Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-09
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NEw YonK. Nov. @, 1859.
The political cauldron is boiling most fu-
rously in these parts, and all parties are put
ting forth their utmost efforts to success
Meetings are held every evening, and speeches
and resolutions are made and passed.
T ie Republicans in this State are confident
Of victory The Registry Law Of last winter,
throu! baut the State, with the exception ofthis
city, has been fairly put 10 operation. Hero
the Democratic powers that be- appointed
Election Inspectors, or Registers, on purpose
to cheat, aud already some 1903 600 voters have
been registered in the several Wards, when no
man believes that there are $4,000 legal voters
in New York. am told, in some election dis
tricts,t ,theJ have entered the names Of the Pauper
dead, and in Others, names OF persons, who
have neither "locol hsbitation nor name"
and this for the sole purpose Of frauds on the
Sth inst.
The Republicans are SO well organized that
ONE of the chsaters may be drought up"
"with round turn" if they vote illegally.
We cannot guard too closely, nor with too
much vigilance, the purity of the Ballot Box.
But the frauds here are enormous; and the
dominant party are disposed TO continue them.
They will cheat next Tuesday, at least $4,000
votes.
The meeting at Che "Cooper Institute" to
hear your eloquent CoRwIN, was one of the
largest ever held in this city. There was
very large spnnklng of grey heads, and
venerable men, who seldom 10 out to Political
meetings. The large HAL of the Union
was packed to its utmost capacity. The only
vacant space was few feet Of the plat orm
VIM. 81 Evarts, Esq, presided, and opened
the meeting with an admirable speech. The
audience could scarcely restrain their imPa-
tience to hear Mr.. COrwin; and when Mr.
Evarts closed his remarks and introduced to the
assembled thousands the eloquent and gifted
Wagon Boy Of Ohio" the applause seemed to
shake the Institute" to its very foundation
The Hall was 50 deusely packed, and the dust
arising from the ttimping OF some six thous-
and leet, made the air very bad SO yitiated as
almost TO draw all the electricity out OF man,
and unnerye him for an intellectual tilt. Mr..
CorHin instructed, pleased, charmed, amused,
and sometimes veXed portion Of his audience
| They did not want to hear any ything about the
Fugitive Law.l Blu, the conservatives, and they
are numerous, were highly delighted, while
some If tue pTOgressives were not so well
pleased. As a whole the speech was effective,
and productive OF great good. 1t reached
class Of II en- who want to act with the Repub-
licans, and yet who have feared they were al.
most too ultra. But, when a man of Mr.. Cor
wins age, land position, and ability and expe-
rience-One who has been hOnOred by the
people of Ohio, and who is so conservative in
his views, endorses TO the full extent the Re.
publican creed, as being entirely orthodox,
they will not wait or hesitate any longer, from
giving in their adherence and their votes to the
Republican party AS an OrGtOrical effort, the
speech was very far from being one OF Mr..
Corwin's best efforts. And yet how the vast
multitude hung upon his words, and how their
hearts were touched by some of his sentences.
He is doing great good in waking up the peU-
ple to effort, and infusing life, and energy into
them A gentleman who is close observer
said TO me last evening, that the speech of Mr..
Corwin on Thursday evening would give 10000
votes TO the Republican party He certainly is
diving the cold Wings" who have held out into
close quarters; and they must either vote with
their "ancient enemy" the Democrats, or vote
with the Republicans, who believe in the prin
cpe, and in the power of Congress to exclude
slavery from the Territories
was very much pleased and amused on
Tuesday evening, in Mr.. Beecher's Church,
in watching that wonderful face Of Mr..
Corwin, as he sat by the side of WESDELL
PHlLLIPs, during his Lecture "On the Lessons
of the Hour" as he vas speaking his own ultra
thoughts, in his own beautiful and eloquent
way.
There were two men, in the fullness of man
hood-with ripe experience, and large observa-
tion, and varied and wonderful and giits acquires
uents, and both eminent American citizens
the one, born and reared "in the Groves of the
Academy" and whose teachers from early life
were sages and philosophers, and whose ''walk
and talk" through life has been with men OF
rarest culture, and with poets and historians
man of rare learning and most persuasive
eloquence; who has been Justly styled, "him
of The golden tongue"-the other man born
in the wids of the far west, Of pioneer parents
whose early years were those of hardy toll
whose teachers were nature-the dim old
woOds"-the felds-the streams-the sky-the
storm cloud--old books of hstory-elementa-
Ty text books Of law--the constitution-Homer
and Shakespeare, and Burns and Milton-the
orations Of Cicero and Demos
and Caesars Commentaries, and the Bible
without teachers and without sehools-apd
yet hard student on his "own hook" CLEAN.
ing from every quarter flood for thought" and
riches for the mlnd-woTking his way by the
native energies of his own intellect, from
''liles lowly vale,' up to its highest honors
and widest renOwn-and these two men. met
for the first time, yet each were known to the
other, each has made his mark in his
/, couItry's history, aud will live for aye on its
. recorded page. Phillips took his stand. point
on the Rock of Truthiand Eternal Right, and
i struck his blows against all laws and constitu
lions which ignore the God given Rights o.
Man. Human laws and human constitutions
are nothing with him if they ignore man.
, With him "Han is more sacred than Constitu
, tions." From this elevation he hurled iavellr
! and spear at uDjust laws-and iron statues
nor living men, escaped his honeyed invective
: and his terrible denunciaions Corwin sal
beside the eloquent and accomplished "arch-
traitor'-now charmed with the classic beauty
| of his periods-deliGhted With the ready wit
and pleased with the elegance of the speech o.
the most gifted fanatic he ever heard. Blu
when our good old Constitution was denoupee,
> as "a covenant with hell"-when "Webstel
and Clay were charged with getting up In,
Mexican war" Corwin shook his head, and hi,
face looked darker than ever, and be seemed
''like god made wroth," and ready to demol-
ish with his own fiery eloquence, the orator
, who withoutfea or remoTse and without feel
! ing "by your leave, Sir" pitched into every hu
man wrong, and spared not the dead, and seem
ed to kill the living by the ferceness Of his in.
dgnation. In his mind John Brown was on,
i of the greatest Heroes; a noble martyr for th,
: Right, and deserving of golden statue.
l Wendell Phillips Is accomplished, but he i
: entirely impracticable. In the present inper
!, feet state Of human nature, laws an consttu
! tons are necessary for our protection and gui
! dance, aud they cannot be violated, nor disre
4 gaIded with impunity. We must obey them
\ or take the penalty of our disobedence-eps
If that penalty be death
Mr.. Phillips said "lhe age of bullets is past.
The lesson at IIarpers Ferry does not thu
! teach Would that the age ol bullets was past
7 1t is true that thought is more powerful thai