New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-23
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The admirers of the Veto Message summoned
two Cabinet officers from Washington to explain
il. and announced that Gen. Grant would be
present at their meeting. This suggests tie
inquiry whether they believed their cause could
stand upon its own merits, and commend iiseli
TO the intelligence and patriotism OF tho people
BE that as il may, their demonstration last
nigh, will be claimed As HI emphatic indorSe-
ment of the Presidents policy. Numerically
it was entirely successful. The great hall was
denscy crowded; thousands went away unable
to obtain admission, and hundreds moro, out
side, proved patient, and, we trust, edited
listeners to that peculiarly American eoqlence
which The sidewalk inspires. Ia point OF
character. the most enthusiastic friends OF the
movement will hardly boast Of their gathering
With "A considerable leayen Of loyalty, 1t bore
the unnistakable marks of q good, ola-ia,h-
toned Democratic gathering. There were the
ancient, familiar Yell, aid tumult. ard surges
and chaos come again. The presiding officer
was cut short in his opening speech, and the
crowd refused to listen to the reading of tho
resolutions. To crown the whole, IL trucculent
auditor persisted in dcncuncing one of the
speakers as liar, and vas promptly knocked
down and dragged out. Gen. Grant. it is need
less to say. was not there. Neither were the
Israeltcs whom our Presidential Moses was
to have led through the Red Sea Of bond.
age; but the Egyptians We're.
Gov. Seward was greeted with great warmth.
1t was his first public appearance in the me-
tropols since the assassination; and his broken
voice, and the eloquent scar across lis cheek,
demanded the sympathy. which was so gener-
ally and spontaneously given. His speech.
though the prologue was something too long for
the argument, was ingenious, aud in some points
able. Blu. it was hardly logical TO assert so We
hemently at the outset, that the country Is
already saved beyond al possible danger Of
relapse, and then to declare so confidently at
the close. that whenever President shall be
willing to accept such power and patronage as
the Freedmen's Bureau bill would confer upon
him, republican liberty will have given way to
imperial deSpotsm. 1t seems bingularly at va
rance with the cheerful optimism of the Secre.
tary Of State to believe that Andrew johnson
is the only bulwark which protects American
institutions from overthrow and ruin.
Like the other speakers Mr.. Seward ig-
norcd tho two real questions involved in the con
troversy: first, whether the late Rebel States
give such thorough and unmistakable signs of
returning loyalty rs e. render it safe and prudent
Immediately 10 restore all their suspended
rights; and secondly whether we ought not 10
interpose between tie four millions Of Negroes
through whose stcadsst devotion the Union was
saved, and the hate and cruelty Of the few
Southern Whites who seek 10 Cypress them, a
fixed, absolute and impossible barrier. II was
specially noticeable, too, that none of the
speakers offered ono warm or generous word Of
recognition for the vital services rendered by
the Black Loyalists in the Nation EXTREMIST
need.
Every expression which was made in favor Of
extending TO the late Rebels all the magma
nimity and liberalily compatible with justice to
the Freedmen, meets our hearty approval. We
should never forget that they are Ameri-
caus--to be our -countrymcn and our
brethren in the future as they have boen in the
past. But if We disregard the plain considera.
tons of right and humanity to the Negroes, We
shall deserve the scorn Of the world and of his
tory. As the whole tone of the assembly was
dcnunciatory md almost mcnacing toward the
majority Of Congress, would it rot be well for
those who approve the action of that majority to
call meeting, and engage speakers capable of
discussing these momentous questions calmly,
temporarily and wisely that the real voice OF
the earnest and tried Loyalsts Of Ncw-York
may be heard by al the Nation