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

RATIFICATION The Great National Al ’ liance. UNION SQUARE ABLAZE Ioposing Mass Meeting of Dem- ; oorats and Liberals. Endorsement ef the National and State Tickets. - @REELEY AND BROWN —- + Stirring Addresses on the Is- sues of the Campaign. « KERNAN AND DEPEW. The Tammany Wigwam Resounding with Statesmen’s Voices. + BRILLIANT PYROTECHNIC fISPLAY. Banners, Music, Oratory and Gunpowder as Aids ‘to Political Warfare. oa FORTY THOUSAND PEOPLE AWAKE! Addresses by Francis Kernan, Chanucey M. De- pow, Fernando Wood and Charles A. Dana, of New York; Banks, of Massachusetts ; ‘ Walker and Hunter, of Virginia; Saunders, of Maryland, and Other Speakers. sae GRANTISM FIERCELY ASSAILED. A New Era of Political Morality Promised. Scenes and Incidents of the Dem- f onstration. A blaze of lurid enthusiasm lit up Unto square and Fourteenth street last night, when the mctro- Dolitan ‘Wings of the national democratic and Hberal republican parties turned out to ratify ‘the national and State nominations for the ap- \Proaching Fall elections. The affair was beyond. question the greatest political dis- Play witnessed in this city since the grand Tammany demonstration of 1868; but it was eminently more significant in its import than that ‘famous and bootless biare. Tammany was & “machine” run by the “Boss,” and as the “Boss” ‘run New York at that time there was more money and more of the paid sort of venthusiasm and glitter than was the case last night. It was spontaneous private energy that made up the great show that filled Union square and Tammany and Irving Halls Jast night, depending almost wholly upon private sentiment and the zeal of local organizations ‘throughout the city. As early as seven o'clock considerable numbers of people began to assemble abont the rendezvous, and at half-past seven o'clock it was almost impossible to obtain entrance to either of the large halis where ‘the principal speakers were to be heard. At eight o'clock, the hour announced for the opening of the proceedings, both places were crowded to absolute discomfort, and Union square was fast filling up with a quiet, orderly and respectable mass of peo- ple forming in solid bodies about THR VARIOUS ROSTRUMS. ‘There were four platforms erected in the square, the principal one being at its southern extremity, facing down Broadway. This stand was of exten- sive proportions, and was tastefully draped below with crimson hangings bordered with gilt fringe. ‘Above thisdrapery a wall of national ensigns was festooned round the front, the apex and architrave being encircled by a row of frosted glass globes, Siuminated by gas. In front, on either hand, were mammoth medallion portraits of Greeley and Brown, supported on the flanks by the following insoriptions :— POOODPOOOOLE LODO SELDLE IEE LIIE ETO RELE NODS: WE RECOGNIZE THE EQUALITY OF ALL MEN BEFURE THE LAW. ANCL OE LEDOIOOOLELODEDDLOLODEDEDLLODEDEDIOOLE DE: DIVISION AND SILENCE. 4 OM NOETOOEDORE DE LELEDELE DEBE EDIORE IEEE HE 4m the southeastern angle of the square, near the Washington equestrian statue, was the German stand, also handsomely draped and festooned with the United States and German flags, and bearing on the front in German characters the following legend :— POOLE ROLE REEODE OTE LESELEDG LODE DOODLE 1P: “If 1 am elected President I shall not be tnee President of a party, but of the whole people.” 3 PRO a ONO NLE TERED LE TENE DOLE SODORE LODE DE OE LOGE 26) Athird rostrum occupied the southwest corner of the square, and here the colors of the Cuban Republic were displayed quite liberally, in conjunc- tion with the standard of “the Great Republic.” This resdesvous was surrounded by quite a large Number of Cubans, including many sefioras and sedoritas\from the Gem of the Antilles. They were doubtless’ attracted here by the announcement that Dr. Houard, the recentiy-released Spanish- American’prisoner, would deliver an address from ‘the platform, together with General M. T. McMahon and other Cuban sympathizers. The motto displayed from tiis stand was the following:— OCLC AERROLONODLE DE NE IEEE TERE DOEOLE DO LODEDOOOLE ie Union of She Republic and the Equal wighia { of All, with Reconciliation. ALO DOODLE BRLE LL LE SEOOOE DED DEED LEOEDE HODELE AOD Stand No. 4 was located in the northwestern angle of Union square, near Seventeenth strect, and, in addition to being draped with the various OOOO NO IOL OLE NELOIOSE TESOL DE SODIIOLE LE DOLE DE IE NOT THE PARTY OF ADDITION, | colors, bese the inscription :— nennerovennerenerereseaneere rere ne ene: ; Local Selt-Government, Not Ceniaigatioa WOPPOTOOEL LONE IORT LODO LEH Dp be oe - To the left of the grand stand was erected a large\piece of ornamental pyrotechny representing the fagede of a tempi¢, flanked by portraits of Greeley aad Brown, and over the arched portal the we “THE PROPLE’S Cnolcs.” Theeffect when this handsome specima@n of fire- ‘works when ignited was very fine. At various points along Fonrteenth street and Jn the'square caldium jights illuminated with a blaze of Mght almost everything within fr » and the blazing of grecn, pine and red Bengal lights Jent at times a ajmgularly weird and pictureaque effect to the whole animated picture, Volleys of Roman candies, roc! floating stars, Gre-balloons, variegated bombs and famisg streamers were continually belched into the air, seemingly from the craters of a dozen volcanoes among the trees in the centre of the mousré, the roer and fize being at regular NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1872—TRIPLE SBEXT. imtervals enguifed by the bell a cannon. The exhibition of pa SE hd fine, both in point of varicty and quantity, Fre- quently the whole neighborhood seemed kindled into a sulphurous glow, and the effect, as reflected from the faces of the wondering and admiring crowds and from the house fronts, wae peculiar in the extreme. About nine o’clock the firet of the organiza- tions tn THE TOROMLIGHT PROCESSION began to march in review past the stands, and with them, came dense crowds of followers fom al) parts of .the city that soon made pédestrianiem im the square or on East Four- teenth street a matter of considerable difficulty, The three most prominent organizations were the Twenty-first Ward Democratic Association, marebelled by Alderman Richard Croker; the M. T, Brennan Central Association, headed by Mar- shal William H. Burne, with John M. Tracy and Alderman Kraus as mounted ajds, and the Nineteenth Ward Tammany Hall Assocla- tion. The Twenty-fret ward turned out about seven thousand men, ‘comprising among others the John Doran Association, the Crystal Association, the James Keating. associa- tion, the James Fagan Association, the Thomas W. Byrnes Associgtion, the William Dunn Association and numerous other local clubs, They carried a Rxistling array of torches, fireworks and transparen- cles, among the latter being one inscribed “Vote for Honesty," and another bearing a picture of the old ‘white hat,’? with the legend beneath—“Wear it.’ The Brefman Association turned out about seven thousand men, but for originality of deyices and display, though -smatior aU er, me “Ninefeenth Ward Woodchoppers’? car- ried off ‘the palm,.’