with army omi- cers acting 48 the secretaries of the President ? Not # day passes during the session of Con- gress that we do not receive messages trom Wwe President delivered, not by that secre- tary for whom the law provides and tue peuple pay, but by a major im the reguiar army. Suppose Andrew Jonason had done the same tng. Do you thtuk 1b Wouid have been passed by without notice ¢ Aud does it Make any difierence by Whom itis being done nowy How, then, cao this peopie pre- | Serve thelr lverties if they quieily submit to these eucroachments py those io autnority? ‘Tae sutety of (he cluzen 1s to be sound 1 the Local laws whica the people themselves aduunisier, and nov in a ceniral goverument, waere all tue powers of gov- ernment are ludefiuite, And if this system of en- croachinents goed on, the day is not dis- lant wea our repubiucan system, — based upon ine idea ol a division of powers between the federal goverament and the States, will be transformed ito one military des- pousai, With all power at the city of Wasiington, aAudicare uot Whether power is exercised by & single person called a monarch or by 500 persons culled @ Cougress, Itis equaliy adespousm. The doctrine 18 now prociaimed voldly by men nigh 1 aucnority that the States of tue Union have sica powers only as are conferred upon them by the con- suLuuOM Of the United States, when directly we reverse 13 true, and the States have ail power, except such as the constitution has con- jerred upoa the geueral goverament. ‘Tue dit. fereace 1s this, the government of the United ates 18 one oO: derivative powers, In te Siates the goverument is inuerent, and they have all power not dented them by the constitution, Waich declares in one of its amendmen:s that ail power hot conierred by Wits coustitution 1s reserved to the States, Another just cause of complatat with the people i8 Ue corrapuon of tue goveriment, ‘his seems to be au era of corruption among all odl- cialis. You here ia tne city of New York lirst dis closed the robveries Which were being practised oy those im authority, aud that awakened a pubitc sen- Umeut tu the country that caused the people all over the land to look tO thelr oficials Lo ascertain Whul disposition they were making of the mouey that Was collected trom them; and in my own city Oi Uhicago several of the city oMlelals have been convicted of receiving brives and other ottences, aud are now suffering tae penalty of their c io prison. In tie government of the United state We nave nou been able to unearth and disclose all tue corraptions—in fact, | tulnk we have only just sven the sarlace of What exists below —still, enouga has been disclosed to show that We greatest avuses exist. Twili illustrate ib by reference to one that recently Occurred and has been brought to lignt, 1. 1g tual of the Gompiroliership of the Currency, An officer, Who has caurge of ail te naronal bau, was lately been before the people. ‘mis OMicer received as @ present from one o1 1s Ofivers @ carriage aud harness in the city of Wash- jagton, ie walked down te avenue, and for tne deluication aud misuse of money he was rewarded by walking out with the head of the oureau, wno gave him @ carriage and a harness, fhe cierks in nis departmeat received mouey while situng at their desks—clerks whose duiy 1 was to see that the law Was nov violated. Weill, What happened? Way, @ committee was appointed; a committee Unat Was Iricuily to the oiicer and to the administration Was appowted, and tuey made areport. Woat did they say? ‘That “the good management of tue Curreucy Bureau causes us to ask Uiat te head should be changed and the officer at the head of lat deparunent shoud be removed.” Thereupon, Ou the receipt of that answer, he was permitted to resigu, and to go oat oi office honorably and undis- graced. A few years ago, when some one asked Wial sould be doue tou gian Who had torn down @ fag Ulat Had been Hoatiag on Lhe Custom House, the repty was, “Shout Mim on tae spot!” ‘that reply Was endorsed by every patrivuc heart. Suppose Ulat Ouicer Had been deiinqueat im the discharge 0: some political requirement; suppose he had re- fused to pay Ube assessment tor party purposes; Suppose he had used his influence in conducting sie primary, or ne bad promoted the interests of some Iavorite or some Congressman who had got lim the piace, Why, he would have veen porttucally guillotiued, and the axe would have come down aaa he Would have gone fortn truakless, @ terriole lonument of Waraing to the ollicers of his ume. ‘rnere 1s another oficer Whose denuquencies have been announced recenwy, and wat has be been doing? Woy, simply this, A lew years ago, during the War, the government entered into contracts to build some war vessels. Alter the contracts were made tae government Changed their plaus some- Whatand it Was alleged by the contractors that they suffered joss on account of the rise or me price of miateriuis. in = 1867, two years after, they came wo Cougress and compiained of their great lus, and asked the Cote gress to passa law wherevy the Secretary of tne Navy Was to form & board of officers to examine jnvo their plans end see if anything was dae to tein, Areport of the transecuons of this board Was made, aud in Cousequence a law was passed lhe Congress v1 the United States in 186% autioriz~ 1ng the payment of $115,500 Ww these contractors in | Hquidaisa of alt claims that migut be due on the coustruction of these vessels. ‘Ihut mouey was Don’t you think taut ought {0 be the end of ivy It was not. Without any law the Secretary organized anotner board, and directs (heut to Inquire iato this, matter, anu they make a VLUMNICALOD, th Which they recommend tuat tae contractors ought to have $9400). That was @ bourd that was under jus own’ superintendence. ire Was not the law direcung him to appoint tus board, Lut he Appoints it in Violauon Of, He Paid Lats $94,000 Withuut any appropriation for tt. the consticuuion of our country decares tat no money shail be patd out of tue Tressury unless toere 18 an appropriation for it made by law. What ty had he to Cake Money in 149 aad 1870 to y [oF Work GoLEe In L864, Or belore tuaty Why, Ula’ vicer migut Jast 48 Weil ave taken the ou Wiiuoul auy Examination ab RIL Just as Ke auy money as take the mouey he did. uid ue