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,,r,-r FROM me NetO York Herald June lO.l
DOUGLAS DEMONSTRATIONS COMPLIMENT
TAR1 SERENADE TO THE HON. REVERDY
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JOHNSON. -'i' i1''D
Last evening the Douglas Committee of the city
OF New ork, gave complimentary serenade to the
| Hon. Reverdy johnson, of Maryland, at the Fifth
| Avenue Hotel. Dodworth's celebrated band wa,
engaged for the occasion, and the following seec
tions were given in excellent style:
Fest March from "Der Tannhauser;" selection
from "1l Barbiere;" Immortellen Waltz Bunch o.
| Melodies a String of Chords; Quick March from
| "Les Nespers Sician."
About five hundred persons were present, occu
pying the vacant space in front of the hotel and
| the sidewalk opposite. In the crowd were MANY
boys and few ladies, and the balcony and the par
lors OF the hotel were also filled with ladies.
In response to repeated calls, Chamberlain
Stout, OF New York, came forward and said:
| Gentlemen:-l have the honor of Introducing tn
| you the Rev loud laughter II mean the Hon.
Reverdy johnson, of Baltimore who will now ad-
| dress you.
Mr.. Johnson then spoke as follows:
| Gentlemen:-I greatly indebted to Won for
the honor of this call prize it the more as it
assures me that the opinion l entertain as to the
state of our country, and the policy best ftted-if
not the only one titted-te restore it to a condition
| of peace and security, you concur in There is no
conceang the fact that sectional strife is DANGER
| ouslv disturbing us. There is no concealing the
fact that, unless this is adjusted on some Just and
! permanent basis the worst results may ensue. Is
| there no such basis? | think there is II is to
leave the subject of that strife to be legally dsposed
of, as they may think best to every politically or
! ganized people. Slavery in the States, except
with few fanatics, it is admitted, is exclusively
| with the people of each State Over it the Gov.
| ernment of the United States has no Jurisdiction
| whatever. [Applausel This has worked WE'LL
NO State has been agitated by its own management
OF this species of labor. Why should not this right
be entrusted to every people having governmental
power legally obtained 1t is a matter that con-
Germs themselves alone. Their State infancy is
soon to ripen into State manhood, and then the
power, it is conceded, will be with them TAp-
plause. Why deny it while they are being pre-
pared for such manhood? 1t mav as it NAV be es.
tabished or denied, the better and the sooner fit
them for entire State sovereignty. 1t does no
harm TO any. Unlike Congressional interference
which has always been obnoxious to Southern
feeling and, as they believe contrary to their Con-
stitutional rights, this principle of noninterven-
ton max it an affair Of their Slavery defend
ed as local State institution. It's said, and prop
erly SAID, to be domestic concern, which no one
but the particular household should regulate All
other domestic concerns all other local relations
are left to the peop of the country.
l am for Judge Douglas-Tapplause1- because
this policy is his. | am for him in the approaching
contest because | sure he has the ability to
maintain it, and the frmness and honesty to stand
by it. Cheers | am for him because he is not
only IN this, Just to the real rights Of the South
but because believe that he will be- in the future
as we know be has been in the past, faithful to all
her rights. Applause. / am for him because he
has truly national heart, and mind comprehen-
slve OF the interests of all sections. Because not
being insane with one idea, resting on a mistaken
philanthropy or religious fanaticsm, he is true to
the rights OF all, as guaranteed by our common
Constitution. LCheers How will New York act
In the coming struggle? But why should | ask
Has she ever failed to acta patriotic part? Has she
ever confined herself within sectional bounds? New
er "Thats so, and applause. On the contrary her
patriotism has always been commensurate with
the whole country, and has been ever signal and
devoted. This feeing-and how else could it he
otherwise expands with the expansion of her pow
er and limits. As her noble commercial marine
our nations pride, is seen traversing the seas of
nuHly hanry H., IL
Union at its masthead the type and promise of its
power, so has her voice at home, in all past trials
been heard rallying her mighty hosts to preserve
that Union entire. | doubt not that this will be
the and the forever; and if it shall be-
and we are kept together our country will not on
ly continue to be the freest, but will-f it is not
now-become the greatest and the bappiest that
the sun of Heaven has ever shone upon. [Great
cheering. If any man doubts the duty and neces-
sty of harmony amongst ali, let him take counsel
from the teachings Of our ancestors.
