Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-04


NEW York, June "a mass meeting to rat.
ify the Cincinnati nominations was held to.
night NJ Cooper institute. The hall was well
filled, and an outside meeting was organized
aud addressed from stands erected IN the square.
Gen. John Cochrane was nominated chairman of
the inside meeting. On the platform were Col.
J. K. Fellows Isaiah RvnderS eX-RCcorder Jas.
Smith, and others. Cochraue made the opening
speech, when the following resolutions were
read by Smith, and unanimously adopted:
We, the citizens of New York, in mass meeting
assembled without distinction of party, do hereby
declare and
Resolve, first, that reafIrm the wise patriotic
and statesmanlike platform of principles adopted
by the late liberal republican convention at Cincin-
natl;
Second, that we welcome the hearty acceptance
OF tins platform by the late democratic state con
yention at Rochester;
Third That we recognize in our distinguished
fellow citIzen and friend, Horace Greeley, the true
representative Of the principles of the equality of
all men, ana OF exact Justice TO all; the representa-
tive of principles that must triumph in a genuine
reunion, TO be secured not by bayonets but by mu-
tual regard and the mutual guaranty of reciprocal
rights aud benefits an honest man, the constitu.
uonal foe to the thieves who must be driven from
nailoha US Wen as from municipal authority the
first step 10 real civil service REFORM We pledge
ourselves to win lifelong laborer and associate
OF laborers with whom the rights of workingmpn
will be sure of all needful regard; a public man
whose commanding ability the nation has long
recognized, and leader whose name we welcome
u tHt MulCiiMuTu OI VICTORY.
Fourth, that we recognize in Governor b. Graft
Brown OF Missouri a chiyalrc statesman the whole
of whose public life proves him fit associate for
Horace Greeley in the task of extending to the
whole Union the work so well done in his own
state giving back the power to the people, peace to
the nation, and purity to the government.
Fifth, that we hail the general approval of the
cincinnati platform and ticket and particularly the
enthusiastic support of both throughout the south
as promising to lift our politics out of the danger
Gus ruts of seeiOnalism wherein they have too long
rum and TO bury out OF sight the hates and contro
verses of the war.
Sixth, that we welcome the cooperation of all
parties IN the work of reunion and REFORM to which
tho Cincinnati ticket is dedicated, and to which we
pledge, by an overwhelming majority the vote of
this city and the entire state.
The list of vice presidents includes Erastus
Brooks, Ben. Wood, George Wilkes, John X
Baxter, Moses Grinnell Gideon j Tucker Rich
ard Schel Fred. A. Conkling, Waldo Hutch
ings, Thos. b. Stewart, Hiram +. Clarke, John
MckeOn, I. q. GlanbuSklu, Elbrdge I. Gerry,
Elijah Ward, q. A. Lamont aud hundreds of
others.
Senator Upton of Nebraska was the frs
speaker He said: These are strange times in
which we have fallen. The telegraph informs
US that to-day at noon that great orator, Mr.,
Carpenter OF Wisconsin, appeared on the floor of
the senate to demolish Sumner and Scburz
The speaker went on to denOunce Grants adj
mnstration on the ground that it sought TO
make all men who were republicans before the
war war republicans after the war when slave
ry, the real cause OF the war, had been abolished
Mr.. Upton denounced the course pursued by
the present administration toward the south
and said: We want men at the head of the
government TO represent the living issues of the
day. MIR. Sumner of Massachusetts, the sneak
er said, lives to-day and represents the true SEN
tlments of the republican party
zen fitzpatrick spoke at length, expressing a
belief that the great political parties were dis
sowing, and political lines that had so long sep
aTated honest men were beins sponged out.
Honest democrats and honest republicans arc
standing side by side, and the people are deter
mined to commit the government to new and
pure hands. The election of Horace Greeley
viii break up that close cooperation which as
Sumes TO possess all the political virtues of the
country, beat down the false barrier which as
Sumes to separate loyalty from treason and
bring together men of all sections and parties
destroy that sectional spirit which forces the
passions of war into civil life when war itself is
ended, and bring about a real union of honest
men from the north and the south; when the
| past shall be forgotten and buried
Col. Alexander Mcclure, of PENNSYLVANIA.
on being introduced, was greeted with enthusi-
astlc applause. He said the last great battle of
GU: civil war was about to be fought There were
people who could not understand that the world
IS twelve years older than ii was twelve years ago
ana accept nothing in the line Of advancement,
ana that the war cndedin 1865 and that enemies
are now friends. The paramount duty deyoly-
ing upon the government after a war was to
heal the sears left by discOrd and battle,
Hon Ihos. NJ. Waller, secretary of state of
Connecticut, in brief speech, announced that
the democratic party in his state stands to-day
| on the neutrality-suspicious. platform and there IL
| stood for months before the Cincinnati conyen.
| ton, and there it will remain until Grant and
| his family are defeated, until Greeley and brown
arc elected; and the democrats Of the whole
country, IN his Judgment, were as well disposed
toward TINS liberal movement as the democrat,
| ofConnecticut.
| Robert b. Roosevelt in n brief speech, gave
| the reason why he, as democrat and why 9TH
| er democrats can sustain Greeley, can nominate
him at Baltimore, and help elect him after
wards.
A letter was read from Senator Fcnton, who
says The first need of the nation is an ire
yerslbe settlement of the results of war This
mas been secured by amendments to the cOnsti-
tuition, and approved by legislation in which all
party acquiesce, ,and which are established as ir-
reVocable guarantees.
In this contest there shall never he with nv
consent the sacrifice of a single principle for
winch we have struggled. Republicanisn is nd
herehce TO principle aud not TO man, and we
are none the less republicans because, while
faithfully cherishing principle and unfolding
every safeguard OF the past, we seek to carry
tnclil Forward III reformed, liberalized and elc-
waited administration.
A letter was read from Cassius M. CLAY, ex
pressing regret at inability to be present. and
pcturing a hopeful future in the election of
Greeley.
letter from Montgomery Blair said it was
not till the administration was arraisned Inv
Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, Lyman Trum-
bull, Carl Schurz, Horace White, Murat Hal
stead, Samuel Bowes, and other out and out
republicans, that it was brought to bay.
a telegram was received from b. Gratz Brown
ana letters rom Senator Tr1mbull, Gen. limbo
forth OF New London, e. b. Sedgwick of Syra.