Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-10-06
OHIO AGAINST THE WORLD.
One hundred thousand Frccmcn in council
The MIMI valley Cenreniion.

The battle is fought the victory won As
goes Ohio, now, so goes the Union And as
went the Miami Valley on the 10th instant, so
viii go the State on the 30th Of October
One hundred thousand F,ccmoH ~ Councii!i
Let that word pass round Garry it, We pa,ri-
otto fathers and We glorious mothers, 10 the
hearihs and hearts Of your families Shout it,
We noble and high souled youths, from the re-
cess OF every valley and the heights Of every
mountain in the land! Bear il, We breezes Of
It Wes'orn Wc,ld e cy,asy esf = this hr,sd
Universe. so shall the dropping spirits of
Lherty's children revive: so shall the con-
scletce of selfish and ambitious rulers shrink
within themselves and quail with terror so
shall sense of Hope, and Promise, and AS
suranco, fall as gentle and refreshing dew up
on all vrtuous hearts.
One Rundrtd Thousand II were useless
to attemp anything like a detailed description
Of this gnnd gathering of the People. We
saw It all-telt it all--and shall bear to our
graves, live We yet half century, the Impress
ion is made upon our hearts. But we cannot
describe 1t. 10 eye that witnessed it, can
convey to the mind of another, even a faint
semblance Of tie things it there beheld. The
bright and glonuus day-the beautiful and
hospitiabe city--the green-clad and heaven
blessed valley-te thousand flags, fiuttering
in every breeze and waving from every win
dow-ihe ten thousand banners and barges,
with their appropriate devices and patriotic in
scrip,ions-and moe than all, the hundred
thousand human hearts beating in that dense
and seething mass of peope-afe things which
those alone can properly feel and appreciate,
who beheld this grandes, spectacle of Time
OF few points only, can any thing like an
adequate idea be given; and to give this, is all
we shall attempt.
The Catherine
Began early in the week. On Monday and
Tuesday delegates were continually dropping
in by tens and twenties on Wednesday by
fifties 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
slight modification of language, the lines Of
Mrs. Hemans may here be quoted, as appTo-
pirate; for throughout all this reign,
'The chief was arming in his hail.
The peasant by his hearth !"
and when the day arrived, adapting the words
of Bishop Heber,
"From many an ancient river,
From many hill and plain,
They gathered to deliver
The land from Factions chain !"
And such a gathering for such purpose, eye
had never till then beheld nor of such
so much are the people habituated to ent.ust
their most importan. business to agents and
neglect it themselves, had it hardly entered
into the heart OF man to conceive. The Peo-
pie were assembled if they were not, there IS
no People. The Democracy of the State
were gathered together if they were not,there
is no Democracy.
/ The order which had been adopted by the
/ Committee of Arrangements, was that by
I halt past 8 O'Clock in the morning. the dller-
ent delegations should form in processo II,
/ with their music, banners, etc, and go out TO
meet General Harrison OH the Old Springfield
Road; and that, after being joined by the Gen.
they should return, by First ST. from the Old
Springfield Road, then march up First street
to the corner of Wilkinson, down Wilkinson
to Second, down Second to Main, down Main
/ to Sixth, down Sixth to Jefletson, up Jeffer
son 10 Third, and on Third 10 the National
Hotel. And, as far as possible, this order
was carried into effect. About o'clock, the
Marshals, twenty eight in number acting I'M
der Charles Anderson, Grand Marshal, sue
ceeded in forming the head of
The Procession.
This extended several square lengths, eight
abreast, and seemed hardly TO have thinned in
the slightest degree the immense throng that
crowded the streets and sidewalks an hour
before. Ii moved of, while the other dele
cations were forming and falling into the rear.
But tho Marshals soon found, that they had
something to deal with different from the dele
gates of the people. The People themselves
were present, and regarding this, naturally
enough, as business of their own, chose to
conduct il in their own way. Impatient Of
restraint, and longing TO see the Old Soldier
under whose banner they had enlisted they
dashed off by hundreds and thousands in
wagons, on horseback, and a foot passed the
head of the Procession, filling the bridges, and
most completely blocked up the road for two
miles into the country. Through the dense
mass OF men, women and children, line OF
procession which had but one end, and that
the beginning, made lis way with much diff
Guilty, till tie approach Of General Harrison
accompanied by Ex-Governor Meicalfe OF
Kentucky, both mounted on fine steeds, was
announced, 4 halt was then ordered, d Q
line divided and its members taking their sta
lions on either side OF the road. la few
minutes the General came up, sitting on his
horse nobly, and showing himself 20 be truly
the Soldier and the Freeman. On the instant
peal after peal Of the most deafening acclama-
lions rose from the bosom OF that lone valley,
and rent the heavens Too much affected Tor
words.-almOst overcome, Indeed, by The
strength Of the feeling Of gratitude which filed
his breast,-the object Of this proud and I'M
psralelled Reception, passed on. plain and
unpretending citizen Of one OF the States OF
this Union, returning ia silence the salutatlons
Of lis couniIymen, bot speaking bis gratitude
from every feature Of bis c0unleaance, and
from bosom yisibly swelling wiki emotions