pay men wouey for accouats that nad Weil, What Was the answer to ail the Inquiries a8 to Us? Why, that tius was the coustrucuon of the law. Why, What would you tttak of the contractors wie had been paid $115,000 in fal] Of all Clans Ona transaction who Came agatn io you wlerward to recover ¥¥3,000 and offerea you tat receipt and said:—“My © rae- on of the law 18 taal you pay me $93,000 /") ‘Toere is no excuse fori. The plunderiog of the Treasury In suct @ transaccon Would create an litense indig- HALON AZAINSt SUCH a Wrong Were 1 uot tuat there 1s 80 MUCH OF IL aud such @ CONStAnt Mmisappropria- Lou o} money. But itis said That there was no In feutioa todo any wrong. Jue question is not cae OL iwigutiod. Au absuiuie monATeA May wOVErD Lis Why been seciled t i NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. subjects justly or he may enslave them. The ques- lon 18 not either what @ military ofMcer should do or what a civiltan should do; but it is a question whether they had any authority to pay the money. It had nothing to do with this case whether the money was due or not; there was 10 au- thority of any kind to pay this $93,000. 1 have thus briefly stated the questions that are submitted for your consideration—namely, slavery has been abolished; the riguts of all the citizens of | tus country have been estabiished; that the rebel- lion has been put down; tae States restored to their former position in the Union. These questions have been settled, and any person wao now Inteuds to disturb them is Cheating che public mind in ref- erence to them, and must do so for the purpose of | diverting attention from the leading issues of | the times. 1 have striven to state to you | what they are. They relate to the encroachment by the federal government on the rights of the State and local government; (hey relate to amnesty and the securing of equal rignts to all—the great price ple iying at the fountation of te republican party; ihey reite to areiorm in our revenue eervice, VY | which taxation shall be reduced, and so arranged | as to bear equally, as far as possibile, upon all branches of labor and ‘ndustry, without oppressing one branen for the beneiit of Ue other; they relate to the perfection of the civil service; they relate to the administration of the goverument, by which plunderers snall be driven from power, and tie power piaced im the hands of honest men, Now, can tnts be done? (Wry of “it can be!) 1 had hoped for tue realization of these objects through the instrumentality of | those who have the control of the government; but the experience of the past sessions 1n Congress and the present session bas saustled me tnat these re- forms cannot be accomplisied througa the agency of the ruling spirits now controlling our affairs. (Cheers,) ‘Chey profess to have a desire to get at Unese reforms; but Lacy deieat them by offering in- congruous amendments. ‘They profess to duve a desire for the reform of the civil service, but they recorm them by do1g notning practical to accom- push it, ‘They profess with a loud voice to be iu favor of the fullest investigauon; but they appoint committees contrary to all parliamentary precedent — (cheers) — and of common sense, Whose object 18 to dud out We best they can about the accused, v0 be coutroiied by Ms friends, and from which investigation every person 18 Careiully excluded Who 1s supposed to be un- Irlendly thereto. Suppose that it had peen just dis- covered that millions of mouey nad been appro- priated in this city by corrupt oiticers and these oiticers had been called upon to appoint & com- mittee of investigauiou? (Laughter.) Do you think the iniguities of these officers would have been un- earthed? Why, it would take your Coumattiee of Seventy and youraolest lawyers in america to nave jound 1t out, You have only found it out within the Jast lew weeks, as it 18; ludeed, I do not know that you have found it all outnow. (Langliter.) 18 it any wonder that the people have seeu only the suriaceY Before the war began the oraimary ex- Penses of the government were less than SIXty mul- tons, What do you suppose they were last year? Why, more than one hundred and forty millions, Weil, it may be satd, that busivess has increased. But has the population doubled within the last ten | years? Have the necessary expenses of the govern- ment doubleu? Do you pay more, or it anytning more @ very small sum, to forelwa Mine isters, and to your foreign Consuls, than you did beiore the war? Do you pay @uy more to your judges? Perhaps a trifle mores The expenses of your government ought not to ve thirty-three per cent more. In my judgment tae expenses should not exceed ninety millions, ex- clusive of what is due for interest and pensions, Fifty millions ought vo be saved by an economical udministration of the governinent. But I have said that we have been unable to bring this about by the administration exercising coutrol, Why? Because the machinery of government 1% in the hands of sixty thousand office holders in this country. They control the republican pariy by conventions, or otherwise through the instrumentality of mem- bers of Congress and others to whom they owe their places, and to whom these members owe tueir seats ‘in Congress. How, then, is the remedy to be obiained? Must the people submit to this? Is there any escape from these encroachments upon the rignts of the peopie * and 1s this to go on until the people find themselves crushed by a power at Wastington that will tax taem as they please? Yes, there 1s a remedy ; but that remedy must come frum the people, (Cheers.) We cannot obtain it from we politicians, Jor the politicians are venal. They are alraid of the denunciations that will be huried at them by those who are in control of the powers that be, ‘hese politicians will talk to you, and they will state sullavly and coirectly tie grievances as we liave stated them, but will take no energetic steps for their alleviation. ‘The repubiican party a nobie record; and men do not like to break away lrow its associations aud its ties, and will only do it from the strongest sense of jusuce, There is a feviing Lam glad to believe wil arise, and this honest sentiment of the pec will lead to a correction of these abuses. A not has peen giveu that tuere wili be