The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-09

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The Great Question Before the Country
The Union Movements or the North
What VIII New York Dot
We submit to our readers this morning the
proceedings of the great Union meeting held
in Boston yesterday. They show that, al
though the cause of the Union, and of peace
and concord with the South, Is without repre-
sentative from the New England States In Con-
gress, there is still, perhaps, sufficient amount
of patriotic leaven around Bunker Hill to
leaven the whole batch. Simultaneously with
these Union proceedings in Boston, our des-
patches from the South exhibit most startling
sensation in the public mind in that section.
1t would really thus appear that Northern
travellers, Northern commercial agents, and
even citizens of the Southern States of Northern
birth, are all liable to suspicion and in danger
of expulsion, under that rigid system against
social and commercial intercourse which pre-
| walls between two nations in state of war
These manifestations in the South, we pre-
sumo. will suffice to convince the most incredu-
lous Northern agitator that the 'irrepressible
| conflict" with the 'slave power has been
pushed to the point of revolution. In this con-
nection, we are glad to know that in this great
commercial city-whose interests are so init
mately blended with the Union that we
cannot dissolve the one without DESTROYING
the other-our commercial men are actively
moving to ratify the late Union meetings of
Philadelphia and Boston. Nor have we any
doubt that this imperial metropolis, in 1859,
WILDE as potential in behalf of the compromises
| and compacts of the constitution as it was in
our great political crisis of 1850 Bat to make
this projected meeting effective in the right di-
rection, it must proceed to business in the pro-
per way.
A mere assemblage of old fossil wings, or
disbanded Know Nothings, or tainted Tammany
Hall fugitives, or frightened republicans doing
business sin the cotton trade and sugar line,"
will not answer. 1t must be meeting without
distinction of party-an independent Union
meeting, representing the Union sentiment
| which governs the majority of the people of
| this island. This sentiment has just been ex-
pressed in way eminently satisfactory to the
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the election of Fernando Wood as Mayor Of
| New York is one of the most remarkable
| Union triumphs In the annals of American DO
| litics.
Against Tammany Hall and its affiliations
with black republicanism, against the Tammany
aristocracy of Wall street and Fifth avenue
against all electioneering resources Of the
Custom House, Post Office, and other federal
establishments faithless to Mr.. Buchanan's ad-
Observation-Disclosures the treacherous and plot
ting Albany Regency, against our democratic
corporation authorities clques and spoilsmen
and against all the odds and ends of the oppo-
sition, Astounding in money and influence, and
full of confdence-again all these elements
of hostility, and the Sabbatarians combined,
| this man, Fernando Wood, single. handed was
| bold enough to take the field and strong enough
to win the day.
How is this astonishing result to be ex-
| planned? The solution is very simple Fer
| nando Wood was victorious because he stood
boldly forward, the only candidate for Mayor
who defed all the elements Of abolitonsm,
and planted himself squarely upon the great
national Union platform of the ancient but ex-
ploded democratic party. He was the cham
pion of the rights of the South, of municipal
rights, of popular rights, and of the Union, and,
single handed, he has routed his enemies right
and left and won the victory. Thus, like King
Saul among his people, he stands this day ga
head and shoulders above them ALL" and he
thus stands authorized as our representative of
the principles of union and national harmony.
OF all men, therefore, Fernando Wood is the
| man for President of the projected New York
Union meeting His appointment to this posi-
ton will be worth thousand resolutions in the
South. His name, fresh from his late well fought
municipal battle, will be tower of strength to
the meeting, aud any other name for President
will be failure. Let Wood be President, and
put on all the Ketchums, and Sher-
mans, and Beekmans, &C., &C., in the city
| as vice presidents and secretaries and they
| will do no harm. The man, however, who has
| been SO empbatcally endorsed as the champion
| Of the Union sentiment of this metropolis is
the only man for President of the proposed
| Union festival. Already, we understand, some
Of our merchants, since the late election, have
been calling upon him for certificates and pass
ports of good character in the South. The least,
therefore, that they can do in return is to make
him the President Of their Union meeting.
Let this be done, and the meeting will carry
with il prodigious Influence in the South and
throughout the country. AT the same time, we
would call the attention of the President of the
.ss.
United States to those iaithess and treacherous
subordinates OF bis in this city who have pros
tituted the patronage Of their Offices in behalf
Of the abolition affiliations Of Tammauy Hall.
These faitbess officials should be rooted ont
and the broken fragments of our fororn demo
cracy should be put together upon different
basis than that Of the rotten Albany Regency
and poor old broken down Tammany Hall The
terrible political excitemcnts of the day de-
mand reconstruction Of our political parties.
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