The New York herald., 1870-10-22
p O L I r 7 G A L.


Soldiers and Sailors, General Committee
The side ShOw-A Vocal Entertainments
Greeley Arrives Late-His Sage Remarks.
The Soldiers and Sailors General Committee held
meeting last evening ct the corner OF Broadway
and Twenty-second street. There was very large
attendance. General Pleasanton occupied the chair.
The drst business transacted was the calling OF
the names OF delegates. General Ketcham,
from the Committee on Conference, re-
ported progress. Colonel Bullock arose and
stated that the influence OF the committee had
reached as FAR as Spain, and that General Sickles
had sent donation OF fifty dollars.
General PLEAsANT0S then arose and said tnat
Horace Greeley had kindly consented to make few
remarks that evening, but In the interim preceding
his arrival the chairman General Pleasanton pro.
posed that the soldiers and sailors should treat the
assembly TO
SONG.
four melancholy looking individuals then stood
up ana, IN seDulchra voices sang a song, pledglng
eternal hdeliiy 10 'our beautiful Union iorever.n
The -FOUR had the affair all to themselves and re-
celved TO their evident satsraction an encore. The
most active loONng OF the lour then started or in
a song which was parody to the tune by General
Baum, ana which was intended as u burlesuue on
ists md evidently ay wa na sha. Ine % iour vocal
as they acted rs we'll sang in a manner which
showed careful PREPARATION
THE REMARKS OF noRAcE's SUBSTITUTED
great mognl ltiorace Greeley had not arrived. he
murky light the question aL issue in the coming
campaign. The speaker then went on to denounce
na sne socaiiea repanicans who, ne SAID mad been
wild and ungrammatlcai denunciation OF MayorIal )
registry proclamation. and In blood and thunder
style. called on his hearers to demand that II neces.
sdry the whole iorcc or the general government be
called into operation at the cleo ION OF the Sth OF
November in New York city ana State.
ANOTHER SONG.
The de'aulting Horace having still failed to put in
an appearance, the individuals who sang the former
npr onsr ~ f,N a
the assemblage with ''rhe sword ol bunker Hill.u
GENERAL PLEAsASToN's REMARKS.
General Peasanton then arose AM SAID they were
honored tonight by the presence OF OF the great
pioneers OF free thought, man whose fame was
not confined TO the United States but whose name
was well known In the enlightened parts or Europe.
lie then introduced the Hon. Horace Greeley, who
was received with tremendous cheers.
THE wHIIECoATED PHILOSOPHERS MEANDERINGs.
Tie most striking point In Horaces appearance
was the eXtrene shortness OF hls pantaloons. He
sad-Let the dead past bury its dead. Living men
have to deal with living issues. | propose 10 deal
with the government under which we live. You as
soldiers, have to deal with men who manfully were
banded together against our government. They
met US squarely l have lived under the de-
poIism OF Leuis Napoleon, but l knew 1t to be
GespOilsln But when man puts into the
ballot box twenty votes to your one he lives
under worse dDspotlsm than tnat OF any govern
ment.. The speaker then referred to the Goa.
test between WalDridge and Dan sicSes, IN
which Wabridge was counted in ut first but II
having been discovered that three districts were
yet TO be heard from the thing was "hXed"
at Delmonco's and Sckles got the ma
jority. Our present Mayor mas said that every
thing depends upon the "counting.o Governor
Holman was elected Governor through the lnnu
ence OF 10000 false naturalization papers. On
MY LITTLE FARM
mad several Irlshmen, none OF whom were citizens
and none OF whom knew any ything OF the politics OF
| the country but naturalization papers were
| put into their hands under the certainty that
they would, lrishmen, vote the democratic
ticket. Tammany has now got things so
arranged In some districts that the vote election
day Is larger than that of the total number OF men,
women ana children living IN the district. The
democrats who cheat US at the ballot box worse
rebels than those VINO met us with arms In their
hands. Horace said there was deliberate purpose
formed before the last Presidential election that
General Grant should he cheated out OF the
vote OF this state. The government OF Louis
Napoleon was. being an acknowledged dcspotsm,
better than that we nave under system OF faudu-
lent voting and lrapqulent counting. Horace then
spun in numDe: OF his well-worn yarns. Haggerty,
| the wouldbe Consul to Glasgow, and pretended In
nuental Irish republican, here came forward TO fra
| ternize with Horace whose meanderings lie follows
| with Unfaing ardor. A Jew present called for
speech from Haggerty, but the call being thing bu
| general. the worthy woud-be Consul had no mme
diate opportunity of ventating his profound ideas
! After the business OF the meeting was over how
| ever, he palavered the audience with some of his
| usual Diarney and seemed much annoyed ut the In
difference with which the reporters listened to with
| Out noting his tWalue.