! Nearly ail the members of this Qrganization, the Nineteenth Ward Tammany Afsociation, wore broad-brimmed white hate and carried axes on their shoulders. In the ceutre of their line was a van drawn by four horses, im which was erected a tree some fifteen feet in height with a lusty ‘“wood- chopper,” gray-haired and white-hatted, dealing mimic blows with a glittering axe at its trunk. Among the inscriptions borne by this body were “Chappaqua” and “Prince Fred, Come Home |” Among the numerous LOCAL CLUBS taking part im the display and bearing torches, banners and@ transparencies were Nam Donnell; Association of Assembly strict, the Eleventh Youn; Men’ Democratic Club, Sixteenth Ward Greeley and Brown Club, William T. Ashmah Club of the Tenth Assembly District, the War Dem- ocrats of the Fourteenth Ward, Tenth Assembly District Liberal Republican Club, Eighteenth Ward Greeley and Brown Club, Sixteenth Assembly Dis- trict Democratic Association, Tenth Ward Deutscher Greeley and Brown Club, and many others, THE STRIKING MOTTOES borne by some of these associations embraced among others the following campat sentiments :-~ “No Nepotiem,’’ “No Presents of Houses, Dogs, Horses or Farms,” “No Cigars without duty aid,’ “Universal Amnesty.” “The Emigrant’s viend,”” “No Present ‘Taker,” and so forth. About twenty vands of music on the stands and in the procession made the air reso- nant of straing- not always melodious, however tf bible Hated crowd. Along the sidewalks large gatherings of apple, peanut and chestnut venders were congregated, anxious to drive a roaring trade with liberals, radicals or democrats, and it was not at all infrequent, as some lusty orator on ‘the rostrum shouted, “What do we pay in taxes for our present system of vernment?” to hear a peach pedier in the distance unwittingly answer, “Five cents a qu The park placarda im the square, ‘Please keep off the 88,” were momiganing: Pieces of painted warning, and urchins and loving couples strolled alike carelessly over the forbidden ground amid the tall of sparks irom ascending rockets. ALONG FOURTEENTH STREET, and in and out of the halls where the chief orators were declaiming, there surged a continual stream of ppeopley and the front of the Tammany Wigwam = presented a very inspiring appearance. All the windows were filled by anxious listeners to the popular ha: angus, and every now and then some enthusiastio indi- vidual in an upper story might be seen discharging ‘a piece of flreworks over the heads of the mass in the street below. The three most unmoved pol ticians in the entire assemblage were beyond doubt the Teme, indian in hoy Xx of we ae ie. mantled Lincoln, in ah attitude o; © - tion, and the “Father of Ne Cousteett tenia trong horse, in the act of giving orders which may never be heard. very noticeable feature of the display was the large number of quiet usiness soy in with wives, daughters and sweet- hearts, who mingied in the throng. ‘The proces- lon Of political cluba was mot @ generally Organized Msplay, each ward or delega- tion acting on tts own responsibility merely, and as a consequence it did not pre- sent the imposing appearance which Tammany the dead Tammany—would bave exacted and paid for with tilched money. The police arrangements were such as would have more very etfective had | action been required on their part; but as Captain | Burgen said to a HeRraLp reporter, ‘It was a very orderly crowd and no arrests were made.” The force comprised about four hundred mech composed of details of fifteen patrolmen drawn from each precinct. These were under the chief command oj Captain and Drill Instructor Copeland, assisted b, Cepthing Burden, of the Twenty-ninth recinct, Walsh, of the Seventh, and Byrnes, of the fteenth. There was also a full force of detectives in citizen dress mingling with the crowd, and with eyes especially open for the ‘cly- faking” and pocket-touching fraternity. As a whole the demonstration was a grand success, and was a flattering tribute to the candidates and to | the principles they represent, and a fitting opening | to the heavy work of the campaign. It is estimated that mot less than forty to fifty thousand ople took part in the demonstration in the halls, the streets and the square. The Place of the Sachems Crowded by the Peo- ple—An Aboriginal “Mourning C=incil” to Raise “Chiefs of the Confederacy” — Speeches by Algernon 8. Sulli- van, Francis Kernan, Gen- eral Banks and Others. At hali-past seven o'clock the main doors of Tammany Hall were thrown open, and in five minutes the floor and gallery were crowded with peuple. A number of ladies had previously been admitted, which seemed rather an unusual feature in a democratic meeting. A little before eight Mr. Kernan and several prominent democrats came upon the platform, and Mr. A. 8. Snilivan at once advanced to the front and opened the meeting as follows EMARKS OF ALGERNON 8 SULLIVAN. At the country’s call New York moves grandly to the frontin the cause of reform. Countless in nuinbers and unbounded in enthusiasm, her citi- | zens from every walk in life are assembled to protest ag it oficial and party corrup- tion, against the thraidom of partisan shackles, against government by the caprice of office-holders, against @ policy of sectional hate, against the substitution of federal military over the State civil authority, against holding office to be a personal property instead of @ sacred public trust, against a remorseless plundering of a destitute and helpless people, against bayonets at our election polls, against all ae the to array race against race, against changing the character of our Ameri- can people into two classes—oppressors and op- pressed—and against staining the fair fame of our Nadlors as the guardians and cham- pions of equal and exact justice to all men. We desire and promise better things; we promise purity in public affairs: we prom- ise reconciliation between sections; we promise justice aud equality to all men--we promise local aclf-government—we promise constitutional gov- ernment—we promise free speech, free press, free ballots, free judiciary—we [teed to lighten the intolerable burdens on the labor of the people—we promise progress in political ideas and measures up to the necessities of the hour—we promise honesty in the federal and State government—in other words, we promise Horace Greeley and Francis Kernan. THE PRESIDING OFFICER, On behalf of the Committee of Arrangements, I nominate to preside over this assembly Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun. ‘The names of the vice presidents and secretaries were then read and Seprore . Mr. Ackert next read the following series of reso- lutions :— THE RESOLUTIONS. Resolved, Mat, 4s in ali other progressive constitational overnments, it is the duty of American citizens to regar fhe Perils andoxigemcies of the honr, and that at a poriod when ail upon national executl vi wer are Feraine voken down a Presidential io fespotiemn, “esiakiion ad 2, 01 I. A Pi fection rs ithe | Pre identtat office, copeupt reckless .ofmcial# are overwhelm ita hopelesa debt and i impending repydiation, it i purrs in cldzena’ who mprehend to 5 