New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-19

epce IN than his fsiha adherence 70
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Rssord That the broad and noble declaration OF principles
proclaimed BY tho Chicago Convention meets our CORDIAL appo
ss.s. A,hs pesp efforts made y the psg no ss
5. Say. I'D. .di:.ssf 70 'As civilization of'h'
Rs.d Thstthe Repubcn party T. and must conGae
the fiscal a and expenditures Of the General Govenneps
with under lie present nc neaa nave
the ordinary Of country ard made up and sustained
by loans snd Treasury Notes In time Of peace,
vsmsss acknowledgements for Eis and consist
ent cour,e as rspre NATIVE Of the First Congressional District
Mr.. GEORGE Wa. CURTIS, was then introduced.
After the cheering with which he was received, had
subsided Re said be too belonged to the First District
and be knew that all in that district who were opposed
To corupt administration were blood relations. IL was
pleasant to be fret; if in nothing else, to belong TO the
first district Of the first State of the first country IN the
world. He was happy 10 say that in comnany with
Mr. Meeka he had attended the first Republican Con-
yen,ion which had nominated one of the first kind OF
men who would be the first Republican President OF
the United States. He never looked across the bsy to
Brooklyn and saw the spires towering above every
thing else, but be thought I" what a naughty place
{" Brooklyn is p If he was not standing on their
islund he would say that his STATEN island wss the
most beautiful in the world. 1t grows everything but
Republicans. But when they set TO work making
soue, it would be to be done well and speedily
Tie men of Staten Island did things sndde, ly and
err scous of the presence in which he etood he wond
respectfully inform them that they did things in sum-
mary way By that process they had got rid OF the
yellow fever, and he thought when they set about II
they woud be able TO get rid of Democrats in The same
way. The grand question which now divided the
country Labor as being the foundation OF Capha
the foundation of all prosperity. IL wac Labor
Free Labor-which bad made Queens County what It
H. and il acquaintance with i's interests which
led men into an acquaintance with their own rights
They knew these rights as citizens OF the nailon In the
same way that they came TO knowing their local
rights and il for them TO say whether the Terrific
res to be cultivated by Free Labor or btghted
with the curse of Slavery. He was Republicans
straight Republican, much that some OF hiefriends
Thought he bent back; but Mt all events Republican
because he desired the adoption of just snch measures
as were get forth in that broad Chicago platform
The policy of the Republican Party was
national one because it contemplated the in
terests of every man in the country. Were they
in favor Of enjoying the privileges conferred by the
Constitution the Declaration of Independence, and the
Union then they must believe those instruments TO
mean something something beneficial to the country
ard therefore 10 every man in IT, He was one OF those
who laying his hand upon his breast could utter his
belief in the particulars of the Declaration of Inde
pendence and the Constitution because they meant
liberty to every man, freedom of the SOIL freedom Of
speech the freedom Of the press. The Democracy, so
called professed to believe in those Instruments be-
canse they were calculated to promote peace. e too
believed in them for tie came reason, but he believed
that as they meant something 90 men were to work
ont their teachings and requirements for the purpose OF
securing that peace which wond exist when TIE Slavery
question Was settled. He wished 10 get rid Of that
question, TO return TO normal condition, so that
trey might have questions of policy to settle instead OF
principles at every election. They wanted push out
this question, and that was reason why he was
Republican. lie next defended the party from the
charge of seetionaism, which had been made against
X from time to time. The way in which that charge
bad been made reminded him of a highwaymsn
who should meet him on the road, ask him
n. aid
say to him, Wbat poor devil you sre if you had not
had 60 much money in your pocket you would not
have been knocked in the head" After the election of
November next they would find the Republican party
wonderfully extended. As to labor what It had done
for the Free States of the country certain proof
that it was the system for our Territories. When the
election shall have passed away, will then be settled
whether Slavery is sectional or national. No matter
what they were said TO be not to be- let them take
the platform of the Republican party carry it with
them and read it to the enemy He believed that plat
form because included the Declaration of lndepend-
epce and the Constitution the that Washington,
and Jefferson, and Madison, and Rufus King believed
ina Declaration and Constitution which meant what
they said The Convention at Chicago represented
every shade of opinion, but were opposed TO the Ad-
miDistratiop, and IN that opposition were united This
uDsnnity was only an indication Of wha. they should
be in the future Of which the present gave but dim
and sbadowy hint He then described how he felt in
fulfilling bis mission as delegate to Chicago He said
that when the leader was named all the consciousness
OF DIE fetpOutlVuily uoWcu W u5 Miuu, duu io
knew that the very man they would desire to march
under had been nominated. He knew that when they
marched under him, it would be onward to victory.
He forgot that he had gone there to represent
principles and there stood the 500 of that body of
the Intelligence of this nation. voting that might
be set before the country representing those principles
which in their adoption carried forward the cause OF
freemep. When he heard the Chairman of the Yer
mont Delegation say, Vermont gives her ten votes
for Abraham Lincoln Of Illinois" he knew that the
man was named and that the following morning
nation of freenen would awake to the fact and thank
God fer the nomination. He then drew vivid and
humorous contrast between the Conventions Of
Chicago, Charleston, and Baltimore. The two latter
Conventions were made of two parties
the one believed in Slavery, and the other
was opposed to Freedom. They, might not
wish the wind to blow, but the wind would blow
nevertheless; they might not wish the TO RISE
but they would rise, and would sweep the decks
Nothing in this country was hereditary, and when the
name which they SO much respected had been passed
they had 10 remember the claims of principles.
The Republican party had undertaken to interpret the
Constitution, and this was the duty of every man who
PROGRESSED belief in il. They believed it to mean dis
these things were; but the Conservatives socalled
protested believe in the Constitution and the Union
and always failed in describing them TO be anything
other than the Constitution and the Union" In this
great battle they united togetherheart and hand
linked together against the expressions and corrupons
of the Administration, and were determined to enjoy
the benefits of the Constitution and the Union as they
were primarily intended to be dispensed. God, who
never allowed injustice and impurity to 90 hand in
hand to the detriment of a free people very long,
was now, by the encouraging signs Of the times
reckoning TO him and TO them TO go onward and
in union with the hundreds of thousands of freemen
of this vast continent, declare themselves for God
the People, and Liberty HIi oI
DIR. JOSEPH HoxIE was called upon, aud in rising,
Invested himself Of his coat amid several rounds Of ire
mendous appliance He commenced by saying that
was the way 60 at them oft and sleeves rolled
up, and in November next there would be nothing OF