The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-18
REPUBLICAN RATIFICATION MEETINGS IN
NEW YORK AND BOSTON.

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REPUBLICAN RATIFICATION MEETINGS IN
NEW YORK AND BOSTON.
4 Great Republican Ratification Meeting
was held in the Tabernacle, New York, on the
evening of the 9th. Even the correspondent
Of the National InteUigencer says, Kit must be
confessed that the gathering was quite imposing
IN point of numbers" The Tribune says, sit
was one of the largest, and certainly the most
spirited and enthusiastic, which has been held
in our city this season by any party. For three
full hours the close attention of the large audi
tory was given TO the terse and logical statements
Of Mr. Sherwood, the stirring eloquence of Sen
ator Wilson, of Massachusetts, and the freedom
breathing energy, the resistless humor, of Gen
eral Nye Judge Culver charged lucidly at the
close, but very properly declined to speak at
length, because of the lateness of the hour.
Grave and substantial as the assemblage main
IL was, it was frequently moved to the deepest
enthusiasm
Letters we're read from several candidates on
ihe Republican ticket, from Charles Sumner,
and Benjamin T. Butler.
Mr.. Butler writes:
"The failure of the Convention, representing
The Democratic constituency to which | have
heretofore belonged, to denounce in terms of
deserved condemnation and rebuke the Kan
sas-Nebraska iniquity and its authors, and to
insist on just and full measures of constitutional
redress makes my support of the candidates
cd Nv 10 aOt IOn Mt lv
be with my conviction and sense of duty. And
as ! find in the platform adopted by the two
Conventions of the 10Th and 9th of September
along with the principles of Democratic liberty
aud individual freedom, OF federation, Justice,
and economy, in which was bred, and which
have always endeavored to maintain frank
fall, and decided utterances on the great public
questions OF the day-a question which deem
paramount to all others gladly accept, for
The coming election, this truly Jeffersonian plat
form, and shall give to the candidates nomina-
ted IN connection with it my hearty support.
am happy to recognise among these can
dIdaies several with whom | have long been
connected by political ties. Most of all do |
rejoice 10 see among them two, who NAV fitly
be regarded as of living men the truest repre-
sentatlyes, in the present crisis, of the incom-
parable Silas Wright and the pure-minded Mi
chael Hoffman. The whole ticket will, trust
De elected, and elected by vote which shall
be 10 the friends of Human Freedom, in every
quarter of the country, the prophecy and the
pledge OF more perfect triumph in 1856"
Judge Culver, in his brief remarks, took up
The question Of Fusion:
This was the great bugbear they encoun-
tered. On the right and on the left they had
The ghost of Know Nothingism, and the fossil
remains of the old Wing party. The Judge
spoke OF the various eminent men in the Union
"ho had Practiced Fusion, and supported it on
public grounds. Even Washington Hunt, who
was now tanning himself in the parlor, keeping
tae lies away IN the heated terms, practiced
iUs0n. 1t was Fusion brought him up, and
@nd he was now the man Friday of Marcy, and
~oFe he handSomest ruffie shirt of any man in
he congress at Washington. The Know Moth
agss-the men with their dark lanterns-the old
wig BODY, the Hard Democrats, and the Slip
l~ry Grays, all condemned Fusion. Four-fifths
Of The Wing candidates, that were making noise.
and rAttling their tin kettles, and crying down
f-,'on, were inmates of Know Nothing lodges,
@11 We're telling them to beware of Fusion.
"ohh Van Buren,, John Cochrane, and ex-Gov-
tHof Seymour, were fusing to support the
l'eslaent' not for principle, but for spoils and
~ty We're also fusing to support Slavery and
ePIoid great wrong. If the Pope had sent
= us ionowers to Kansas, to commit the out
l1stS winch had been perpetrated, they would
cave men been asked by their opponents to
Use Use ana prevent the shedding of Protestant
rO'u' HE hecrt Of the people of the State
u las sound, and they would eventually triumph.
vas a good omen that, on the day of their
1s.oh a, Syracuse, the telegraph brought them
nf H. e. L.
'-'s' SebastoPol. Applause"
oh the evening of the Sth, Faneuil Hall,
D'''On' was crowded with an assemblage, call
- % rauiy the proceedings of the Republican
wac Convention. All present seemed full of
- g-rrsy and hope. Among the speakers were
:. - Eliot and J. Z. Goodrich, Wing members
'ue last Congress, but now hearty supporters
me Republican movement. A letter was
80. IRON the venerable JOSIAH QUINCY, sane
'1'Hs and sustaining the movement. The
''D' franklin DEXTER, in letter to the
''"'s while declining to take part in it, from
uH"lllngneSs to withdraw himself finally
y" "hat he regards as the Wing Party,
0"s Ills determination to support the Repub-
81 candidate for the Governorship. He says:
,,,, among the reasons which prevent my be-
~, lug member Of the Republican party at
;, 1Me, IT is sufficient for me to state that 1
A. WH1~'llng to withdraw myself finally from
Lo wing party, with which / have acted so
ero No. On account of any apparent present differ
s1,,o,. Vi opinion, which may perhaps be only
faseht and, if real, may be only temporary.
I6;' pproaehing election will determine what,
EG;r rs Is now very uncertain, whether the late
1.De convention at Worcester was a true ex-
@ .in' % u the views Of the party at large.
Jrr - me mean time, it seems to me to be my
d. las as one holding the opinions respecting
I'M, fISlon of Slavery which have been so
ina and loudly expressed by the Wings on
IVA Va. 80 occasions, to act independently, and to
cav cay nearly support to Mr.. Rockwell, as the
t.s emulate entertaining those opinions who
60, PIc!SSibly be chosen. If we should fail to
Cyonlm, great calamity will fall upon the
B-scib on%Sealth, in the election of either Mr..
0--cH or Mr.. Gardner
.,re q Elbow FEVER IN VIRGINIA.-BalA-
avps,, ~, THE yellow fever has nearly dis