St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27

tain Fremont Club, OF the Fifteenth
Ward, of New York City, met few
days after the Presidential election at
Academy Hall, in pursuance of call
announcing that Mr.. David Dudley
Field would address the meeting.
The room was crowded, says the
New York Times, to excess, by an au-
dience whose enthusiasm had suf-
fered no diminution, and whose de-
termination to pcrpetuatc their organ
ization and uphold the principles of
their party, seemed, if modified at all,
to have acquired new impetus from
the result of the election.
David Dudley Field addressed the
meeting. We make the following ex-
tract from his remarks, as reported in
the New York Times
"What l would do tonight, this sec
ond night after the great struggle of
!, the 4th, is to survey the field, that we
may see what has been done, and
what reason there may be on the one
side for Encouragement, or on the 9th
or for consolation, encouragement and
resolution. We have not won the gen.
oral victory. Mr.. Buchanan is proba-
bly, elected President, with Congress
having a majority of supporters. We
have no responsibility for this result
We have done all we could honorably
do to prevent it. We have been de-
featcd not by majority of the Amer
lean people declaring against our prin-
ciples, but by the refusal of some to
act with us, who consented to our
principles, but dissented from our par
ty. Applause.] How mistaken
these men have been, they probably
see thus early, though darkly, and will
see more clearly as the events of the
next four years gradually open before
them.
While we have not won the general
victory, we have won many local victo-
rics. There is New England with her
six States, some formerly on the one
side of national politics, and some on
the other, but all now agreeing in oppo-
sition to the slavery extension party,
Of which Mr.. Buchanan is the head
[Applause.] There is Ohio, with her
millions on the side of Freedom
There arc Michigan, Wisconsin and
Iowa, children of Freedom and true to
their origin. Renewed applause. =
And here is New York, glorious and
mighty, standing between the lakes
and the sea, and uttering her voice in
u tone which none can misunderstood,
that henceforward no man need speak
to her Of the advantages of Slavery
or of Slavery-supporting commerce !;
that no party can doubly deal with
her, teaching her at one time that the
people of the I Territories have the right
to govern themselves, and at another
forcing unpalatable institutions down
their throats that no man or State
can threaten her with impunity that
while she loves the Union, she loves
the laws of Freedom also, and means
to maintain both /; and that she laughs
equally at the folly Of demagogues
and the threats Of rebels. Cheers.
Her beautiful motto, EXCELSIOR, new
or shone brighter than it shonc in the
clear sky of yesterday morning, when
she stood erect and confident of the
future, though so many of her sisters
had wandered in the storm and dark
ness of the previous day. Here is a
party, strong, compact, resolute, found
ed on principle which is indestructi.
bic and immutable; which allies itself
with all the traditions of our people
commends itself to the sympathies Of
every human being and is approved
by the almost unanimous judgment o.
the civilized world. Such party can
not be subdued, nor can it be disposed
1t may be temporarily defeated, but i
will come out strong from every de
feat if it be borne to the earth, j,
will rise with renewed strength i
will receive constant accessions as j
marches along the young will attacf
themselves to it in the ardor of youth
and generous impulse the mature
man will give it the approval Of his
well-considcred judgment and the ole
will see in it the only hope for the civ
ilization and union of our great Re
public Of the West. Great cheering. ]
The South has the control of Tho
present Administration /; it held thu
control of the Cincinnati Convention
it now controls the President elect
It has thus far carried matters with ;
high hand, and intends to carry then
with high hand hereafter. Will thu
Northern supporters Of Mr.. Buchanan
go with the South, and submit to thi'
dictation? If they do, every Free
State that now gives him its vote viii
be as Republican as New York long
before the next four years are over
If they do not go with the Southland
to go with it is to submit to it's dicta
tion--the Administration will be ship
wrecked even before it has passed in
to the open sea. Mr.. Buchanan will
soon be called upon to apply the doc.
trines of the Ostend Dispatch. Mic
aragua is already revolutionized and
made a slave Republic The other
States of Central America must take
the same fate. From the consolidated
Central American power there will is
sue forth against Cuba and the other
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