New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-28
Ccu,rni Unicn Club OF Brooklyn.

This organization last night held a meeting
i. ts Headquarters corner OF Fulton and Pineapple
streets, the President s. ". Grswol1 IN the chair
Ix.Goy. boutwell, Of MassacAusetis, was expected to
attend but was prevented doing So and will address
the club next Thursday night at The same place Ater
some Introductory remarks by the choirman DT'
McPuArr was introduced We be said, hsd heard Of
iofracton u the Constitution. and su7pensoH Of the
writ o. GoJeas corpus and they we're right. Tie writ
mus, N suspended when the public exigency required
IT, And whose duty was i " sasPcnh " "S "
enumerated among the duties oil congress 30. 10.
men who framed the Constitution vested the power OF
su,penson In the Commander inChei 81 the army anu
navy; for at any time invasion might take place eni
ant action b. necessary. The sAer hen referred
10 t rst OF the writ BY Andrew Jackson.
ind the falure OF GOV. seymour, although backed by
the skill OF the best lawyers OF his party 70 gam NC
try on the recent prosecution 81 Gen. Dix. The Cop
perheeds talked Of State Rights and State Sovereignty
There was such thing e'istng as WIS wen i I
ted by that great eIpositor Ddnlei "ensNl, ny
were the rights TO coin money, raise ARMIES ava ehpi
With foreign powers-oT % negoclhte tne
separation Of Statcsi No man knew THIS better tha1
Seymour when he met his friends IN toe pHtk anu
pretended 20 shake hands with them be lied 10 DIS
cart Rcycrdy Johrson known in bis noghborhocd a.
SIR Harcourt County,. umn never elected 10 any
Office but who had Away crawed into ohee by Legs
laiiye aid He now teach us manners he whose
marble mansion torn to pieces and himself driven
from New Orleans by furious Popueee for hls coneo-
motion with INC bank OF Maryland, which had s.sr
tered rnisery among countless widows -'u orphans
which IL ruinad-this the man VINO jr-erling Ola Abe
In what he thought TN great extremity. was ready
10 Accept fat Office under the greaiest srategis OF
the age The piesen. ws time Of life or death Tor
the Repubc. The CopDerhead steals United States
Uniform. shov Us tho Great Aanaconda general. but
which has dwindled down into the Little Copper,
heal. Inefo fro two issues-lAberty and Union, and
aPd peace or Slavery and war forever The Peace cry
Us ssam cry. Who would accept peace with dshonor'
The Coppcrheads promise great things II they Obtain
power but whac had they done for tho soldier and
where we're their names IN the lists Of the SANITARY
Commission. 1he6 offer the protection Of the vnltrre
TO the amb they would mako Us slaves 10 passion, Nv
The Ior. T. II. ROLLINS. ". c. from New Hamp
shire was the next speaker. There was. be- sald not
much new in the questions before them. We were aboui
20 send man manage rho Government for the next
four years. and II became 10 look over the whole He'd
aid ne ourselves whether we are standing on the night
or not We had handed the country to the Democratic
party for four years and II at peace from tho Lakes
10 the Gulf they gave 1t back 70 us VIE meets
scattered forts stolen and armies petr"!en, ana tnen
said we caused the war. We have spent
nearly fonr years IN battling for orr flag and
TO recover these. and were right There were two
tasks-the soldier must beat down the Rebel armies N
the field and the citizens at homo must bolt down the
Comprehend that he cannot strike at the rear The
Chicago pIoTm expressed no ympathy Tor the soldiers
81 Petersburg Of Atlanta, and OF bloble-tney want
not resolutions but 20 have their ranks hed and the
platform said not word the snhject. He had heard
ferde speak and conycrc during three years but bo
never had word Of symputhy for any but Rebels IN
/
oil tho Ministers foreign courts that Europe and Eng
land believed that the Rebellion would be- successful
Slcching the magnitude If the the speaker added
that 30 far from the wnr having been failure. when
history viii prove that il was wonderful how mnch We
had done 20 crush the Rebellion. There we're no Re
pubhcBBs in the Rebel army. The Chicago Platform
had no denunciaoss Of Rehcs hut only Of those hO
were hopefully prayerinly trying TO crush ont the Re
helli0n. They we have made progress. Were
not Shermans march from Nashville IN Atlanta, and
gallant Farrarnts taking Of Mobile and Sheridan
ktuup nm Vsi. 10 i.4l Md
Emancipation Proclamation had done much good
abroad and hof entirely eveTtcd foreign Intervention in
our struggle. Fernando Wood ssd that Mcclellan was
tho creature Of the Democratic PGrtys action Wood
voorhees, and Harris know that he can be used and Of
what material he Is made. he tho speaker, believed
thet II by special interposiicn Of Providence that
the Chicago Convention was allowed TO meet and per
feet its record and that the members had hardly reached
their bones when the clouds paned from the heavens
and good news had been coming ever since. Mr.
Rollins speech which was Of considerable length, was
frequently interrupted by applause that OF Dr.
McPhail large number Of ladies attended the
meeting and the Central Union Glee Club Of Brooklyn
| gave some OF the music.