New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-16


@e soue of their excellent music during the
-. and the proceedings Of the meeting werecoscd
=, .o,g fiom Messrs Missing and s,outensursh Inc
,seetior was very enthusiastic and considering the bad
state of the weather there was good attendance.
Fprr DEMOCRACY IN NEw-YoRK-A meeting
sf the Free Democrats was held on Thursday evening
nj the Chinese Museum which, considering the s."e
weather yyss very well attended, Dr BELL Pteslaea'
...,,,ed Inv pr q p TOWNSEND and DR.. TRAIL, Wee
C,,irmer,. and WIZ. E. RosE, Secretary
Dr I.rxs C. JACKSON from the Wes'orn part OF the
se was then introducede the speaker o. the evening"
bo aid that man greater than the institutions that
.urroupd him they may make him higher ind nooer
,bs be ;s or they nay Hve for their object 70 crush
h;,o Institutions are means 20 ends, and ends are
cya,r than means Take the Sabbath the greatest IN
Citation Of the Christian regioDlft the Saboain above
vonyselvef and Il Of value. Whoever undertakes
10 prevent any from doing good on the saooa.n,
takes the Sabbath from It's appropriate sphere and de
troys the object for which it created The Sa6oal
was created for man, aud not man for The SaDosth-
90 of civil government Government Is instituted 10
preserve and develop human nature and wnen " =
made destructive totat nature its purpose Destroyer
Suppoee the Government Of the United statcr sh0oid
undertake the farce that the Roman I'm
pcror C8g1la did, and decree that the sale nohVrs
should be paid horse were pad TO him (Caigua
or the Government. Would you take on your hat ana
make Cbeissnce 20 horse NO, you say bet"eSn
horse end man there rs everlasting fistlncto winch
you cannot break down and preserve your ggnny'
There IL something In man which glVes 10 nun usny,
and YOU can no more give 70 horfe the qualty OF
rnsn than YOU can give q the Quahiy OF ahorsc
But The Government of the United states Il worse tah
that of Caigua undertake 70 transform man
into horfe and by mere statutory enactment SIue
Fuotve Slave Iatg) TO declare a Of more value
than horse. Now, the evidence of man Dlng a
man. docs not lie in looks, nor in statutes nee IA M
own consciousness. No man would ever cay piat ".
tween him and letters there individual God
adaptation Ii letters ever get ON anyoooys hinos
they get on other bodys than that Oh ones lhli
vidusi self Everywhere man recognizes M own u"
dviduaIty: 90 horse knows hOrse--t don't mstaKe
jscksss for ore of his species and Democrat
who does not know man when he sees nun, uoh I
know az much as Dutch pODey
Now come TO the question OF Slavery about whcn 70
much noe s nnde The slave code Guys that the slave
10 the property Of the master TO whom ne belongs b
how does the slave belong 20 his master by virtue Oh
sae or contract But this sale cannot take place There
cannot be sale Of anything without an e1yalent ior
the thing Sold and when man gives sSyV lor inan
he loses 5000 and gets for nothing Slavery IL
great fasehood and ignores human existence IL lives
ON borrowed capital end therefore, according 70 cneral
Jackson IL ought 70 be broken Extrinslc influences
are brought TO support IT. There ihe chuiCnl wn p
hike ctTicsture ne had OF General Scott, with Bill
Seward underneath supporting him, Is one OF the great
est bulwsIks Of Slavery. 30 81 the wing ana Demo
cratic parties They keep up osEe e % nci,b ho
would he find fault with the candidates OF the parnee
He would only arTagn the hrst as Anti Christian ana
the last as ADtDemocraic Ihey were hot DenocIn u
who protected man because he was rhte The govern
rnents which did this only akin deep Man would
be a man if he had skin. The difference between
one who IL short anu another VINO Il tan, u no
greater thsn that between who white and another
WHO'S black Legislation based any qualities which do
not enter into the essential constitution oil man II
wrong and is not possible to say where us oppresslos
will end H. for instance il may deny the right OF SUI
frage 10 man because lac il black, It may deny L TO
another because he Is German or nm lrishman or De
cause he poor because he not bachelor and has
not O wife and seven children
As
the weather 40 ncement that the msetng WIS iip'
30 lorge otherwise TO be expected, the spesNef
said that he would here bring hs remarks 20 close
promising that he would address them again at the same
place
After Mr. Jackson had concluded, the meeting was
addressed by Mr.. Gibbons from Massachusetts, and
the Chairman announced that Mr. Jackson and others
would address the people again Friday evening On
or about the ooh inst, J. Z. Hale and Cen Wilson
were expected to arrive In the City to address mas
meeting
THE TENTH WARD Reform LEAGUE
public meeting Of this body was held THURSDAY
night purruant to public notice at the Excelsior Hall
No IS AIlcn.st The meeting not very larg
one there being not more than from two 10 three hun
drcd persons present On tho meeting being organized
Mr. Resovcn Stephens called TO the Chair, and Nh
Joseph NJ Bell appointed Secretary. The secrctar.
