New-York daily tribune., 1865-10-19
COOPER INSTITUTE.
STRENGTH OF THE UNTERRIFIED.
Sheriff Kelly Chairman.
Speeches by Major.Gen. slocum, Mont
gomery Blair, John Van Buren,
John Kelly, and Others.

The Democratic ratification meeting, which
assembled in the large hall OF Cooper Institute. asa
evening, not very largely attendedthe hall being
hardly more than comfortably well filed There wero
about lJ0O OF the Unterrifed IN the hall, and the
audience mainly composed Of the ultra Mozart
schoo-ther emotions being usually expressed by ear
splitting huzzas and howls or Democratic groans, sng
gestive OF gorillas lions and locomotive shriekS
Among the prominent Democratic leaders present were
Gen. Henry H. Slocum, Messrs. John Van Buren.
Sheriff Kelly, VIM. II. Tweed Peter b. Sweeney, Il.
w. Clinton. James I. Brady, and others.
Mr. JOHN KELLY presided, and was received with
great cheering He said that be did not intend TO occr-
py the time Of the meeDg he would simply say that
the ticket nominated was one which ought to receive
the support OF every true Unonist IN the conntrys
During the long war-and by the kindness OF Provt-
dence have passed through iths country has BEEN
established rmer basis than ever before Various
mplicated questions had arisen but the main questions
now reconstruction. The Democracy supports tha
President though elected by another party The DEM
ocrstic Conventions have made most udcious selec.
tons in all quarters, and they would probably receive
the support of ell Democrats. "A
THE ADDRESS.
The Secretary then read the Address, Of which the
following is q condensation;
The address commenced By the statement thet, as
New York had always been foremost in sending soderd
to the field, and equpping thcm regardless Of EXPENSE
il eminently meet that the Democratic ratitcatoH
meeting should inaugurate its proceedings by congra
ulations upon the restoration Of the Union OF tha
States with such President 10 give every guarantee
permanent settlement Of our national troubles upon
those principles of equality. concord and justice on
which that Union originally formed, and which the
Constitution wisely framed to secure and per-
petuate." The address also congratulated its sup.
porers that their ticket bore at its head the OF
Major Gen. Henry W. Slocum zone Of the braves and
most successful of our military leaders
GEN. sLocUAfs ADDRESS.
Gen. SLocuM then introduced, and received with
hearty applause.
He said that for four years we had been engaged in
desperate resulting in and victory QUE
enemies saIutng the old flag in former days Bne
the Union still has its opponentsin our midst-whicf
we are called on now to fight President johnson has
planned splendid campaign against them effective
those of Grant and Sherman, which ended this
Wilson Of Massachusetts, misses recently said that he
yocatng Johnsons party This is sample Of the SIN
cerity of his party NewYoIk has been prominent in
overthrowng the Southern opponents of the Union let
il be equally demonstratye in overthrowing the North
ern opponents OF the Union. Three cheers for Gen..
Socum
The presiding officer then introduced Mr.. Mont
gomery Blair, who was received with great and en-
thusiastc applause.
MONTGOMERY BLAIRs SPEECH.
Mr. BLAIR said that he need not say that the simpls
sphorsm "tLe Federal Union must be preserved"
was the answer OF Jackson to John Cstalne Cahouns
state Rights distractions to countenance bis con-
spracy against the Of the States and the great
nation they composed. The Union is preserved by that
final arbiter The Democrats, who broke their party
org ganzation 10 accomplish this deliyerance and es-
.umed the party Of Republicans, and planted its
,taudard on middle ground, between the Aooh-
tionists who would sybyert the ConstitutioD
oI attain their object, and the Democrats who
adhered to slavery to oppHsos p"s ne ssS nsSv wS;Ss
onht IN the sayeholdiDg power In such strict
limits that its political power would Dc lost oy oeing
nyiSo0ed with vastly sradusV to and
,ytnpnsh H. The Gordon Of Freedom once drawn
onnd the section Of Slavery, those who built thee
,opes upon it admitted that. ike the scorpion IN ring
Il IRE X would die by its bite Such OF the Whigs
mi Aboitonsts as relapse into their old party pro-
ensties seize upon the nnhngcd state In which const'
uona barriers left by civil war; to break into Ns
trncture and destroying its whole internal economy
onsisting of States confederated into nation-tha
National Constitution embracing ana impartlns Vgor
the State laws and constitutions made In conformity
q n and so becoming a part Of II. The basis OF
II laws and constitutions is the suffrage OF tue
eople The wisdom Of this great creative principle
hus confded by the Constitution TO the people IN
heir domestic is in the fact that but
or this prov ison there is al this moment seetioaaf
majority in Congress ready to expel from or keep out
4 that body the representatives of many Southern
states unless they yield to the dctation Of that
Nv the power TO impose condition OF suffrage which
hese very States that made the Constitution OF tue
United States, abured from the beginning LUIS daring
,ttempt which, II successful would in effect be an a0-
ogation of the Constitution by BODY which has no be-
ng without 1t, has an aim FAR beyond tne eS,aonsn
nent of negro suffrage in the States exhibiting VI
Negro suffrage If ii had other effect than thst
II altering the state of poll and acting g
balance Of power In the hanas ., one sec,Gn u o3
ihe owners Of the soil, the wealth and intellis
renee of the other section, would DO intoleraoles
pnt n woud bring In its train other incalculable evils,
the worst Of which would be the creation Of mixed.
degiaded caste Of laborers, much moro fatal 10 the
nesae of the Government than Negro Slavery during
the first two centuries OF its existence. In its first
stse four millions OF black freedmen laborers in the
ed could not bat give character to the whole ciasF
gagged in agriculture TO say nothing OF the mechan,
ical classes Every white man In the field would
find himself reduced in wages as in function to tia
negro standard and negro equality thus established
would bring down all white operatives TO their levels
and thus reduced in their political Importance and
manual pursuits. every Ango.Saxon who had enter
prise and capacity for the effort would fy from TIE
section In which his habtual pride OF superiority ana
his instnctiyeprejudces of race were humoled those
Of the dispirted class of whites incapable or enofs
from long Indulgence and dependence on tne selve
would sink beneath the negro or az eass
become his fellow until the whole demoranzed eass "
class Of black hireinss in the south would be the snb-
ected victims OF the mOnoyed and landed tS
black and mixed serfdom would then DC more thau or
pressiye and degrading because 1t would DC ina. 0.
Zee Fiftb Psse'