The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-12-22
Rirbmunh Qispatrh.
THURSDAY MORNING. =. bEd q, 1859.
TEE UNION DEMONSTRATION
IN NEW YORK.

TIE UNION DEMONSTRATION
IN NEW YORK.
The Union Demonstration at New York on
Monday night, sttrac,ed an immense throng,
which not only filled the Academy of Music,
out all its approaches, and the street In from,
was denseiy packed. Bonflres blazed in the
streets. and hand of music was stationed In
the naieony Tho proceedings reported in the
N. Y. Express are headed rs follow.: 1a.
on'o" Forever IL Eagiel "one Copntyy-ons
to"sf'f"f'o. - One Destiny "-rox Popuii -
dFand National Morsment.-Great Outpouyiay
@ fAs Masses at tia Aeads,ny Of Mus;e-Ae,es OF
People IN the Sfreet--Tteason and Consn;,o,,
Rsba1ed The Iryepressible Con aiet Repud,at,d
No Sympathy for Old Bro,rnism-Ta. Hay.
per's Ferry Raid Denounced t-Rtfe Pysasb.y,
AimonisAsS. &C., &c. The interior Of the build.
ing was handsomely decorated, and before the
commencement of the meeting the band PLAYED
Yankee Doodle, and the Star Spangled Ban.
ner.
Mayor Hermann presided, assisted by about
two hundred Vice-Presidents and Secretaries.
The meeting was opened with PRAYER by the
Rev, Dir. Vermilye.
The resolutions, which were read by Hon
James Brooks, of the Express, commence with
a preamble stating that the Government is
one of compromises and concessions; and
quotes from the Consultation the clauses au-
thoriZing slavery, providing for the suppress
sion OF finsurrection, for the prohibition of the
slave trade, and for the delivery up of fugi-
uves from service, as slaves. They then de-
clare that the Constitution, the treaties, and
the laws of the United States recognize the
institution of slavery rs legally existing and
that ii Is the duty OF all good citizens to stand
by that Constitution, those laws and the de-
cision of that final arbiter of all disputed
points-the Supreme Court.
Ihey proceed as follows: "That we protest
against ana denonnce as contrary 10 the
piightsd faith on which the Constitution was
established, all acts or infiammatory appeals
which tend to make this Union less perfect, or
10 leopard or disturb its domes tic tranquility
or 10 mar the spirit of harmony, compromise
ana concession upon which the Union was
formed by our fathers.
" That We regard the recent outrage at Har-
pers Ferry as crime, not only against the
State OF Virginia, but against the Union itself
and We approve of the firmness by which the
treason has been duly punished.
"Ihat, III our opinion, the subject of slavery
has been too long mingled with party politics
and as the result has been the creation of sec.
tional parties, contrary to the advice letter and
spirit OF the farewell address of the father OF
our common country, that therefore i. is the
duty OF farmers, plante manufacturers mer-
chants, mechanics. and of every citizen North
South, East and West TO discountenancs ali
parties and organizations that thus violate the
spirit OF the Constitution and the advice OF
Washington"
REMARKS OF MR.. BROOKS 4.
After reading the resolutions, Mr. Brooks
spoke as follows:
There are those who tell us. and they are
many, "All this is well. very well; but there is
u Law higher than the Constitutions and in
conflict with that Constitution, which con-
science forbds them to obeyn Such men have
Sfati1
discord into Tract Societies. and rent The
Church of God in twain. Ii they are right
constitutions, compaets, laws, all are wrong
This Is not the place, this is not the hour for
Theology, but 4 word or two are necessary
in my judgment, TO make our argument com.
plete.