account of form irty dif i wine if, ‘rescuing their country” fromm ite Revo That we batt the nomination of Greeio; . Grate Brown for the tw "ot this. county, Ronventions bei ey ce ee erie | deserve well of tl u Yindieation ¢he sh fish “devotlo incere and unse! the American my: res it Resolve nels Kernan, by his ‘Sots to secure reform in Lede we has endeared himself to the friends of justice and honesty, has won an enviable | title to the ‘love and gratitude of the whole country, and we hail with faction the action sf the Syracuse Con- ventions in nominating him as the chief staidard-bearer of the Empire State ti in this political contest. His emi. nence asa frank and rist, his: rhine: jake, hts chivalrous’ devotion “Bein ‘mark ‘him eminently deserving the support of all hohorable inen. Resolved, That we recognize In Chauncey M. Depew, our brilliant candidate for Lieutenant “Governor, @ worthy representative of the young men of Btate, whose talent and integrity must carry forward the work of reform now begun {and in the other members of the State ticket wi ter of Kernan and 3 Reso he principles of the Cincinhad and Baltimo & brief code of poltical ethics which ah sot iyi administration and aisha 1 but in local affairs; and r our best exertions to ‘to each oth make the woi ferorin something more thau a mere tem- porary watehword. Resolved, That the redistricting of the State of Now York by the s0-call form Legisiature ty @ fraud so audacious and appatent, laity upon this metropolis, that we condemn itacriininal authors, a the ballot will condemn fe rejoice if the fact that the Syracuse Conventions ble by the solec- made is Hon of a citizen pf New Yoru. fong distinguished. tor brilliant services In our national counetis, as Congress. man at large, FRANK KBRNAN’S SPERCH, Mr. Francis KERNAN iileh Apoke as follows :— FELLOW CrriENs—For the kind and cordial greeting which you give me accept my sincere hanks. It affords me very great satisiaction to meet at this time 80 at and intelligent a body of the people of the State of New York, and ‘0: unite with aah in expressin, ur appr on 0, approving =~, gloriou Nations a rena alle by ‘incinnati and confirmed at Re\iimore. ‘To the end that those nen shcii be put Into practical ef | fect in the ~~ wstration of pure federal govern- ment We ure here to-night, without regatd to past ~-werences in politics, to pled fe oursclves by every honorable means to place in the offices of Prealdent and Vice President Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown. Few portions of our people have a deeper Interest im the questions to be decided in the com- | ing election than the people of this great commer- cial and financial metropolis. Corruption and mal- administration are seriously detrimental to the wellare of our people, wherever they are, throngh- out the United States; for maladministration in a government like ours is swiftly fatal to the peace, good order and prepay of a great commercial and nancial city. ‘The questions involved in the dis- cussion, the debate which is now going on among the people of all the States,f{touch more or less closely the permanence of our institutions, the peace, Sanpete and prosperity of the entire peo- ple throughout the State. In such a debate and discussion there should be no a) assion or to prejndice, The appet be to the reason, the judgment, intelligence the conacience of Goreng vater in the State. Preju- dive and passion overthrow reason, and no patriot willdesive in this debate to indulge in vituperation or attempt to stir up hate or bitterness among our people. We should hag ee this great discussion earnestly, but we ould carry it on as | brethren’ having @ common interest in the common decision, and try to convince our | opponents that they alone can do thetr duty to | themselves, to our political institutions and to their prosperity by going with us and overthrowing the Tnisrule Which runs aud exists in the administration | of the government. As your chairman wel) said, the question is whether we shall have reform in the administration of our af- fairs, whether we shall elect men to office who will exert every power of the government with the view and purpose of giving us an honest | administration and good goverument of the great | masses of the people im every State of the Unton. The question is whether we shall élect men to office who will reform the abuses in the government, | which we say have existed in the government during the past few years. Now, that there is abuse, maladministration, necessity for reform, I submit to every intciligent man, needs no other evidence than facts within his own obser- | vation. Is it not true that corruption and selfish- | ness have crept into all the departments of the federal government? Why, you know that but a short time since it became clear that a great wrong was Gee inflicted upon the commerce and the merchants in this city by the government, and you saw that when a committee of investigation was coerced in the United States Senate they took pains to leave out the very men who made those charges from that committee. But you, never , BAW that that committee Mer aeuee great an and injurious abuses. Have they been cot d, re- formed? I ask the merchants and business men and the laboring men to aay whether the resent administration has done its duty in reform- Ing those abuses. You have seen the 8, as specimens, wielding federal duties at New Orleans. ‘ou have seen them devoting themselves to de- veloping strife and interfering in the elections of the people of the States where they were, and although as to Casey a republican committee made a report which the whole country saw re- quired that e-ehonid e removed as an example, 1? Kno" Pant he sits in the Custom House lew Orleans té-aasy, And yet you are fold that there is no need of reforft. You see Another spec- tacle which, i the @irlier and, I may say, better days of our Republic in either of the parties of former periods, would have aroused the indigng- tion of the people. Why, we have all been tat nt, we all know that the man who accepts o! is in honor and duty bound to devote hi time, his energies, his. i a iy to guarding the Interests of the people and discharging the duties of his office; that he 1s a servant, an honored servant, and that he is not to come down to the hastings and dictate to the voters in regard to the exercise of the elective franchise. And yet you see in best sr canyess that party faction zeal to uphold thelr power has required the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Navy and the Postmaste: General to neglect the duties devoived upon them which they are re- quired to discharge for your benefit, leaving their posts and going into North Carolina and into Ver- mont to wake political speeches in State elections and attempt to coerce and dictate to the citizens of those States how they shall manage their local affairs, Now, 1 call your attention to this. You | intelligent, thinking men of the cit of New York, ask you how long your political institutions will stand in their vigor as your fathers made them, if your servants thus become your inasters, not only as to federal affairs, but