The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-01

Republican Ratification Meeting In Brook.
Iyn. :. Y.-Speech by the Hon. Henry
Wilson.
4 large and enthusiastic meeting Of the cleo
tors of Kings County Was held last evening in
the Musical Hall Brooklyn, TO ratify nominations
Of the Republican party in the pending canvass.
The hail was crowded in all parts. and the ut
most enthusiasm prevailed.
Gen ii. b. Duryea was called 10 the chair,
and lis, of Vice Presidents and Secretaries
were put in nomination, and elected.
On taking the chair, the President made a few
cheering remarks. lie spoke in high terms of
the candidates, after which be made lucid ex-
position Of the principles Of the Republican
party lie characterized the recent attempt at
Harper's Ferry as an attesps u contravent!on
of the principles of the Republican party. 1t
was blow struck at Mr.. Seward, Applause,
whose words they were determined 10 distort
and peIvert The Republican party was founded
because force was used against our institutions
in Kansas. Thus founded, the Republicans
would not consent or tolerate force now.
Mr.. Roimsn then read the resolutions. The
tirst Endorsed the nominees. The second vindi-
Gated the Republican party from the sspersions
OF the Democracy that il had completely with
the Harpers Ferry outbreak. The third stated
that the object Of the party was to prevent the
extension OF Slavery aud not 10 interfere with
the constitutional rights of States, and to make
our institutions TO preserve the interests Of free
labor The last resolution called all no favored
the non-extenslon OF Slavery 10 support the cam
diistes Of the Republican party
Nr. Wilson was then introduced, amid loud
applause. He said that they were now TO exer-
else their dearest rights and 10 decide the policy
of New York upon one Of the great questions Of
4 ,i trr for l..t into fra. apA
slave States. In the seventeen free States We
had seventeen millions of men engaged in every
branch of industry, and the condition Of society
is such as could not be found anywhere on earth.
Nowhere was labor so dignited. We were
solving the great problem of free labor. In the
fifteen Slave States were four or five millions of
people with four hundred and fifty thousand
slave owners and four millions of slaves. The
slave power had taken possession of the govern
ments Of the southern States. The President,
like his predecessor, was the abject slave of the
slave power. The Senate, too, was in its grasp,
and the Superior Court, founded by Jaw, had
been forced 10 decree that four millions Of men
had 40 rights which white men were bound to
respect. IL had taken possession, too, Of the
Democratic party OF the United States. Ii
owned II more than il owned its slaves. ToOmbs
Hunter, Stephens, and the Others who led public
opinion in the South, owned the John Cochranes
and others who spoke for the Democratic party
here. What was demanded by the South OF
them, they quickly acceded TO- This degrade.
ton was becoming deeper every day, and the
Democratic psrty WAS whipped out in the North.
Al the Democratic banner went down in the
free States, it went up in the South. Recently
John CochraBe. who in lS4S had the virtue OF
rebellion, but who was now plant tool of the
| slave power, had labored in a speech to show
that the IIarpers Ferry movement was a part OF
the Republican programme. No man knew the
! ialSeness OF this assertion better than John Coch.
rane-himself nephew of Gerrit Smith. Jap.
plause. The Republican party was made up OF
| the best men in the coun.ry, and il had never
had it, peer in this country. Applause. OF
its one and half millions of voters, five hundred
were Democrats originally, and they formed the
picked men Of the old Democratic party. Where
education and religion, and refinement, and
wealth, and property abounded, there could be
found the Republican party the strongest. Amid
poverty and squallor and bad morals, was the
| Democracy strongest. Yet John Cochrane said
that the Republican party was party TO aid in
instruction. Laughter. In lsis John Coch-
rane uttered the sentiments of the Republican
| party now-aId went in strongly for the sire
pres.ible conflict" lie laid at Cleveland that
pherc Of freedom, and the slave power must
breathe it or die" Applause. The speaker
then alluded briefly to the successive steps which
| had brought the d. mocratic party to its present
abiect position, each ot which the New York
| Democrats had aided and abetted. Yet John
Cochrane attempted to arra IN the idea Of ''irre-
| preside conflict which, as any body under
stood, meant the eternal opposition between
right aud wrong, on every day, age and nation.
The same changes had been rung in Mr. Sew
ards remarks about the "higher law :" and
| despite that. men now believed that God reigned
not nan. Yet because of the assei ton OF the
"irrepressiblc conflict" the attempt was being
made to fix upon the Republican party the re-
sponslbilty OF the tillibusering raid OF Old John
Brown against Virginia-for il was lot an insur
rcciion, but n tillibustering expedition The
principle, OF the Republican party were at vari-
ancc with any such effort. They had asserted,
time and time again, that they had no right and
did not purpose to touch slavery in any State
where it existed, but 10 stop lis extension over
| territory free. And any violent &C. of anti
slavery men against slavery only Injured to the
benefit OF the slave power, as tho violent acts
Of shareholders against freedom only Injured to
the benefit OF freedom Applause. Had Mis-.
| sourians nevcr attempted 10 carry slavery into
Kansas, John Brown would never have attempted
10 arouse al insure ction Of slaves in Virginia.
! and the latter was the legitimate fruit of the
former, When Nicaragua fbusters we're ar
rested by Com. Paul'iiBg, he was condemned
and censured by the Democracy So, too. OF
/ the accusation of the Democracy tina, the Re
| publican party desire the q solution OF the
! Union. No Republican statesman has ever ut.
tered such 4 sentiment; yet John Cochrane aiiil-
lated politically with Toombs, and Slidel, and
/ Mason of Virginia, ard Preston :. Brooks. and
keitt, and Mr. Secretary Floyd, who were dis
unionists, and avowedlv So. And Gov. Wise
said in 1856 that if Fremont was elected he
should 60 for dissolution He even said rha,
the Virginia ciiralry (the Harper's Ferry chiy-
airy, probably laughter would hew their
way through all opposing legions." Renewed
| laughter. de had even gone to Raleigh. TO a
meeting % Southern Governors, where plan
was devised 10 dissolve the Union if Fremont
was elected. The Republican party int aided 10
elect a President as soon as they could-thev
said this to Southern traitors that in tina. event
the end of their expedition TO overthrow the
! Government would be more isnomnous than
( the end of the expedition of old Brown ZAP
plausc. The slaveholing policy had sacrificed
the interests Of this continent. We might have
$500, 5000 OF commerce with the people
south OF US il we had preserye the love OF the
people there for Us. They had lost their love
| tor Us because Of our fliibusteIing raids " lille
We were brawling out the Monroe doctrine.
England with her ships getting the COM