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The Steto-Bork Times, Cleonesday, October 8, 1868. BROOKLYN BACKS THE PRESIDENT A Glorious Meeting at the Academy of Music. Cassius M. Clay and H. B.

Stanton on the Emancipation Proclamation. are The Union Before Slavery---No Compremise with Rebellion. We Must Conquer the South or Perish in the Attempt. Seymour and his friends. the Allies of the, Rebels.

OUTSIDE MEETING. From pit to dome, in aisles, in lobbies, in pri: vale boxes, on the stay peering in at all the doors: standing in all contig places where the proceed. Inge could be heard, the crowded and brilliant at the demy of Music in Brooklyn, last evening, testifed the thorough loyalty of our sister city, as well as its appreciation of the necessity for sustainina the 'President and the Government in this bour of trial. The audience comprised representatives of the wealth, the intelligence and the beauty of the City of Churches, rarely gathered within this walls of one building. The arrangements by the Committee could in no why have been bettered.

Messrs. GRISWOLD and the active members of the Banner Cinb, under whose auspices the demonstration was gotten up deserve credit for it all. To Mr. EDWARD A. WIER the courteous janitor of the Academy, the thanks of the reporters are especially due for the superior facilities afforded them while to one of the otherwise inactive who officiously to interfere with them while in the discharge of their daties, we would suggest the careful study of a little treatise, entitled How to be a Gentleman." The invitation calling them together was couched in the following terms: Hon.

CABBIES M. CLAY on the President's ProcJamation of Freedom, at the Academy of Music, great Union Mass Meeting of the citizens of Brooklyn will be held at the Academy of Music, Tuesday evening, Oct. 7, at o'clock, under the auspices of the Banner Republican of the City of Brooklyn, to indorse the President's Proclamation of liberty, Gen. CASSIUS M. CLAY and Hon.

HENRY B. STANTON will address the meeting. Dodworth's Band will be in attendance." Promptly at the hour appointed the vast assemblage WAS nominally called to order- nominally, because the best of order already prevailed -by Ex-Mayor E. A. LAMBERT, who nominated for Presiding Officer Gen.

H. B. DUEYEA. Gen. DURYEA was unanimously elected and took his seat.

Mr. LAMVERT then nominated the foliowing officers, most of whom were already upon the platform, and who were unanimously chosen. -S. B. Chittenden, Edward Lambert, A.

A. Low, Jas. S. T. Stranahan, Luther B.

Wyman; George Hall, Jesse C. Smith, Smith J. Eastman, John Winslow, Geo. B. Lincoln, Rufus R.

Graves, Wm. Wall, Richard 8. Willams, Theodore L. Cuyler, George G. Reynolds, Dr.

John H. Raymond, John J. Merritt, Rev. Rufus W. Clark, D.

Hon. James Humphrey. Rev. R. M.

Hatfield, Walter Griffith, Peter G. Taylor, Sami. E. Belcher, Gordon L. Ford, C.

W. Goddard, Win. P. Libby, Henry C. Bowen, A.

B. Hance, Geo. J. Bennett, M. Alden Spooner, Edmund T.

H. Gibson, Chas. Thurber, L. B. Benedict, Alex.

M. White, Theo, Tilton, Granville 'S. Jenks. Secretaries. -Wm.

M. Thomas, W. C. Benedict, M. Stearne, Nathan Comstock, Ray W.

Potter, D. 0. Bradley, Joseph Howard, Rufus R. Belknap, Geo. H.

Roberts, Elias Lewis, P. W. H. M. Cleaveland, T.

G. Shearman, Roger Conant, A. S. Haden, Nelson Sizer, R. F.

Howes, E. B. Jr. The Chairman, Gen. DURYA, then said citizens: We have been waiting somewhat beyond the time allotted, because we desired to announce to you the presence actually of Mr.

CLAY. That presence is now secured. But, as this meeting has been called for the purpose of SUBtaining the policy of the President, especially to have the reasons for that policy set forth so as to produce an intelligent conviction in behalf of that clamation, it is the desire of those who have called you together here, that certain resoIntions shall be propounded, upon which Mr. CLAy may address you. These resolutions will now be read by Prof.

Roar. R. RAYMOND. Prof. RAYMOND then read, in clear and distinct tones, the following resolutions, which had been prepared by the young men of the THE RESOLUTIONS.

Whereas, This nation is now. struggling for Its life against a wanton, wicked, and desperate rebellion and, Whereas, The President of the United States, in the exercise of the authority vested in him by the laws of war, recognized by the Constitution of the United States, has judged it necessary, in order to crush this rebellion, fo strike down its cause and main support- Slavery therefore, That independently of our own convictions as to the expediency or necessity of this measure, we hold it to be the duty of every loyal citizen to sustain the Government in the course which it has decided to adopt, and from which it could not now recede, without covering itself with infamy, and drawing down the scorn of the whold civilized world. (Great applause.) That we are, moreover, fully convinced of the constitutionality, justice and expediency of the President's Proclamation of Emancipation believing that Slavery, by the haughtiness which it creates among the rich, and the ignorance which it perpetuates among the poor, is the direct source essential life of the present infamous rebellion and that the decisive day has arrived, in which the American Union -must become all slaves or all free." applause.J Resolved, That for these reasons we give to the decree of Emancipation no reluctant support, but joyful, earnest, and enthusiastic welcome; pledging ourselves to sustain it by our prayers, our words, our property and our lives. Resolved, That while as loyal citizens we will suetain the Government in its course, even where distasteful to us, we appeal to it with respectful, but heartfelt earnestness, to consider whether this is time to exclude from service in the feld officers of questionable ability, who are known to sympathise with the policy to which the nation is now committed. (Applause.) Resolved, That we have heard with the deepest emotions of gratitude of the offer of that illustrious patriot, GARIBALDI, (applause, and his brave ions, to aid in our struggle for liberty and nationalsty that we implore our Government to accept and honor every one of these noble volunteers, and that their generous sympathy makes us feel, more earnestly than ever, that the freedom of the world is involved in the result of the war for freedom in Amerdca.