in local State elections? But I said that we needed | great reforms in the administration of fed- eral affairs, and Icall your attention to the testimony we have from men such as leaves no doubt that that need is great. You will remember that there was great complaint made of these misadministrations by federal officers. You will remember that during the last session of Gongeess republicans—men who had aided to build up that party, who held ofice within that party, men who were appointed to oftice by members ot that party—made eflort tor reform. And who were ese men? Why, the men that tol’ us that there was great, gross and dangerous corruption going on in | the administration of the federal government u der the present administration—Sumner, Trumbu and Fenton, and banks, and Farnsworth, and Al- yord, and Dorsheimer, and thousands of others. They came before their fellow citizens and declared that they had striven to reform the abuses in their party and that they had utterly failed, through the power of the place-hoiders under the administra- lion. They justified their acts by their deeds. They found that the time had come when they must sever the bonds that tied them to the party with which they acted. Thank God, they stood by their country and disregarded their party. These men | err fellow citizens. They pre- | ferred to take all the hazards of minority, of defeat, of the opposition of those proud in power and place rather than act along with a party that refused to reform gross and dangerous abuses which threatened the very perpetuity of the government, And they declared these sentiments to their fellow citizens, and we saw these men anda great mass of republicans from every State gather at Cincinnati to see how they could serve their country by overthrowing the present corrupt administration. They put forth principles which every patriotic and honest man in this land must approve and applaud. They put in nomina- tion Horace Greeley and B, Gratz Brown as the worthy representatives of those princtples, and | having done that they appealed to men of ali par- | ties to join them in electing those candidates. They | knew Very well that if that great party whicl had been antagonistic to the republican Cy | in the past were governed by anything but love of country and refused to join them they would fall and counted out by the remnant of the re- publican party. To the honor of the great mass of | democrats, they did not prove wanting. It was not the work of any leaders, not the influence of any set of men who had more or less power in the party, but of the people, who knew that in the contest which is to ensue there is po way of restoring good government in the country except by ousting the present administration from power, and the; ew there was no way of ousting It except by electing Horace Greeley, and they went in with a will to do it. There was but one voice among the delegates | at itimore, though many at first honestly dif- fered, and that was to join these triotic repub- licaus in electing Horace Greeley. Now, will Greeley and Brown, if elected to power, carry out the reforms which’ we need and which our plat- form requires? 1 am for looking every question fairly and manlily in the face, and I propose to give no vote unless I believe It will aid in working out these Feat reforms. First, we have the as- surance that they are pledged to reform a3 solemnly as mortal man can pledge himself before his Maker and ts fellow- citizens. We have, second, the great fact that Lig Greeley has always been, in public life, an hon an. Next, we have this great fact to give ith an ength in his election, and although he has been @ warm partisan against us yet time and again he has come out and denounced the thieves in his owa party whenever he saw a. You have also this—that Horace Greeley en an pe ise enough As & statesman to see, he was S' He kind-hearted enbogh 48 @ politician and man desire, that all erring citizens should be bronght en War ceased, into as friendly as existed before the war Banks here came in, and rounds of cheers.) You and that the only way ip which you can hay gusnly Py and pure administration is recelved | diet to pompe Gique “or ean administration, You know that the BI dent should select men who will devote alt their coergies to the administration of the public affaira with the sole view of maki the country Laem prosperous and united. Mr. Greeley has he expericnee, he has the abiity, he has the knowledge of men and affairs to pick out the right men for an honest reform. And Mr. Greeley stands in this proud position if elected, that he was nomt- nated by the masa of the people, who rose up for reform, and is bound by no party ties or trammels to select men of any particular party, but he may select honest men wherever he can them, B. Gratz Brown will not be wanting in aid, You have watched hts courge in since the war. He stepped forth for equal laws, equal justice to all men, for general amuesty and for a. and fair administration of the State fo the nefit of all its people, and he tri- umphed over the pitter factionists and made Missouri the prosperous State it is to-day, There- fore it seems to me that No man can doubt in refer- ence to what is his duty ia the coming election. You know from the testimony of those experienced, te, and patriotic republicans that left that party last apring that there is corruption in the present admivistratiod, and that there is maladminis- vation which, continned, will prove fatal* fo our glorious Union: You = find, eyertheless, that these men who have héén {n power for the past three and a halt years, who refuse to reform se flagrant abuses, still stand firm and claim that by using {2¢ power and patronage of the government they can pe o7008 enough to overthrow fhe ru of the rest of the ey And i yea allow those men to be te You will have 1d reform. But we “will ‘not doubt or fear. I know how loudly _ the; boast, but let each man speak for the section of the country where hi lives and T would naree, to gather in téstimony, speak not for your city, because I am not liar with it; but go to the counties of Herkimer, Oneida, Otsego, gud the rest, and when you see the conven- tlong of the reform republicans you will consider what is left of the regulars, leaving the ofice-holders out. There is no passion, no excitement in it; but therg is an earnest purpose among them that they will'do their share towards bringing the gov- ernment back to the Jeffersonian standard, ‘ou Will find, too, that democrats are not to be outdone in this zeal for their country, but that they stand shoulder to shoulder, arms locked, to struggle together untilevery abuse is crushed out. And | you will see, my friends, my words Verified when the election returns come in next November. But reform is not to stop in the ad- ministration of federal affairs. Thank God, the pd everywhere are aroused and are determined hat there shall be reform and a purification wherever corruption and malversation have ex- isted, in the State or the municipality, the town or the country. Everywhere they are determined to reform all abuses and bring the administration back to an administration for