read the call Of the meeting ne follows
PILLOW CrTfzENs-ln this Ward, well as in al
Others of the City Of NewYork, the corruption of ia,
political parties exceedingly great the means by which
candidates get their nomination., and by winch they
are elected are not honest. Such nominations are moi
he ffec expire zion OF the people; they ere not repuo
hcan Promises, bGrgHinf, money rum influence, ulcIs
and fighting control primary elections and the man who
does not lower himself to those means can never
fecure nomination. and no prudent honest man VIII
do that -.
IL is therefore, no wonder that tue interests OF the
City are almost entirely neglected. that the treasury
robbed nj every opportunity that rOwdes and drnkar Is
are allowed to disturb the peace OF our Guy by day aud
by night that murders and crimes Of all kinds increase
daily that the honest man must by DAY andby night
fear for his life and property that ferries ana leases are
given TO the lowest, and contracts are made with tie
highest bidders; railroad projects, buying buyih1
grounds granting encs, s.. &C. arr objects for specu
ation and not for the City interest the streets are dirty
and in bad condition public health entirely neglected.
increasing every year and have now reached
the enormous Of four millions of dollars whrh The
honost man-thc property holdtr, Ss well as the p9oi
norLinr man--has 10 nav directly OF indirectly Cit
gems orderloving citizens good honest, working Cit
zens Of the Xth Ward we col upon YOU 10 aid US II
putting stop Ia such corruption this disgrace % GU
CIV; this robhing our pockets We want no Offices To-
Ourselves or for friends have personal object
In view we do not medde with National and STAT
politics; we are Wings and Democrats, and our onll
object IL to have good cheap honest independent an'
sober City Government
Mr. Edward A. Frazer then read the Address AMI
moved its adoption. Before putting the question th'
Chairman said IL with gentlemen, that you shoulC
understand that we are not pohcA oody Dul Hde VI
ofevery party solely intent upon bcnehttng our iel
low.citizens should insult your understanding ~er'
to attempt describe the state to which City re
duced by rowdies and fighting men, and the question
now is win any longer submit 10 let vagahonds ride
roughshOd over ust II no decent man can reside
longer In the City But how can be Othcrwisci tins
from the returns of the Chief Of Police that there ~
unlicensed houses where rum and other alcoholic pos
ons are cold The licensed houses pay slo each 10 th
CITY Government, and il rs unfair that man shout,
be forced to pay sl0 for doing that which his door
neirhbor IL allowed do for nothing Besides by let
ting these men sch without license the City j. robbed o
&7OOl | have my doubts, however, but these men dc
pay-if net directly least indircctyto some poit
cal wrcpuer, who protects them from all legal punish
ment The CITY Treasury, however, Is deprived OF the
money IL Is in these unlicensed places that our
youth arc taught to drink and become loa'ers ami use
lees to society that We have them TO support as we!