The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16

| the whole movement as "a mockery, . delnson
| and snares" We have no objection to Mr..
Dix. provided he has Abandoned the Buffalo
platform, and that he will say SO above board.
AS for Mr. Hunt he has always been copserva-
tive-a representative of the conservative
whigs--and there can be no better man to take
prominent part in this demonstration. Mr..
Tbayer ia man Of the same class, aud some
Others We might name
But something practical must be done
something better than resolutions. 1t is work,
and not talk, that is wanted-deeds, and not
words. It is said by divines that certain hot
place, very far down, is paved with good in
tcntions. Good works are necessary to alva-
ton; and platitudes about John Brown the
Union and the constitution, and assurances of
sympathy with the South, and opposition to
sectionalism, North and South, will avail but
little, while fourffths of the delegation
in Congress from New York, and the
delegation from Massachusetts, belong to
sectional and revolutionary party, whose
leaders have endorsed Helpers book.
Many among the three or four thousand signers
of the call have signed the calls for the Opdyke
and Havemeyer meetings. Notwithstanding
this, we will assume that they are all in favor
of the preservation of this Union at all hazards.
But how to do it is the question: We answer,
these gentlemen have the game in their own
hands, and if they play the part which the oc-
casion requires, the Albany Regency and Tam
many Hall will be swamped and become as
ciphers in the meeting. Let them, then, rise
above being made a mere ladder for the ele-
walton of filthy and corrupt political factions.
Let them take the management of the meeting
into their own hands, and propose Union and
conservative candidate for the Presidency.
The man who will suit the emergency is now
in this city-General Scott, the hero of hun
are linked with our history for half a century,
who has always proved himself true to the
honor and the interests of the country as the
needle to the pole. This tried and conservative
man is the right leader around whom to rally the
country to meet the dangers, North and South,
which threaten to overthrow the constitution
and all the fundamental laws of this great con-
federacy of States. These merchants, as we
have said, have the game in their own hands.
They have the sinews of political war, and,
being on the right side, they are sure to win
if they fight the battle in the right way. In
twenty-fo hours they can raise 100000. If
the name of General Scott is announced from
their meeting as their chosen Chief it will 60
forth on the wings of the press and the light
ming wing, from the Atlantic seaboard to the
Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the Rio
Grande. 1t will be re-echoed from the Catskills
to the White Mountains, and from the Allie
ghanies to the Sierra Nevada. Taking their
cue from New York, the centre of wealth. of
. civilization and Of conservative principles
Union men in every State, from Monday night
till November, would hold Union meetings of
a practical kind-meetings in which the name Of
Scott would operate as spell word to cleo
trify the masses, and to restore the harmony and
equilibrium which have been lost in the ighty
machine Of human government invented b, he
wisdom of our ancestors This meeting. /. -
fore, may either prove an utter failnre,a.. %
any practical result, Or it may have the nc Or
of originating movement which will sa. the
country from the danger which impenls over
its destinies, like black thunder cloud charged
with destruction and death.