a mecting of pendent republicans in the city of Vincinnati. (Taree joud cheers for the Cimcinuatt Convention.) on tne 1st day of May next, That will be a meet ing—not of officeholders, simpiy for tae purpose of devising schemes tor hoodwiaking the people, tor misleading them by persuading ‘them to endorse their wicked schemes—but a meeting of honest, siu- cere men, determined to bring about a reformauon and a periection of tue government. We say that the invitation is addressed to the best element of te republican party, aud that it wiil be assembled there on thut occasion, Tuis can aad will make it a success; Dut to make It a success republicans minions of power—the vilains, robbers aud plun- verers of the peopie—who will be excommunicated from the party because they set tuem- selves up to be the republican party. Tucy are no more like the — republican party in nonestv than the Angel Gasriel 1s like tue cevil, (Laughter and cheers.) During the political campaizn they Wil be engaged in fighting tne batues of the hour, When we reier to ue appoint- ment and removal of officers they will say, “We abolisued slavery.” If we ask jor @ reform of the revenue service they say, “We put down 7 They point us to the results of the war that was fimisued seven years ugo. ‘they tell us of ihe enactment of Biavery, and are talking to us about voting tor Andrew Ju yn aud yotlng fur Grant, who is as poittically dead as Andrew Jackson. (Laughter and cheers for Trumbull and couuter cneers for | Grant.) Let these old Bouroons fight their patties | over again. Let independent republicans ve ever found to beheve tn progress in reler vo live issues, and let them encourage measures which 1 ceive the support of the good meu and tive imei aud the party shall be successiul, (Loud auu loug continued cheering for Trumoutl.) LETTER FROM SENATOR FENTON. Mr. HORACE GREELEY Said that pelore the meet. ing would hear the aadress ot Senator Scnurz Mr Allen would read @ letter which had veen received irom Senstor Fenton. Mr. E1liAN ALLEN then read the letter, as fol- lows COMMITTEE OF FINANOE, UNITED STATES Sex AT WASHINGTON, April T1, 1872. Drak Stt—I cannot be with you to-morrow mght, b dvem it my duty to say that the moment for retorm and p rity of government in the State and nation, and also. to cure at the iead of allairs a republican statesman, tra in republican ideas, has my cordial sympathy. It is a ne sity of the hour, I'say this asa republican, anxious for the cess of houest government and the revivai of fraternal ling throughout tue country. Very truly, RE, FEN Colonel FREDERICK A, CONKLING, New York. Mr. ALLEN also Introduced tne subjolued RESOLUTIONS, Resolved, That the officers of this meeting be and are hereby invited to attend the Cincinnati Convention, Resolved, That the Chairman of this meeting appoint a inittee of twenty-five, of whom he shail oe one, with ority to take # uring the approaching na- al canvass as circumstances may require, and to fill va~ cles in their number. The following were appointed the committee under the above resolutions:—Sinciair Tousey, krnest Krackowizer, George ford, Wiliam R. Stewart, Charles Aitnof, Charlies I, Klake, Theo- dore Glauvensklee, Willlam ft. Raynor, F. de Fithian, Samuel Sine! atr, Dr. Adoiph Kessler, Ira 0. Muler, F. General L. Locke, Hartwig Gercke, Charles T. Polnamus, Henry Merz, Dr. i. W. Howe, Ethan Allen, Peter Vook, J, N. Hegeman, Henry D. Lioyd, Arnold Taeazer, George Van cielt, K, U. Anthony. Speech of Senator Carl Scharz. Senator Car Scaurz then came forward to ad. dress the meeting, and was very cnihusiastically received, He said that was not the first me he stood on that platvorm. He stood upon it in 1860, When Abraham Lincoln was the republican can- didate for the Presidency—wheu they braved the onset of the slave power wiih the watchwords, “Free soil, free speech, tree mea.’ He stood there in 1862, when the word “emancipation” was first thrown by @ multitude of patriotic citizens into the multifarious fluctuations of the war. He stood there in 1864, when Abraham Lincoln was again the standard bearer of the repuolican parcy—when the aboiltion of slavery was the result of the great con- test In which the country iad oeen engaged. He was tuere 1n 1863, when the great settlement of the equality of rights was proposed, and when tne words “Let us have peace’ were taken by the peo- ple as @ promise that they were to return from the Ditteraess of strife to the enjoyment of civil rights; and recently he stood there advocatng civil service reiorm, the abolition of paruusan rule and the puriti- caution of republican government; and now he stood there again, uot as one Who Nad renounced any of tue great principles he had ever advocated, but to continue tiat advocacy with as much fidelity as ever—as one Who in that advocacy was wholly in earnest before, and who Was earnest now, without rerard to opposivon irom friend or foe, and just because he was always in earnest he was now sin- cerely devoted to the cause which he was there to maintain and upnoid, He stood there to protest aguiost partisan bigotry, which suhordinatea the public good to partisan Interests. They protested Against the assumpitoa of way power that would override the iaw of the land, They protested against tie growth of personal government in this country, which tended to con- vert public power into personal property — which couverted the noble spirit oC arepuulican citizen ito the submissive acqatescence of the subject, He raised tis provest in the name of the great cause he and they Nad loug fougie tor —1 tae bame o! constitutional government; in the name of public moraity, that was tue lie of free mstutu- tons; in the name ot the great American repuo ic, Waich Was to be the guiding star of mankind in ws aspirations and straggles for liverty, (Venement applause.) He started out in life with tae repubue can party. He never was in any other, He nad Worked in that party with Zewi, and he desired to remain in it as long as its policy was descined for the public good and maintained in good jain: and if he was proud of auytning it was not of the honor he had achieved, int it was of the con- Sciotishess tat When he tried to exercise mtuenco on pubic opinion he did not say a word that ne did Hob honesty