New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-14
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II was worth While to rec tho speotso g Lat o'sb'
st the Cooper Institute as q mere exeieiaon OF
popular eptbu.ia,m TIE great hsi' o' ''a' 'u"a'
;oy filed 10 it, utmost capacity, with net one too
O standing ioom left uooccuP'et, ADD every ma
Of that immense crowd swSyed bs siog'e impulse,
novel by SINGLE thought aid fled by common
and irepressible emotion, was az exhibition which
IL is not often ones privilege to zee even 10 city
50 pr, winenty gwen to popular excitements as
tbs. In there r, spects the meeting was very re.
msTkOble, but when it was considered that that
immense gathering was not of the staple OF which
political assemblagss are usually composed, It ssd
more noteworthy. 1t was impossible that the
attention should not be arrested by the fac that,
scattered thickly Throughout that mass OF eager
faces, were the heads Of maUy men past the age
p hen political enthusiasm has much hold upon the
m nd, but 0ho once more renewed their youth,
and were carried out Of their ususl course bs the
interest of the occasion Aud the whole character
| of the meeting was 10 keeping with this fact. IL
was presided over by ooe of the most Distinguished
| and most venerable of the merchants of this city,
Mr.. Petit, who perhaps never bofore, aud Ger
uly has not for many years, presided at po'it-
ical gathering of thi- nature Tho 6rst speaker,
Mr.. d dge appeared there as the representative
of that class whose conservative aud constitutional
caution has kept them hitherto aloof from party
which they have feared might be moving too rap
idly forward, but which conviction of the justice
of its position on the one hand, and on the
other the conviction OF the per6dy Wth
which tsey have been treated by the party
to which they have hitherto been attached, have
combined to urge them to assume new pos ton.
Following Mr. Dodge Came another and more
general representative Of the came party, Mf.
Putnam, who, in o mole elaborate AMI most cad
tious speech, made clear 10 the most ordinary I'M
dersta ding that the safety and the true Interests
Of The country lay in the election of ABRAHAM
LINCOLN. And after and over all came the
close terse logic of Carl Schtrz, appealing to the
! enthusiasm of the young Republicans, feetog
which, like chorus, ran through the whole even
ing from beginning to end.
NOs was the spectacle outside less remarkable.
| Up both 'enues the Wlde.Awake Clubs exte lded
further than tho eye could reach, making The Light
brilliant with the light of their thousands OF
torches, AID their moving awaited BY an in-
mense crowd, even exc eding that which still
sat quietly listening to the speaker within
doprf. And when this vast procession took
up its long march Of trailing Ugh. ilIa-
minstiDg with Brighter gov its own brilliant
path, by constant showers of Roman candles, the
splendor Of this Feat of Lanterns was certaulx|
never before equalsd in this city, and probably not
10 this country. The demonstration was, both
within doors and without altogether one of the
mot animated Of this or any political c,upagu,
aud cannot fail to exercise al immense influence.
not Only over the conservative c'ass which il 20
largely represented, but also over every citizen
who has heart TO be stirred by a generous en-.
tbusiasm and to glow for the welfare of the Re
public