The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-21

h"fbs, bhd comes I'd cfose quarters. Ills pow
erin Grafton is a calm and dignided argument,
clear, cngent aud Irresistible. demonstrating
that pnaer the constitution the Southern States
bave the same right to protection for their pc
cuiar mode of labor that the Northern States
bave for theirs. He begs no favors for the
Soluble depands Its constitutional rights, the
denial Of which is rev, on
A. this was the spt IA of the evening, so the
nomination Of General Scott for the Presi-
dency was the event of the evening In spite
IT the Vaccinations and man9uyres of the
politicians. the veteran patriot was nominated
unanimously at two of the open air meetings,
and bis letter, which was the only one read,
was received at the inside meeting with such
tempest of applause as clearly showed that,
bad his nomination been proposed there, it
would have been carried with the same una
nim'ty, and by reclamation. The political wire
pullers and pipelayers were signaily defeated
! Tammany Hall was non est inreutus. Its
leaders were invisible. The Albany Regency
was without a representa- and the devices
Of its New York organ, the wet blanket of Wall
street, under which it was attempted to stfe
all chat was vital in the demonstration we're
turned to foolishness The design of that
! journal and of the politicians was to turn
the meeting to their own account But
the swelling tide of popular enthusiasm
swept them away like straws, and tue
people, without distinction of party looming
over the waves, made the meeting their own.
! Neither the quondam abolition journal, which
was originally established by Arthur Tappan,
and still betrays its old procivities, nor anti
slavery Tammany Hall, of which it is the chief
organ (the republican "lttle villain playing
second iddle), could be at home ia such
! healthy national movement as that Of Monday
evening. The meeting, as it has turned out, is
gall and NORWOOD to them, and the nominal
ton of General Scott strikes terror to their
hearts,
On the nomination--the great point of the
meeting-our pious Wall street contemporary
is silent as the grave. 1t knows fun well that
if the name of Scott is brought out before the
people in this crisis, victory will perch on his
banners. as it did in every battle of his bril-
liant campaign in Mexico His name is
synonym for conservatism and nationality
The history of the Union and its flag is linked
with his deeds and his fame for the last fifty
years-from the time that the British outrage
on the Chesapeake prompted him to the PROBES
sion of arms. Like General Taylor he is no
party man. He is not democrat, nor is he a
republican,; but he is national man, whose
life has been spent in the service
Of his country, fighting its battles against the
foreign foe and the domestic savage, from the
heights of Queenstown, where he ''ileshed his
maiden sword to the nails of Montezuma.D
where his last victory resulted in the cession
of California to the United States, giving an
unprecedented impetus to our commerce, and
opening new field for American enterprise on
the broad bosom Of the Pacific. From that
ocean by whose shores he has so largely in
creased our empire he has Just returned from
mission of peace, in which the same success
attended his efforts that crowned them in the
Mexican war and in his settlement Of the North
eastern boundary dispute in 1912. He is still hale
and healthy, his eye undimmed, his step an.al-
tering, his carriage erect, his heart whole and
his mental faculties bright. He is at that age
which tempers frmness with wisdom and mode
ration; nor can ambition, to whose promptings
younger men are exposed, lure him to risk the
ruin of the country in pursuit Of dazzling
visions of glory.
The politicians know that such man as this
cannot be regarded with Indifference by the
people, and that in a time of danger like the
present he will rally the masses around him.
They, therefore, fear him, because he is des-
tined to break down their rotten machinery,
and overthrow their organizations by revou-
ton at the polls.
The act Of the Union meeting next in impor-
lance to the nomination of General Scott is the
passage of two resolutions which were not of
those prepared by the managers, but drawn up
and offered subsequently, by those who had
better appreciation of the crisis. They are as
follows
Resolved, That in the present crisis, the true "way
to it" is for the friends of the constitution and
Union throughout all the land TO Union meetings.
and TO form Union organizations in the spirit and tone
that called this meeting and have inspired its proceed
ngs.
horized to correspond with such Union organizations
may be formed and to take such measures they may
deem proper for the PRONUNCIATION and maintenance of the
principles Of this meeting
This is just the one thing needful, and we
hope to hear soon from the committee, and that
it will give good report of itself. If not,
some other committee will attend to the bust
ness. The work must be done.
By the onward march of this mighty move.
ment, the democratic and republican parties
will both be broken up, and the danger which
now threatens us be dissipated like the
shadows Of night before the morning sun. The
miscreant politicians will be crushed by a
peaceful revolution, and the wheels within
wheels Of our complicated but beautiful GO
vernment will again move noiselessly and with
harmonious action, like first class chronome
Il inst Of furo fonaan