beleve to be true, (Cheers) If he jound himself now ta confic! with the oMciat lea Gis of Ne repubicad purty Wt Was because ne could | must *be prepared to put down the | Not adandon the controlling rule of his life without abandoning bis duty Ww the American peopic. | (Cheers, ) ‘for nat Treason he appealed, with them, } Vo an enlightened public opinion. —Al\ one War the fag of the victorious Unioa had now tor seven | system lo correct evils may De Worse tm ils conse. | aid the years floated triumphantly over the stronghwide | Of the rebellion, Armed resistance had layed. An important period in the development of navODa: | life had closed, and a new one had commenced, Each period of our history had its own peculiar problem to soive. During the civil war the supreme probiem was to save the existence ana preserve Uy Integrity of the republte, ‘To tints ali other interes and objects became, for the time berg, subordiawie, | ‘That provlem had been solved, te reveilion had been overcoine, und they had now entered on w fleld of action. rhey had to seitie the logical rm suits of the war. ‘That settlement had been sue. | cessfully effected, and it was embodied frmiy in the constitu‘ioa of tue repuviic. Ali patriotic ent Zens sail that Chis settiement must be matetained | in good faith—as @ settioment Which Was la Gar- mouy With free institutions as Well as in aceord- ance with the entigutened spirit of the tay And ail sensible men agree that this seitieme Will stand, and that any attempe to overiiow i Wil inevitably result in disastrous fauure. thas the basis of a new order 0; tuiags Was Urmly and securely said. it remained to clear away the Tupbish and to develop that new order of things in accordauce with the requirements of truly free institutions; to obviate the diver. ences and animosities of tie past; to revive @ healthy national spirit, and the consciousness of | beloaging togetner among ali classes Of Our popula tion, so as to reinstate a free pu lic opinion instead | of force as the controling power i vur govern. | ment; to resiore the Tule O1 sound constitutional | rinciples; Lo reanuinate Lue popular respect (or tue | fhws to crush corruption wii v1 may appear; | al | wo raise the statiaard of morality in our life; to Secure & genuine relorm of our KYstem of taxation, so that Its burdens snail be adjusted to principles of justice and & In one word, | to preserve | tuis not unly as a republic in form and name, but 1 spirit and es- | sence, and in its elevating and ennobling Lafuences | upon the character of the people, as Well 4s them | materlai prosperity. The Whole quesiion of econ- omic eiorm demands an elavorate consideraiou, | for which I stall not now aave opportaaity, | | shall merely suave my conviction that not ouly in | continued politteal disaoniics, not only in the | tendency to disregard constitutional junitanons, hot only im the abuse of patronage, bu also in | our methods of taxation the needs and habits | of the war have iete beiind em grave | evils, prominent among them the practice of adjustiag taxes, not With sole regard to the needs of ne wavie people, Dut Wit Lutent Lo se cure special advantages lo importunate interests, ‘The broad principle laid down in the call for tue Cinciaaalt Convention, that neediess vurdens shall not be imposed upon the people, and a genuine tari? reiorm in accordance witn that principle, Wil. rid our system of taxation of many O1 its groalest abuses; and a refusal to recognize this principl will not sausty the demands o: pubic opin Ace customed to look only at theends to be accomplished, aud to care litte avout the dangerous means © ployed, the habits of war insensibiy Lusinuated them- selves into the practices of peace. Look at the young men wo were from tea to seventeen years old When the war broke out; they are now from (wenty-one to twenty-eight, constituung one full third of our voting population, What senvool have they gone through? "They have searcely ever seen or heard anytiing of the constitutional restratats of power. What they have heard and seen was only bold assumption and strong exercise of gov- ernmental authority. —‘ihey were taught to beueve In its necessity, to submit to it, to justity it, to atd it, That is the only tradition and experience under which they have grown up. Such were the duues tmpos- ing themselves upon the party in power after the close of the war; duties worthy of the highest am- bition of any organization of patriotic men. Tney couid be appreciated and fulfilled only if tue great objects: be accomplished stood to those in authority above the allurements of power and the seduction of selfisn party interest. If those duties were not appreciated and Tulfiled, {t becomes patriotic ciuzens to look for means by which their appreciation and fulfilment cau be securea without regard to mere arty interest. And in this spirit 1 speak to you, for the great interests of tne republic have aiways been to me something higher than party allegiance. All were to bring about true peace, founded upon reconciliaiion, @ retarn of that cordiality of feeling which alone can hold Unis nation permanently to- gether. This great object could not be accomplished by mere means ol force. It demanded a policy ris- Ing above all uarrow-minded resentments; a policy dictated by sumething = higher than par- tisan spirit, ‘Tuere was & justification tor restrictive measures as long as tue legi- timate results of the war were not con- stiuti onally assured. Then that justitication ceased, and we, the victors in the great civil con- flct, were Called upon by all considerations of patriousm ana political wisdom to make the South- ern people leel that in all our measures of war and policy We had been guided by the necessities of the , ANd Not by leelings Of reseutment or yindic~ } Utat we desired to be to them not haughty conquerors, OUC sincere and Well-meaning friends, that tey migut see in toe fag of the’ repapic not the symbol of defeat and degradation, but the ByMDOL Of FyZhls dud provecuon, equally Cuaranteed ‘to them as to all otners, that they might feel once more the pride and patriotic inspirations of full American citizensaip. A general amnesty (the re- Movat of political alsabuitics) was demanded, now 43 @ measure of mere Senutnental