When our Saviour was on earth, He was a
subject OF that vast tslayeholding Roman En-
pire, which stretched from the Euphrates in
the East beyond the pillars of Hercules in the
West, and sixty millions of slaves it is esti.
mated, were in that Empire. Hence, when His
eyes first opened on pleasant Beth iehem His
feet trod on the shores of Galilee. or on the
plain of Jericho, 10 be baptized in the Jordan
slaves must have ministered, if not unto Him
or His disciples, unto all about Him. And
when on the Mount of Olives His foot was
last printed upon that rock, which tradition or
superstition now shows. while ascending in to
Heaven, His eyes, as they overlooked Jerusa-
lem, and glanced from the mountains of Moab.
to the vale of Sharon, must have rested upon
thousands and tens of thousands of slaves
JCdea where He was born, Galilee where He
lived, Egypt that he visited, all We're slave
holding States And Abraham, and Isaac. and
Jacob and the Fa. a.hers and Patriarchs were
holders ofbondmen and bondWomen And now
If there be in the Holy Bible any such denun-
Citations OF slavery, or of Shareholders, as we
now daily hear. from men calling themselves
the servants of God, it is not in Kisg James,
or the Donay version of the Bible
Far be il from me, Mr.. Mayor, to speak ir-
reverently of the Ministers Of God. respect
their high and holy calling. / bow down in
humble reverence before their august mission.
When first We open our infant eyes in our
mothers arms, the man of God takes us 10 the
baptismal font, and there consecrates us to
Heaven when in the full flush of youth our
hearts beating with love, ne ties the nuptial
knot and blesses, with US, the partner of our
bosom. on our voyage of life and when that
voyage is over, and on the death. bed, WIFE,
children, all, have given us up, and the spirit
Is parting from its lrail tenement of clay, our
eyes last rest upon him, interceding for us be-
fore the Throne of God But, oh, We Scrlbes
and Pharisees, who rail against US pu ublicans
and sinners, that rail not as do ye. Ye men
OF Sharpe's rifles and Bowie knife pixies Ye
Beechers and ye Cheevers, wiser and better
than our Saviour when on earth-go with
your new version of the Bible, into all the
world, and SHOOT your gospel into every liv-
ing creature!
The Bible, then, is not in conflict with the
Constitution. Imoye the adoption OF the reso-
lutions.
SPEECH OF CHARLES o'CoNoR.
Charles OConor, Esq, was the next speaker.
lie was greeted with great applause. Com
meneing with history of the Union a trib-
ute to the statesmen and patriots who framed
the Constitution and consecrated it with their
blood, he went on to consider the condition of
things at this day. Why, gentlemen, said he.
the occasion that calls us together is the ocea-
sion of a raid upon the State of Virginia, by
a few misguided fanatics, though the best, the
brayest and the most virtuous of all the abo-
ir a a hp ga hail
day, at the dead hour of night with the sup
port of pixies, with which it was intended that
the bOndsman should slay his master his
masters wife, and his masters little chill
dren. That is the occasion that calls us to-
gether, and connected with IL at this ins tant
what do we find That q book, which SUBJ
stantially recommends the same general course
of proyocation towards the South that has
been long pursued, has been recommended by
eixty-e eight members of your Congress-(ap-
plause, Kisses, and cries of 'shame on them,''
recommended by sixty eight of your members
of CoDgress-(cries of ''shame on them,'' ap-
piause and hisses,) all from Northern States
misses and applause all from non -slavehoid-
ing States, who, with the assistance of their
associates, some of whom hold their Offices by
your votes, there is great danger that they will
elect to the highest office in that body, where
he will sit as a representative of the people of
the North, q man who recommended that work
Io be distributed and disseminated like poison
and death through the regions of the South.
(.'Hang him" and applause.) Is il not fair to
say that this great and glorious Union is men,
aced when such a state of things is found to
existf Is it reasonable to expect that our
brethren of the South will calmly sit down
("No,''> and submit quietly TO such state of
things (Cries of "No, no.')
After further remarks upon this subject he
said:
For my part, gentlemen, il the North con-
tinues to degrade Itself in the selection of rep
TO the Congress of the United
States as 1t has, from perhaps a certain degree
Of negligence and inartention upon a subject