New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-21
Ninth Di.,ric, Union Association.

MEETING LAST YIGHT-ADDRESs by MR.. DAYToS-0SB
HUNDRED AND TWENTY VIEW MEMBERS RECEIVED
The Ninth District Union Association, Sixteenth
Ward held large snd enthusiastic meeting last evening in
NJ Justice Bulls Court room, Of Twenty
ard seyenibave. Robert Armstrong, esq., occupied the
chair Tie minutes the previous meeting having been dolly
read and confirmed on notion Of exAdeimln isaac Day
the enrolment Of momber proceeded with About 100
new members enrolled their namc making tho Association
read by tho Secretary and received approval.
Alex Mcleod N behalf Of committee on the revision ~
,ns i1 e sts.. Mr. Thomas Lvor aud or.
dorng election m the vacancy! on tday eFe9s next
10; s Ls fe 70 give notice Of the meetings OF tho ASCOT
- nrd had absented himself from all meetings snee Feb
aary last and had prevented the enrolling II members
Carried unanimously.
''''''N Mr.. pATTvS aDDnEss.
Mr. DAYTON beiLg repeatedly called for 10 address the
meeting ssd remarked That Il FAR important that
they should employ their time IN preparing Tor the ne1 cam
pn than that they should listen TO long speeches With
a he Philadephia Convention no one pretended 10 say
L Union Convention lCries OF " No 81 Was 1t a
been some few Union there but Union Con.
yetton-fA voioe-Iow aboGt Hsgh Gardner land il
altogether Democratic COnyention Il neither the
one nor the other. They did not dare 10 say that
they the spoosits Of Slavery at this late Jay In this
country The who had supported this country and this
Union during the gh for liberty not at the epha
Convection They talked great deal about Massachusetts
and Ctroina going into that Convention and
together bot those Massachusetts who pre-
voGs he wer and during H. turned ecreant to tho In.
terests OF the country. Tho men who composed the Phia
dsphia Convention party 81 gusras bush hackers
aud ntended 10 guerrilla warfare gh the Union
party They would look for support from disafceted
Eepnblicans what they called Conservative Republicans
These asserted Slavery 20 be abolished but not
fact subject 90 the vii Of the Southern people Slavery ceased
tjeIs In this country when Abraham Lincoln decred the
emancipation OF the syes IL did not depend upon tho ra
cation otherwise Of Constitutional Amendments. and
obliged for that 10 Southern friends In Phila
delphia Convention. lCreat appause He (the speaker
was prepared 20 believe that the unanimously Rebel
population South should have q those who
were unanimously loya Renewed cheerng After Slavery
had been abolished there thing ,0re wanted and
thai thorough reformation In the rate Of representation
In this country lie would give 10 freeman the right TO
impartial suffrage With this tho whole country should have
just and fair representation. Applalse la conclusion,
be would circumstance In the Philadelphia Con
xo,,o, In nrocaining slavery aboisbed thew ala
not pretend II was so By an amendment 10 the Con
staton II the United States. And ia this particular
Rebel debt had dreamed Of doing and the day
might these got into Congress when they womb
Of their getting into Congress 1t only required
union, organization and association They must ns into
the minds q their fowetyens the importance Of the prn
cples they held. [Gieat applause.
Several appropriate and patriotic orgs were by Mr.
james Cumming Color Sergeant OF the 10Th Ighlanders
Tho Hon. Alexander Mcleod then introduced the Hon.
about decotons from the Republican ranks but they
than made In honest Democrats what they lost by weak
kneed Republicans. They would recolect that In 1857 Mr.
Jones for the Legislature against the speaker and ut that
time stood sqnare upon the Democratic platform Now he
stood boldly the platform OF liberty and justice ALL IL
would be refreshing to hear from this old enemy bat now true
Hon Mr. Jones then made humorous and vigorous speech
taking the ground that the cooed people had right TO oil
the privileges and mmunites OF American citizens and that
they bad - fighting for the Government IN its hour Of
peril He stated had lately from Louisiana, and
known Ny policy" lie proclaimed Andrew johnson
and traitor who had been thrust into his office by
the hand OF assassin He concluded eloquent speech by
the recital OF ode the rise and progress the Ame
can nation.
when stuart L. Woodford aud other prominent speakers
arc expected 10 be present