(Great applause.) SPEECH OF GEN, DURYEA. Gen. Duassa then addressed the audience as follows Undoubtedly that proclamation constitutes grand important feature of the war. Not only hat, but it determines the Importance of its results. The fate of the nation hangs on this momentous measure.

Upon it hangs this striking of the heartpulse of the people. Now this proclamation- most important since the appearance of the nation's Declaration of Independence comes before as with great hesitation on the part of the President. Applause.) Only month since the President of the Vaited States not prepared to do the act which he has since done, There which millions you have ratified. were of sympathizing friends who called in question the act- the momentous act which strikes so deep as to obliterate mighty interests, and to extingush a great institution which has sunk thus deep ie the soli of this country, and eaten up in great part the vitals of this land. Therefore the hesitation.

1 hether it will aid the Union, was the question with the President. He besitated in order to hear the opinions of the loyal men of the South to know what they would say upon the question. It gives me pleasure to introduce to you one of those loyal men, in the person of the loyal son of Kentucky. (Applause) That great name of CLaY has received new -and peculiar lustre in the person who now appears as the representative of his great namesake in this nation. I have the pleasure to introduce him to you, and he will give those great mighty reasons which touch the very heart of the nadon.

(Applause.) The reception of Mr. CLAY was most inspiring. The wowing of hats and handkerchiefs, together with long, loud and lusty cheering, combined to extend a most faltering welcome. SPEECH OF HON. CASSIUS M.

CLAY. Mr. CLay commenced by developing, in eloquent Veras, the great phyalcal, intellectual and moral law afecting the unity of antions, and proceeded to that Slavery violated every of the Ten Commandments. Let them take Constitution read it through, and they would not And the word slave or Slavery la it for who kept a diary of the Convention of 1780, that formed the Constitution, when the word Slavery introduced in the rough draft, proposed to strike it out upon the broad principle- although he was slaveholder, and representing slaveholding interests- man had no right of property in man. Applause.) Add this sentiment was reiterated by ROGER SHERMAN, from the North.

The speaker admitted that our fathers were the protectors and guardians of the institution of Slavery, but no further, in order then to mete that unity and perfect eneprotect themselves against foreign were threatening. They this departure the pies of morality from the great that came home to conscien of every unsullied breast in every the world. What is the portion Go and ask result widowed mother, the weeping sister, the desolate wife! See the broken hearthstone' see the money that flows and will flow out the chests of those who thought they were taking a good thing of iniquity, and see whether the right is not always expedient, and that both nations as well as men, when they depart from those great and eternal laws, must sooner or later reap the consequences. (Cheers 3 The wise men of those days saw very well where the danger of this institution lay in its tendency to concentrate power. Mr.

STANTON continued to speak of the evil of Slavery, and said that he loved republicanism, believing that it was the best form of Gousrnment and in which Deity inrended at last to merge all the nationalities of the world, he felt that it was his duty to cry aloud and spare not, to stand against an institution at whatever cost which threatened those institutions which were everything to him, and without which life was no longer worth possessing. (Applause.) Well, what men had seen a priori, experience and war had carved out into fact, so that the most stupid and inconsiderate might read. There was talk now of storing the Union as it was -that being the cant phrase now-a-days. I will astonish you by saying, said Mr. CLAY, that there never has been any, substantial and real Union: for from the very beginning of the debate upon the subject of forming common government, up to the present day, there has been an eternal war of ideas, which my distinguished friend Mr.

SEWARD calls an irrepressible conflict." What was true then is true to-day. Men may change, but principles never. The speaker then enumerated the gradual steps which the Slave Power took to get control of the Government, and said that when the South was defeated in attempting to crush out liberty in Kansas, they, with that of power which had always characterized despotism, did not give up their scheme of aggrandizement and dominion upon the issue of a single battle. They had appealed from the ballot-box to the cartridge-box, at which time he (Mr. CLay) knew very well that that was not to be the last contest by arms, with regard to who should rule the country- -the freeman or the despot.

He asserted in his speeches LO them, without hesitation, that if ABRAHAM LINCOLN, whose election to the Presidency he advocated, was made President, that we would have a war with the slaveholding States. We had now gone to the battlefield and presented a spectacle such as the world had never before seen, of more than million of men of one nationality in arms, voluntarily offering all that they held sacred for the defence of the Republic. And yet, after eighteen months' struggle with all the superiority of number, mechanical contrivances, of accumulated wealth and of superior education, we found our lines of offence driven back further than when he set sail from these shores in May, 1861, to plead the cause of the Republic before foreign nations. Nor am I to be told, said Mr. CLAY, that there are any human considerations either of philanthropy, of fraternal ties, of blood, of religion, of principle, of morality, or of common prudence that calls upon any longer to forbear against these men, who, though again and again warned and treated with a forbearance such as history never before presented, are still determined to destroy our national life! say no, and that the time has come when nation standing in self-defence by that eternal law which all mankind in all ages of the world have acknowledged must say to the South either you must go down or we must go down- applause, -when we must use all the power that God and nature has put into our hands to protect our nationality or perish.

The President of the United States is rather singularly crganized in some respects, rather slow to come to conclusions; a man who weighs all sides and who listens to all men, but whose instincts are and have always been in the main in the true direction a man in whom I may say I have, by a deeper sentiment than that of political association, forever put my trust, because he was schooled in that hard discipline of adversity and poverty, and who was a living exemplar of what. republicanism could do for man. It would have been a betrayal of all right calculations, of all logical conclusions from premises to sequences, If ABRAHAM LINCOLN had not proved true to the instincts of humanity and at last come out with the great Proclamation, which the cause of our assembling here. He does not do it irreverently, not in denunciation, not in profane language of defiance and threat of the most malevolent intensity, but after long deliberation, and as he told the great gathering that serenaded him in Washington, prayerfully trusting to. God that he was right and that it would do good and not harm.