the of the people, high and low, and All poor. are to ave equal justice, equal rights, Sqeal protection, in the | langui of our glorious platform, without regard onality, to color or to religious persuasion. ig as it should be in our own great State — & State that has an empire within it, Wherever there ig an abuse it should be abolished, “Our Legislature needs reform,” is, I think, the decision of every honest republican and democrat. No honest man can be satisfied with the record of the last Legislature. You must send men to the Legislature who have integrity and zeal for the people’s interest, that will have no interest there other than the interest of apa All abuses in the administration of affairs in our great cities are to be reformed by this movement, and men brought back to the position where all offices are to be administered for the benefit of the mass of the people who dwell in the State, and in the country, and in the town. Let us forget the past—let us forget mere party prejudice, and have no more feeling | about questions which have arisen since the war, and in the settlement of which all patriotic men acquiesce. Like wise, patriotic men, let us look at the present and the future, ane if we so look I fear not what the ver- will be. A single other suggestion before I close. Allow me to impress upon every man again that tiis is a great aud noble cause we are engaged in, Let us leave to others bitterness and passion and hatred ; let us appeal to reason and to patriotism, Let us doit because the glorious in- stitutions which have been bequeathed to us by our ancestors, and which, if we are honest men, we will | hand down in vigor and fuli strength to our pos- terity, are to a great degree affected by the result of u coming contest. Let us belittle no such question by partisan sncers, by taunts, by an PI to passion or prejudice. Let us appeal only to the sense, judgment and ps jotisin of every man with whom we come in contact, treating him when he differs from us with respect, yet earnestly seeking to satisfy him that we are in the right and he is inthe wrong. Let us do that until November and then give a wots based upon our intelligence and love of country, and I have no doubt that there will be a result that hig! reinstate the American Union in its old Rlory, strong, 40 beneficent and a blessing to all that gather beneath its folds, MOF MB. R. M. T. HUNTER. R. M. T. Honrer, of Virginia, was ij Hoses to th®sudicnce. He sald:—I bellovo that theré até words of warning necessary to be spoken to the cow and J know of no one in a better situation wu nae to utter them, without suspicion of selfish and personal designs. Disabled by the con stitution from holdin, and retired from any ofice, all active participation in public affairs, 1 can have but little personal interest in the re- sult of any election, Gencral considerations and a desire for the welfare of the country and my friends alone can move me. My interests are | only those of a citizen. With the candidates whose gauise | support Thave no personal acquaintance. never exchanged a word or a line with either of them in my life, In times past Mr. Greeley and I have differed, on nearly all the Greet Publis agen tions which have divided parties in their political action, As I understand it, these differences still exist. He is republican, and am a8 democrat, neither having changed or TO- fessed to change on those subjects of discussion. And yet I sincerely desire his election, and stand here to aid it @s far asi can. His friends have put him in the lead in the great cause of national harmony, and in the important issue be- tween popular government and the coming em- pire; he as the standard-bearer of those who main- tain the popular supremacy. For the sake of these great issues he wil! command my earnest support; in heir sacred names I will foliow him, so long as he leads us taithfuliy, and his fidelity to his pledges on these issues no man has ever doubted. For the present I will bury all consideration of the questions upon which we may differ, for the sake of his aid upon those which I hold to be of transcendent impor- tance, Indeed Icovld make no issue upon these other questions if I desired it. Upon them his op- ponent is as much opposed to me as he is; but I ‘will not forbear to do the good which I myself may | dv because I cannot effect ail that I would, secure peace, not pretended, but real, between all | the sections and people of this great haha g and arrest the rapid progress of the centralizat) all power in the general government, 80 as to check the advent of despotism, and he will look afterward to other and minor causes of division. THR PARTY OF SECTIONAL HATE. Questions of finance, of currency, of commerce, are worthy of all attention, but in importance the; sink far below those which concern the social life itself, To mfuse social sympathies and affections among all the sections of this great people is a mightv task, and the man who leafs and succeeds in it will deserve the Presidency for this, if fornoth- ing else. And yet, fellow citizens, there is a large party in this country seeking to build up its power on the foundation of sectional hatred among its peopic. Whatever can be said or done to keep up this bitter feeling is said or done by this party un- der the hope of finding favor with the majority, as being the best instruments for the punishment of those they dislike. In this way, too, they find im- party for their encroachments upon the constitu- jon, which are pardoned because of their immedi- ate effects upon the South, without consideration of their ultimate results upon the North. To infuse a suspicion o! the feelings and and purposes of the Southern whites, and to represent them as being hostile to the government and the former free States seems to be a favorite object with that party. "Tis by means of these suspicions that they command support from the Northern people for thetr Ku Klux laws and for their support of the carpet-bag governments in all their enormities. The war has been ended now for seven years or more, and yet if we listen to this party the sections are stile as ever. At the very last session of C ress the President was not ashamed to ask for the privilege to proclaim martial law in the South, and thus in effect to enable him to exercise supreme power in that persecuted region. I say, to exercise su- preme power under that pretext. for I believe with the Duke of Wellington that to establish mar- tial law is to say that Hire shall be no Jaw, but to leave the commander of the a without ore & regulation. If this request had been granted by jongfess the President would have regulated all the Southern grectigns, With this power he had only to threaten them with the application of the Ku Klux .law to their cases and what so tempting as to escape the Dh hit by voting for his party? That such an effect of the powers vested by the law in the Pres- ident has been produced in North Carolina we have all seen charged, with how much truth I know not, but the possibility of such an application of this power is Obvious to The whole course of | this party in the South has proved the bitterness of their