New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-17
GONE MORE UNRORTUNATK..

We had, for q novelty, Union-saving meet
ing in our City on Saturday. II was held at
the Office of Mr.. Richard Lathers and was com.
posed in the main of the beaten candidates and
used-up stumpers and wire.workers of the late
Presidential canvass. Having failed to exert any
influence with the people of their own and the
other Free States, these gentlemen were called
together to try their powers of persuasion upon
those of the embryo Cotton Republic. Dir.
Charles O'COnOr was very properly chosen
Chairman, with three persons whom We do not
happen to have previously heard OF as Secre-
taries. MIR. Lathers opened with a silly Pro-
Slavery speech denunciatory Of sectional ag-
tators" and - sectiOnasm," wherein he I'M
dertook to save the Union by justifying those
who are now plotting it's destruction and pre-
pairing to storm the forts held by its military
defenders. Dir. L. eliminated in the following
proposition
"hh proposed to send Committee Whose social position,
integrity sud sbe petis experience will do credit their
conueey AID impress Southern brethren with tho earnest
cooperation and the sOundne of the leading and
representative u,e1 ofNew York herein assembled"
What nonsense The Slavery EStensionists
are savage and bent on treason because the Re
pubEcans have carried New York aud the North;
80 Mr. Lathers proposes to send bevy of our
beaten candidates and brOken-down politicians to
South Carolina to sOothe and reassure them
Who wants to be assured that Lathers s. Co.
are devoted to the Slave Power? What tho
South diitrusts Is not their VIII but their power.
And is not this dstrust well founded in fact,
Mir. Latbers, before sitting down, submitted
letter from Mr. II. GOurdin of Charleston. S. c.,
which says:
"Nr Michel and Ar. Mcmmnper regarded you bro~es
cooeyatye non concur with Judge Mtgrlh and myself that
coute Of South Carolina cauBot be changed, aud that
visit, under the Circumstances, cf gentlemen such a. yon'ie
bcVeye gre the respec, entertained for them by our people,
az how ever gy their motive. 20 b. appreciated woOdb
v out influence aud utterly useless for he purpose indicated
d,d you must yourself already this for yoar letter
had lsydly been written when Vermont by aarge majority
?. fused TO retea L Litety iawsi aud the discussions III
Congress d The Of the Republican presses cannot fan to
ave atd you how Little The South has to expect from any
cb M re Of sentiment you inform us is going on with 20
much ceey ct le North So far from ony change favorable to
e cop ion OF the Just claims OF The South they tend more
Diam ever 10 convince people that there il no hope for item
m ue Union nd that their only safety Il ia being masters oil
th,ir OV destiny
~ a. p south e better: and ii for tie North to decide
L.Ier peope seeking ther safety under the sacred
,,Uy Of their Own ste soyorty snail be permitted 70 DO
soteeb!y O0t Of tho uuonfeeirg and Nndca'ing ne,
own eoutli> they viii be ready 70 trade and to HD''h
with ,he NoiheIn States friendly relations a. tl'y VII "iD
, ,r peoue or have existed between toeh D'Ioi' %
b. ficed t.lon thu South compel Der sebnisi' n'
condition in be- no ,h-n that which will BE- "m't1
f,ed upon her by Republican role. SECESSION hfrroT' Il ~
f3 determination II the people Of OR state, which cannot
nov be- changed"
1t does seem to rs dat Mr.. II. Gourdln I'M
derstanGs what lie is about and what be wants
rather better than does Richard LatheF8, esq.
The Hon. Washington Hunt LIKEWISE con
tibuted letter, containing very much that
those cnoyersant with his eristoply and oraIo"cal
,f,,,ts VII recognize as alrcady familiar, bat