New-York tribune., 1867-09-24
WALDO HUTCHINs.
MARTIN II. BROWN,
WILLIAM II. MCKINNEY,
AMOR j. WILLIAMSON,
ANDREW BLEAkLEY,
CHARLES 8. SPENCER,
ISAAC DAYTON.

IsAAC DAYTON.
On the 18th of September, the Union General Com
mittee thus elected met ut the corner OF Twenty
third-st and Broadway, and organized by the cleo
ton of the Hon. Amor j. Williamson as President,
Charles S. Spencer and Robert L. Darragh as Vice
Presidents William Drummond and Charles s.
Strong as Secretaries and Sinclair Tousey as Treas
urer.
The entire reorganization thus carefully per-
fected UNDER THE EXPRESS AND DIRECT AUTHORITY
OF -iH UNION STATE CONVENTION OF 1866. The
Weed men attempted, in some OF the districts, TO
secure the new organizations but in every instance
signally failed. Their treason had not yet fnliy
ripened The resolves TO defy the authority of the
State Convention had not yet been determined upon;
and the Union men were left at first undisturbed by
any effort to impede njure the new organization
But Weed had taken a room next to that of the
Democratic State Committee in the Astor House, and
was in full communion with Tilden. Barlow. and
their colleagues. Open war upon the Union party OF
the State he had resolved upon; and he confidently
expected to defeat Gov Fentons reelecton-to elect
the Democratic State ticket-to obtain from the En-
pre State repudiation of the policy OF Congress,
and an Endorsement of that of the President. Gov.
Seward with his usual felicity, predicted Demo
cratic majority of 10000 i'll the State. 10 aid III the
accomplishment of these results, it was determined
to hold meeting of the old Republican General
Committee-to admit only those members invited by
Thomas Murphy, the President-to exclude that
great majority of the members who supported the
Union State ticket-and then to fill up the skeleton
Committee with faithful Weed men who would
promptly obey the orders of Weeds fugleman, Mr.
Abraham Wakeman. II was then to be proclaimed
that this Committee, thus filled, was the only gem
nine Republican Committee III New 0rk, and ut the
proper time this Committee was to declare III favor
Of the Democratic State ticket and levy assessments
upon the Custom House. the ostOnice, and the In
ternal Revenue Department, to be paid into the
hands of the Democratic State Committee by Weed
to aid in carrying the State for Hoffman.
As will presently be seen, this programme was fully
carried out and its projectors and their aiders and
abettors openly boosted that the defeat of what they
termed "the black and Jacobn Radicals was GER
tain. They reckoned without their host. They
failed to properly estimate the firm adherence to
principle of the men of the Union party; but they
earned what Johnson threw them.
Thehistory of the first overt high-handed act of
outrage in this drama of Treason is best given in
editorial which appeared in The TRIBUNE of Octo-
Der / 1866 1t is as follows:
"TnE oFFIcE-moLDERs' RAID.
ain view of the fact that portion of the oncehoders
and ofcebrokers who had hitherto cursed the RepuD
can Union party by drawing their support from it, had
gone INTO the Phadelpha-Joh movement. and had
united in the call of hybrid State Convention to nomi
nate ticket composed mainly Of Copperheads in oppo-
son the Republican Union party recent state Con
vcnon the request of the delegates from this city most
wisely directed reorganization OF the party here by the
election OF new General Committee from the new AS
semby Disricts-eaeh district entitled to choose num-
her OF delegates proport0ned To its vote for Lincoln and
Fenton In 1864 This has been DONE and new General
Committee composed In good part Of those who
members of old one hut not including those who have
oped the Bread aud Butter Brigade, has been duly con