What is it That on the 1st of January, 1863, this cause of our woe will cease to exist in all the States or parts of the States that may then be in open rebellion against the Republic. Though not a devout man, 1 say Amen from the bottom of my heart. Of course, if there is right in the world, if morality is not a sham and humbug. If there is an All-wise and benevolent God who controls this little sphere and the myriad of spheres beyond which the human imagination can reach, ABRAHAM LINCOLN is right and God is with us. It might seem selfish in me on an occasion of so much magnitude as this to refer to my own experience, but the imagination will steal back to that time when I stood entirely alone in the defence of these same principles, threatened again and again, and actually met by enraged and overbearing mobs, the most terrible of all exhibitions of human power, when 1 had nothing to rely upon, when po friend and no physical power was sufficient for the unequal contest.

Then it was that I advocated those great principles which a pious and much loved mother, who still lives and who, she says, hopes to see this rebellion put down and the Union restored. cheers.) I asked myself can it be possible that all these people can be influenced by blind passion and implacable rage, standing united. I considered the matter, and, after mature deliberation, 1 came to the conclusion that I was right, and, based upon that eternal basis, I have, from that day to this, contended for those principles which I trust I may yet live to see carried out, when Slavery shall perish, and its existence shall be no longer known except by tradition; when this people shall be one indeed, because it shall be free. Mr. CLAY then proceeded to consider and answer the objections that were urged against the Proclamation, upon which thousands and perhaps millions had not come to a conclusion.

Some persons said that there was no need of a proclamation, because the end could be accomplisned just as well without as with it. It was brutum fulmen, an impotent decree, which could not be carried into execution until the army, by the force of powder and ball, had advanced over the slave territory, and then of course it was tree. He (the speaker) inquired, so far as experience was concerned, was that true It had been said for long months, that wherever the National standard went Slavery fell, but that was not true, for men in high civil and military power were studiously protecting, instead of overthrowing, the institution of Slavery, which was the cause of the rebellion. He was told by a distinguished man, who, in a semi-offcial capacity, counseled the President of the United States what to do in the premises, that there was in the jail at Louisville a man of mixed color, who had in North Carolina taken wounded officer, and cared for him, declaring that he willing to fight with his OWn strong for the liberty he so much man thrown into jail, and, I imagine, still lies there, under the false and absurd idea, that wherever the standard of the United States went, there the shackles of the slave falls from his limbs of necessity, and is restored to freedom to be returnad to his rebel master. of Shame, shame and voice "Give the name of the rebel Mr.

CLAY--The Military Governor there was Gen. BOYLE. voice, Let us spot No, you must go higher than that for responsibility. The speaker mentioned the tact of 1,500 men at HampeR's Ferry, who sought the shelter of the American flag, which claimed to strike down Slavery and establish freedom, returned to Slavery without the pretence of securing them from the barbarities, to which they knew they would be subjected to, by their quandom masters, when they reached the land of bondage, I say that it is altogether delusive to suppose that liberty is to be established upon this continent, when the President of the United States, and the people of the United States, have not got courage enough to say all men shall be free. Now I say do not spot Gen.

but sport the President of the United States: spot the heads of the Departments, spot the military agents, spot those who would have the Union as it for curse of unborn millions will be upon you if you do not stand by the proclamation, and say these men shall be free." That's it," and great 1 confess that, as a military measure, I never placed any very great importance upon proclamation of this kind but this I do say, (and know 1 speak the truth,) that, looking to the men who are most interested 5 this matter- the men who are quiet and gentle a summer cloud, mute the gentle cooing of the turtle dove under your atrinistration of the principles of making the South free of the fact wherever the lag went the chains the fell off, how de they receive this Prociamation Do they consider it a thing of the importance throwing or of not of all Look at the to curses, decency the and sage, rights of hivaanity, and the of the opinions of mankind everywhere look at the South where this Proclamation itse they consider it brutum a useless thing or no. The was told by would have the Union that the anconHave these men at last gos ence for that sacred instrument? (Laughter and They were the allies of the South, for we had the best men of the Democratic Party on our side. (Renewed applause.) These servile tools of a despotic power had claimed -that the Constitution bad been overthrown by the Government, and violated in all the instances in which the South have violated it by this rebellion, adel they had become conscientious about the Consti tutios all. at once. Our fathers who formed this Goven ment did not Carolina speak of the independent sovereignty of the South language of or of WASHINGTON, Virginia, as a but sacred they made if, in liberty to themselves and their palladiom in posterity strain to show how nroforever." The an eloquent visions of the Constitution rebels in violatea the every respect.

They nau with the liberty of speech freedom of the Press. The; seized our arms, robbed our Treasury, disper: ou our navies, scattered our armies, killed our men, dishonored our fag, and violated not only the Constitution of the United States, but all the principles of justice and humanity, endangering the Me of the Republic. Where, men then, who are your and that tender set of say the Constitution has been violated? I say United that every act of the President of the States in respect to these men in rebellion le according to the letter and the spirit of the United States Constitution. The habeas corpus act has been suspended. What does the Constitution of the United States say about that? It says that the habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless in times of rebellion.

Where are you who out for the Union as it was 1 Is there no are rebellion crying I know that your techmical those who are paid to make lawyers, the worse appear the better cause, will harp idea that Congress must first pass an act President to suspend the habeas corupon the the absence of all their assertions upon that authorizing the pus, I man that is within hearbut in subject, ask every sensible ing of my voice, why was the habeas corpus ever Gor- proposed to be suspended Was it because that the before ernment might be overthrown and destroyed could the ordinary appliances and means of self-defence be brought into action 1 lay it down as a broad and incontrovertible principle that the President has the power to. suspend the writ, and if there are precedents wanting then make this an antecedent forever against all rebellion. I have al. ways contended for the broadest constitutional principles of self-defence, but so far as finding fault with Mr. LINOOLN for suspending the habeas corpus wita his pen, he should have done so by rope upon these scoundrels.

If such men AS SEYMOUR and WooD were it would save millions of lives of honest Democrats. so, and great That would be true philanthrophy. It was said that the Constitution was violated by taking the slaves of rebels by proclamation or otherwise. Look at that point for a moment. We had been told by these knowing Democrats that a lie was just good the truth, if it was consistent by and pertinaciously stuck to.