generosity, but as @ measure O! the plainest political wisuom, Years have elapsed Since tne resulis of the war were foru- fied with impregnable constitutional guaran- tees, and the general amnesty has not een granted yet. Dowa to Uils very aay a large and ine fluential class of citizens in the Souta are stil tod that the public interest, as It 1s administered by popular seif-vovernment, 13 NO busiuess of theirs, and that tils great republic 18-_no repubite of equal right tor them. Dowu to tmts very day the Jealousy of the races is SUll nourished by the fact that many, and by ho means the junworthiest white men sare deprived of political rights and privileges which the black man, the Jate Sitve, enjoys. Down to this very day te work of the adventurer and dema- gogue “Who speculates upon the ignorance Oo! lus followers 1s Jacilitated; corruption, toupery and demoralization are fostered; the return of goud and honest government 18 1mpeded ; a cheerful and general acceptance una successiul’ Yevelopment of the new order Of taings 18 prevented 1n the sot by that narrow-minded policy which excindes trout public employment and repels trom. frieudiy co- operation a large class of men who have so great un interest im an honest and success ful aaministration of pubite affairs, It 18 true the Vresivent, 10 lus last Message, said a good word for amnesty. Put we find iis most tasted and powerful friends, his loudest spokesmen, throwiug every possible Obstacle in Its way, and we have to hear vet of the tirst instance when (he most outspoken enemy Of Us most necessary measure was therefore treated and considered a8 an oppo- nent of tue administration, Aua on every occasion che old battie cries of civil war are revived by them as Watchwords of our — present — political tests; old prejudices and resentments are kept alive ag a Sock Of political capital to be used for party advantage, and ali tis Lo secure wae re-elec- tion of the game President who first appeared in political lue as a candidate for the highest honors Of the republic Witn the falatest promise of peace on his lips, and wuose word for amnesty Is this day drowned by the vociferous protests of his most possible the zealoas iriends Are we thus to palur in a double sense with the highest interesis of tue republic? Is this measure of — peace and reconciliation to become the suvject of thimbie- Tigglug juggiery. playing the game, “Now you see it, and now you do nov’? 1s tuts the manner In which we are to bind to us with new bonds of cor- diaiity the late enemies whom we want to become patriotic citizens again? Can we thus gam their irtendsip and confidence? Is tis worthy of the great republican party of which we were 80 fond? Not those who think as I do can be parties to wi a — oe ave heard them justifed on the ground that | be maintained and President Grant must be re- the objects to be attamed were good, revard- | elecied.” Unconstidtional assuuptions of power jess of the fact that the employment of | ana vreaches of law by government ofte als? unconstitutiooal or arbitrary means as @ | “An, well, we can fuserpret the const laws to suli the case and to make ich tfles appear all ” Corraprion + by the assumption of arbviirary authority ground thet extting evils cal fort. Wo have a im force to dar, waieh, Rad it been tne ate book belure the War, miyht, bY a liberal COUStENCUOR, such as We have so Irequen iV Feen tn our days, ha Heatavery Of, anizaton, yo a ers of the iereward of dovernment using turer power s the laws deining tuew auchority, AW WALO Heel, wn see them do it with i puny. in soar owe mitt you ¢ seen private rigais aioasiy interiered win by public oMictais, a8 i they required no @ iy but their owh pieasure, We huve the Prosiient of the Coned states himself in Nis aw st was ive of war should the ruler of rie red her vy a forenn Power of by Bis OWD wabjeCis, and tals EVER alter the treaty of auuckution had been solemmy re- jected by the Senate, thus clearly warping the war. | making power Wace the constituuoe ¥ gress, We have thus seca an get whieh, if rateed he dinity of ve a8 an autne Ive Tule Of Cont ULONa. con. will virtaaty ware ng in the hands of ¢ 1 mane te couairy am awit we mats my seo these things, be which [he # at men of the best times reput Would have stood aghast y doue PUNY, but justhed and w net wat gress and the we an wot etferoust wager pat bisa strive Lo samp that sabver-ton of ene ¢ essential principles of ear con-titul Ment, a8 & Valid precedent for ail time, with the sanction of » approv hat os tne doctrine thas practically tang at the utral power do as it pi tat th stitution and laws are to | wee cordance With 18 wets; Hay, We we are told that the ¢ » hot care avout such things, aud that (howe Who raise Uhelr provest AAs them MUst be set doWA a Caplious Anders and toa serene da Weil, i do not eare abc he maintenance « wien torus th Lis jaws, and those com wark of true that the juduences waien are ready of the laws aod ine con vantage, ten, | say, it is those Who do care ‘should determination to de the to sacrith cutwn 10 tne highest iiae laws aud wi party ae Une that up With patriouc tion, nul Only agaitst arvilrary assur but ako against equally dangerous iy i wee, Ib the Mighest time tat they should Not copflue themnwives Lo EMpty Protesis, to be ful- lowed bY pUsiLanImOus RoquIesCeoCe and saoints sion to party dictation, bal aet With alt (he 19 Which free Insiiations put al Loeir disposal. fre peal, Action Is heeded, that this PepAdliC, NOW hap. ply feed from slavery, be feed [Tom every speees Of arbitrary rule; Unal the constitution, wot ont with all the grants of power it makes, but aso With ail the Testraints of powWer it Linposes, 4 Aain resume tts supreme authority; that tne self government of the people shall be resveeted tn 1is legitimate sphere; that tie law of Line bined shall be again the law not only for those who are governed, put also for hose Who govern, aad that the whole people of Uns repuolic ve again Ine spired with @ clear appreciation of the meaning and value of constitutional rule, and a just seuse of their rights and obigations The me bas come when tila effort must be made, ape 1 confidently trust toere are sti men esougn in the repuolicad ranks Whom & slavish terror oi the party Whip Wii