The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-10
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The grand anti vev Goa itien n NOS meet
pg in The Park, tn day af err % for The
appointment Of celegat TO "a .ho,ition Sara
ioea State Convention, was y cost dishesrten-
ing fz2le in view OF the sw' ,.p,np pro Iramme
Of he - o,ected Holy Att Slavery Alliance of
the North.
A lrotberly eomb' 1at on Of such names as
W. G, Brytnt, Johr. A. King, John Jay, A. G.
Flagg, iiobtrt <mmet W liam v. Brady, G.
W BIZ Mt, Her ny Ward Beecher, Thomas Mel
rs'h, and conpany, co cooperating in the call for
ihis mass nj citing From the mere curiosity 10
= suct wonderful and funny amalgamaiion
Of Wigs and democrats, free sellers, abolition
ists, poets, philosophers, preachers Of the Gos-
pei, and teachers of ocialsm and inddelity, one
might naturally suppose it would suffice to at
tract q multitude OF maDy thousands. The wea-
ther was fine; The place was con venient; due no
tice had been given to the public, far and near;
the gathering was to be an extraordinary one, in
the fusion Of 80 many diverse materials; and
yet more inglorious and unexpected 6zzle ii
has never been our me lancholy duty to record.
An impromptu dog fight, a quarrel between
two apple women, the sudden death Of an
omnibus horse on Broadway, the arrest Of
clustering Jeremy Diddler, the bias. of the
trumpet Of ME Angel Gabriel without previous
notice, would have at'rac ed at the time ofday
al which the meeting occurred a more imposing
gathering of the sovereign people than this
mass nseting for the appointment Of delegates
to Saratoga. But the me ,greness of the as
semblage was not its most discouragiug feature
Whtn political crowd, ia such place "a the
Park, is very small, it Is genera ally very select,
and the purposes of the gathering are carried
out with hsrmony and unanmity. But the
case was otherwise in this instance decidedly
otherwise.
Mr. Joseph Blunt had DO sooner defined the
general objects Of this convention of five hun
bred. and Mr.. Benjamin Z. Buckman had no
sooner read the anti-Nebraska and anti-slavery
resolutions, than there was open mutiny in the
camp. A gentleman, named Il. p Childs,
promptly stepped forward and proposed other
resolutions, which, among other things, repu-
dated the INVENTION called to meet at Sara
advance the political interests Of certain men,
at the expense Of the principles and interests Of
better men," and not content with this, Mr..
Childs further proposed, "that we dem it To-
expedient to send delegates to the said Sara
toga Convention" OF course, the resolutions
ofMr. Chlds were not the thing; but from the
reports of the "yOice of the people," it is by
no means certain that they were rejected,
though declared so to be by the President.
A list of some sevcnty-fve delegates, of all
sorts of political poctical, ecclesiastical and
socialistic anti cedents, was then proposed
Van Buren, Buffalo platform soft she'll demo.
Gratis, Seward wings, Old Clay wings, Taylor
wings, Scott wings, Castle Garden Union
Safety Committee wings, abolticnist Maine law
men, and Know Kotbings, al mixed up together.
like green corn, string beans and tomatoes in
a dish of succotash, and the question was upon
adopting this astounding list as the New York
city and county delegates to the Saratoga con-
vention. When the question was propounded,
the people were COMPOUNDED, the reporters were
astounded, and there was everything to fear
that the delegates were grounded. Such
mingling Of incongruities as j. Phillips Pha-
nix, J. g. Snodgrass, W. +. Havemeyer,
Henry J. Raymond, Joseph Hode, Sheppard
Knapp, Benjamin +. Butler A. G. Kingslapd,
and Chauncey Shafer, was, for the moment, in
conceivable, itcompre hensiblc, and Incredible;
and the sovereign people stood aghast. But
soon, appreciating the drift OF the grand idea,
they very naturally protested against the omis-
sion of such men as Thurlow Wed, Horace
Greeley, and Thomas K. Downing, (black man,
The "voice Of the people" called for fair play:
but the list Of delegates was declared to be
adopted as 1t stood the President, Mr.. Wedge
wood, d. clin;ng TO wedge in either Weed,
Greeley, or Downing. Thus the programme OF
the day was cut and dried and adopted, by an
inside clique, against the wishes of the indie
pendent Union end law and order loving peo-
pie, who were present under the general inyi
tation TO the public.
The specific cb;ects Of this grand sponta-
ncous mass meeting in The Park, (aiter ten days
advertising being thus carried ont, Mr.. Rycl,.
man put in hard lick for the homestead
scheme, and against the Congressional railroad
land iobbers and spectators, which was adopt
e. But Mr.. Watson was very cavalierly set
aside in attempting to dispense with delegates
to Saratoga altogether; and Mr.. Van Ripper
while insisting upon his .'inalienablc rights to
T. head, was cut of by an abrupt adjourn.
ment Had the meeting been al night, in the
Tabernacle, It's harmonious proceedings would
doubtless have ended in the Tammany Hal ex-
pedient Of shutting OF the gas.
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novelty Of The occasion, the favorable condi-
ton Of The weather, he eligible locality, the
convenient time Of day, the thorough notidca-
ton given 70 the public, The importance of the
Nebraska question, the extraordinary anal CANA
ION Of merchants parsons arj politicians, which
be Saratoga programme lad brought about,