This very topic of slavery pregnant il their
day, with disturbance. 1t threatened to defeat
their hopes, by preventing the making and
adopting OF the Constitution which was to create
us a great nation. Each patriotically agreed to
surrender his particular opinions upon it, and the
result was Its being compromised on terms accept
able to all. Individual feeling surrendered to
the general good; and look at its glorious conse-
quences The Union of the States, under gov
ernment adequate to all the purposes of union,
whilst consistent with all State and local rights
Look at our history since progress under the
Constitution Its parallel is not to be found in the
annals OF time. Applause We have grown,
by virtue oft, to be of the leading powers of
the world and if we administer it in the spirit of
its founders, imagination cannot conceive the
renown she will attain [Cheers. Is so glori-
Gus past and so glowing a future, to be hazarded
on mere disputed legal proposition of no practi-
cal consequence, however settled ? Duty to our
ancestors, duty to posterity, duty to our
freedom, duty to God, alike invoke US against so
insane course. Your State, gentlemen, can do
much to avert it. Her Judgment cannot but be
right, and her patriotism can never fail her. TAp-
plause. L am sure that that judgment will be an
nounced in terms which will satisfy all who NAV be
plotting against our Union, that its destruction is
not to be effected without first destroying the oower
of New York and to this how impotent will be all
efforts. Tremendous cheering Thanking you
again for your compliment in calling upon me on
this occasion, bid you good night Nine cheers
The Hon. Edmund Marshall, of Kentucky, and
J. D. Haderman, Esq, formerly editor of the
heartily applauded. The lateness of the hour pre-
vents us from giving even an abstract of their
addresses
From the Special Despatch Of the NeO York Herald
RUMoRs AT KIcHMoND.-RICHMOND, June l0.-The
prospects are far from bright as regards the re-
union of the Democratic party.
On the contrary, there is less hope now than when
the secession took place that there will be only one
Democratic candidate.
1t is not understood here that the friends of
Douglas are determined to run him whether he OBJ
ceed with the help of the New York delegation in
admitting the Douglas delegates, which are here
called "bogus,' to fill up the places of the sece-
ders, and those to nominate him by two-thirds
vote, they will then proceed to nominate him by
simple majority and if they fall in that, then to
break up the Convention in a and bring him
before the people as a stump candidate. One thing
is certain, and that is that under no circumstances
will this Convention become recOnced to Mr..
Douglas. The conclusion, therefore, is pretty clear
that there will be four candidates in the field.
Senator Bayard, the first chairman of the seced-
ing Convention at Charleston, offers to bet five
thousand dollars that Douglas will not get the nom
ination at Baltimore, five thousand dollars that if
he does get it he will not obtain the electoral vote
of any State in the Union. and ten thousand dollars
that he will not be President the 4th of March,
1861. This, though openly offered, has not yet
been accepted
1t is positively affirmed by knowing ones here
who ought to be acquainted with the ropes in New
York State, that majority of the New York dele
CATION will go for Douglas at Baltimore
The general opinion among the delegates here is
that the Convention will adjourn Tuesday or
Wednesday till after the action of the Bal
timore Convention is ascertained and that
a committee will be sent to watch their pro-
ceedings. The only spoken of here as yet, are
Lane and Dickinson The Southern men, without ex-
ception say they would go at once for Dickinson if
the New Y ork delegation Ioposed him, and that tif
the whole Democratic party united upon one man,
Dickinson would certainly be the best; but MANY
of them say if this cannot be done that they think
they can do better against Douglas and Lincoln in
the Northwest with Lane than with Dickinson.
But the friends of Dickinson, on the other hand,
pledge themselves that with him they can carry
New York, and that is sufficient for the South.
THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION. - Delegates are
coming in quite freely to the Baltimore Conven-
tion. This morning portion of the Mississippi Sc.
ceders arrived. They state that they are deter
mined to be admitted into the Convention. The
Douglas portion are going to drive them out by
the resolution which appeared in Saturdays In
UnlnSS thnv fnr Snph lnf
-pledgng all the delegates to the support of the
nominee-places the seceders in bad predicament
If Douglas is the choice. Prominent politicians
and wel-posted delegates state that there will be
desperate time at Baltimore, which may result in
completely breaking up the naming fragments
of the party Washington Cor. Of Philadelphia
Inquirer.
LIFE LONGER IN AMERICA THAN EURoPE.-The In
surance Commissioner of Massachusetts states that
the mortuary experience of fourteen companies,
which had reported to the State for the past year,
representing about fifty thousand years of life,
proved that life in this country at ages between
thirty-one and ftyfve, not subject to as high
rate OF mortality similar returns proved it to
be in Great Britain and Germany.
The Hon. A. FL. Stephens of Georgia is exceed
ingly unwell from attacks of vertigo with which
he has recently been visited and is unable at pres
ent to attend to business of any kind.
gentleman of New York, by way of rebuking
the pugilistic fever now raging, has sent 500 to
Orville Gardner, the retired pugiist.