The Richmond palladium., 1872-04-27
GRAND GATHERING OF RE-
PUBllCANS.


VO0lUVNN0s
Cooper Institute Jammea aad En-
thusiastic Thousands Outside.
New YoaK, April ls.
An immense mass meeting TO irdorse the
the administration of Gen. Grant anl advo-
cate his denomination, was held last night at
Cooper Institute. TIE demonstration has. in
point Of numbers and enthusiasm, but especi-
ally in the social and rept sentative character
Of those composing it, been rarely equalled in
New York.
BY seven o'clock the vast hall of Cooper
Institute was crowded, every seat occupied,
and thousands rem aimed outside. It seem ed
to have been the intention of the palice to
prevent the filing up.of the aisles and un-
comfortably crowding the build ing. This,
however, proved impossible, for after Mr..
Clews had INTRODUCED VIM. E. Dodge, Chair
man Of the meeting. and the procee inss real
ly began, 80 loud and persistent was the
clamor Of the crowd outside to gain admit
tance, that, sec nded as the demand was by
the audience within the building, the police
fell back, and by every entrance to the build
ing hundreds thronged in, and in fsw min
utes it was impossible to find additional
standing room in the building.
The platform was thronged By prominent
citizens of the metropolis, among them being
Thurlow Weed, Peter Cooper, A. T. Stewart,
VIM. Orton, Henry Clews, H. B. ClaHin, VIM.
H. Vanderbilt, Stewart l.. Woodford, c. E.
Detmold, Theo. W. Dwight, E. D. Morgan,
Vim. II. vermilye, s. B. Chittenden, and
Jackson L. Schultz.
Outside Of Cooper Institute, several thou-
sand people, who were unable to obtain ad
mission, organized An enthusiastic meeting in
favor Of Gen. Grant.
SENATOR WILSON'S SPEECH.
After thanking the audience for the very
cordial reception given him. the Senator
briefly referred to the great causes that gave
birth to the Republican party, and to the
convictions of duty that put himself in SYM
pathy and connection Herewith from its Or
ganization up to the pres ent hour. He de-
clared that he had never, by word or act
striven to drive any man out of the great
party, and said he would rather 20 on his
knees to any one who proposed to leave, and
ask him to pause, come back. and stand with
US and fight the battle of this year, and 90 on
with US in the triumph of the future, ZAP
plause.
He then drew parallel between tbe pres
ent time and tfe campaign of 1864, when wise
men wrote letters up as late as the second
day OF September Of that year, wishing Ia
get Mr.. Lincoln out, and have q new candi.
date, because they said he could not be cleo
ted.
Tremendous applause greeted every refer
ence Of the speaker to the name Of Lincoln.
Senator Wilson began ais remarks about
the meeting Of last week by saying:
"Gentlemeu, there was meeting here The
other night. do not propose to say any
thing unkind of the men engaged in 1t. dc
not come here to initiate their example, 10 ut
ter reproachful words OF cid con,r ades, OF
utter words Of condemnation Of the part
with which have acted, and whose measure.
have sustained but, gentlemen want t.
notice kindly few Of those remarks"
He then went into lengthy review of tn,
statements at that meeting, tevotiRg himsel
especially to scathing and sarcastic expo
sure OF the f.ilaeies advanced by Sens to-
Trumbu!l on the occasion referred to. Hi,
exposure of TIumbul's disine epuous state
ments and glarin: errors was fall Of point
and ELECTED frequent and hearty signs of ap
| prcba ion from the vast audiance.
| Senator Trumbull, he said. told you abou
the encroachiDg assumptions Of those il
power. am no lawyer-Trumbull is. H.
is the supporter of civil rights bill whicl
went further than any other measure VI
passed, and be comes here and reproaches u
for eucroachiug and arbitrary power, becaus
! we followed the Chrirman of the Oemmi.te
| on Judc iary.
| Mr.. Wilson continued at length, denounc
ing corruption of ali kinds, and said Grant,
administration had tried and convicted NOR
thieves than all the administrations of thi
Cor .rnmect from 1889 down.
Mr.. Wilson concluded as follows:
"If there is . combination at Cincinnati
| (and don't care on whom they make i the,
will take more Democratic votes tran the,
| will take Republican votes. The nominees
of the Philadelphia Convention will be elected
[Applause.] I make that prediction here TO-
night, and say to every man in Americ;
that my voice may reach through the press
| Join hands and let each one OF us do ou
whole daty /; let cs te firm as the eterna
bills, and let US be kind, conciiiatory, AM
treat our erring friends as erring friends, un
til after they choose to take farewell Of Vi
and go away, and then, gentlemen, they viii
be wher. men who have deserted for the las
twelve years have put themselves out Q
power, out of the ccntrol Of affiirs-ant
proved false and recreant to their cwnselves.
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