The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-17 00:00:00

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

A large and enthusiastic peace meeting was held
at the Cooper Institute, in New York, June 3. Five
stands for speakers were erected outside the Insti-
tute, and large crowds surrounded each stand—the
hall inside also being closely packed. The meeting
was one of the largest political gatherings ever
held in New York. The following resolutions
were passed :

Resolved,—That the electors and people of the
State of New York, who have hitherto professed
the name and held to the principles known as
Democratic, desire to declare their unaltered attach-
ment as well as those truths, as to the Constitution
and the amendments thereto, forming the supreme
law of the land; that they regard obedience to the
Constitution as alike the duty of the citizen and
the magistrate, and regard such obedience as the
only means of perpetuating the Union, and, by it,
the only hope of restoring the same.
Resolved,—That the sovereignty of the States
and the sovereignty of the people, as laid down in
the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, of which
Jefferson and Madison were the authors, are the
fundamental principles of the Democratic party ;
that they are the vital essence of the Constitution,
pervading every line and provision of that instru-
ment, and to deny them would reduce our politica;
Federative system to anarchy or despotism.
Resolved,--That under the Constitution there is
no power in the Federal Government to coerce the
States, or any number of them, by military force.
If power of coercion exists at all, it is a legal power,
and not military. That the Democratic party, if
true to its own time honoured principles, cannot sus-
tain a war against sovereign States; that we believe
it to be the duty of the party to proclaim these
sentiments boldly, that the people may feel that
there is at least one political organization which
will deal honesty, independently, and truthfully
with them.

Resolved,—That the war :n its inception and
further continuance, being contrary to the Consti-
tution, must necessarily first combine all the
elements of Union, and hence that our duty as
citizens, our obligations as men, and our relations
to our common Father, alike demand that an end
should be put to what is repugnant to the law,
abhorrent to the humanity and civilisation of this
enlightened era, and inconsistent with the benignant
spirit of morality and religion.
Resolved,—That attempts to do away with the
provisions of the Constitution which point out the
mode in which all crimes are to be punished are
high-handed violations of the sworn duties of our
rulers, and that the participants in such a policy
are guilty of aiming a parricidal blow at the very
life of the supreme law.
Resolved,—That the claims of dictatorial and
unlimited power, under the pretext of military
necessity, and the trial of citizens (not in the land
or naval forces, or in the militia on active service)
by courts-martial, are monstrous in theory and
execrable in practice. That it is equivalent to an
entire abrogation of the Constitution, and the
erection in its place of a military despotism.
Resolved,—That the dogma of unlimited sub-
mission to the will of the executive branch of the
Government is unworthy an American citizen, and
inconsistent with the principles of Constitutional
liberty ; that such a concession is rather suited to
the, dark and sullen era of feudal despotism than to
a time when the rights of man are regarded even
by monarchs, and we attribute this exhibition of
abject servility as dictated by a spirit of fanaticism,
bent on effecting its object even at the sacrifice of
personal liberty.
Resolved,—That we should be unworthy of the
name of American citizens .of this free and inde-
pendent State, claiming the first rank among the
sovereign components of the American Confederacy,
if we did not protest against the cowardly, the des.
potic, inhuman, and accursed act which has con-
signed to banishment the noble tribune of the people
—Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham ; we protest
against it in the name of liberty, in the name of
humanity, and in the name of Washington. We
hope the people of Ohio will have the opportunity
of passing condemnation of this act, by the election
of Mr. Vallandigham as next Governor of the
State.

Resolved,—That, thus believing there can be no
reliable security to persons or property pending this
war, and, that by its continnnnce, the Government
itself will be utterly and irrevocably subverted—
and that the South, as well as the North, must alike
crumble into general ruin and devastation, we
recommend, in the name of the people, that there
be a suspension of hostilities between the contend-
ing armies of the divided sections of our country,
and that the convention of the States composing the
Confederate States, and a separate convention of the
States still adhering to the Union, be held to finally
settle and determine in what manner, and by what
mode the contending sections shall be reconciled,
and appealing to the Ruler of all for the rectitude
of our intentions. We implore those in authority
to listen to the voice of reason, of patriotism, and of

justice.
Resolved,—That to the end that our principles,
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thus publicly avowed, may be practically carried
out ; and that a State authority, emanating directly
from the people, may exist, to call any further con-
ventions of the Peace Democracy, if it shall become
expedient or necessary, and disclaiming any inten-
tion to distract the Democractic organisation in this
States, so long as it shall reflect the sentiments of
the masses, the following named gentlemen, repre-
senting each Congressional District, are appointed
as a State Committee for that purpose, with full
powers to take such actions in behalf of the success
of our principles as may seem to them just and
proper.

APPREHENSION OF THE .OLDHAM MURDERER.—
Acting on the information of Inspector Wilson, of
Crowe, Detective Buckley, of Manchester, apprehended at
Menai the man Wright, a manufacturer's son, for the mur-
der of Emmanuel Bates, at Oldham, on the 2d inst. The
prisoner, in charge of Buckley and the Oldham superinten-
dent, passed through Crewe to Manchester by the early
mail yesterday morning.

THE ANDAMANS !—Their complexions are as
black as soot could make those of our Ethiopian
minstrels at home. Their small dwarfish Sgures are hard
and angular, and their general contour the very re verse of
graceful. Their heads are perhaps the best part about
them. They are certainly small, bullet-like appendages,
but are not otherwise ill-formed. The fact that they were
entirely destitute of that natural ornament which has a
graceful appearance even when the phrenological develop.
ment is far from being what the professor of Spurzheines
" mental science" call beautiful, namely, an abundant
head of hair, or even any hair at all, did not at all tend to
make their other defects less perceptible. The red ochre
with which their bald occiputs are daubed is no doubt
meant as an ornament, but we cannot recommend it as an
article of the toilette, for it only renders their appearance
more repulsive.—Dr. Ifouat in his new work on these
I (literally) Stark-naked ,Savages,