not deter from dotng what wey conceive tobe agreat duty, It is ume, | say, lor another term of such arrogant assuimpuon of power, and such wanton — acquiesceac y furnish flunkies of powe. With such a store of recede’ for argument as to bewilder the common under. standing until people cease to look for oramary Ineans Of reilef, Sul another proviem 18 MM posed upon us by tus period of our bistory. Ast O pubic grows in population, ana the multitude and grandeur of Ls public Interes!s, $9 the machinery Of tue government grows In extent aud In mduence upon our political Iie, In the same measvre the hecessity lucreases of infusing into the machinery & lugher spirit’ of morality to prevent that Influeace from becoming — dese aud cor. rapting. But we are surfounded by @X+ traordinary — clreumstances, our anvil war as all great disturbances In history hay stiaulated and lostered a spirit of speculauon and jobbery, waich has made our public concerns the suLject OF Tapacity aud plunder to an unusual degree. It has made our public morals easy at loose. Corrupuon and peculation sy pelitical life with alarming botda) tt ame the supreme daty of tiose m power to check this dangerous tendency win vigor aud teveruiaa- ion, ‘To accomplish Lois great end three Uniaws Will be necessary: that those In High places, Waose CONdUCL IS Visiie Lo all the World, should set an ex ample of scrupulous purtty and folly inselsnness; that the ruling purty should In is eritieisin abd in tne handling of Hts power be severer even agatust The SHOTLCOMINES ANd Tespasses OL Its OWN Me bers than agatust (hose Of 18 opponents; and lastiy, that our present system of civil service, whicll has become the nothouse of so many alarming abuses, should be so retormed as 10 make Honesty, vacity and fidelity to the public Interest the cri terion of qualiication tustead of partisan servies, and thas to destroy te corrupting and tyrannical r Influence OL the geverament patronage. Has thes been done? Has the exampie of tuose in hight and Conspicuvus places been such aS LO be & Visinle revuke to the spitit, oF se-tist reed with 1s demoralizing our polucal iter Has that nigh Standard been set of single devotion to We pube lic interest and noble disiaterestedness* 1 wil not go imo an odious ertiiciim of detais. He who runs may read the history of our days. But surely @ nepotism far more reckless tian any- Ung Of the Kiud the anuais of tus republic teil of Was [ar Jess calculated ty impress the public servants and the peopie With the idea that devouon to ihe public good should be tue supreme motive of those entrusted With authority than ual he who is put into oflice aud power may With perfect propriety first use bis opportunities to benefit bimself and is kin, The teactiigs of such h Gxan cannot fail to be widely demoralizing, wh they proceed trom the highest piace ot honor an authority, You remember the ouery which wa raised In the times ot James Buchanan, whea employed the patronage of tue government to si lain himself and promote Nis OWN political mterests against those of his parity who advocated different opinions. If James ichanan lived to-day ne Would have to adiit that in that live of business he was but a@ pusiianimous bungler. Never hus the hand of the national administration been thrast Into the local politics of States with greater ity, Never has the patronage controling Un lic service been more recklessly used to promote the interest of iactions or to further personal aspi- rations, As in France, under Louis Napoleon's rue, ‘We heard of official candidatures dictated aud sup: ported by the government, so we hear in this re- public, all over the land, of Grant candi dates for State offices and for Congress now, whose recommendation is the oficial stamp, wno are ww be supported by alt Who desire the favor of the governinent, and Whose personal services are expected as a condition of that support. It was our pride as republicans once to Say that in no party there ever had existed such atreedom of criticism and tadividaal opini bo it was when Abraham (Lincoln was resident. Every republican spoke his mind freely, aad found in hun & President who, instead of reseating, lavited candid criticism, and who respected every honest conviction, even if that conviction run counter to bis personal desirea, But things have changed. If now you ever conceive aa opinion contrary to the interests and controinng de- such @ mocking performance. We want an honest and straightforward policy; aud uf tnose who siape the conduct of the party will not give tt, then our duty as honest nen commands us to seek 1t Where tt can be fouud, The Close of the civil War Imposed another auty upon us. Republican government, and the free istitutions upon whicn it rests, find their strongest bulwark in constitutional principles and forms faitufully maintained and religiously ob- served, No repadlic can stand, no popular liberty, no personal right {8 secure when the powers of government are left without restraint to tne whins of those who wield them, I admit that in times of extreme public danger an extraor- dinary exercise of power may be necessary, as Une Romans put the republic in the hands of a dictator when the enemies were at thelr gates. But even this cannot be done without great danger. It will soon create the habit of arbitrary assumptions of power on one side and the habit of thoughtless ac- iuescence in arbitrary assumptions on the other, t is thus that republics are undermined and perish in the demoralization of popular sentiment. Look at our recent history and the present condition of our affairs, While the civil war wae raging we were naturally inclined, nay, naturally anxious to strengthen tae hands of ihe government, that it might save the life of the repubic. In a vigorous display and enoergeiic employment of power the loyal opie saw their salvation, I shalt not find fauit here with the means witch were employed to attaim that end, They rested upon the plea of imperative public necessity. But those who condneted the government fell into the habit of accoreplishing What they thought best with the strong hand. of power, and of taterpreting tne powers they wanted in the constitution whea tne words of that charter did not willingly yield them, However good those ends