New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-18

Inc sayings anu uOines Ol tuo DouOCI6eC moot'
ing held last evening in the Park, went great
ways toward justifyins the suspicious under which
the Tapmany Hall Sschems refused the use of that
cOnseciated edfce to the getters up of the meeting
Under pretense of being meeting " 10 consider
" and respond to the policy of the National Admin
&" strstion, as expressed in the first Message of
" President Buchanan" it turned out to be
meeting to approve of the conduct of Mr.. Buchanan
in the removal of District Attorney McKeon to in
sist upon the instantaneous removal from Office OF
all opposers, secret or open, of any nominations,
interests or measures, which by hook or BY crook
may obtain the approval Of the democratic organ
izst;on," o. led and managed by Mayor Wood;
and especially to condole with the said Mayor Wood
in his late defeat and to extend to him on the part
Of the meeting " assurance Of cordial sympathy and
support"
Between the support and sympathy thus OK.
tended by this meeting to Wood, and that rendered
by it to Buchanan, this curious contrast is to be
observed: Opposition TO Wood is set down as a
deadly SIM at once cutting off from the Democratic
communion all persons guilty Of it, no matter how
conspicuous and influential their positions hitherto
Opposition to Buchanan in the mstter OF the Le-
compton schedule-the great point of political in
terest at this moments not treated as by any
means so serious matter. So far from demanding
tie immediate expulsion Of Douglas and all who
may cooperate with lin from the Democratic
party, this meeting as to this matter "desires to
"urge upon all Democrats the necessity of con-
" citation and good feeling among brethren" nor
does it venture to th ow out even hius that
Douglas s not quite as coed 3 Democrat as the
President him,elf. In fact, it would have been
rather awkward for the meeting, while complain
ing, a. they do in their last resolution, Of the coz
duct Of the Sachems gin barring out the Demo-
"cratic masses from Tammsny Hall, aud while
refusing to acknowledge any masters in the Demo-
cratic party, to have come distinctly forward in
support Of the policy Of barring out the masses Of
Kansas from any ice a. to the Constitution under
which they are to live, and submitting them to the
absolute discretion of a miserable minority who
bsye undertaken to set up ss their masters.
So far from tending in the slightest degree to
strengthen the hands Of Mr. Buchanan 10 his at
tempt TO force the Lecompton schedule down the
throsts Of the people Of Kansas the resolutions aud
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| cded indication that even the most reckless and
interruptions of the New.Yoik Democrats had "a
tber be excused from any active cooperation in that
business, or even any distinct approval oft. They
,eem to have their hands Efficiently full in hunting
up and Furnishing traitors tere at home, without
looking after traitors at Washington They are fully
occupied in their owl domestic quarrels aud amid a
great flourish Of words about their confidence in
Mr.. Buchanan and their unchanging support, they
tOueh the Kansas affair in the most giDgerly man
ner-irtmating, 10 fact that if not cautious what
BIO does, the Presdent may involve the De nocrscy
in an internal quarrel fatal to its continued Us ,end.
ency.
To all the encoursgemea! and satisfaction that
| PRECEDENT Buchanan may be abe to fad in such
| backing az this, he is perfectly welcome.