New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-17
PUBLIC MEETINGS.
MASS MEETING AT Thu TABERNACLE
SPEECHES BY HENRY WARD BEECHrR
JOHN PARKER HALE, AND THOMASJ
TI'RNER

TURNER.
| The Young Mems Fremont and Dayton Central
Union held a regular meeting at the Tabernacle last
| evening. B. +. MASIERRE in the chair. At "A
O'Clock over $500 persons were present and over
thousand had gone away, not being able to gain adj
mttspce. The building has not been 70 crowded this
wear. except at the Sumner meeting. The galleries
were reserved for ladies, and several hundreds were
nrcsept. Behind them stood solid mas Of men, and
the capacity Of every aisle was thoroughly tested
Aaer q soug by Mr.. Camps Glee Club, Henry
Ward Beecher was introduced amid immense APPLAUSE
He addressed the immense assemblage in substance
as follows
REMARKS OF THE REV. HENRY W. BEECHER.
Er11ow.cITIzESs: congratulate myself on being
presen tonight in such meeting, in such place for
sucb n purpose and with such goodly attendance;
6or have always felt that until we could bring in
some sense that which makes the family what it is,
into or potical circles and considerations we should
10 Lea snost certainly and hOpeessy TO the conscious
meanness and ignoblenees of male politics Laugh
fer and appausel. ! am therefore, almost happy to
see 40 many women here tonight because they have
r;ebt 10 take On interest in that which lies at the
foundation may say, of the very country itself and
the caure Of liberty in this country. None than
,bev need to be well informed and far as right in.
sncts are the best teachers, mono are better informed
RI TO what is generous pure, true, and good than the
s;ste,s wives and mothers OF our countrymen IAp-
rIausel VIC are assembled, fellow citizens upon no
ordinary occasion of excitement This meeting has its
parae in almost every considerable place throughout
ibc United States north of Mason and Dixon's line
tnnlause In all our rural districts where they have
no such buildings as this they are obliged to enter
tbat "temple not made with hands which God built
We have passt through great many election scenes
in our lifetime but never since fathers trod
tbese stern shores has there been parallel to the
cany ass which is going on throughout the United
States. 1t il not merely question between the
ins and outs which once in four yeas. 1t is not
s;mnly a question between Administration that has
forfeited its promises if that were anything strange
and the people calling upon them to render account
II il not simply such question as agltaed this coun-
try in 1870; for, although there was then an excite
mept which made that year memorable one in the
poitical calendar of this country, yet 1910 will
be mentioned after 1856 Great applausel. fyou will
recoIect from 1885 or SO series of commercial EN-.
barrassments agitated the whole country. There was
destruction Of credit, destruction Of property accu
mulated and there crash of interests all over
the land. east and west. In 1910 the people were
rtated, and were full OF evi augures Tor the fuure;
they were uneasy, dissatisfied, and suffering. 1t is
never hard TO make great campaign when the people
are suffering in their pockets and their interests and
il is no wonder then when they had such an Admins
tration as was that presided over by Martin Van
Buren,, that there was such whirlwind and revolu-
ton. But now arc not suffering. In our stores
sbops and harvesis, never have we been more pros
perous The earth has smiled, the heavens have
smiled. TOD main Dltsseu Ill Ill
Manufactures, commerce, and agriculture, oil have
tbrven. Never in any period of our history have
there been many conspiring causes OF prosperity
az in this year; and yet untroubled, with any
thing that usually draws men together IN ex'
citement, they have risen up with an unanim-
ity and with intensity of feeling and a deter
minution such never known before And why
all this? think the reason is very obvious. II IS
ted by the people that the Constitution which
was ordained for Liberty has been perverted and
wiested from the purposes and objects intended by its
trainers. The consequence Is that the people are de.
teimned to again to their old history, to look at
tho wording of old documents and to again from
first principles. pass to consider the particular
cause which has aroused the people "a the state OF
cittmtnt prevailing in regard to the strange de-
yelopnients that have been made in Kansas. think
that Calhoun is the father of Kansas. think that if
If he were now alive he would be obliged to
father these difficulties, as coming more legitl.
mately from the theories OF government advocated
by him than from any other man in the whole South
Under the influence of this nan, the feelings OF the
South have been revOluonized for, whereas slavery
once was thing TO he apolOgzed for, now they adopt
Cahoup's doctrine that Slavery is good thing-yea,
that it is the foundation Of Democracy for which,
passm, zee The Richmond Enquirer and Charleston
Mercury. This beng the state OF feeling throughout
the South this being the sentiment that 10 now
awakened throughout the South, we are prepared 10
ste what must be the proper construction OF Admhs
trstve tendencies they are supervised by southern
statesmen will not trouble you with reference 10
n war with Mexico. will not direct your attention
TO the Texas question | will not trouble you again
with reference to the California question or the
Omnibus bill Of 1850 But let us look ana
hnd been made under the instruction of Southern
overwhelmingly, the invasion Of Kansas. In the
frst place you will understand what is the intention OF
the South No man can doubt what the intention OF
the South is. The inevitable tendency OF the south
for She clngs to the policy of her wisest and abe:t
satesmanis TO carry Slavery right across the contl-
nent TO the Pacific. They do not hesitate to avow
that il is their intention to carry slavery WESTWARD;
E,,t thore "a M n wall there not made of wOOd-no Old
Chinese wsll-but = wall made up OF amify and
oompacts and pledges exchanged between the asltated
North and South. 1t was the Missouri Compromise OF
1870 By which the line of 800 BY was made the dividns
line, There YVES no getting access to TINS territory
unless this wall was broken down. need not ask
them to remember the great excitement which TOOK
place two years ago throughout the country WIN
net ask you to remember the disagreeabe snap Iudg
the Missouri Compr. was broken down the Soatn
sad Il at the proposition came from the North and they
nked If they should decline i'll have been brought
up to think that Slavery was particularly propitious
to Cbiyalry. Late events have tended TO snake
my faith; but that was my education. have been
taught to believe that it is dshOnorable 10 oreaA
contract. To break this was peculiarly dishonoI
| able Never did fish swallow rellshiul morsei
quicker than the South caught at this Com2romse
ILsughterl But unlike the fish of scripture, they re-
fuse 10 throw it up renewed laughter but ye, they
will find it to be Jonah, and they will be glad 10 40
it Laughter and cheers The only difference between
the stealing Of the Nebraska bill and individual a
ing is that il is Wholesale stealing lCheers eaia
that am taken to task for engaging III pones, Wv
VIXEN 20 much of personal abase and maievo'ence
into politics. leave to you il is not the duty %
minister to preach against lying and weh9 ehavs
Laugh,er. shall not stop to discuss me rign' n,rv
as citizen to look 20 the interests OF my COUNT
CLeenl But the fallacy Of the Oemocr AUG aVV"'ns -
flat it 10 enough to show that the proposition came
FL m Northern man. That is not enough snoe.'
be shown that came fUma man from Inc Noa'I