may have veen, the means were full of danger. ‘The people began taking aa active part in tae control of our government. Is not the mere statement of this undeniavie fact’ summcient. to fll with apprehension the heart of every friend of constitutional government and of popular tiverty iu Uns couatry? It was my fer- veut hove that the party 1n power, when peace was restored and the legiumate results of tle war were tirmiy securea by consttutioual guarantees, would appreciate its tremeadoas responsibility in this re- spect; that it woul! comprehend it3 great duty, Just, because the nabit of arbitrary assumpuon of power on one side and of easy acquiescence on the other had grown up im times of grews public danger, to stem that pernicious tendency with the most conscientious care; that, Instead of continuing the practice Oo: construing powers imo the constitution beyond its clear meaning, It would strenuously Insist Upon & conscientious observance Ol Its restrictions; that imetead ot permitting any aroitrary assumption or exercise of autnority, 16 would with @ Wateniul eye see vw & lalth: tut and strict compliance with the laws of the land im every branch of the govern- ment. Has this duty been fwifllled? We have wit- nessed things of the most alarming natare, We have seen .egai enactinents passed, glaringly putting the most essential guarautees of the righes and lb sires of the powers that be be carefal not to give tt utterance, ‘rhe good times of Avraham Lincoln are no more. A loyal republican to-day Wii think aud speak only by royal permission, or he will Mt his most legitimate aspirations find a most resentiul government influen.e in his way; he will find Lumself denounced as a traltor to the repaoli- can cause if he unks that cause entitied to higher consideration than the personal interests of the arty chiets, and he will hear a pack of hounds at his heeis Whose bark Would be terrible coud they conceal the collars tuey wear around their necks, Never was @ bolder, more unrepubilcad attempt made to terrorize and suhjagate to one Will the free domof opivion Ina party, and to press its whole machinery into the service 9 a selfish interest. I have heard léliers read fi Congress irom certain parts of the South still 1a @ state of coniuston, when the name of the Writer Was wiluheid, lest ne be exposed to the vengeance of ma enemies; and now I have seen lettersfrom importing merchants, ln this very city, expressing hearty sympatay in the national relorm movemnnt we are engaged In, but stating, also, that they Go aol dare openly take part init, because active sympathy wttn republican vol- ters Would expose them Lo the vengeance of the stom House and Expose their business interests Yet tnis called the tree North. And what the influence of such things upon tne morality of our pubiic service and our political lie? Are not our public servants thas tauzht that disobedience to the poiitical desires of the powers that Le Is the one unpardonabie crime ?—aye, and (hat @ muititude of sins may be Covered by efictent partisan zeal, and that even your Tom Murphys may be eulogized by the President as model oficers, and that the Caseys and Packards at New Orleaus may be sustained, 1 they do not scruple to serve their employers by whatever means their oflices place Within’ their reach? And what does the republican party do as at presen organized and controlied? Sume of its memvers criucise, denounce and protest, and tuey are quickly under the ban. But what of the rest? What of those Who control legislation and cancuses and conventious? They see usurpauon and con. tempt of law and carraption crop out in alarming abundance. ‘They must ee it; because every- body sees WW who is not blind. But what has become of that honest aud conscientious seli-criticism which will mot hesitate to Wu cover und deaounce any wrong tnat tt may be righted? Where 18 that spirit of — sell-im- provement, which will treat more severely tie delinquencies of a party friend thaa those of an opponent, that rit Which alone can save our pol itical life trom utter demoraizauon ? Listen to hose who to-day pretend to speak for the party. Nevotisim, that most excrescence of power’ “An, well, Why Should got a inan take care of bis rela~ Hons When he has the opportunity—never mind the moral efiect it may produce.” The unscrupulous and tyrannical use of the patronage to mauence State politics, and the subjugation of public opiaton by governinenut infrieuce? h, well, the organ eriy of the clizeu at tie mercy Of tie central power, , ZdUUn aud power anu atscipliue of (ue Dart must ‘Al, Well, Some objectly thins may have | happened, aad a goot @ been pun. ished, but why huit the sof ine party by unnecessary exposures des, Datumany | see the coming of the Sou o( Hall Bas stoien untold mit 4. wid there Was more eorrupiion under Andrew Johnson’s admiaistratoa, than now.” And so on to the end of the chapter. Aba (hus the administration is indisecuninacely endorsed by State Conventions, tie nand of @ stil stronger endorsemeat bv re-elec- tion of the President rises louder than ever, aud the party is rated Wilk @ leh amd. As Uns & spirit Worthy of the great party which haa ach eved things so grand avd of whica We ail were proud’ Is this cae spirke to prmyg forth sforms—that clevatioa of public morauty = tue republic In these tines studs so areatly off Ut is true thac fanmany Mall nas sioen untold milous Is Huta reason Way reoUd- leans may steai with tm ¥ ana stil possess & eam upon te public ¢ aco? Ts that & reaeon why We should DOL de e the whole sale plunder gone on im some or whe Southern plates under se-euiied republican rale, ood why we should not, as far vs we can, abl m the overthrow of taat system oi robbery /" ls tata reasou way We should nob Lasist i honest gov- e acevery where, even Wi 2st goVern- eeat is stamped wita the ve Mr. Schurz cosed his spex Duncwory OF the adanaisiraliou ava eating upon all hor with their verdict cou ism whtea he was ut of We ton de. of President f republicans to nnation of We he curse of the eni ime. LEY, coultision, the Whole bong a Jose of Mr. Schura's pre-stie toward (oe door, arose, and, ‘eeaue efforts, succeeded fn yewing & 4 He sud ne hai been touted by two conventions he would tot be fooled nore, bub ne aera Would go