Year: 1862

Great RatIfication Meeting In New York


One Of tie most enthusiastic meetings ever
assembled in New York, took place in the
Cooper Institute last week, for the purpose of
ratifyipg the nominations of the Union War
Ticket and responding to the Emancipation
Proclamation of the President


Wm. Curtis Noyes, was President of the
Meeting. Upon taking the chair the President
made an excellent speech, in the course of which
he sadt


II beg you all 10 remember that this is
not q party meeting in the sense of its be-
ing n meeting of the Democratic party, the
Union party, or of the Republican party.
1t is a meeting Of genuine, earnest, positive
friends Of the cOuntry--of men earnestly
and honestly loyal, men who know no ny.
pocriSy in the expression Of their loyalty
10 their country, who do not say one thing
and mean another thing, who will not be,
day. honest before the election and traitors
afterward When the Democratic party
was broken in fragments at Charleston by
a band of traitors and conspirators, it crys-
ia IiZed into three classes, which | would
describe as good worse, and worst. And
] will reverse the order of the comparison.
The "worSt" are the traitors and oonspira.
tors composing the entire Democratic party
at the South, as a general thing now in the
army against the country, headed by their
candidate for President, who is engaged iu
sIaughterng some Of the men who voted for
him, and denonncing many and many thou
sands who voted for him. That is the first
class-the worst The next class the
''worse"-are those who, ever since the
bombardment of Fort Sumter ever since
that beIengucred garrison was assailed and
attempted to be murdered, have been cold,
indifferent, doubling our success, taking no
share in the patriotic excitement which pre-
vailed year ago last April, taking no
pains to stimulate the energies of The coun,
try to great activity in the struggle which
was upon us, aud recently cryStallizing in a
| party opposed to the Administration, op-
posed to the war in substance, and ready
TO snbmit, or do anything to get favor with
the Rebels and the party with which they
are affiliated: not, indeed that they are
| f"''N'S > w uOh tHHlSe uHJ HuSu 'HlHS
as that, but say that they are in sympathy
with traitors. and are willing to submit to
their demands, aud that some of them
their ieaders-would give them a blank
sheet of paper upon which to write such
terms as they might see fit to prescribe
! will furnish you a single evidence. The
leader of that party in the city of New
York is he who, 10 the Winter of 1861,
desired to send arms to the South with
which the Rebels could fight their North
ern neighhors. Many of those who aGfli-
ate with the class of which | have spoken,
do so in the integrity of their hearts, no
doubt; but they are mistaken. The designs
of the leaders are base and disloyal and
they wish nothing more than the prostra-
tion of the North and the triumph of the
South. And now come with great pleas.
ure to the "good" class Their represen-
tatives are here. Their representatives are
all over the country in those good and 10y.
al Democrats who, ns early as tie oath OF
April, allied themselves with the Union
men of the North. and have known no fall


tering from that day to this Cloud ap
plausel My wcrd for it they will never
falter.h