New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-25

A garden and hall in Clinton street, near Broome,
called Clinton Garden, was the scene, last evening,
of Fernando Woods ratification az the Tammany
and Mozart nominee for Congress in the With District.
Ii was reeking with the exhaatons of the unwashed
The old war-horse Of Tammany, Elijah +. Purdy,
presided and held the lumber After some nsignif.
cant preminaries of speeches and resolutions, amid
prolonged and enthusiastic applause, Fernando
Wood entered the hall. lie was introduced, and
the applause repeated
Mr.. WOOD said, after returning his thanks for the
spontaneous presentation Of his name Tor one OF
the highest Offices in the gift Of the people, that
to public inspection, and that by that he must
be judged; he had 10 pledges to offer. The
men in power had criminally erred in the
discharge of the great trust which had been
imposed upon them, and in carrying on the Govern
ment in the legislative branch, he should not ask
what Horace Greeley or Abraham Lincoln thought.
[" Three groans for Horace Greeley."l Upon the
next Congress rested the hope Of the country After
! all military successes there must como still small
voice of reason, and legislation suited 10 tho new
condition of the Republic, questions applying to the
interests Of the Western. the Eastern, the Middle,
aud the Border States. The dreadful moral and po-
ticsl results of this ffstricidal war would not be
lost for many generations. The cause Of the war
was that purltanca, fanatica proscripive, intol.
Grant, and bigoted idolatry, emanaiing from and
originating in New-England which must either rule
or destroy and every thDgit touched. Herpeople
who could be credited with energy, but whose moral
and political vision WAS 70 narrow, 20 selfish, so
arrogant, aud destructive that its touch was death,
be it IN morals, religion, or politics, lcheersl
these puritans created the abolition DOGMA not be-
cause in their hearts they deemed Slavery oense
aQanst morality, not because they did not know
that under the Constitution Slavery was question
TO be settled by the States Themselves not because
they did not know that every State except one held
slaves when the American Constitution was made
We in New-York abolished Slavery net by any act
Of an Abolition Congress or Emancipation
Proclamation Of a President we abolished
it ourselves we abolished it when New
England abolished It, and she abolished 1t when
she could not make any more money out OF
slave labor. Mr.. Wood after finishing his portrai-
ture of Yankeedom noticed the cry Of danger to the
capital upon which the whole people oil the North
rushed 10 tie rescue, and the manner IN which the
Administration had reqBited tbis unaDDity, con
linued: In tie army and navy, as well as IN the
civil list and judiciary, honest Democrats are pro-
scribed and Republicans put iii their places. In
spite Of all this, Democrats have freely gwen their
lives, and even their liberty, 10 the Government by
incarceration IN Fort Lafayette and Fort Warren.
say If the Administration with all this at their dis.
posa, with three hundreds OF Thousands OF
men given to them by the loyal hearts
Of the country, and these hundreds Of millions
poured into The Treasury, l say that, had it not
/ bttu lnDtSut, Ncudl ~ "ouAo h''C put
down the rebellion long ago. lApplause.l And
say TO the voters of the Vth District that, II they
expect me 10 90 to Congress to support an Admins.
traiion weak aud corrupt as this, they had bet.
ter select come other man. for L shall no, do IT.
! Cheers. They have shown their want either oi
power or of disposition. They have either shown
their determination to continue the war for their
own purposea or else they have not the heart
nor the brains to succeed care not
which horn Of the dilemma they take.
II Ia slA. xxf,.l aI fhay
cannot succeed. They have shown their incapacity.
They ara split up into three partlesone Of fsnsti.
crnI that pursues the war for damnable political
pnrpose-that of extingushing The institution Of
Slavery for the purpose OF procuring contracts;
and third element, that OF the President himself,
ing itself, standing as 1t does between
knavery and fanaiieism. l am going
10 Washington and when reach there will go TO
the President of the United States IN my sovereign
cavaclty az your representative and Will make 70
bm the speech | make TO you tonight; | will tell
him OF the dangers of this country. will tell him
that without we have change Of measures, that, 70
help me God we will have change of men. Loud
applause. Three cheers for Fernando Wood. "Thsts
the talk" by God, we'll have q new deal! |"
Bully, Old Woodp' "Order, order, order!'l
will tell him, without he casts oil these foes to their
country in the North more dangerous than the foes
,hat threaten it in the South without be discards
these evil rulers that hang around him, and around
the departments, for their own purposss without be
rises upon his majesty Us the Chief Magistrate
of this great people without he responds to the voice
which has been sent from Ohio and Pennsylvania,
and Ipdiana and from glorious New-fork great APP
plausel without he bears and heeds and acts upon
the potential voice Of the people thus expressed in
thunder tones, that as Washington was the first
President Abraham Lincoln 10 tue last that this
country is destroy ed that exist but in history,
that the historian centuries hereafter when writing
the history of the nineteenth century will say:
There once existed a Republic called the United
States OF America, that God sbowered upon that
people all His blessings. that He gave. them the
finest climate the finest soil, the finest
men physically and intellectually that
God ever gave to man. that they had the wisest sys
tenn of government since the creation Of the earth,
but that that people originally commencing with
2 500, 900, had grown to over 80 OOo, aud from
weak colonies TO naughty empire; that by their in-
ernal broils they committed suicide, they destroyed
themselves pulled down the temple which they had
been for 80 years erecting. and on madness and folly
their bruins became turned, and that Republic has
disappeared from existence aud Its capital cannot
be ionnd by the explorer. All, my friends, there
have been Republics existing an long "a this before;
there have been Republics that existed for hundred
wear, TINT now do not ill half page OF history;
there have been Republics as proud and great
as we are there have been Republics
that in some respects far exceeded usi there
wears ago, and yet the most educated man IN the
herring OF my voice could scarcely call them 10y
name. The world has been established 200 years.
Within that 5000 years empires have risen and
fallen more powerful than the continent OF America
aud tell YOU as shall tell the President Of the
United States, without he IL equal TO the emergency,
without lie Gusts off these traitors at the North,
without he rises superior to party aud mere party
obligations made by the Chicago Platform, without |
he stands up in the penitude of manhood this coun
try s dead and in few short years II will be sue
ceedcd by thirty -four independent States under !
some military Government. My word for it, If this
Government is to be destroyed, despotism will |
succeed, there great armies will eventually find