fo tie Clucimuat Conveniton, Wore pewher Lou surpi r Koscue Conkling: a ake Dim & 1 Would there advocae t joe'ples so ably but lorWard to-nigot partic aiariy of the one tera, upoa which platiorm be Wetted sfand of Lait, Mr, Geeotey Wag Literrypted by the noise of the stan nel incoutinentiy closed bis reaarks, Without any notitioatie viion or resviulion of any aind, the m MORMON AP», AIRS, AZon tile t —ihe ntiion & re frauding the Rarepen Misstonaries Odject to Tacit Tour—ihe Promised Wealth ¥ to Behold the Coming of the Save LA®e, April 1, 1872 States Assessor to-day recelved in- Tue structions (rom Wasaington to proceed against the Unted Zion Co-operative Mereantve Lnstitation for vio~ lating (he revenue laws regarding the issue of their own paper as fractional currency without stamps, It is beltevea that au immense amount of their shine plasters are in circulation. ‘The taportaut Mormon ceremony of setting apart. missionaries, authorized by tie laie Conierence, to labor tm Great Britain and other places 1a Burope, look place yesterday, They are biessed aad grauted immunity from all danger and muistortune, They are prowtsea tor a taitaiul diseaarze of the service an merease of wealth, and that they shall live to Man; that thelr pod writy shali be nagerous and taecy siail be made glorious generally. It ts said thats some of the called are very re Juctant to go on Lie mission, and would much rather remain aud take their chances wita the Gen- tiles here outside the Church. Some of them aro business men Whoregard It as banisument to pro- more the tateresi# of the Charen oftelals. Snow storms prevailed iast aight at in to-day the roads are almost laps avle. Two terrifie smow sites oceurred at Cottonwood tod Bight men were carriet away in the ave lanche, One Was lost and the oliers were rescued after almost meredible exeruons, Great oars are entertained of future slides, Tae Mormon Missiouaries, aopotatet by tne late conlerence, leave fur Euroye oa the first of next mon vals, and Five miles of the era Uta Miread have been compieted and irack laying bs progreswing at the rate of hal & mie por ¢ The weather 1s pleasant, BRASIUS CORVING'S FUNURAL, Ara ene. Koilows toe Cometery— fue Pall Gearers Yue City ia Lemans te the d towraern= Meurniuge ALBANY, April 1 1872, The funeral of the late Krastus Coruiag tars afters HOOK Was Lhe MOR! La Tesei ve sPeccecie of the Kind ever Witnessed im tas city. To Whole ty ap- pared to Lake partin the ceremonies, Many places of business were closed and draped in mouraing, fags Were Lolsted at baif was’, ioe ehurel bells toned aud a gloom overshadowed Une city, After a short Service at ine house at LO uleloek, the remains of the uecease wer? cartied to St Peter's enurea. Mr. Cornimg had requosted that lis pail-vearers Might be CuoseN irom hus Workuweu, aud, sa Contor- mity WIth bis Wishes, +8 FOLLOWING PERSONA & AY PALI BEARERS, William Gray, Superinieudeat of the Green House on the Corung farm; Jon Vaadervut, foreman of the jarm; Willa feuer and Lucius Hoyt wom the icon store li James Faxsimmoas, of nis private office, and edward ityan, Gis vudy servant, Ail tie en have been la Mf Coruing’s einploy Jor periods ranging frow nite ine puvle services at simple and short, and w i Lisdop Doane and itev. Ait, Suively, witu sunging by tae choir, State street Was Linea'on eltase side by We chLiZens ol DOLM sexes and Gi ages. THE PORN. At four o'clock the procession took up ite ioe of march ior Kura Ce in ihe following order:—the = worstmen twe Cormug Ivoo Works, ut Troy, 80 one thousand tive hundred or two tousand im wamnoer; the clerss from we i store in tuts | chy: the directors and clerks of (ue Albany City Baa, Governor Hotman ana s'af, the Judges of we Court of Appeais, ihe Kegeats of lie University, the Albany Burgess Corps, 1a oitizens) Cruse; tbe Senate Of ine Stace Ol New Yors, the Assermuiy Of the state of New York, the Juckson Corp ciuzens dress; ‘dof Fire Commis we word of Water a's Cuihoue Lyceum, the Common Council, the be ot dof ‘rad sioners, Wie Kui Commnissioners, Ui aud ihe Albany Insti There Were present as Ue funeral a large nomber of aistinguisned genuemed from all parts of to State, amoug Whom We not.ced eX-Goveraor Murauo Seymour, Thurlow Weed, iiram Baruey, Geueral Siorin aad Joua F. Winslow. SHE WEATH«R, Wart Orrice oF THR Cake > WasHinaton, D. U., April Jo—1 A, al. { Mmopsis for the Vast Twenty-/our Hours, ‘The lowest barometer Is now central norta of the lower lakes, having been followed by rising barom- eter, clearing weather and brisk and high north. westerly winds north and west of the Olio Valley, Cloudy and threatening Weatuer 1s prevailing over the New Ehgiaud States. Provabilities, The lowest barometer in Canada will move down the St. Lawreace Valley, Clear weather will pre vail Om Saturday {rom (he upper lakes to the Gulf and South Atlantic coast®, with westerly winds, and extend over the Middie and New Engiaad states very generaliy during Saturlay. Cautionary signals continue at Milwankes, Chik cago, Grana Haven, Detroit, Toledo, Ceveimad, Rochester ant Oswego. Supplementary Weather Report. Ithas been snowing at St. Paul and sieeting at Duluth and Breckenridge, followed at we Jatter by A heavy show storm, with the wind northwest aad blowing twenty-eight miles aa hour, Kain bas been reported from Indianapolis, Portiand, vregon; Cincingati, Louisville, Nashvile, Toledo, Mem phis, Montreal, Oswego, Rochester aud Toronto, The rivers have risen at Cairo, Cineim nat, Memphis, Daveuport, Loawriie, Nash- ville, New Orleans, Shreveport and Vicks. burg, and fallen at Pittsourg and St. Louis, ‘Inreatenig weather is now reported from Hudtaio, Knoxville aad Philadetpula, and crearng weather Irom Datuth and Totedo; eatery gele and fair weather, wita perature of 95 ae grees, from Davenport, lows: a nortawesteriy gale irom’ Omaha, aad 4 westerly gale from Mouus Wasniugioa, The Wea in This City Yesterda ‘Therollowing record vil Show Ca) changes ta tae temperature for Cae pass tWeaty-our Gears ta com parison With the correspon itag slay ul Last as indicared DY (he (uermomever at duiaavs macy, BERALD Butidin; ist. u AsTh, sta ol 48 w uw 52 “ oo os os OO “ nn ob oL bo tae be Average temperature yesierday. + see OL Average temperature for cor jase year... ov