New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-23

nations have their yicssiudea tier papics ana lnsur
recons. 1t is not these that Disgrace an s9pe Ous
them Entb1fastc applause. Let our iriends IN tne
Old World and our fellow-ctzens at home, VINO nave
predicted that there will never be another congress
give themselves no uneasiDess. DIVINE T1o'luence
comes some seats may lie vacant, but the CsPtoi VIM
be there in its great proportions, and 80 VIII our nag
The banner Of the eagle.
That tempest love 10 wsnton with,
Ii flies o. pTou6AId high
There may be some who will repudiate Ns giones;
some of It's stars may shine with paler ray, but on
it's Broad folds every star stripe VIII sui DE counted,
and there will still be there the side OF the country,
the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress
Enthusiastic and prolonged applause.I
H. The American Flag
Where breathes the foe but falls before u.s.
With EIsedom's soil beneath o.; our ,es',
s. B. Chittendep, ESQ.,, responded He said that ne
had come from his warehouse hungry and weary ne
had been told that this to be quiet party OF con-
servaiye Republicans, where Free nnprepBred speech
untramneled by the presence Of polished oIatory wou
be the order Of the evening. Bot he must cay WORD
for the flag in the midst Of orator. lie sui pc
lieved in the old thirteen and the twenty added
stars. Our free speech and press bad been prose-
cuted with such license that there was msunder-
standing between the North and South were at vari,
ance and six stars had gone out Considering the TACT
that ninety out Of hundred in the North were
ready to fight for the rights Of South Carolina,
there was nothing comparable TO the insanity
of recession since Pharaoh followed the Israees into
the Red Sea with his host He had no doubt that the
Union was safe. We lkelier to be struck with
lightning in less than half minute than the Union
was 10 come TO an end. He voted FOR Lincoln, ana
he had Thousand votes he would give them all Tor
Lincoln again. He bad said in the campaign that
within sixty days after the iuanguat OF Lincoln tne
whole country would be astonisbed ut the popularity
OF Lincoln In the South. lie stood 10 that YET.
/ IL m hGf
of the question and he consented 10 it ALL but he sub
mitted to his Republican brothers that they treateo
the war side Of the subject with more energy
than it needed. He had no more idea mat
gun was to be fired than that they were
TO have shooting match in Broadway alter
they got out. He got O letter from New-Orlesns,
which, after strong Secession swagger conciuae1,
"Tim, can't something he done lofave the Union
the boldness of the Governor Of Mary land cheers and
the results in Virginia where the people were iahui
10 the Union as ere also the people Of Missouri and
Arksnsas Would Washington talk much about war
Weld one inch hairs breadth Of principle In TINS
contest. He would see the land dehlged in blood
before he would see the country demoraned. But we
need not talk in that yein All men were waiiIe ior
the 4th VI March, ard what Mr.. Lincoln would say.
He believed that with honest and loyal patriotism,
| he would follow in the footsteps OF the man whose
birthday we had met to celebrate. The whole country
Was waiting t. hear him. ana ne Dene'ed Tue country
| would not be disappointed.
| H. The Army and Navy
Gen. Nye responded in a Characteristic speech. He
believed that this Government would stand until ne
who should stand with foot on the land and the
other on the sea- should declare that nations should Dc
no more There were storms in the political as wen Us
in the natural world and they necessary to clear
the air. In bis boyhoOd he was great sdmirer OF
| man who filed large space in the history OF this
country; his name was Andrew Jackson. He bad seen
ayerv one of his prophecies fulfilled And one othen was
that this Union must and shs be preserved. The flag
lie saw was destined to wave until the stars should De
crowded 10 thick upon the bunting that With the naked
eve they could not be counted. lie knew how hard II
was for expiring party to give mp. Laughter.
! They were quite willing that the nation should seem
to be afflicted with epepsy, although they did not
to e 5 anfy no an
they had found cut their mistake, and they would
leave sfHdsvs with their friends when they Were
about 20 s,pre that they were only in fun. LAP.
| pausel The Government had never shown such
strength 40 now if il could survive when the Admins
tration reasonable from President TO Postmaster
when q bounty was placed on treason on the
1 deck and the land, and when the arms OF the
country were carried away from where men lived
| who could carry them. When the new steam vessels
were built he hoped that they would have command
ers who would point their guns toward rebels and
| that would be all that would he necessary. Rebels
were always towards. Our navy had made the ocean
red with the blood Of the fee but the blood Of Seces
rionists would not readily mix with the water
! Of the ocean. They would run away He
| thOnght that men could not keep mao over lOuf
month";; they must have lucid interval when
Judgment would assume its throne and should hug
each other in fraternal love- Destruction already
at the doors of Secession. They began TO feel the bur-
from g. to $780, and Dsbolls Arithmetic told them
that their fortunes would not bear hslying than
once more. lie thanked God that they could feel
through the purse. There one thing that the Re-
publican party would never yield, that Freedom should
be the dominant power of the Republic. Loud ap-
plause.l
- The Press
VIM. Henry Fry responded He said that he did
not come here TO speak lie had spoken during the
canvass p and day and he been in his bed for three
months and had not much voice. With public speak
or il ought TO be e pretere Hik, but there must
be roI. Laughter. His friend Mr. Dana, who was
to respond " the toast had gone away long ago. IL
was now tomorrow morning. He went away yester-
day, because be came here on the I'D Of February,
and it was now the 23d. Laughter He would not
speak of the press but Of the Union. One point bad
been overlooked. The Union now was not the Union
when George Washington made his Farewell
Address. The element that of putting
shirts on men. George Washington Address did not
contemplate the cotton GIN or the railroad or the tel
egraph. We bad insI intons of our own without re-
ferrng TO the past. What did the Purtans expect
when they landed That they would never 90 more
than twelve miles into the interior. And century
after that Dean Swift put his Brobdignag The didn't
know whether the z was soft or hardl IN California.
That country was now State Of this Union. He be
-eved that II those gentlemen in the South had been
born North, and lived on Charley Setsons dinners,
they would never have known better. Ne sympa-
thized with them; the cooking was very bad in the
country. lie said to gentlemen, Don be afraid Of the
South There had been discussions going 70 which
was the most courageous race. Whichever should be
the result what was the 0dds1 II beaten, IL
would take great deal OF conceit out OF us. There
were gymnast Of the soul well rs Of the body.
He believed If there should be war; the men Of tho
North would be worthy of the men who threw the tea
over In Roston hnrbor and who bled NJ Lexington