Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-03-23
The Great Democratic Demonstration in
 New York

The New York papers of Saturday are filled with the proceedings of the great demonstration of the people of New York on the 4th instant, who assembled in obedience to call of three thousand five hundred of the leading business men oi that city, to sustain President Buch anan" in bis desire to settle the Kansas cnntro- versy by it's immediate admission as State.- 1t was the secohd gathering of the democracy of New York within week, and is described as unparalleled in the enthusiasm and u anmlty which characterized it. Tanmany hall was ab solutelv packed so that hundreds could not ob tain convenient access. Gen. John A. Dix was unanimously chosen president, with long ar ray of vice presidents and secretaries, among whom were many of the most promlHet cltlzehs of the metropolis.
 General Dix, on taking the chair, was greeted with three cheers. He addressed the muIltl- tude at considerable length, closing as follows:
 '.l believe the President, in all he has done, has acted with the most patriotic and dsnterest- ed motives I have confidence in his wisdom as well as his integrity. l am sure your faith in him and his upright intentions is not inferior to my own Let us then stand by him, and let us be assured that iii banishng from the halls of legislation subject of sectional controversy, we shall contribute to unite the conservative in
 
 the great public measures with which the pros perity of the country and tranquility of the Union are so closely nterwoven."
 Letters were received from Hon. Howell Cobb, Hon. Aaro~ V. Brown, Hon. Isaac Tou- cev, and Hon. JaSb Thompson, and from Hons Reverdv Johnson, John SIidell, A. c. Brown, and number of other distinguished persons.
 The speakers were Hon. Robert NJ. McLane, of Baltimore, Hon. J ohn Van Buren, aud Hon. John Cochrane "The tone of the meeting,-' says the Herald twas such as to satisfactorily show that the administration has the hearty and u t1inching support of the democrac. Of the metropolis' Of the two meetings held Tn New York during the present week 10 sustain the | action of the President on the Kansas question, h. Herald says:
 Il the political history of New York, she never witnessed any mOhstratons more i'm pressive or more emphatic than on these two occasions. There Was a great assembage ot | people present at each; men. too, ol all casSe, -sober, calm, business men, as well as those who usually compose great political assembla- | ges At the Tanmany hall meeting last night | letters were read from the members of the cabinet, and speeches made by Hon. John | A. DIX, Hon. R NJ McLane, MT. John Van ! Buren, Hon. John Cochrane and others, in favor l of he settlement of this Kansas nuisance, by l the early, short ard direct mode in which 1t can be settled-the admission of Kansas as a State under the tecompton constitution The senti- ments of both letters and speeches were calm, busiuess-likc and firm, declaring, in a simple, commousense way that this miachievous Katisa> agitation should be put a stop to, and the coun- ,ry be permitted to attend to its proper business; that the whole question should be excluded from Congress, and Kansas be left to settle her own troubles These two meetings may De taken Is q fair expression of the opinion of thO metropolis"