Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-09-26

mass Of pcople-aro things which those alone can
properly feel and appreciate who beheld this grand
est spectacle of Time.
Of a few points only can anything like an ade-
uuate idea be given; and to give this, is all we
shall attempt.
THE GATHERING
Began carly IN the week. On Monday and
Tuesday delegates were continually dropping IN
by tens and twenties on Wednesday by ffties and
hundreds and on Thursday, from the rising of
the sun, by thousands and triple thousands. The
whole country, for from fifty to sixty miles in every
direction, had for weeks been in state of active
preparation. With a slight modification of Ian
ruope the lines of Mrs Hemans may here be
quoted, as appropriate for throughout all this re-
gion,
The chief arming in his hall,
The peasant by his HEARTH
and when the day arrived adopting the words of
Bishop Heber,
From many an ancient river,
From many hill and plain,
They gathered to deliver
The land from Factions chan!"
And such q gathering, for such purpose, eye had
never till then beheld nor of such, so much are the
people infatuated to entrust their most important
business to agents and neglec, it themselves, had
1T hardly entered into the heart of man to conceive
The PEOPLE were assembled; if they were not,
there is no People. THE DEMOCRACY of the State
we're gathered together if they were not, there as
no Democracy.
The Order which had been adopted by the Com.
mittee of Arrangements, was, that by half past 8
O'Clock in the morning the different delegations
should form in procession with their music, ban
ners, etc, and go out TO meet General HARRISON
on the Old Springfield Road; and that, after being
;o,ned by the General, they should return, by
First street from the Old Springfield road, then
march up First street to the corner OF Wilkinson,
TO Jn,,p m Mai
down Main to Sixth, down Sixth to Jefferson, up
Jefferson to Third. and on Third to the National
Hotel. And. as far as possible, this order was
carried into effect About o'lcock, the Marshals,
twenty eight in number, acting under Charles An
derson. Grand Marshal, succeeded in forming the
head of
THE PROCESSION.
This extended several squares in length, eight
ABREAST and seemed hurdly to have thinned in the
slightest degree the immense throng that crowded
the streets and sidewalks hour before. 1t
moved Off while other delegations were forming |
and falling into the rear. But the Marshals soon
found that they had something to deal with differ
ent from delegates of the people. The people them
,e!reS we're present. md regarding this, naturally
enough, as business of their own, chose to onduct
1t in their own way. Impatient Of restraint, and
longing to see the Old Soldier under whose banner
they had enlisted they dashed of by hundreds and
thousands in wagons, on horseback, and foot,
pa ssing the head Of the procession, filling the
bridges, and almost completely blocking up the
road for two miles into the country. Through
this dense mass of men, women and children,
line of procession which had but one end and that
the beginning, made its way with much difficulty,
till the approach of General Harrison, accompanied
BY Ex-Governor Metcalfe of Kentucky, both
mounted on fne steeds, announced. halt
was then ordered, the line dividing and its men,
bers taking their stations either side of the
la, -.
ting on his horse nobly, and showing himself to
he truly the Soldier and Freeman. On the instant
peal after peal of the most deafenng acclamatons
rose from the bosom of that lone valley, and rent
the heavens. Too much affected for words, al
most indeed, by the strength Of the feel
ing Of gratitude which filled his breast 1.-THE OBJ
lect of this'kproud and unparalleled reception
passed on, plain and unpretending citizen of one
Of the States of this Union, returning in silence
the salutations of his fellow countryInen, but
speaking his gratitude from every feature of his
countenance, and from bosom visibly swelling
with emotions too deep for utterance.
As the General passed on, the line closed again.
and made its way back to the city with almost as
much difficulty as it had found in proceeding out
The people constituted now. as before, compact
mass, through which the procession had to force
it's way at every step and to this denseness it is
owing more perhaps than to any thing else, that
in so immense assemblage of persons with
horses, carriages and wagons, and of many hun
dreds without either, not single accident happen
ed So ammed together was the mass that one
could move only as another made way for him
and hence, for the greater part Of the time, every
thing went on with most deliberate, and under the
circumstances, most fortunate disorder. So soon
as the throug reentered the city, the greater por
ton Of it dispersed through the different streets,
(of most convenient width,) and the marshals
were enabled in measure to carry out, from this
point their original order of proceeding. What
occurred after this, till the dismissal of the differ
snt delegations for refreshments,-the huzzas from
grey.hea6ed patriots the significant banners
borne in the procession passed their dwellings, or
the balconies where they had stationed themselves;
the smiles and blessings, and waving kerchiefs of
the thousands of fair women who filled the front
windows of every house the loud and heartfelt
acknowledgements Of their marked courtesy and
generous hospitality, by the different delegations
sometimes rising the same instant from the whole
line the gimpses, at every turn of the eve, of
the huttering folds of some one or more of the
GA flags which displayed their glorious stars and
stripes from the tops of the principal houses IN
every street the sou-stirrng music, the smiling
heavens, the ever-gleaming banners, the emblems
and notices that spoke in thunder-tones Of Ma.
tion's wrongs;-is not all this written in charuc-
tiers which can never be effaced on the hearts and
in the memories of every one who beheld it
Truly itis-snd there 1t must remain. No tongue
:Sn relate, no pen can describe it.