The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-28


s-yehn Y. Savage, Jr, le-ss,nasl Radcliffe,
AT Gf ;s'sgI 1lss-w ,m,. Z Bsnsb
II Il T sis,s. s 5@sss, i R:is
jobs H. nAsKIN, Chairman,
a asonen q c aAI4AaHfh Secretaries
At the appointed tie attendance at the theatre
did not prtri.e beim'ng display. band sta.
tcnsd In tbe vestibue Kept sumounx in the faithful
but there big lit lie guns fred, lanterns
and banners displayed T5ers appeared, however, to
be larger representation o. the respectable classes oil
society than is usually to be met with of late days
these democratic gatherings As O'Clock there we're
some two Thousand persons present including lady
in stage box.
The meeting caleo to order by JOHN B. HAsKIN,
Corporation Attorney, who offered presiding officer
that old Roman rational oemocrat, the
Hon. SAMUEL BEARDSLEY.
The nomination was confirmed unanimously and with
great applause.
The Hon. Judge BEARpsIEY then addressed the meet
ing follows
OF the old nstioaa democratic p.rty-a party VIII ch
was organized about the period when Mr. Jefferson
elected 20 the Prsettepcy-a party which then
planted (, zee liberal manly prneipies-a party
which has since uap,a'nai thoss principle the
predominant feature OF which s q devotion to the
Union OF The States every legion of
the country OF the same rights ard toe privileges
in all respects that the North sno the Soath, the
East arc the West stand se the view of that party
- equally emitted to all The r'snts shca secured to
American citizens hesIs) VIII, gentleman, we
como here to l. az, tnirg Gao os DONE not to
strengthen the faith OF thu Of taat party not
70 plant in their breats any principles but to
anything can be deEe 70 r. nov..a and build up AMI
plant in power thst great 90 party here
tofore IN poser IN this sras auo 10 the Union cloud
ehseIal It's eat few years. ieLo. citizens, since
New Iotk We hcS shee 10 divisions sich Is
now separate thnse woo wr,s heo memssrs Of
AZ To ad xxffh dna-
trine of free scii,m Tns " imot proviso
Anown, and no man heard o. az aboi.rionst-I mean
. political aboIitiopist-in the demo ratio party.
There was DO man IN that psrt wso disposed upon
the question slavery to stray onesecton Of the Union
few years sso. But in 1877 ia the stae convention
Of thas party, which rep nta1 by from
sysy seo ,1 ., the ss g. gHshs and ia
cause the convention ~ouio plant itself upon
anti slavery plstform-to ananeon the convention and
70 arraJ tn utlves against the made oy It,
The consequences defeat the State passed over
into the hands OF the wings This in ls4 In 1848
the Presider tial srt,on csue on A nomination was
made at Baltimore by the led Democracy Of the
UrioD end the ssms nsu who had caused defeat in
1S47 array Themselves against that DO nnaton and by
exertpg ali their power the two graf central States
Of the Ueiop New York ana Penos, lvauia, they
enabled to taumph by ratg the democracy Of the
Union arc putting the Presi.Dcy ia The hands of the
wings. (Hear, hear That shs result in 1s48
should have sad that in toe brightest Gays che d.
mocracy Of NV York, when We all united upon
those questions which Cow asitats AMI divide u.s.
rather which astats aud divide those who were
then unied-in those Gays, Mr.. vn Bursn was concel
edy ct the head o. the democracy OF New York He had
embraced those doctrines No PROGRESSED them
more strepgl; than be DID, he was "a Northern man
with Southern principles" (Heor hear.l he stood up
at thst for the integrity o. the Union. Bat, Ia
1913 tbis Mr.. Van Bur chose o allow himself
to become tn Of the Tree sellers OF New York
for the Presidency, in opposition to the national demo-
cratic nominal nd under the dsg which foated over
they were enabled 70 and cut down the demo
cracy Of the tpion. Vel gentlemen having achieved
totu rs r110 nd
always stood by their principles and maintained
their integrity, and the lfee soiisrs. It sue
that any Of us were proud of / am sure. (Hsar,
hsar) had hand in making it myself, and trust
step BY common consent it has ossn abandoned, and
the whole democracy OF the State now agree that IT w.s
sS IT'S s
to be honest or patriotic. Cheers Wen,
coalition was patched up, enc we had . sort
was called democratic State adminis ration pass it
by, for It s already almost forgotten BY common con-
sent that ition to end and We all know thai
since that time the old democratic party aud
those who compose the free sod party claiming also to
b deneerats hav. TED separately and that the con
(Hear, hesr) Well ssntem.n, We should all be salts
Aed VIII union and harmony, hit union on prn
when section is for standing by the integrity the
ONION for oiscardipg III sectional feeling for putting
down all abolition agitation and ao sing tue South to
manage their concerns the matter Of slavery in
their own way and the other section says that the Will
mot pfoveo must De adopted, that Congress must
entertain and upon the OF slavery is ut
tery impsols that parties entertaining such opposite
opinions can act In concert (Hssr, hear We should
~ Do gsd TO the who acted with before the
"bon have spoken Of now, tIry then, acting
upon the principles which the national democracy have
always stood BY But until they espouse those prnci
ples--untn they agree to the same platform
that upbeio BY the democrats OF all the States
Of the Uncn where there is any thing which to
be called democracy until thsy ABIDE BY that and
stand that principle Ia utterly i'm possible that
there can be any thing vhih Ia at to be called Union
cloud cbe~rs.) Tho toipR Ia wholly imeo ssible. Well
follow citizspsfor shall be very brirf in what have
to ssy--Gepera Pierce chosen President upon the
principles Of the national democracy vas believed 10
b sound upsn those principles and bad proved 20 be
so, all well know that TO day the democratic party of
the Union would have been in the ascendant We should
not have bser trsmped down by the parties that
have grown in the night and faced awsy the morn
ing We could have resisted the whole Of them. Cheer
from the very first moment OF the administration OF
05nsrsl Ibrce defiance OF ali HIS pledges and in per
fsecUoniemp Of bis former life, be has gone to work.
mot TO esvnts emo siren CITIZEN AMI uphold the nstona
demccrsc psrty and the who devoted to IT, but
20 PROSTATE and put down that GLASS every where
as xeelously ~ he could bavs done had ne beeu an
aboiitioEht from the beginning (Cheerr) Indeed
che great things that win be noticed In his
tory - marking and giving character to this sd-
minfstxnticn sre, that 10 its domestic mol cy
Il was direct violation OF al the former Life OF the
President, end In its foreign policy Why IL has sue.
seeded In Blowing up Greytown (iaughter) Those
viii be- The marked features OF tbM sdminfstr 70 don
Wen. the democratic psrty Is not now In power a. It
vas few years ago, sod Do not know, cannot ven
ur 10 prtict, that We shall soon sse IL 10 the