hostility. WRONGS OF THE SOUTH, We see a at party deliberately seeking to inflame the public mind ‘against the Southern peo- ple, and to array one section of the country against another by inciti the powerful to degrade and opprest the weak, and by exciting mutual feel of dislike and hostility between them. If the men who lead this party were statesmen they surely have not reflected upon the obvious and necessary consequences of such a course. If we are to seek up ytd Utara and by it omctally “A 0 tl rule this cou and happily, what can be 80 necessary 86 ins whole le with feelings of mutual sympathy and affection, or what 80 bias a as to bege' sectional animosities, which almost always long survive the occasion which cegrnseres them, credit that he z a as he able acted upon this trath, auld the fact that his o) ‘the its act quite L] ite les of itself di fing a #ronidon rive enough ana pure eatagh tions men deatre sald ibe power vumeat ita of power in General Banks, who was vory ent SoPNTY, Amps, 5 Dut mare |e gata Let us | the m Would trespass on their attention for a er and hoped they would hear 8 | patiently. It was no small picasurc to a Stranger to | stand, not unbidden, in the presence of the citizens | New York, whose wealth, tient, | of intelligence, | e and ohterprise had given then | con: | trol of the and is ercial alten of the | | | Amerivan Continent. (Cheers.) 1t was uosuiali sat- istaction for @ stranger to here is New York, disconnected from the government and not | dependent upon its favor, a power that could | make the opinions of the people felt and its will observed— (cheers)—but there were other States of | the Union where c! ns with rights as unques- | tioned as those of the citizens of New York, and | whose views in regard to the affairs of the govern- ment were not dissimilar, had not the same right to | express their opinions; and, therefore, he was glad tostand in the presence of’ people who could de- | fend themselves without fear or favor, (Cheers.) | ‘This was a time when the expression of the opinions | of the people must be made without fear or favor, | in order to sustain the institutions of the couniry. (Cheers.) The revolution, if he might fairly call it | ce Weed had been inaugnrated at the South, and which he thought would goon be consummated, commenced in that belt or line of States that they recognized gs the tirst States of the North | and the first States of the South—one lookin; North and one looking South—this belt o: States of the Olio and the Missisaippt which comprehended the line of _ travel and commercial movement and the strength of public freedom and inion—this belt of States, from the foundation of the government, controlled its administration, and would continue S10 Ro, Phese States were New York, Pennayl. vanld, Indiana, Tinois and Misjsssinn!, (heers.) No admjnigtration com? gver reads the whole of 1 pentes, and no interest or inion could defeat their will whon fairly ex- sed. (Cheers.) And from this line of Border tates north, he turned his eyes to another line of | States south, beginning with West Virginia, to old Virginia—so well remembered—to Tennessee, the home of Andrew Jackson (clieers)—where the people were never afraid to express their convictions—and next then to Arkansas on the other side of the river. These States held in their control the administration of the countrys, and there was not any one of them that any man could say, whether he was a republican or democrat, whose vote was not sure for Greeley. (Cheers.) When they had the snp- port of these parts of the country, what need they care for those who met at Louisvilley In other parts of the country the revo- lution which had been commenced had been felt. TT eee it in New England. They did not originate it. "They originated a movement of that kind some ten or twelve years ago, but they did not attempt it again. Now, the people demanded economy in the administration and proclaimed thetr desire for reconciliation between all sections, par- ties and individuals, and when they proclaimed their desire for universal, general peace New Eng- lana responded to that appeal. (Cheers.) They were obliged to enter on the canvass with the central power of the government op- posed to them in certain districts, The result of the Maine election had cut down the majority of the head of the administra- tion 6,000; twenty-five per cent of his vote had been taken from General Grant; and the State of ered toate) he believed, in November, with ir STANDARD BEARER SUMNER, would take from an incapable and unworthy ad- ministration 60,000 of a majority. ¢Loud cheers.) It was the same in the South as it was in the West. And he believed there was not a Pacific State that would vote for Grant. (Cheers.) He begged of them to think of thi What was the meaning of this abnegation of all party lines, this fraternization between uative and foreign citizens—between the black and white races. (Cheers.) The people were intelligent, and they had been compelled, as it were, by the power of Almighty God to continue that peace be- tween all the people whose actions were itentified with the happiness aud prosperity of the coun- try. (Cheers.) Without that they had no security for property in New York. Without peace between the diverent sections of the people they had no se- curity for their political rights. Carpet-baggers sought to get control of the central government, and if such a representation as that could control the government or strike down the power of a single individual it could as well break down the representation of those whom he was now addressing. Minoritics had their rights, Shakspeare sald, “Press not a fallen man too far;”” and he (General Banks) said, press not a minori' too far. He gave an illustration this by referring to the war that haa ensued between Denmark and the Duchy of Schieswig-Holstcin. Denmark conquered its rebellious subjects, and it would have been the part of wisdom on the part of Denmark, after au conquest, to have recognized in the conquer some claim to the rights of bier 2 but a rent course was pursued. ‘hough the rebe!lion was crushed for many years, the con- quered people suffered nothin ut destruction, and they seemed as it were to almost crushed into the grave. What was the result ? When the minority had borne as long as they could, when they found that there was no hope from the government, they turned to thelr enemies, they invited the Prussians; the igor was oppressed and the prina Nex OF Arath nid justice were violgted. And he (deneral aoe said that they followed such an ¢: capi ts that they, too, might be de- stroyed, ey must support the government when they were ready to perform thetr duties; as a fcr ernment they must pay them obedience. Let them ask tre first man they met, and ask him if the goy- ernment had performed its promises, ‘They told them that ti ev must have peace; but New York could not make that peace without the co-operation of the other States, The | government deviated from the purpose enter- tained by Mr. Mr. Lincoin in reg: to the Recon- struction acts, Why was the South left at the will and control of the government? He need not relate to