New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-11
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER IT, 1866

tSfOughi ard IL viii be cur osD t.ult il we do not
elect our candidate. When he Doug'as mn consent
g. f \, they really yield ,he elee,ion Of their csqd
dats d, by p,ssibIs combination could Dpuglss be-
ei~-, by the House L. Ia not the real friends Of
Douglas who attempt 10 fuse, but men Who wish TO
ge' fat Offices and get them they willing 70 sell
ont Doug,s aod ase or their own benefit. Hare Is /
candidate for the Pr. sidrny protesting always agaast
FUSION On here is his Nstl nal Comm tee selling bi
OUT that they may get fat Offices. He had been much
interested in 'his Wide Awake movement from the
first for the graf lack of he Republican party has
be. n practical, active, workiog men. This was the
moot hopeful political movement Of tbs coun-
Try. The young men are beginaing ID feei ther
true power and is chow, them wha. my
ara able 20 do for their country. lie
locked on this as iniuguratiDg true military
movement of this country. 1t is time that the freensn
Of this country learned TO protect themselves. Oar
irg arOy is composed mostly OF foreigners ana
differed ia the oct aristocratic manner and he wanted
to this placed by THE new organization and let
the free ard voluntary military Of this country have
fair play; and when Government needs half million
men, let her call for them; with the same money and
the same protpect that an army now nave add we
shall soon need no standing army. He felt more hope
for this organization because il comprises ths young
men, and they have Liberty inscr ed on their baInes
The people or Mr. Douglas want 10 know when we
shall stop this agitation of the Slavery question, and
come TO other things. This agitation has not kept US
from attention to Oher things but nothing s 20 import
ant as keep alive the love VI human liberty and J1st
ce He thought tine would yet w, thes7 agta1ons
have been ms useful in preserving this Union, by
awakening spirit OF love for freedom, excited BY the
oppressions of the Slave power. The great work OF
the Revolution Was for day bat for years. and he
believed the time would yet come when tnis work
would be fully accomplished and man be equal to his
brother man every where and Justice ard right pre-
vail. In this belief he bii them God speed in their
work
Mr.. Greeley speech was followed by rousiug cheers
The next speaker intr, duced was Judge CULVER of
BroC klyn. who was welcomed by the rafting Zouave
cheer. lie said he had been among the people lately
and came back with words of g cd cheer. He felt
sure Of the success OF the party the young
men al d tho women all VITA US. The oifics Of
the Wide Awakes is like that Of the scouts aud picket
guards of the Revolution. Il was the work of these
young men which saved Connecticut, last year, In
spite of money and the Efforts of Mr. Fernando Wood.
He defended the Republican party from the Oh irge Of
sectioDaism. Thee men to-day who go for Douglas
claim Clay and Webster as Neutrality-suspicious. g. when
they always fought against this doctrine and esta )shed
the Missouri Compromise, which was after ward de-
stroyed by this same Mr.. Douglas. IL is emnenty de-
srable that tnis young party should be marsnaed by
the young OF ihe cInnuy. IL ia a young party,
but It is winning party Look at the returns coming
in from VeImOit, where there was no need to come
out except for respecabihy Hs pfophssied we should
hear ust such accounts from Name he mad beer there,
and the Pine Tree State all alive with enthusias N.
Men in all portions Of the State were changing from
Democracy TO Repu6heanism. lie referred to the doc
trne Of Squatter Sovereignty, first started by Mr..
Csss and af'er@ard taken up by MIR. Douglas, who
now asks the people to y.te for him. The Democratic
platform of 1856 went one further, and tina. doc
lrne Mr.. Buchanan elected; but he was scarcely
warm in his seat before hey attempted force Slavery
on Kansas in spine of the clearly expresed opinion OF
the people. They offered bride of lands to build
their colleges and schools and threat that they should
OF come in till they 49, 600 strong Bat Kansas
repelled the bribe aud deed the threat most nobly.
There will be in the Presidential chair directly
who will reach ont helping hand 10 kansas The
Republican party is charged as sectional, when
,Io bold 10 n,plao ofW Nk-hn
supposed to have known n Of the true theory OF
this Government Stephen Arnold Douglas. And on
down for ffty-eght years of legislation, the same
opinions were held and practice1 10 our Legislation.
Now the Democrats claim that all the legislation should
be for Slavery. But the Argument 10 all on one side.
He speaking in Connecticut before the last cleo
lion, ard prominent lawyer Of this city was speaking
in the came place-on tbs Democratic side, however.
They came 10 this city in the togsthe-; and he
asked this lawyer what he had beea talking abo1t.
Well says be- 81 spent sn hour and a half in rid
ding Horace Greeley old white coat and another
halt hour in talking about Wendell Phillips" After
ward he said 81 tell you, Culver, there is no more
doubt that you folks right there is that the
goes down Tonight" Then asked: Why don
i was torn in Ireland and cannot be anything else
than Democrat TIL de-" Grea; laugher He then |
made telling contrast between the States Of New
York and Virginia, showing the vast superiority Of
New York in everything except furnishing occupants
for the Presidential chair and in inhabitants
who cannot read or write. New-York has one
editor who white coat, who furnishes
more paper every week than the whole circulation of
Virginia with 10 00t copies to spare at that Such
the effects of Slavery prosperity, and especially
in education. III Virginia in five caunot read
write but in Mat sschusets for instance, there only
in five hundred who caunot read. Such is the diff
ference. In Virginia, j. G. Underwood had been |
driven out for speaking the words of Jsterson and
thirty-six men were driven out of Kentucky in the |
de pth of Winter for but for holding certain
opinions or the superstition thaI they did, He then
spoke of the difference 10 The action OF the Dencrac
party in the ada isson Of California aud of Texas.
q Free State and the other Slave State. We have
put up man out West who will to all these things.
Mr. Lincoln of the most massive inteects in this
country and he evidence of the institutions Of
this land, where the people spring from the So full of
repgth and vgor. He closed by earnest appeal
the young TO enter ilo tue contest with vgor and
prophesied certain for rgot justice and trde
l. nd cheers followed Judge Cuyer's
speech as they had been plentfully interSpersed
throughout.
Mr. 4. b VAN buren, was next called on, and he
teded to give humorous snd Lucid exposition of
he position OF the parties opposed to The Rspub ;aas.
He believed i. was only by trickery that we could
De defeated. The people aroused sad the young
men are ride a~ake, and they will triumph.
a song by the socgsteTs followed.
MIR. HANscoM, VINO was connected with the com.
lssion TO Kansas, was then called on and gave a
cling exposition Of the frauds practced there and of
hose brought 10 light Oy the Covode Committee
The meeting then dourned