Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-05-15
MORNING HERALD.
TUESDAY. NAY 10, 1s9s.
The Charleston Sufferers.

marriage and friendship with each other When q
fire land great part Of glorious city in ashes, the
hish minded Souherners were the first to sympathse
with us. We knew this-we knew they were proud
we knew they would neither stoop to ask, TO re.
ceive charity from any But We thought they
would like TO know what citizens felt relation
TO their late calamity and we determined to tel
them.
Not being able to 90 ourselves, we asked fine old
merchant to officate for rs. He said he would. He
is a Wing stanch Wing and a sterling patriot
He is aKnickerbsoker, born, bred, and brought up
he fought and bled in the last war; and did the state
some service and the Union also. He promised US
an impartial account. He attended and sent as the
following. or course we do not endorse its state
ments as our own; but asked him to furnish US
the account, and as he complied, in common courte-
sy we are beund to give it with these prefatsry re-
marks. We repeat that we do not endorse II, altho
we think it possible that there is more truth than
poetry in it, Here il is! Read it, Charlestsnians
FusLLASIMous MEETING IN THE HALL-SHAML-
Full ISeRArrrupE. meeting on Saturday after
noon in the City Hail. called with view of aiding
the sufferers at Charleston by the disastrous
confagration at that place. was complete falure-a
hvmbug-a farce-a disgrace TO the city Of Knicker-
hockers-a rebuke to her prdea foul stain upon her
escucheen and in short any thing but respectable
AT the hour appointed about dozen persons only
made their appearance and at the time of its organi'
zaon, about half an hour afterwards, counted
just forty eight individuals in the room, most of whom
from appearances were troopers in, and seemed
10 take no interest whateverin the proceedings.
The meeting was called to order. His homer, May
or Clark was put in the chair, supported by couple
of vice presidents and respectable aged gentleman
of the meeting his honor seemed little puzzled how
to get out of the scrape; having cut and dried
speech, when he supposed would Lave been listened
10 by crowded and enthusiastic assemblage. now
that he had to address only short fifty of his below
ed fellow citizens, he felt himself pretty much in the
same condition as he used to in old times, when he
found he had an over stock of lottery tickets on The
dav of drawing What could be the reason, thought
he of their not coming. His conscience whispered
10 him that he had not used the same energy to col
lect subscriptions for the suffering CharlestenaBs as
he had done to defray the expenses of the late cleo
ten If he had given the word for gathering
month ago. Masonic Hall would have been filled, and
thousands would have been contributed He recol-
lectea, teo perhaps, that when New York was nearly
laid in ruins the generous South were the first to Of
fer their assistance, However, Aaron was too much
OF philosopher to become cowed by such lugubri-
Gus reflections those and adopting the old adage,
"whea the devil wa. SICK, the devil monk would be-
he set himself very gravely to work in disclosing the
objects of the meeting, by talking Of hard times
scarcity ef money-bad government-wished there
had been larger meeting-was sorry, very sorry,
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in his power to give them lft-was sure every c-
zen wished the same-bragged about high-mnded
merchants-great metropolis-profuse generosity
unbounded liberality--gneved at the lamentabls
equality TO which all the great tra6ckers who had
taken up their abode in the great State had been sub
jected, in consequence of extensive confagrations
and the progress OF loco-focoism in general and
winding up with most sublime specimen of rig
marole
Counsellor Blunt next mounted the rostrum,
holding in his hand bundle of very sympathetic
solutions with which he afflicted the meeting by
very pathetic recital Among the resolutions was one
fer appointing blank committee to solicit subscrip
tons in behalf of the sufferers, which, if might
Judge from appearances is likely to result in blank
collection The learned advocate prefaced his reso.
luons by adveriing to the disastrous night that had
lain waste the farest portion of city-the prompt
tude, Of the Charleston people, in common with the
inhabitants Of several other cities in the South TO al
leyiae our dstresses; not forgetting to add, by way
of flourish that If the great people, OF the great city
of the great State Of New York, had only their ten
der sympathies to bestow upon the sufferers, il war
altogether owing to the removal of the deposites-
the recommendation of the sub-reasury law, and the
persevering obstnacy of Martin Van Buren,, in in
sisng tina, the peoples money shall be kept in their
own vaults instead of letting il out to Nick Bldde for
the accommodation Of the great merchants, especially
the grea, merchants Of this great metropolis The
question then taken spon the resolutions and
citizen having voted in the affirmative, and none in the
negative the chair decided them TO be carried unani
mousy.
long string Of names then read over, a a
committee TO solicit donations, comprising the elite
coups in general and in particular the Homes and the
o'Haggerties, the Douglasses, and the Princes and
the Kings, and the Primes, and the Bang ups; con-
sstng altogether Of thirteen esquires six and twenty
L. L. Ds., and ST. Barnabas only knows how many
A. s. S.
This being done, his honor the horse shook the
hands OF his worthy -presdents-smied praciously
upon one or two ofhs old lottery ticket customers 70,
whom he seems still to entertain an affectionate re-
gard in hope probably Of future favers-and having
given q condsscending nod Of recognition to som,
half dozen active partisaps~ who stoed bovrn~ an,