The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-20
RALLY OF THE WEsE1EsrER DEMOCRACY.
Great Democratic Decentralization at New
acknowledgement OF Fernando Wood,
&c., &C., Sc.
There great demonstration OF the national demo
cracy Of Wcstchestcr county, at the village New Ro
chelc last evening" in response TO the following CALI
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GEORGE ". LLOYD and J. WARREN LAYTON Corresponding
The meeting large and enthusiastic The principal
speech Of the evening made by Elk Mayor Wood He
Said
Ex.NAYoR wooD's SPEECH
FELLOW CnxESs-The democratic party of this Slate liz
again preparing Tor conflict with its ancient enemy It
Is more about 70 enter the tho defender of
the right and the opposer OF the wrong in government
1t will go forth IN the contest with abiding hope sue
cess based upon the living principles of the const
tuition and upon the integrity OF the espouses AT
time within day have the democracy Of the En-
pre State presented themselves for political conflict when
higher considerations Of duty mpelled action Within
my memory, passing back 10 the time when the same
party fought side by side with Andrew jackson
of great truths there has not
been much at sake-so much in the wav of principe
at ISSUE such dire consequences depending upon it's
duct jackson fought 10 free the people the incubus
of moneyed monopoly, fight preserve the Ameri
can unonhe strove with his giaht subdue seces
sion in the Southwe, by the powerful weapon OF public
opinion, aiming the destruction of more dangerous
and fearful monster Of disunon at the North And
shall conduct ourselves in this campaign will the battle
be fought uecessuly dsasrousy not only
political organization but to the fair fabric Of the Union
itself Fellow citizens, the American government is
founded numbers. Population controls. II repre-
sentative democracy which the people, through their
own chosen representatives manage the public affairs of
the whole II s true there one branch of the Legsla
ture in which s.conended the people not represent
ed. allude to the Senate; but apprehend even there
the people govern Not only do the people of the States
chose their Senator's through the Legislatures elected
by themselves but States being almost annually
made from the people of the other States. Thus in deed
and in fact do the whole people Of this whole country
troll and direct government Public opinion may be said
10 govern all Now, ii is true, therefore, that popua
ton controls, is il equally true that majority Of
the population controls the whole majority OF the peo-
pie of the American Union, not majority OF the States,
actually manage and direct the government under which
we live. This fact cannot be denied There s such
thing as an equilibrium between the people and the States
in which there will be balance upon the side the
other That theory appears TO me TO have been nued
Time hath done IT, II had been Inserted in the Cons-
tuition that States should be added, the equi
brium could have been maintained but when the peo
pe of one State can create any number Of States,
Necessarily such has BEEN the
operation Of things for the past quarter Of
Of century The people of the Eastern States have by
migrating into the wilderness Of the West, built
political communities, out OF which have been formed
dozen States, until they have actually
created more Of them than they left behind. Thus
have the people of section Of the Union
aged to obliterate the State power, as SUCH in
the government, and to practically reduce to govern
ment OF tho people. popular sovereignty based upon
party has suppaned the sovereignty Of the States Thus
may be said that in the Senate party and not State
overdes the latter and when party thus powerful be-
sectonalt and confined by geographical lines the
consequences cannot be magnded The trainers OF the
constitution supposed that the Senate, being made up Of
the representation Of States would act conscientious
regulator of the government and rectify the errors
which the populace sometimes commit But party has
extingushed this feature, prostutng everything TO its
bebest We have now therefore, consolidated popular
federal resting upon the will Of the entire
the ancient reservations Of colonial independence The
people govern. And as the people govern, SO do the
preponderate. They possess the numerical controlling
power and majority Of this controlling power wills
is the government conducted II is therefore well ,r US
look matters they actually exist upon this hypo
thesis The people Of the free States rule How they
disposed probably9 What the prevailing sentiments
citizens let US ask What To Be %
What issue presented How parties made up, and
under what form the battle being foughs There
only partes-the democratic which is NATIONAL and
the republican, which not the democratic, which was
State rights and the maintenance of the equitable ne
rests OF the people and the States of the whole concdera
cy, without reference to section State and the repub
can, which Is the creature Of to-day, the offspring of
treason the bastard Of demagogue, the fend which
stalks within the narrow barrier Of its Northern
llneamentS
its designs the dragon let loose by the Angel
Of Light scourge the children Of men, Who leads this
latter power? 1t is William II. Seward. He is the EN-
bodmcnt the concentration, the presiding genius of the
republican party. Disguise as the presses and men of
that faction may the fact patent that he Is the great
head and leader this despotc party Of the North His
enuncations make the platform upon which 1t stands
he really created the organization as exists He is,
therefore, the father the founder the exponent and the
acknowledged and recognized standard bearer OF the
publican party When is ascertaned what he wants,
you know what the republican party will do When you
have ascertaned his policy you have seen the motive
power by which the machinery of the party is TO be
worked and when he speaks may rely upon IL that
the principles which will govern republican admnistra
tion if such affection shall visit the people of this
country are fully developed and held up public gaze
Fortunately he has left us in no doubt upon tnls latter
point. He has proclaimed these doctrines. We are in
darkness upon this subject In the bodness OF har
dened abandonment of all nationality has he dared to I'M
mask the charne house which contains the blackened
LIBERATED Rochester speech In that effort intended TO be
full exposure of the doctrines upon Which
this and the succeeding canvass shall be fought he
which the ssrepublcan party will go before the people
What they? Let US look at them Pregnant as they
are with national dsorganizaton and with national di
sease would magnify their pernicious tendencies
He boldly said there must be rrepressible conflict be-
the people of the North and the people Of the sah
in which one the other section shall conquethat tie
Union become 'all slave all free'that this in
testine and ratrcidal war must go on until the South
abandonment of their own free institutions, or
that the North shall drive the South NJ ct armis
l suppose, into an abandonment OF i@ sys-
tenn Of labor the freedom Of the slaves and the
quent extinction of It's industrial pursuits and its agrcu
tural prosperity This is what proposed my fellow
citizens OF New York. Seward, speaking for the "rcpsb
icans says us, Iet force the emancipation of the
blacks, that We may make slaves OF the whites let US
elevate our own political clan, though may mpoversh
the nation the free people Of section in
the Of freedom; subjugate real liberty under pre-
Of subduing nominal slavery let us play the hypo
critic so that better act the pirate let settle
useless principle, though in doing sever united
people; let there be rrepressbe conflict between all
that great and good in the confederacy Of States and
the conscdarity Of the people, so that upon the ruins
Of the conflict shall become the Nero Of the occasion, to
fiddle upon the smoking embers OF what was once
this glorious compact Of American States, and have
the ngorious distinction Of being the last Anne.
rican President, as Washington was the first"
These the real principles which underlie the
republican party in the free States II is this issue
are TO is this result to encounter in defeat
The people Of the North have presented to them the
most momentous question agated the American
continent 1t is folly to attempt to disguise it. cannot
be disguised Sophistry and subterruge will avail not
The distinctions and false philanthropy with which other