them the consequences of this, They kuew how it ‘was themselves. There were eleven or twelve Stater whose constituencies were composed chiefly of the emancipated races, and he conceded = to them the highest position they — desired. Over them the government had placed an administration of carpet-baggers, whose chief mission was the oppression of the constitu- encies, to increase their fortunes, and to make enough to live without labor. They had the central power at Washington, personal in its character and military in {ts conduct, and the only maternal jorce of the at ment was the vital force of robbery. K ccTs.) After adverting to the great increase of the debts of the Southern States he concluded by stating that if General Grant demanded re-election on the ground that the nation owed him gratitude for his services, he considered the nation had rewarded him for those services, and that he must put the de- mand for re-election on some other ground than that of gratitude. Loud cheers followed the con- clusion of the General's specct. MR. W. U SAUNDERS’ SPEFC Mr, W. U. SaunpeErs, of Maryland, ing, and was recelved with great ap- lause, Timagine that this grand demonstration in the greatest city on the Western Continent will ty xt addressed n of | impress the people of the State of New York and of the whole country that this grand reform move- men, inaugurated at Cincinnati and adopted at Baltimore, is ® movement not only of the people of this city, but of the whole American people. (Applause.) Itake it that New York is awake; that this demonstration here in New York city means business; that the people of this city mean to go forward to the accomplishment of that great reform movement, which can only be consummated by the election of Horace Greeley, of New York, in favember next—(applause)—and that the great State of New York will be the leader of the other States in this grand revolution, What New York will do in November so will do most of the States of this glorious nation, North and South, Kast and West. (Appiause,) 1 see by this demonstration that the people of New York are not demoralized by the su-called defeats we are alleged to have met in this campaign so far. I find that you do not feel the defeat in North Caro- lina. I find that you are not demoralized by the re- sult in West Virginia, I sce that Vermont has not thrown disaster in your ranks, and that the election in Maine has not disturbed you. Let me say, my friends, for some of the Greeley and Brown supporters of my own complexion a little further South, that neither are they demoralized by the result of any of the elections that have thus far taken place, nor will they be by the October elec- tions, whatever the result of those elections may be. J have heard in different parts of the country that men of my race and blood are to a man for the re-election of the present admintstra- tion. I have heard, even here in New York, that the colored people of the South propose to go in a solid body for Ulysses 8, Grant in November, Tam here to utter my modest protest against such an assertion. I assure you, gentlemen of New York, that there are honest men among the people of my "inerg the South as well as mone roo men, Therg are men gmong the 10 have gor sick of tne Yyfanny he This party ministration; there are bie amon, h who are sick of the corruption of the carpe’ bi vernments and of the central government a! Washington. They have not the same channels of expressing themselves tha re people have her but quietly, way down in their HY re Pe them have determined to throw the iol all their influence for Grecley and Brown in No- vember. (Applause.) They tell us that the colored votes of the country will be thrown solid for the re-election of Grant. I beg leave to state for the information of the people of New York that these 900,000 people have elected nobody to sell them out. (Applause.) The colored people of this country appreciate the position they occupy to-di ag American citizens. Perhaps their ignorance wi rrevent their properly comprehending the issucs of the present campaign, but, gentlemen, if you will have patience they will come up He line and stand shoulder to shoulder with the aries. of ni aay, in RT ae espotism of @ one-man power. pplause, re have been told by the op oattlon that \t the liberal republicans succeed in this election—that if Mr. ayo ig elected, my race will go back again into the condition of servitude or into @ condition a it deal worse than slavery. Tae ¢ chains of slavery in our ears. @pparently do not believe that Horace Greeley for our en- us re umanity. And, gen- that if any gentle! no mat- “ ag now on oust. as ood Isay to you to-night that while we demand ou’ own rights throughout the country we also ask that other men have their rights, and we recog- nize those rights. The people of the South have aceepied =the = sil joe good = faith. 1 speal of what I know by actual ex- Perience, They have had enough of war, enough of bloodshed, enough of contest of races. They desire to come together, race to race, man to man, upon a common platform and to go forward for the prosperity of the whole country. And we recog- Rize the necessity of electing Horace Greeley. (Cheers,) They hau been pranded as liberal repub- licans with every kind of crime, without char- acter—a barnacle; but among tle party are those who stand high in the estimation of all good men in the country. They had among them such men as Sum Banks, Schurz, Tipton and others. And as to the fight between the boys in blue and the boys in gray. They had Hooker and McClellan and Meade among the boys in blue, who love the country better than the solitary man on horseback. (Applause.) He desired to slow that there were good hoys in blue in the Grecley ranks, and when the contest is decided in November there Will be a clearing out of the Custom House in New York, (Applause. The men who support Grant think as much of Mosby as they do oF Grant, but that fie latter Reape them fn office. They fear not the reaking up of the government, as the y talk about it, much as they fear their 4. (Lavghter.) Among his own race talked to them like a father. He told them who Grecley was and who Grant was, with ee gS his people he had adv ras 5 tha fron: North Carolina. The t morn ing iterwards he *@w his friend, who looked as if he had peen wresth2@ With a spirit. I suid to him, “How do you feel to-day?” He replied that he had had a horrible dream. He had been very ill in his dream and had died. He said he had remembered what I said to him about Grant and Greeley, and he was sorry that he Hadn't gone for Greeley before he died; but as he hadn’t he thought le would look orp nd ree id he sopldy get a Grant free ticket for heavéh. (Cheers) He came across, he said, an old friend that had a ticket for the road, and after @ while the cars came along, The cars were marked ‘Direct line for Para- dise,”’ touching at heaven, halting to let Horace Greeley down at the White House, (Langhter.) He dreamed that these cars were not the Grant cars and he had to wait, After a tine the Grant lightning train for hell came along, Into these cars he got, and found other condemned spirits like