Year: 1863

The NsURRECTIoNARY DEMONSTRATION IN THE
TWENTIETH WARD.-The speech of Chauncey G..
Burr and Its reception at the meeting in the
Twentieth ward on Thursday evening are
calculated to stir up moblike spirit In this
city If Mr.. Burr is not careful he will raise
q storm that will terminate in insurrection and
bloody scenes in this city. When this mob
spirit is once started no person can tell where
it will end or who will be sacrificed by its
vengeance. Whilst Mr.. Burr poured out his in
vective counselled resistance to our national
authorities, and appealed to the beastly pas
sions of the assemblage, he still declared himself
democrat, and would have us understand that
he is one of the leaders. But his speech was
anything but democratic in tone, and shows
great lack of craftsmanship in the leaders Of
the democratic party in this city in allowing
suoh clustering men as Burr to assume to set
themselves up as leaders of the party in Q cri-
BIB like the present.


We're there any statesmen among the leaders
Of Tammany Hall they would have long since
held a public meeting and marked out the
course for the party-the rank and fle-in such
a way as to render the efforts of all such blus-
tering revolutionists as Burr to lead the masses
were men who stood in the front ranks
of that organization whose abilities and moral
worth commanded the respect and admiration
of the public. Their counsels were needed and
their lead on public questions was followed
Not so with the present race. When the Albany
Regency was first organized its leading men
consulted with the principal politicians In this
city, and on all public questions they moved
in unison, and thus in q great measure
determined the action of the democratic
party Of the nation. But now the Re-
gency Is nothing but . jobbing con-
Germ. The party is nothing to them only SO far
as it can be made subservient to their interests.
nor the Regency have any statesman who can
step forth and grapple with the great issues of
the times. They have no one VINO can lay be-
fore the public in an impressive manner the
duties Of the hour. They have no great mind
among them, towering above all Others to
whom the masses of the party look as the
pilot in this, their hour Of danger. TIE con-
sequence Of all this is the masses are left to be
preyed upon by unprincipled and designing
men. Here rests one Of the great dangers OF the
times, and IL renders the speeches of such men
as Burr all the more dangerous.


NAPOLEON THE THIRD ALTERING HIS Policy
II is asserted by La France, Parisian journal
known to be the organ Of the Empress, that the
Emperor Napoleon has directed General Forey,
upon his entry into the city of Mexico, to state
that France would recognize the Southern con-
federacy. This may or may not be true; but
we do not believe that Napoleon will act in the
matter when be hears Of our recent victories
on the Mississippi and over General Lee.


At home Napoleon has greatly altered his
policy. He. has changed his Ministry, turned
out Persigny and Walewski--the first known to
be friend of the secessionists and the other
m advocate Of the Poles-and replaced them
by men unknown to the public. He does this
to satisfy the people In France, who are avcrse
to the warlikc policy which has been encouraged
by the retiring ministers, aud as result Of the
late elections in the empire, which mus. prove
incontestably that the people were determined
to have more intellectual and legislative free
dom.


II is we'll known that his Majesty was alarmed
at tho reports sent to him by the projects Of the
different departments, all Of them announcing
that, with the use Of grea. rcprcssive power,
they had barely succeeded in returning, by
scant majorities, the government candidates,
and expressing great fears as to the results Of
future elections. Napoleon felt the need Of