When these rebels marched upon the Capital of the people of the United States to take the life of loyal men who went to it, no cry was beard from these hypocrites that the Constitution was violated. And when thousands of good, generous and brave men fell on the battle-field, there was no cry by these men that the Constitutitution was violated. Nor did we hear any complaints about the violation of the Constitution when the rebels began to confiscate the property of the loyal people, and to sacrifice life and liberty. The acute logicians of this school -contend that the clothes should be stripped from the backs of the women and children, and men should be put in prison, but Slavery must not be touched. With reference to the Democratic bugbear that emancipated black labor would interfere with the white labor of the North, Mr.

CLAY said Germans, Irishmen, Frenchmen, why are you here at all It is because you here find a Government based upon the broad principle of liberty to all humanity. Show me the man who would to-day press a man on account of his color, and I will show you a man who will, should it meet his ends, oppress you to-morrow. But it is not true that this interference with your labor will take place in consequence of emancipation. Look at history. Again and again the white races of the North have invaded the South, and have been ultimately driven back by the inevitable laws of climate, Emancipation will, in fact, but concentrate black labor in the South.

What is the next objection to the prociamation That the South will possibly stand in danger of a servile insurrection. To that I answer that the South has debased, degraded, kept in ignorance, oppressed and brutalized the slaves done all that it could do to extinguish every spark of humanity, ignored the rights of liberty and property, disregarded the marriage tie, and in short in every way done all that it could to make savages of the slaves, and now shrinks from the consequences of its own act at a time when it is undertaking to build up an empire in rebellion to the best Government that ever existed on earth. They must take the consequences of their own crime. applause.) It is their fault if they find that Slavery's strength is weakness, its joys sorrows, and its end dissolution land death. Applause.) waiters upon Providence.

Men who ignore the instrumentalities of the Dety in fulfilling his purpose on earth, where are you now Are you still waiting for the sign like the wise men of Judea I tell you that lie, however well bolstered up, shall die. Justice must triumph in the land. Men of the South do you still refuse? The President gives you ninety days three months--to consider--to return from your idols to the worship of the living God. Is it true that the horrors of insurrection threaten you So much the more reason for you to avert them by laying down your arms and returning to your allegiance. (Applause.) Do you refure to do that Then send your wives and children to England your ally, or to Canada, and take the consequences of your own act.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN gives you ninety days in which to do it. Is not that enough? What say you friends of the Union as it was? How much more time do you want Perhaps we will give it to you. Well, we have heard a about foreign intervention. How is this proclamation affected in that respect? 1 confess that I have had precious little confidence in England--that is in the aristocracy and ruling classes of England. England has denounced Slavery, in to season and her out of season.

when We had she expect support found us battling with Slavery for the life of the nation. Did she give it No. When CHARLE8 FRANCIS ADAMS, our Minister to England, landed the very next day, before he had an opportunity to confer with the Government, to impart to them the position of affairs here, the Queen's Proclamation of Neutrality was made. It was a direct insult to 116, an aid to the rebellion and a cause for war. Earl said in Parliament, substantially, that England had done all that she could for the South except giving the actual aid of her armies and navy.

Whether we are for Slavery or against Slavery, England is against us. She feared our growing power- she, from selfish motivns, favored the disintegration of the Republic she wished to take away the argument that BRIGHT and COBDEN had in favor bf universal suffrage. The Government denied for a time that it had received any intimation of the surrender of and SLIDELL. because it intended to make that an excuse for armed interference. The government of England's sympathy is against us, whether we are for or against the proclamation.

But, we have the sympathy of the people the laboring people. They see that our battle is their battle. The proclamation will reach them. It will reach Ireland and Scotland too. I have always believed that the sympathies of the French with people are with us, and still believe that they are us, and that their.

flag. as against England, will float side by side with the Stars and Stripes. My opinion is, that in spite of the doings in Mexico, Louis NAPOLEON means to stand by the United States. LApplause.) How about Russia? Surely, a nation that liberates twenty millions of serfs will sympathize with the President's Emancipation Proclamation. The Emperor ALEXANDER has himself told me- Be sure, that you will always find me true to the United States of America.

So that, at home or abroad, there is no fear that the Proclamation of ABRAHAM LINCOLN will do us harm. "The Union as it was," is the cant cry now. The Union as it was it to me? The scars upon my body testify that it made me a slave. They testify that where Slavery is, there can be no true liberty. (Applause.) What would the Union as it was, when restored, be, with such men as HAMILTON, of Texas, JOHNSON, myself and others gone forever? If the Union is allowed to live with Slavery in it, it will never see a dirided South again.

There will be united despotism there. No; not the Union as it was, but the Union our fathers intended it should be. applause.) Let us remember the words of that illustrious patriot, who, when he refused to put the word Slavery in the Constitation, said, When this institution shall cease to exist, then let the memory of it also be forever perished upon our records. There is but one basis of Union, and that Is the basis of liberty. Let us see to it that wnen these 33,000,000 people shall have become 100,000,000, we shall present to the world a free Republic, with Libarty and Union, now and forever, one and tApplause, during which Mr.

CLaY resumed his The Chair then announced that Mr. H. B. STANhad been speaking outside, but would address a few words to them. Mr.

STANtoN advanced to the foot of the stage, hat in hand- said he was tired, and the audience was tired, and he would not make a speech. of 1 Go He had been speaking outside, and found about seventeen hundred and fifty -going Proclamation war-men. and applause. He had given them some plain talk, and they had had quite lively time. He had many speeches would to make, and, in the language of him of old, he say, I pray thee have me excused.

plause.J the The Chair, after taking of the question, and securing unanimous approval the house upon the resolutions submitted by Prof. declared the ally meeting adjourned, the and the vast assemblage gradusifted through conglomerated mass of Humanity outside. OUTSIDE MEETINGS. Several outside gatherings of the many who could not even find standing room in the crowded house, wese by sentlemen who entertained them well, -jodging from the hearty and rapidly cheers that filled the alt. Among these were W.

J. A. PULLER, Mr. of Ohio, and Gen, all of whom said things that want of room alone compels us to omit in this report: Hon. B.

