New-York tribune., 1872-05-24
THE ELEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT.

AN ENTHUSIASTIC RATIFICATION MEETING
SPEECHES BY J. A. GILMORE, COL. FAIR
MAN, AND JOHN B. HAsKIN.
The XIth Assembly District Greeley and
Brown Club held a ratification meeting at Milliman's
Hail. in Seven :h-ave last evening The filed,
every seat being occupied by audience attentive and
enthusiastic The meeting called to order by the
President, John A. Gilmore, who said:
FELLOW CITIZENS In accordance with wise provi-
sion OF the Constitution the people are about to elect
designated for that high Office the veteran statesman
Horace Greeley. IApplause.l Remembering his great
services the OF universal liberty and recalling
gratefully his eloquent advocacy Of the oppressed of all
nations We feel called npon in special manner to ex,
press our satisfaction with the action of the Cincinnati
Convention both to candidates and platform. In him
support the friend of the people the practical phan
His advent power viii revive the glorious days OF the
Republic nGe and ad the bss 81 SdT TTa ea
greatness. Prescription viii cease nepotism VIII be
aohofTsa @ ana an ali cSs5s Will be respeneI G naoBa
credit advanced and useless expenditures arrested In
view of the great benefits which will thus be secured 10
the Republic, and in which every viii share and in
order give expression to the desire which ought to
animate us nviteal enroll for The great of
rebuilding the Republic. lApplause.I
Resolutions indOrsng the Cincinnati platform and
candidates were then read and UNANIMOUSLY adopted
follows
Whereas The time has come for a union OF all true
Citizens to unite against corruption ana maadmnitlra,
ton in high places in our National Government and
believing thai this necessity was tly met ahu carried
out AT Cincinnati in the mountainous ana platform
adopted by the Reform element OF our country there
represented therefore, . .,.. A., 49,. ,
platform adopted at the Cincinnati convention as III
harmony with broad, ibera and advanced statesman
shin and eminently meeting the demand for Reform In
the National Administration which is the oVersladow
ing question OF the hour.
Resolped That the nominations OF Horace Greeley for
President and b. Gratz Brown for VcePresident are
cordially ratified by the citizens of the Xlth Assembly
District The history OF ther past vGs is sueieht s
people, and their eminent ability ana purity OF char
acter renders them worthy OF the enre commence OF
Rfso5ed, That we pledge ourselves to labor faithfully
from now ill November next when trust 10 rejoice
in the victory of noble standard,bearers ana that
we invite fellowcitizens, irrespective o lOlner az
fhatiOn, to cooperate Win Us III "'SnA'n' % '"'9
object.
Col, Fajrman was then introduced and said he had
spported the Republican party in the forum and on the
field PARTIES he continued only OF use as the or
oapized way of working out certain principles. The
issues OF the War Of the Rebellion constituted the basis
OF the Republican party until that war was ended AT
the last election for President the issues wereFt
sbau the national debt be paid he repudlaed Sec
0nd Should there be reconstructlOn or the various
state Governments in such way as to leave beyond
question s forme5 nndeT the acts Of reconsrcon
and Third: The recognition OF the services OF tnose
Who served under the Tag Of the Union. claim that
these issues are settled lApplause] do not claim
that the Republican party ought TO dissolve Decalse %
advanced ground In view OF the necessities OF the coun
try this time. The Republican party instead OF 1e
oeice holding machine Applause and hisses.l Within
the last three weeks they have Illuminated within TINS
the doctrine that the lines drawn during tne W9r
should be drawn still That declaration Is, opinion
one of the most Infamous and dangerous ever proposed
lGTeat applause.l ready 10 JON Iads across tno
bloody chasIn which has divided US lApplause.l No
doubt though the Grant party will copy our platform
In many things they will strive 70 keep open That chnsn
for their purposes act has been passed hereto
fore by Congress enabling the President TO suspend the
writ Of habeas corpus In OF peace ana h act h az
the present time nothing but an invitation 10 Doousneu
and feud. lApplausel II Is my deliberate conviction
that the hand which guides the destinies OF ths keu
lie Will give us at the the randest triumph
In IL history By the election Of Horace Greeley OIeat
applause.I
SPEECH OF JOHN Is. HAsKIN.
John Haskn, the next speaker, said. in the course
OF his address live Ia Westcheser County where that
honest good man Horace Greeley lives. lAppause and
oheers.l ! Independent Democrat, and think
every ouee Democrat vote ior him.