The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-04
GREELEY AND BROWN.
Ratification Meeting Last Evening in
New York.
An Immense Affair.

An Immense Affair.
New YORK, June "a mass meeting
to ratliy the Cincinnati nominations, was
held tonight at Cooper Institute. ltwas
an immense affair. The hall was Allied,
ana outside meetings organized, and ad.
dressed from stands erected in the square.
zen. John Cochrane was nominated az
chairman Of the inside meeting. On the
platform were Col. ]. r, Fellows, J,H,
hydars, eX.Eecorder Jas. N. Smith, and
Others. Mr.. Cochran In the opening
made a speech, when the following reso.
lutions were read by Mr.. Smith, and
unanimously adopted.
We, citizens Of New York In mass
meeting assembled, without distinction Of
party, do hereby declare and resolve:
1st. That we affirm the wise, patriotic
and statesmanlike platform Of principles
adopted by the late Liberal Republican
Convention at Cincinnati.
I'd. That we welcome the hearty &C.
ceptance Of this platform by the late
Democratic State Convention at Roches.
ter.
A3d. That We recognize in our distin.
guished fellow citizen and friend, Horace
Greeley, the true representative of the
principles oi equality Of all men and Of
exact justice to all men; the true repre-.
sentative Of principles that must triumph
In the genuine reunion 10 be secured, not
by bayonets, but by mutual regard and
mutual guarantee Of reciprocal rights and
benefits; an honest man, the constant foe
to thieves who must be dropped from
national as well as municipal authority as
the first step to real civil service reform;
q lifelong laborer and associate of labor.
ers, with whom the rights Of workingmen
will be sure Of all needful regard; q public
man whose commanding ability the ma.
ton has long recognized, and a man
whose name we welcome as the watch.
word Of victory.
4th. Thatwe recognize In Governor B.
Gratz Brown OF Missouri chivalrIc
statesman, whose whole public life shows
him fit associate for Horace Greeley, In
tho task extended 10 whom we can see
well done in his own State, giving back
power to the people, peace to the nation
aud purity to the government
9th. 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 dangerous
grooves of ofsectionalism wherein they have
long run, and to bury out OF sight the
hates and controversies of the war.
9th. That we welcome the cooperation
Of all parties in the work Of reunion and
reform 10 which the Cincinnati ticket is
dedicated, and to which we pledge, by
an overwhelming majority, the vote Of
this city and Empire State.
The list Of Vice Presidents includes
Erastus Brooks, Ben Wood, Geo. Wilkes,
John d. Porter, Moses q. Grinnell, Gid
con j. Tucker, Richard s. Schell, Fred.
B. Conkling, Waldo Rutchings, Thos. E.
Stewart Horace E. Clarke, John Nc.
Mean, 7. G. Glanbensker, Eldridge T.
Gerry, Elijah Wood, Q. A. Lamont and
hundreds of others.
Senator Upton, Of Nebraska was the
first speaker. He said these are strange
times on which we have fallen. The tele.
graph informs us that to-day at noon the
great orator Mr.. Carpenter, Of Wisconsin
appeared on the floor Of the United States
Senate to demolish Sumner and Schurz.
The speaker went on to denounce Grants
administration on the ground that 1t ought
to make oil men who were war Repuhli.
cans before the war, war Republicans
after the war, when slavery, the real cause
of the war had been abolished. Mr.. Tip.
ton denounced the course pursued by the
present administration towards the South,
andsaid we want men at the head of the
government to represent the living issues
Of the day.
Col. Alexander Mcclure, of PennsylYa-
mia, on being introduced, was greeted
with enthusiasm. he said the last great
battle Of our~civil war was about to be
fought. The paramount duty deVolving
on the government alter the war was 10
heal the scars left by discord and battle
as the earnest wish Of the people-to re-
store the distracted and bleeding country
to fraternity and prosperity. The speaker
claimed that this grand object had not
been obtained, mainly in consequence Of
the incapacity OF the members Of the
Cabinet, who had been, instead of states
men, merely gift.bearers and flatterers of
the government. He asserted that in
competent rascalIty and shame had been
the result oil unblushing despotism and
disappointment Of unscrupulous men. Col
Mcclure urged that the supreme danger
Of threatening the people was for the
purpose oil the administration to enforce
an unmixed personal or centralized gov
ernment. He thought the amnesty
should be universal and the civil author
ity supreme in every State OF the Union.
General Fitzpatrick spoke at length,
expressing the belief that the political
parties were dissolving, and the political
line that so long separated honest men
were being sponged out, and honest
Democrats and honest Republicans are
standing side by side, and the people are
determined to commit the government to
new and pure hands.
The election OF Horace Greeley will
break that close corporation which as.
sumes 10 possess all the political virtue
of the country, clear down to the false
barrier which assumes to separate loyalty
from treason, and bring together men Of
all sections and parties, destroy that sec.
tional spirit which forces the possessions
of war into civil life when the war itsell
was ended, and bring about the real un.
ion OF the honest men from the North and
South when the past shall be forgotten
and buried. Robt. B. Roseyelts speech
In short gave reasons why he as a Demo
CrAt. and WhV nthefR auatainad Graalav