SPANION, who had been announced to follow Mr. CLay at the regular meeting, kindly consented to address the audience outside, and was rewarded by close attention and appreciative applause. SPRECH OF HENRY R. STANTON, E8Q. FELLOW Though have not met expressly to nitify the nomination of JAMES S.

WADEWORTH for Goves nor of this State, yet I will briefly give my reasons why. all loyal men cht to support him. First, he is a Democrat- a real Democrat-not a sham Democrat. He believes in the equal rights vI all men, For a long Period the irrespective of clime, color, creed, or condition. Democratic Party of the country was ruled by Southern Chiets, disciples of JOHN J.

CALHOUS. For the last 20 of his life Mr. CALHOUN had no more democracy in years his creed than had Lucifer, and that portion of the party residing below the Potomac, the had no more regard for Tremocratic principles, than fallen friends of Pandemonium. applause.) Genuine Democracy is based upon the inherent rights of man. The frame-work of Southern society is incompatible with buman equality.

serfs. Its The leaders Declaration are of oligarchs, Independence and is the text- book of real Democrats. their followers The corner-stone of Southern society is Slavery. One of their philosophers has had the honesty to say that Slavery and Democracy are incompatible. He is right.

They are as incompatible as right and wrong, as heaven and hen. cheers.) The demoralizing influence of the intimate relations between the Northern and Southern wings of this party, has made the former about as hypocritical and corrupt as the latter. Both ignore equal rights- -both defend human Slavery. fair-minded Northern Democrats of this affinity with The demoralizing effect upon the oligarchs of the South, is a striking illustration of the divine maxim, that evil communications corrupt good manners." The issue then, is, WADEWORTH and Democracy against and Shamocracy. applause.) favors Secondly, we support Gen.

WORTH because he a vigorous prosecution of the war, and is opposed to making terms with the rebels until they unconditionally surrender. He is not for conduct ng the war on peace principles. He prefers rifled cannon to be crushed Quaker guns. He believes this rebellion must by severe fighting. He knows we are dealing with men who cannot be cheated, and will not be wheedled.

He has studied the character of the traitors -be understands their objects- -and feels assured that the utmost power of our mighty array of arms, used promptly, persistently and remorselessly, is absolutely needed to overthrow this giant conspiracy against applause.) Government The issue, then, is WADERepresentative and Free in stitutions. WORTH and the subjugation of the rebels, or SEYMOUR and submission to the rebels. with Thirdly, all his we heart prefer and mind and strength the PreslWADSWORTH because he supports dent's glorious Proclamation of Freedom. That document, one of the most important in its relations. and one of the most sublime 1n Its purposes, and one of the most beneficent in its results, that has dropped from human pen during the Christian era, will be read and applauded down the vista of coming ages, long after Negro Slavery and its twin brother Sham Democracy have rotted in oblivion.

Read Gen. able letter accepting the nominatiou on the basis of the Proclamation. Is it not worthy of his great theme Yes," "Yes," and cheers.) I need not reiterate the obvious arguments in support of this document. Slavery conjured up this rebellion. Retributive justice demands that it be engulfed in the convulsion it has evoked.

Slavery is the main prop of the South in this war-not exactly in a strict military point of but, by keeping their slaves at home to cultivate their fields and perform their mechanical labor, the South is able to send its whole effective force of white men into the camp- -thus, in proportion to the numbers of the two sections of the country, giving the South a large preponderance of fighting men over the North. let us knock out this main prop of the rebels. Let the slaves lay down de shubble and de hoe," and take up de addle and de bow," and tell the rebels that they will do no more hard work for Mr. Lash, though quite willing to labor for Mr. Cash, and this will compel half the Southern army to go home to look after their plantations and their shops, while the rest will prey to our brave Union troops.

applause.) SEYMOUR, doubtless, is utterly hostile to the Proclamation. He can look on complacently while Southern graves and Northern hospitals are filled with the bloom of our youth and the strength of our manhood, to crush this conspiracy but he cannot bear to take from the conspirators their precious negroes. Out upon such Democracy. Good," and The issue then is made up. WADEWORTH and Freedom versus SEYMOUR and Slavery.

fearlessly invoke the judgment of the people of State whose soil holds the canonized dust of SCHUYLER and HAMILTON, JAY. and CLINTON, TOMPKINS and WRIGHT, upon this issue. In the fourth place, Gen. WADSWORTH deserves our support because he is a radical. There is a great deal of senseless clamor just now about radicals and radicalism.

What is the meaning of this abused term, radicalism! It simply means going down to the roots of things. Gen. WADSWORTH is' a man who goes to the root of controversy-who lays his axe at the root radi- of an evil. Do those who rail at cals know that all the political reforms which have blessed this country, and Europe also, during the present century, have been effected by men who bore the distinctive name of radical The British Slave- trade was abolished by radicals. The Catholics, were emancipated, the suffrage enlarged, the parliamentary representation equalized, the corn laws repealed, and cheap postage and free newspapers secured by the radicals.

In our own country, the Revolution was the work of radicals. Radicals abolished the property qualification for voting and holding officethey gave us free schools and freedom of the Presshave liberalized our State Constitutions -they abolished imprisonment for debt--they secured us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our consciences. In this crisis of our country, Conservatism, always timid and quiet, shrinks back appalled. But, Radicalism, ever bold and aggressive, steps forth, and meets and masters the exigency. The issue, then, is between WADSWORTH, the radical, whe breasts the storm of war, and saves the country, and SEYMOUR, the conservative, who cowers and cries Peace," 4 Peace," when there is no peace.

Finally, we should support Gep. WADSWORTH, because he is a man of progress. This is no time for slow men. The exigency moves forward too rapidly. Events are bearing the country swiftly onward to weal or woe.

We need those who are fleet of foot to keep up with the headlong current of this dread crisis. During the whole of last Fall and Winter, Gen. WADSWORTH lay with his brigade in the advanced front of our lines. He daily heard the cannon of the foe at Centreville and Manassas. He was satisfied that our army was two to one of theirs.

And, believing that a sharp and short war was our true policy, he again and again advised an attack. He was overruled, and he submitted. We now know that he was right in his estimate of the relative numbers of the two armies. But let this pass. Gen.

