New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-23
THE LAST UNION mERTING.

A French witness remarked that the coronation
parade Of Alexander ]. of Russia was most strik-
ing spectacle: 90 The assassins of his grandfather
" marching in front Of the young Emperor; those
d" Ct his father on each side; while those who were
" to be bis own assassins brought up the rear" The
presence of Gen. Scott at the Union Meeting on
Tuesday night and the acclamatiOns with which he
was greeted, supply parallel to the Muscovte dis
play Here was man who ought to have been
chosen President in 1852, over the fhinting New
Hampshire Brigadier, and who would have been
had he been faithfully supported by the party which
bad placed him in nomination. But the Hunker
Pro Slavery leaders of the party would not
permit his election, simply because he had
been urged and was warmly supported BY
Anti.SlWery men. They could not dstrast his
fidelity 10 the Union, aversion to sectional heart
burning or strife but they could not consent to
man chosen President whose nomination was ac-
ceptable to the Seward wing Of the party-so they
knitted him ard Washington Hunt along with him.
And now we see Hunt foremost in kissing the bloody
blade; while Gen. Scots appearance in gather
ing of the school of politicians who desperately OPP
posed his nomination aud then secretly cOnspired
TO defeat his election, was greeted with tempest
uous enthusiasm. These men, having killed the Wing
party stone dead BY their treacheIy in -! are
BOW seeking to galyanize it into SeT'hlaOc' Of
life for the bepeiit of the Sham Deu0crae ~ SD.
We did not nRict or our Iescers a.. & ala.
bic portion of the talk at this gs'ncr''., aVse it
possessed neither novelty nor force. To 'riy the
Union. laud tie Union, cheer tie | aiul sol the
Union, aud then take a cCute oirea, calcuiat
ed 10 keep in power tbo'c who da;', pr. tirm that
they viii slatter the Union WHENEVER 'iey shall no
longer be able to rue it, is sbter hngycTy or blatant
folly. To denouuce Slavery ag'tAtio. As the erca&
evil Of our day yot dodge The 9i.L question on
which that agitation is based, is either lunacy,
trickery or driyel. For the question when under
les and shapes cur American Politics, and has
done for years, is just this ShaH Human Slo-
rery be rocogai-ed as National interest, god in
ITSELF and to be apheId, (ortifed oad eItcnded Jy
" the pO,ccr oCMe Union or skoH II be treated as
transient anomaly and sectional er to be oOgfnst
" ,cithin the limits Of The SorereigH Staics Which sac
at to haILOr II, until they shat respectively
" decrCe its extinction The former is
the view Of the Revolutionary Wings and the
ReUub!icaDS OF I-OD; luc i8llCf Is tHut upuSlu py
The Sham Democracy Of our day. One or other of
these views must triumph, shaping the National
Policy into consistency with ITSELF for there is
clearly no middle ground between them. Nor do
The lew UDionsts distinctly PROFOUND any. They
merely utter words, words, words" They
deoouDce both the great parties with impartial
bitterness; vet one of them must substantially be
right. IfSavery be essentially just and benefcent,
or even lit be goOdor bad according to pecularhes
Of climate, soi, ard productions, then the Nebraska
bill was wise and lsudabe measure, and ITS author
il iu.t the man for next President. IT. on the other
hand, Slavery was rightly regarded by Washington
AID stigmat2ed by Jefferson as gne'ou' wrong
whose existence defes the first principles OF law
guarded berry, then the Republicans arc right, and
their cause deserves The support of every patriot
in either case this Union party is sheer I'M
pertinence and fulility.
Mr.. j. Morrison Harris of Maryland, addressing
the UniOnists, triumphal tly asked
did the people North about the question Of
Ssynyl What Interest had Il for my Northern man TO sgitate
the cue zion OF Savoy But n the inherent 81 r 20
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