The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-06-16

NEW YoRK CORRESPONDENCE
New YORK
NKw YoRK, June ., 1856.

iork. les, sir, there Is q forth and It
,aoia BE- heard and unless | greatly mistake
its spirit, it will be felt too in the November
struggle with the plantation lords and as
sass,ns Hho are now Euthiessiy and auda
ciously tramplIng upon the dearest rights Of
the freemen OF this nation. The recent
meeting At the Tabernacle to express the
views Of the commercial metropolis on the
subject OF Border Rufianism as illustrated
in the Senate Of the United States, was
and determined gathering | ever witnessed
within the walls Of tina. time-honored edi-
ice, and | have attended meetings there
during the past fifteen years. The only
one | now remember, which approached
this in point OF numbers, energetic, wild
determination, was the one which assem-
} bled 10 listen TO u speech from that self
sacrificing champion Of freedom, CAssIUs
NJ. CLAY, soon after the destruction OF his
press BY a respectable mob al Lexington.
Kentucky, some ten years ago. Ii there is
anything which will arouse the people of
the North, il is a deliberate attempt to still
BY brute force the liberty OF speech or the
press.
The resolutions which the meeting
adopted. and the speeches which were made
you have doubtless read, aud formed your
~opinion Of their spirit ana qualty. To ap-
p~reeiste entirely the weight and Importance
OF that meeting, you must know that it was
called and addressed by the Substantial,
| conservative men OF the metropolis "a class
who have stood aloot from, or opposed 10,
the movement for the repression OF the
rapidly advancing aggresslons OF the slave
power. Tae gentlemen who managed and
lnsugurated This demonstration were Vt the
same class, and many OF them were the
same men who approves the Fugitive Slave
bill, and perhaps approve 4 still, and wns,
a lew year. ago, were saving the Union
down at Castle Garden. They are saving
/ The Unlon now, but in s sligntly different
and, In my humble judgment, = much more
eFecluaI manner, and you may rest assured
that they are terribly IN earnest While
The speeches were strong and decided, 1t
was very plain 10 the observer that ths vast
audience we're very much IN advance OF the
sneakers in their uetestation of rulnanism
and its impellng cause, Inis was egineed
n their frequent calls for Bsecaer and other
| decided suu-slayery speakers, and in tseir
yociierous cheering whenever any OF the
speakers inunated d disposition 10 meet
aud repei the expressions u the Southern
| ollgatchy. Waen Charles Alag SAID, 81
scora the sssassin-IiAe act, / scofn gil ex-
lenuaiioa Of Il, sad 1 scoEn especially The
Iauoble cause OF ali, slavery tfseg,' the aP-
clause of tue people was indeserloably wlid,
and lasted or some minutes, q iaFsa pro-
| portion u TIE audience rising to their leet
and mingiing tnsir caeers VITA The waving
| OF mats anu handherciets. Our masters are
raising a storm saicn they viii fad 1t ex-
| eeedlngls dlIhcult to manage. Unless /
very greatly mIsread the signs Of me times
and the spirit Of the people, tue slage-dri-
yers are, by their outrageous course
rapidly changing the great issue from one
| OF the extension of slavery over Free Ter
! fltory to that OF the very existence Of the
internal Institution itself. And If the
naughty, i~nsolent, rufianiy southrons eon-
! tiuue in their mad career until they goad
the people OF the North TO the point OF Ia
King issue directly whether man shall De
I acid anywhere in the Republic an article OF
merchandise, they viii only have accom-
| plished what their course is exactly c~alcula-
ted TO produce.
The prospects OF the Republican party
are frightening every day. We are well
organized in this city, where there are
! thousands Of earnest, thoughtful men, who
have not heretofore mingled in Political
suifss, bst VINO are now al work with an
energy and determination wsich must show
glorious results next November. These
men are cheered on in their noble work by
the most hattering accounts from their CO.
| AUDITORS in the rural districts. The South
ern oligarchy is also a powerful ally
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first
make mad" and the madness OF this black
power as evinced in the trescherous repeal
of the Missouri Compromise; in the en-
ployment OF murderous Border R1fians to
force their Infamous system into Kansas; in
the sscking Of Lawrence; in the brutal as
sault on Senator Sumner, and their more
brutal gloating over the fendisb and cow
srdIy act, is powerfully consPiring to rouse
up the North to something like a sense Of
its danger and degradation. These ncts Of
audacious rufanism reach and affect a large
number who have for years withstood the
c~learest demonstration Of the heaven-de-
rived right Of all men TO freedom. Sum
ner's great speech was logical, powerful,
truthful and eloquentj but the gaping
wounds inflicted on the head Of the PROSTATE
enntor by the pink of Southern chivalry.
are more powerful, more convincing, more
| eloquent than even that speech. The
people realize that when Sumner fell from
rufian blows in the Senate chamber, that
aTheu you, and :, and all Of Us fell down,
TIdlst b!ssdy treason fsurisAea oser as.a
Among the new ihstrumentalities for
pushing on the Republican column, we
have a decidedly lively and spirited cam.
paign paper just started here, called the
Free State Advocate, which is PUBLISHED al
the mere cost 0 paper and press work,
some true friends of freedom having raised
a fund TO defrsy the cost Of type setting.
mailing and Office expenses. twill be pub
lished for "a consecutive weeks, ending The
Ist Of November, for 37R cents per single
copy, II copies for So, Or IS for SIS. The
second number just out contains among
other inteFe, ting matter, Summers great
speech-a speech destined TO be more ex-
tensiyely read, and exert a wider influence,
than any other speech delivered in Con.
gress for years-and ibis 10 q great extent
aill be due to the rufianism Of Bully
Brooks. From the great lengrh Of Mr..
Summers speech, comparatively few under
| ordinary circumstance would have read III;
but now they viii desire to know Whist
caused this remarkable exhibition Of chiv-