A Greeley Ratification Meeting

A GheeleV ratificatiou moeting was liold in Cooper ïnstiti.t New York, ou Alonduy ovening, which is reported as tin affuir of largo diinensióiiR. Gun. JOHN Cociikaxe presided, assisted by tho usual "distinguishcd list of Vico Presidents." Senator Tiptoït, of Nebfaakn, was t!io principal speaker, who was followed by Col. McCluiie, of Pennsylvania ; Gon. Kn.i-.vTRicK, of New Jersey; and Congressnmn RoOSEVELf, of tho 4th N. Y. district : tlio lattor a Domocrat. Lotteta were road frorn Se-nators FENTON and Teumbtjll, Cassius M. Clat, James JSii'ioks, member of Congress from Kow York, MONTGOMKllY BLATR, GEO. W. n', Gon. IMDODEN, and otliers. The anticipated letter from Sonator SCHUBZ wat; not rocoivod, or, porhaps we should say was not rcad. - As a meeting would bo an anomaly without resolutions, wc uro ploased to know that that all-important matter was ncither forgotton nor neglected. A Bot was unanimonsly adopted as followa : The citizens of New York, in masa moeting asseiubled, without distinction of party, do hereby declare and resolve : 1. Wo affirm the wiao, patriotic and staesnsanliko platform of principies adopted by the lato Liberal liepublican Convention at Cincinnati. 2. That wo weloome tho liearty acceptanco ofthiR platform by tlie Democratie Stato Convention at Kochester. 3! That we recognizo in our distinguisliod ffllow-citi.i i :hi1 friend. Huraco Grceley, tho truo representativo of tho principies of tho equality of all mou and of uxact. justiec to all men, the truo repifive oí' tho prinoiples that must. triuraph in the g:nnino reur.ion to bo securod not by bayoneta but by mutual regard and a mutual guaranteo of reciprocal riglits and beneftto ; an lioiicst man, tho constitutional foo to tho thiovos who must be drawn from national as well as muuici)!il authority, as the first step to real civil service reform, wo pledgo ourselves to him ; a life-long laborer, associato of laborera, with wfaom thfi right of tho workiugmen will be sure of ali needful regard; apublioinan whoso commanding ability ths nation h;s long recognized, and a leader whoso ñamo wo welcoino as a watchword of victory. l. That we recognizc in Gov. B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, tho Wiivalric s1 mm, whoso public life : shows bim a fit associate for Horace Greeley in tho task Qf extending to the whole Union tho work so well done in his own State, giving back power to th; people, poaco to tho nation and purity to tho govürnment. ■";. That we hail tho general approvul of the Cincinnati platform and ticket, and particularly tho enthusiastic support of both througho-at tlio South, as promising to lift our politics out of tlio dan ou ruta of seetionalism whereiu thcy have too long run, and to bury out of siyht the hatos and controvers'es oí' Uio war. 6. That, wc weloome thu eo-oper.ation of all parties in tho work of reunión and reform to wbioh the Cincinnati tiuket is dedicated, and to whioh wu pledge, by an overwhelming majority, tho vote of this city and Empiro Statu. Orn genial but ovor-zealous friond of the Allegan Jourjuü is just now in clover. lio has discovercd that at the Cineinn ií Convention certain States wcre represented by non-residenta : Delawareby "Gath," Georgia by DaPoxte, &j. Ho brands this as " Rackerbyiug," for,the vory singular reason that ono Rackeuhy, the enly delégate presunt from California, but, as tho Journal concedes, really a resident of that State, was permitted to cast the full voto of t!ie State. But, wuiving the "buil," will Don' be so good as to al ise us wliat he thought of " Eackerbyin " in Í8Ü0;1 If our meiuory Berras us correctly Our cotemporary in that year representa] Texas in the Chicago Convention, though his rosidenco was in Michigan, and that ho as i Texan struck hands willi HORAOI Ghkelev, tlien of Orcgon, and aidnd in laying out ffll. II. Sewaud, the onndidate of every Michigfin Kupublican. GUEELET was tlien DoN'sidol, :md "E ickerbying" a good thing.