New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-06-28

all sorts We believe the Cas- and Butter cohorts
from the Custom-House were earliest on the
ground. determined % atone for past deiamationo
Clay BY present plsudiis bat there was another
.op,d OF Loco- Fooos who went their death On Old
Zack. Between these there were any number Of
shan-fghis and fussy scuses, all calculated 70 be
reported in this mornings Herald and True Sun
as prodigious Disruption and explosion Of the
Wing party. There were also good many Tay
lor Wings present and some Wings who are not
80 fierce FOR Taylor; bat we don't believe either
class had much to do with the rows 80 industrious
ly got up. Altogether the meeting was very
large and By no means quiet one bounded BY
row Of high brick houses on each side aud lot oi
blazing tar.barrels ct each end, with capacious
rostrum in front, and a mild s'ar-t sky overhead.
Ii was a sight worth seeing for once bot sensi-
be man may spend his evenings more probably
than in going 10 many such
There was considerable business done, we judge
BY the Official report. True, we were about the
middle ofthe rostrum from a few minutes after the
meeting organized till it said % be adjourned,
trying pretty generally to hear; bot never an in
teIigible sentence did we hear from the perform
ers from the beginning TO the end. We were told
that Mr.. Hone was in the Chair We caught at Ia.
tervals the silvery notes Of Hoffman and the per
suasive tones Of Thsyer bat what they SAID, or
what il was all about, 10 mortal man could tell.
Judging solely from the patience and the plaudits
or dissents Of the sovereigns, we concluded that
Senator Dayton made an Indifferent speech Mr.
Hoffman one Of his best hits Mr. Thayer fair
argument, and Mr.. Bougbton rather dull Grafton.
We may have been mistaken all through for we
took our cue from the voice of the multitude which
is not always correct in its determinations
An Address and Resolutions said 20 have
been adopted, though we are confident less than
quarter Of the meeting bad any idea Of their con-
tents We certainly heard no syllable Of either,
though there was a time when we were told that
somebody was reading resolutions IL is said, too
that the question was taken on the nominations,
and that Of Gen Taylor confirmed but we
heard nothing Of that. Why so clumsy farce
should have been played, when the public ex
pressly warned beforehand by all the ratifyinc
journals that only those favorable to Taylor had
any business to open their heads at the meeting,
we cannot imagine. We, certainly. obeyed the
resoript to the letter not even whispering
word Of assent or dissent throughout. We heard
an abundance Of Ayes and Noes cheers for Clay
and for Taylor yells, groans, and cat-calls Of va.
rous kinds the upshot Of which is formal
nouncement that New-Y responds 10 the nom
nation of Gen. Taylor. So be it.
Looking on as cool as a cucumber, we must
say that the affair not well managed Ia the
frst place, most Of the speakers and other per
formers were well known as having been actively
hostile to Mr. Clay throughout the late struggle.
aud most efficient IA thwarting the ardent wishes
Of the Wings of New York. Those among them
who were busy in betraying the great Kentuckian
with Judas kisses arc not more popular here than
the others For such as these to get up meet
log and issue an Address written by one who has
not had Clay hair in hs head these twelve
m)nths) saying Our first choice for the Pres
dency was Henry Clay we did all we could 70
secure his nomination., &c &c. is running the
thing into the ground. People do seem TO like a
gag now and then, bu, not one SO transparent as
this
The Resolutions are even worse. The needless
vaunt that In the Mexican War our National
Honor has been vindicated, sc could have been en-
dured in silent contempt so with the talk about Gen
Taylor's public life and known opinions giving
assurance that he will carry into effect the great
cardinal principles of the Wing faith but the
resolve which relates TO the Extension OF Slavery
is far more seriously wrong, and cannot be suffered
TO pass without apprehension. Let US look at It
Rs.o,r.S That we deprecse sectional issuesi Nation
al dangerous 10 the Union and injurious 10 TIE
public good that look with confidence 10 Wing Ma
honai Administration all causes for such issues
and that We viii cOuntenance no faction ~ he Wing par
~ and no coalition with any faction out OF H. which shall
cry hosuliiy against any other.'
The simple meaning of this is that strenuous
aud consistent hostility to the Extension OF
Slavery is isctious, and that these gentlemen IN
tend to irown it out Of CONFERENCE.-The we who
have hitherto made such resistance must now
shut up, go it blind for Old Zack and such Con-
sress as it shall please Col Webb and the Union
Club generally to have elected and live ON conn
deace that such dynasty VIII remove all causes
for such issues but whether by extending
Slavery or restricting j! the oracle condescends
not to say.
Gentlemen Of Wsllstreet and sharp, shrewd
calculators generally be entreated to understand
this matter Alright, The hearts OF this People are
fully set in them to stop the passage Of the Rio
Grande by Human Slavery, aud they viii not be
turned aside. They may be oaioled deluded and
betrayed but if they shall be, then woe to then
betrayers. The Wings OF the North want 10 vote
with their party, Tor President and all ii they
do so without voting to favor the Extension o.
Slavery and that you mustnot ask thcmto do unless
you wish to upset your dish altogether. Only assure
them that YOU viii go heartily with them in choos-
ing Members of Congress who viii set their faces
as wall against Slavery Extension, and We think
they will generally take the risk OF Gen Tay for
President but il you ask them to take him aud
Congress Of doughiaces along with him. you will
break the back Of their endurance and pitch the
whole load into the mire. This question about
Slavery in the territories is al once old and
SO iresh-so enduring, yet so imminent-that you
cannot possibly mystiiy 1t, and your discounte-
nancing II viii not amour, to a great deal The
State OF New York stands so oonspicuously and re.
pesiedly on the reoord-slways in one attitude. and
with an extraordinary unauinity OF sentiment
that your irowns, formidable as they may be. can
not shake her steadiast purpose. From the date
OF the Jefiersonian ordinance of l7s7, which for
ever preserved the region North west Of the Ohio
from the canker and blight OF Human Bondage. her
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