himsclf, and reached the end of his journey that plight, On the following morning he was brought into Court, with other fresh arrivals during the night. Old Pluto, seeing a man of his own color among the delinquents that morning, came up an shook hands with him. “When did you get here’ said Pluto. “Last night,’ said my friend. “Where did you come from? ‘further queried Pluto. “From New York,” said he. “What part of the Statesy” “From North Carolina,” said my friend. s'Vh, Oh,’ said Pluto, “who did you go for in the electiony” ‘I intended to vote for Caldweil,” said he, “but I didn’t, as I died before the time,’’ “then,” said Pluto, “look here; 1 have run this machine a good many years, and I consider Ihave a peremptory right to the place, but if you fellows of the Southern States desire to raise a hell upon earth on your own account you will break up my business altogether. And if you and the peo- ple that control your general government re-elect hat main on horseback you will have hell to pay nerally, and] may as well shut pede Sa (Laugh- - er.) This was the dream of my friend, but it Was only ali a dream, and when he awoke in the morning and learned that Saunders hadn't left the town he felt mighty glad that he bad an oppor- tunity of saving himseit and the country by pledg- ing himself to vote for Greeley. (Cheers.) Despite of ali the charges brought against his race in this lection, he assured hia readers that the colored men had a higher ap- preciation of the value of the suffrage and of good peewee than was generally conceded, and on he 5th November next they would pile up a heavy: and telling poll for Greeley and Brown. (Applause. Mr. Lucas, of West Virginia, next followed in a brief but stirring speech, in which he pledged the meeting that West Virginia, out of a voting popu- lation of 40,000, would give Greeley and Brown a majority of 10,000, to meet the promised majorit) of New York of 60,000. From the highest pet of the Biue Ridge to the highest pe of the Alleghantes the cry had gone abroad that the government would be redeemed and disen- thralled from the nepotism, despotism and central. ization of the present administration on the 6th of November next. Messra, Depew and Cox, reported as speaking in Irving Hall, repeated their speeches in the ig- wam. At the close of the latter gentleman's speech the meeting broke up. THE MEETING IN IRVING HALL Se Speeches by Fernando Wood, Chauncey M. De- pew, Governor Walker, General Kil- patrick and Others. At an early hour Irving Hall was crowded to ite utmost capacity. Among the assemblage was a springing of ladies. The hall was profusely deco- rated with American flags and over the stage were several mottoes. A band of music was alse in at- tendance, which for some time before the meeting was calied to order and between the speeches dis- coursed patriotic airs. Mr. Tuomas F. STEWART called the meeting to order, and after stating the object of the meeting nominated ex-Judge James ©. Spencer as Presi- dent. This nomination was unanimously endorsed, and thereupon a lively introductory speech fol- lowed from the ex-Judge, and then ensued the selection of some one hundred gentleman as vice presidents and a score and more of secretaries, A series of resolutions was then read, endorsing the nominations of Horace Greeley and Gratz Brown in the strongest possible térms, as also those of the recent Convention at Syracuse, and with such approval setting forth the great controlling prin- ciples and aims of the yah These were adopted with great enthusiasm, and then the President in- troduced the first speaker of the evening, Fer- nando Wood. - SPEECH OF FERNANDO WOOD, ’ As Fernando Wood advanced to the frout of the platform he was greeted with a wild tumult of peice He said he would address himaelf espe- clally to those old democratic friends with whom he had fought so many political campaigns. He thought his political record and tenacious adher- ence to the principles and usages of the party for a third of a century should me his opinions some consideration and weight with those who had stood side by side with him in the same line of duty. To~ them, therefore, he would say that, in bis judg- ment, those who refused to support the nominees of the Baltimore Convention were liable to be accused of both inconsistency and recreancy. Theirs was # party of principle, believing in certa! essential fundamental doctrines of government, con- tradistinguished and opposite to those which have always been held and acted upon by tiie opposition. They hold that man is capable of self-goverument, that the liberties and rights of the people are best secured by a decentralization of power and a distri- bution of the functions of government throughout the States to be left with the people thereof, They believe in an economical and honest administration of public afairs—in the general pacification of the country and the purification of official life—in the RESTORATION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES to all their rights within te Unton, so that we may constitute one grand league of State: bound together by fraternity and nationat unity, They are opposed to social intolerance and the proscription of foreign-born citizens in con- sequence of birth of religion. They sustain the rights of labour in the ion of its just earn- ings, the free exercise of opinion, and the largest liberty consistent with good order and the protec- tion of life and property, These were the leadin, general distinctive features which have alwa: marked their party, and made up thé great differ- ence between themselves and their opponents as national political organizations. From the tion of the constitution until this time, theirs has represented the democratic element of the Amert- can pop lation as contradis ished from the aristocratic, almost always combined against To restrain the moneyed power thus arri against them, they have been frequently called upon to make sacrifices. They have never hesitated to make them for a cause 80 ir. No faith was worth preserving whose followers are not willing to encounter and surmount difficulties. 80 long as principles are preserved, merely Be nal con- bag’ lons are of little moment. It is the underly- ing fundementa) bas} "BOR ren their institu- tions rest that they seek to defend and keep stron; and enduring. This object was the beacon light wi tag! true ge ocrats should follow. Men were be principles were everything, Men come nd go; men change with their interests, caprices or prejudices; but the truths which rest the luberties and weltare of the people should be fixedi maintained at all hazards, It waa the highest evi- dence of sincerity in the advocacy of that its supporters are now willing to LA \de Renan prejudices and forget personal host wed fo political party in this country or in Fatope ever exhibited a higher o ‘of fidelity to prin- ciple than they are doing in 4 ‘ing for the: ESIDENCY HORACK J z SE pero Their love of at cause Was it to a ‘atalike “J ar individ Prinet was Talscd above prejudice, and the general made the sole Ovject and aim of success. Aa rca ate ease fa teas ng acts of the present administration. ‘He o w were