WORTH's motto 1s that of our State-" Excelsior upward, onward. Let me give you an incident: In the battle of Bull Run, the colorbearer of your brave regiment, the Brooklyn Fourteenth, was shot down. A staff officer seized the flag, and shouted, Rally boys, once more, for the glorious Stars and Stripes," and led the regiment to the charge. The name of that officer was JAMES S. WADSWORTH.

applause,) In ancient times, when the Hebrews, escaping out of the house of bondage, stood upon the shores of the Red Sea, with the hosts of Pharaoh hovering on their rear, conservatism shrunk back and feared to wet its sandals in the angry waves. But the Book of Books tells us that the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward They obeyed, and Pharaoh and his his hosts sank like lead in the waters. The age of miracles is past. In our country, vor populi, vox Dei. Our great cause confronts sea of difficulties, before which timid souls stand appalled.

But, the Proclamation reveals to us the land of promise, the Canaan beyond the floods. Let the people, the vor Dei, say unto the President, ABRAHAM, speak unto the armies of the Union, that they go forward ap- plause.1 BROOKLYN PHILHARMONICS. The sixth season, 1862 and 1863, of the delightful entertainments given by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Society, will open to-day, at the Academy of Music. The first rehearsal, under the able conduct of Mr. BISPELD, will consist of phony, in: fat, overture to Medea," and overture to Oberan," The directorial list presents the familiar names of Messrs.

B. WIMAN, A. COOK HUAL, M. ROBE. R.

A. V. B. VAN -DYCE, and other hard- men in the cause of music and other art in the city of churches. The Society deserves the great sustinence afforded it by the people of Brooklyn, always, give more than it promises, never has disappointed an audience, and presents for the coming season entertainments exceding anything before given, vocally and instrumentally.

STABBING AFFRAY IN THE OLD BOWERY THEATRE- GaO. AUGUSTUS DOUGHERTY, paroled prisoner, had an altercation with JOHN CRAWFORD, member of HAWEINS' Zouaves, in the second tier of the Old Bowery Theatre, last evening. CRAWFORD claimed DOUGHERTY as a deserter. The latter denied that he was, stating that he was a member of the Second course New- of York which Artillery, A scuffle then ensued, in the CRAWFORD stabbed TY, inflicting a fatal wound. Officers FREELY and attached to the theatre, arrested CRAWFORD.

taken by Officer of the Sixth Ward, 10 the. New- York Hospital, and it supposed he could not live the night out. The wounded man in eighteen years of age, and a native of Ireland, THE EXPEDITION OF PONCHATOULA. Official 1 Report of Major Geo. C.

Strong. Twenty Car-loads of Cotton and Sugar Destroyed. The following report has been forwarded to the headquarters of the army: DEPARTMENT THE GELT, NEW-ORLEANS, Sept. 24, 1662. B.

F. Butler, Commanding Department of the Gulf. GENERAL: Pursuant to your orders of the 13th inst. embarked on the afternoon of that day on board the steamer Ceres at Lakeport, with three companies of the Twelfth Regiment Maine ded respectively by Capts. THORNTON, FARRINGTON and WINTER, and one company, Capt.

PIcKERING's, of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment. I had previously sent one hundred men of the Thirteenth Connecticut Regiment on board the gunboat New London, whose commander, Capt. READ, had kindly consented to cooperate with me. The object in view was to surprise the village of Ponchatoula, the headquarters of the rebel General THOMPSON, forty-eight miles north of the city, on the line of the Jackson Railroad. To that end the New- London was to land her men at Manchac bridge, whence at daybreak next morning they were to drive the enemy that might be found there northwards to Ponchatoula, while the remainder of the force, having found the way fifteen miles up the Tangipahoa in the night, were to land and march six miles westward and capture Ponchatoula in season to secure those of the enemy who had been driven up from Pass Manchac.

The attempt at surprise failed, for not only was the New London unable to get over the bar into Manchac Pass in the darkness, but the Ceres, too large for the easy navigation of the narrow and winding Tangipahoa, failed in each of the two succeeding nights to reach her destination on that river in season to admit of our gaining Ponchatoula before daylight. I resolved, therefore, to go with that steamer to Manchac Bridge, and did so on the morning of the 15th. From that point, Capt. WINTER was sent with his company southward, to make the destruction of the railroad on Manchac Island complete, which duty he thoroughly performed. Capt.

POKERING'S company was left to guard the steamer, and the companies of Capts. THORNTON and FARRINGTON began forced march of ten miles upon Ponchatoula. A locomotive one mile below the village gave notice of our approach, (which could not be concealed,) and ran northward, giving the alarm at the village and thence to Camp More for reinforcements. We entering Ponchatoula, a discharge of canister, at 70 yards, from light battery, in charging which Capt. THORNTON fell severely wounded.

His company. then. under Lieut. HIGHT, reinforced Capt. ARRINGTON'8 platoon on the enemy's right, while Lieut.

CooN, with the second platoon of that company took a position, under partial cover, on the left of the enemy's line. From these positions our men poured in so deliberate and destructive a fire that the enemy was driven from the field, the artillery galloping away, followed by the infantry, on a road through the forest, in a northwesterly direction. We then set fire to train of upwards of twenty cars, laden with cotton, sugar, molasses, and took the papers from the post and the telegraph office, destroying the apparatus in the latter, and Gen. JEFF. THOMPSON's sword, spurs, bridle, from his quarters in the hotel.

The sword was presented to him by the so-called Memphis patriots." A written document was obtained which showed the rebel force at that point to consist of three nundred troops of the Tenth Arkansas Regiment, one company of the Home Guards, and one company of artillery with six pieces. I had, however, received reliable information that the enemy's force was only two hundred infantry and no artillery. The reinforcements had taken place at a subsequent date. Our force engaged amounted to but one hundred and twelve men. We left of killed, wounded and missing (exclusive of those who have just come in among the last the gallant Capt.

