New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-25
Great Republican Meeting at
RInghamtOn.

MERGED at o'clock and continued through the after
noon and evening.
Mr. Sc vald was the first speaker. lie was received
with much enhusasm, and CONNIE need by say ag that
they were all acquainted with the science Of NEGRO
mOnics-a science based on the fact taat idea,
assigned 10 depoeito,ies It his habit to assocats
ideas with rivers plains, and mountains. He associ-
sed with Palestine the three great religious idsas
which had arisen there Judaism. Christianity, aud
Mohammedsm. The Nile was suggestive of ciViliza-
ton, sroi taneous and iDexhsustibe. The Northern
Mediterranean was the seat Of Liberty, and its seeds
ttill fingered there. The Ssins was the thester
of ambition, less for power and empire than glory
and the Thames was welded to the idea Of the extern
sion Of power rather than Of liberty. In America Ply
mouth Rock was associated with vigorous sentiments
ard ready invention The Hudfon with an energetic
pushing civilization and the Mis- ssippi with concen'
trated ard consolidated agricultural pox Toe Su;-
quehaDna and the Chepapgo valleys with their hills
covered with mist aud cloud, led 70 dreamy
reflection and contempla ion, until this great
srtsry of trade and intercourse the Erie
RsiIoad-opeped up the outside affairs OF
the world and covered thsm with humanity entire
But this WIS still place from which to contemplate
the pr omena OF the world Tbegrest phenomenon OF
opr cay was not the Primo, of Wdss, or bis visit.
That was valueless, except as sign OF returning
amity and fraternity 1t impaired only that England
wanted fritndg and Looked 70 Us in her need Bat the
real phenomenon Of tie day was the Republican party
1t was misunderstood by everybody, aud by every
otter arty; perhaps mperfectiy under.toca BY oar
selyes. But great phenomena al Says took the world
by surprise, and lie advanced the advent of Christ,
the Reformation, and the American Revelation.
The Republican party was thought to he accidental,
transient fanaticsl and revolutionary. Its opponents
thought to frowp it do sn-trample it down, ridculs it
down. The several parties tried it, aud broke before
it in the attempt; aud now there was coalition of
them all in the last desperate hope Of destroying 1t.
No wonder that men did not foresee lite supremacy.
Few, Indeed, were they who lsbored for ultimate
advancement aDd who looked any further than to take
advantage of exiting organizations, events aud cir
cumstarcsI But wss strange that when, after only
six years of organizstion and daily increasing Ia
power and prestige, to-day il was actually in power
in more than half Of the UoiOn, no one Of its
oppon' ns thought to study its resources or clements
aud Brsckurdee even proposed to extineuish it. Sill
mIe strange any dependency on the part of Re.
publicaDs. II no esphng, bat sturdy oak, from
the acorn seed of Iecessity. Look back for sixty
yesrs. Then we had four millions of people-now
thirty millions Then the States isolated seques-
ter ed, and unsocisl and all East of the Allegheny
Mouptans-now they extended from the Atlantic to
the Pacific with canar and railroads, and teegraphs.
Parties were then organized with reference to existing
exgeDces and adopted policies based the of
that day. Such parties must necessarily give up touew
parties ii new exgtnces To suppose that tbs parties
OF 1850 1890 should survive to-day, would be absurd.
Since then there hsd been great auei0ration Of the
col dition Of human life. Universal education pre-
vailed and all the standards of educ alton have bsen
advanced. Steam had made internal communication
general and essy in all dire tons In seven Of the
original thirteen States Slavery had been abolished,
aud it bad been excluded 10 eleven new
ores stretching across the continent. Labor
bad been exalted and made the controlling
power by universal suffrage: This was an expanding
population. needing room. 1t was crowded from be
hind from Europe Six Of the original States were
Slave States preserving their original features with
ont general education, without internal commerce of
with need for expansion for the next
hundred gears Lands could be pur"s.-s. s "Ar IN
virginia than in Kansas, iney wanted to shut the
Teritores sRsDsi Free Labor to prevent our occupa
zion because it endangered their political power.
Mr.. Seward deprecated all attempts at creating an
alarm for the safety of the Union, if the Union must
nos concur with the temper of the times could not be
preserved by any bonds against the rising necessities OF
social life. Tnoee alarms which came from within the
South were absolutely opposed to the spir Of the De-
clarsOn Of Ind' pendenSe itself Could 1t be that all par
ties ofthe Confederacy should take ground go absurd
sc that now assumed by the Democracy, aud yet that
no new parry should arise to check them But thu.
party had arisen and the Republican party. Look
at tie issues those Democrats They declared
themselves In favor of removing the Indians and yet,
with an inconsistency that proved their seshness in
sisted on replacing them by negroes 1t were better
thousand times to leave the Indians alone and take
care of them than harrass the coultry with this
cry about the African. To avert the caaml-
ties which the Democratic party had settled on, the
/. was formed and lta formation
due 10 an eXigenCy which required Of all men who had
the interests OF the country at heart to arouse them
selves and do the patriotic work imposed upon every
CT zen of tbs Confederacy by dangerous condition OF
Iubie affairs MIR. Seward proceeded to speak OF the
constitutional progress Of the Anti Slavery sentiment
evsIYv here made Passing and Jocular auuson 10
The - rreprtssibe. conflict" doctrine, aud wound up
with strong appeal in behalf of Lincoln and Hamlin
SPEECH OF THE HON. ?. P. STANTON.
After Mr. Seward. the next SPEAKER was the Hon.
L. p Stanton, once of Tepnessee but now OF Kansas
Mr.. Stslttn commenced by saying that he presented
himself under the disadvantage Of folio wing the dls-
IirQui.bed New.York Senator who had Just spoken
Thew had witnessed the overlooking of the Nile with
all its ftrtile Influences: they were now about to
hear the paiteriug of an ordinary shower. Mr.
ward had descantsd upon the meris OF the re
publican party and be would give leSh inc causes
md conseouences of the downfall of the Demo-
rrafic pary Mr. Stauten then referred 10 ths
bis,c1icsI eories of the old Democracy, which
jerj,ed lis descent liDealIy from the old JEFF
fersenian Republicans He alluced to their form
sr policy in regard to the Pabhc La1d'NgraanOg
reGmu,i,n to actual setters, graduating ana
:. dnc no the prices He then commented upon their
,proton to that policy at the present time, leaving
he advocacy Of the great Homestead measure to the
Z, publican party His Dezt point was the Jack.onlsa
policy the subject OF lu+rlm improve menus, anu
be lied attention TO the detection Of The Democratic
1srty from their original action in thi. regard lie at
nb1ed this detection to the gradual increase OF mud
nee in the Democratic parry acquired by the hte-
saeTs or disubonists OF the South %hoss ooJec' 10
,iat.5 IN ma rho criCplipg of the GOvernm5nt, ADD
N0NI' "A 81 i,n uaefn naaa that IL might