THORNTON,) ten men at Ponchatoula. Surgeon AVERY, of the Ninth Connecticut Volunteers, with his attendants, voluntarily remained with our wounded, but the former has since returned. We brought in eleven men more or less severely wounded. One fatal case of sun-stroke occurred on board the steamer Our return from Ponchatoula was necessarily along the railroad, through a swamp, and on which there is no cover for troops, and it was therefore impossible to bring off those of our men who were most severely wounded, as they would be exposed for a long distance to the fire of the rebel artillery, which, with horses attached, would be brought back upon the line of the road as soon a8 we should have left the village. The artillery did so return at the signal of the inhabitants; but, though actively served, did us no harm.

Surgeon A vERY reports twenty of the enemy killed. Capts. THORNTON and FARRINGTON, and the officers and men of their respective commands, though nearly exhausted by the march, two miles of which was over an open trestle-work, in the heat of the day, behaved nobly in the fight. Capts. PICKERING and WINTER, after a very rapid march, for which they are entitled to much credit, came up after we had left the village, covered our rear and assisted in bringing in the wounded.

Lieuts. MARTIN, ALLEN and FINEGAS8, and mander BUCHANAN, United States Navy, who accompanied the expedition, rendered important services, and their gallantry during the action deserves special mention. I have the honor to be, General, very spectfully, your obedient servant, GEO. C. STRONG, Acting General." The Central American Transit Company.

OFFICE OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN TRANSIT NEW-YORK, Saturday, Oct. 4, 1862. To the Editor of the New- Times: I will thank you to correct a series of errors of your correspondent at Panama, in your issue of today. The steamer La Virgin, belonging to this Company, did not go ashore" on Zapalero Island, in the Lake of Nicaragua, as you relate. She has been thoroughly repaired, principally in her joiner's work, and made a successful on the lake on the 4th September.

She has the very same engines in her which were originally made for her by the eminent builders, HARLAN HOLLINGSWORTH, of ton, Delaware, On her second trip on the lake she leaked in her boilers from some unaccountable cause, and was taken into the islands on the Lake into perfectly safe place, on a smooth sand beach, and there made secure for examination. It was the voluntary, prudential act of her officers, and there was no going ashore" about it, although it may very possi. bly appear so from the focus of Panama. WALTER CAMPBELL, Chief Engineer of this Company, in Nicaragua, writes on the 18th September, from San Juan del Norte, I have no doubt but that the San Juan will be up and in running order in a few days." Mr. PLACE, her former Engineer, has gone up to the lake to attend to her.

The new steamer San Juan, Capt. 8 LOCUM, was safely at anchor in the river San Juan. She gave great satisfaction to her officers on her recent run down from New- She was for 24 hours in the hurricane of the 1st and 2d off Hatteras, and behaved admirably. She is to run on the Lake of Nicaragua, where her proved seaworthiness wil command the confidence of the public. The new steamer Cindad Rivas, built at San Juan del Norte, according to the plans of E.

DICKERSON, of this City, was quite ready for launching on the 18th ult. The new steamer Cindad Granada was expected to be ready for launching in three weeks. These new river steamers have each capacity for carrying 500 passengers, at a speed of thirteen miles an hour, and can consequently run the full length of the San Juan River by daylightwith full loads they will draw sixteen inches only. The repairs on the road, between Virgin Bay and San Juan del Sur, have not been suspended. We have no such information, but on the contrary know for certain that they are working diligently on the road, and that the San, Juan steamer carried out, in silver coin, money in abundance for every requirement of this department of our route.

We have no anziety whatever about the road and the bridges being all in proper order in due time. The public may rest sssured that on the 18th of this month the route will be declared open, in Nicaragua, in the most formal manner, and that the passengers by Mr. M. 0. ResEats steamers, America and Moses Taylor, which will leave here on the 25th and California on the 21st of this month, will be safely carried over Nicaragua, unless something should happen of which this Company has to-day no knowledge whatever, nor expectation nor apprehension.

I trust you will allow this public advertisement" of our line to be inserted in your journal of to-morrow it may serve as information to your Panama correspondent, who seems to travel out of his way to evil things of us. I remain, Sir, yours respectfully, BODY. How TO TELL A STRANGER. -There is but. sure from a way of citizen.

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your talents THIS WILL BE A GALA DAY at Barnum'8 Museum. That magnificent drama Victorine is to be played afternoon and evening: and the beautiful feh, and all the other novelties are to be seen as well. Ge early, and get good seats. Before marching to battle soldiers should prothemselves with HoLLOWAY'S Pills. They are invaluable in Small-pox, Fevers, dec.

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steam R. A. transport Star of the R. South, from Royal- Capt. Jackson, Capt.

W. Thompson. Capt. R. W.

Dole, Capt. Volney Hickox, Lieut. Charles E. Hay, all of Gen. Hunter's Staff: Surgeon Mars, 8.

Dr. Eaton, James Cavannagh, Mrs. Purcell, D. well, Wm. H.

Burns, Jacob Rotan, Robert Linden. In ship Mon', Blanc, New- Mayoand child, Jane Weaver, and in the steerage. MINTATURE ALMANAO- DAY. Sun 6 03 Sun 6 33 Moon rises. 38 BIGH WATER- THIS 161 DAT.

Sandy Hook. 7 27 Gov. Island. Hell MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Cleared.

Steamship Scotia. Judkins, Liverpool, E. Cunard, Ships Jupiter, Rickmers, Antwerp, Punch, incke Wendt Jennie W. Perine, Burk, Melbourne. Trask Dearborn.

Barks Admiral Brommy, Meyer, Bremen, Ruger M. B. Stetson, Beal, Cienfuegos. Fowler Jova. Brig Wilmington, Foster, Harbor Grace, J.

Whitney Co. Schooners Alexander, Pearsall, Fortress Monroe, ter Francis, Donnell, Port Maria, J. R. Robbin Arrived. U.S.

transport Dudley Buck, (of Boston,) Crane, New bern 3 with 48 discharged soldiers to U. 8. Quartermaster. U.S. steam transport Herald, Rogers, Fortress Monroe 5 in ballast to U.S.

Assistant U. S. steam transport Star of the South, Woodbull, Port Royal, S. te U. S.

Quartermaster. Steamer Artisan, McCabe, Baltimore, with mose. to Wm. Dalzell. Steamer Schriver, Adams, Baltimore, with mdse.

Wm. Dalzell. Steamer Vulcan, Morrison, Philadelphia, with mdse. to Loper Kirkpatrick. Steamer Pelican, Baker, Providence, with mase.

to E. Bynner. Steamer Ruggles, Von Schoonhoven, Philadelphia, with mdse. to J. N.

Briggs. Steamer Comet, Jones, Philadelphia, with mdse. to J. N. Briggs.

Ship Charter Oak, (of Searsport,) Carver, Liverpool 27 with salt to Walsh, Carver Chase. Oct. 6, 150 miles east of Sandy Hook, passed a ship's topmast, tressel frets and part of lower mast. Mont Blane, (of Bath,) Donnell, New-Orleans and S. W.

Pass Sept. 10, with sugar, to 0. 0. Co, Ship Atmosphere, Harris, Liverpool 25 with coal to John A. McGaw.

Ship Deshunbrantes, Sowa, Lisbon 38 de, with salt, puts and wine to order. Ship Wm. Tapscott. Bell, Liverpool Sept, 9, with mdee. and 150 passengers to Tapscott Co.

Bark Sea Queen, of London.) Inch, Santa Crus 31 in ballast to order. Had heavy N. and E. weather most of the passage. Bark Nazarene.

Saunders, Minititian Aug. 24, and Key West Sept. 23, with mahogany: is bound to. London, and put into this port for a crew, having landed five men sick at Key West. Bark Else, Peterson, Rio Janeiro Aug.

28, with coffee to E. D. Morgan Co. Brig Dazzel, (of Bangor,) Smith, Black River, Sept. 15, with logwood to Brett, Son Co.

Sid. in co. with brig Isadora, for Philadelphia. Left no Am. Brig Emanuel, Walloe.

London 52 in N. W. te N. 18, lat. 48, on the Banks, encountered a heavy gale from last to Hoimboe Co.

Had come heavy weather, Sept. Brig Zephyr, Hansen. Rio Janeiro 43 with coffee to E. Di Morgan Co. Aug.

29, lat. 12 26 8., 32 7, saw English frigate Rosalie, stry, S. W. Brig Margaret Ridley, of Liverpool,) Brown, Sydney, with coal to Siffken Ironsides, Brig Clara Hazall, Glover, Washington, D. 4 in ballast to Jonas Smith Co.

Brig Model, (of Boston,) Rice, Cardenas 11 with sugar to Walsh, Carver Chase. Brig Martin Pechur, Moretty, St. Peter's, N.T., 11 with fish to master. Brig Exemplar. Perry, Cow Bay, 0.

14 with coal to R. Belloni. Brig Penguin; Conyers, Bermuda with hides to Middleton Co. Brig Peacock, of Halifax.) Paon, Bridgeport, 10 with coal to B. F.

Small. Brig Arabella, Lindaley, Aspinwall 22 de, with hides; to J. F. Joy. Sept, Brig Ada, of Walton, De N.

Card, East Harbor 20, with salt to D. R. Wolff. Schr. Reindeer, (Br.

of Halifax,) Archibald, St. Martin's Sept. 19, with salt. to E. S.

Hannibal. Oet. in the Gulf, passed a vessel's jib- boom and a bundle heavy at the time. The R. had winds to Hatteras; since heavy N.

and E. winde; sprung leak. Schr. J. W.

Congdon, Williams, New-Orleans 22 with sugar, molasses and cotton to C. Durand, Schr. Nimrod, Darr, Alexandria in ballast to R. P. Buck Co.

Schr. S. J. Waring, (of Brookhaven,) Bell, New-Orleans 20 in ballast to Jonas Smith Co. Schr.

Frederick Reed, Wish, Norfolk 2 with shot and timber for Navy-yard. Schr. R. H. Dexter, Dexter, Chelvere, N.

8., 10. with plaster to J. S. Whitney Schr. Eclipse, Peterson, 13 with one gar to Smith, Jones Co.

Schr. Lovett Peacock, Lingo, New-Orleans 11 with sugar to Robson Fosdick. Schr. C. N.

Rogers, Holmes, Baracos 16 will fruit to Thomas Gilmartin, Left no Am. SAILED -Steam transport Thomas for ington, D. C. WIND-Sunset, 8. Belew.

Ship Star of the Sea, from Liverpool. Ship Australia, from Liverpool. Ship Calhoun, from Liverpool. Ship Gorilla, from Liverpool- (All by pilot boat J. D.

Jones.) Ship S. H. Talbot, from Foo-chow, to M. Ship Gladiator, fiom Boston (Both by pilot Ann.) Ship Robin Hood, 86 de. from San Francisco.

Bark Ariel, By Telegraph. BOSTON, Oct. 1-Arr. ships White Swallow, Manila Derby, Whampoa, New- York; bark Thomas Whit pey, Parker. London Cape brigs Raytien M.

E. schra. Milliken. Kate Bargeant, Edith, Inagua Edward Dehart, K. Kidden New-Orleans.

Spoken, Adelbert-Hamb, brig, strg. 8. was seen, Sept. 17, lat. 21 33, lon.

48 8. Charles W. Poulteney-bark, of Philadelphia, Sept. 39, lat, 42 8, Jon. 62 32.

Charles C. Duncan chip, bound E. signalised, Oct. 5, lat. 89 44, lon.

69 40. bark, Singer, hence Sept. 21 for Liverpool Oct. 1, lat. 41 30, lon.

60 66. Zone -bark, from Boston for Buenos Agres, Oof. 6, lat; 40 51, lon. 67 50. Pereian Ports.

At East Harbor, Sept. 20, bark Evening Star, for NewHaven next day. A PURE TOBACCO. YELLOW BANK TOBACCO. GOODWIN'S PURE YELLOW BANK TOBACCO.

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Goods delivered in the N.D.- Plink of hams only 8 cents. 200 OF EVERY ing. All articles factory, at the lowest factory Paint Brushes of a superior quality constantly on hand. JOHN L. HOPPED Oct.

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