The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-09-22

thai most in a manner which must nave put 10
shame hosts Of those who have been induced by
their prohigate political leaders to raise the cry
against General Harrison Of " cowardice" and
.ncompetency, had they been present to hear
Col. Chambers's speech was full OF important
matter and enlivened by frequent sallies OF real
humor. He gave a narrative OF the battle oil the
Thames. which he should be induced to write
out for publication. Handling Col. Johnson as
one for whom recent circumstances had given
him feeling allied TO contempt, yet as one OF
whom, ON account of his past services he would
wish 10 speak nothing harsh, he took hold Of the
great .Petticoat Hero" Senator Allen, and held
| him up before the searching fire of his sarcasm
and rebuke, turning him first this way and then
| that bastng him now here and now there, as the
bsters were seen to rise upon his epidermis,
very much as a log-cabin housewife manages a
roasting goose, ill every one present must have
had feeling of pity for the Ajax OF Locofocracy
| in Ohio
THE NUMBER OF PERSONS PRE-
| SENT
! Was. during the whole of the morning, vari
ousy estimated at from seventy five TO ninety
thousand Conjecture, however, was put TO
rest in the afternoon, at the speakers stand.
! Here, while the crowd was compact, as we have
elsewhere described il, and during the speech OF
Gen Harrison, the ground upon which II stood
was measured by three different civil engineers,
| and allowing to the square yard four persons, the
following results were arrived at the first made
| il II 600 the second $4,000, and the third 10000.
During the time of making three measurements,
the number of square yards OF surface covered
| was continually changing, by pressure without
and resistance from within. This fact accounts
satisfactorily for the slight difference in the re-
suits attained, and shows that that difference
| strengthens instead OF weakening the probable
correctness of the calculations. No one present
1 1el tknF
twenty thousand within the limits of the adj
measurement in the city, sauntering about the
| environs scattered around the booths where re-
freshments were vended, and lying. in large
groups upon the plain, discussing affairs OF state,
and making speeches Tor themselves This will
swell the number congregated at the Miami Val
ley Convention, including the citizens OF Day
ton, (whose population is between five and six
thousand, } which we do, to about One Hundred
Thousand. This is what in round numbers
we have placed in the heading of our article
and this is what, by those who have been much
more in the habit of estimating crowds than we,
it was estimated at. For our own parts, we
could make no estimate; we should not have
known how to go about the first steps necessary
to the formation of any opinion, which we would
like to hazard upon the subject. Happily, ac-
tual survey and calculation relieve us Of the ne
cessity of any thing of this kind and therefore,
the
CONVENTION OF 100000
Will send its voice abroad, startling Ambition
while at its charts and striking with terror in
their very palace halls the usurpers of the pow
ers and down treaders of the prosperity of the
American People.
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE
GRAND CONVENTION OF ONE HUN
DRIED THOUSAND.
People in the Atlantic States, who know as
little about the high and beating heart of the
Mississippi Valley, as we Buckeyes, Corncrack
ers and Hooshiers, do about Nova Zembla, won
derhow it is that in times like these can get up
the Grand Gatherings of which our noble land
is full, and also attend to the transaction of our
| every day business, and take care of our fami-
| hes. very brief statement of the truth, will
put their wonderment to rest, better than any
thing else In word, then, Mr.. Van Buren, and
| his wiseacre assistants, have so managed cur
rency matters, that we have very little to do bu
siness with. We can, therefore, be away from
home, portion Of the time, as well as at home
And with respect to our families, 1ohen noe ledre
upon a rally, ace take them 1rath ust Our
wives and daughters, we are proud to say, have
the blood of their Revolutionary Mothers and
| Grandmothers coursing through their veins
| There is no man among us whose heart IS more
| filled and animated than theirs, by the SPIRIT OF
Seventy-Six. Look at the three hundred and
| fifty at Nashville, who invited Henry Clay, the
Nations Pride, to be with them and their hus
bands and brothers on the 18th of August Look
at the four hundred at st. Louis, the nine hun
dred at the Tippecanoe Battle Ground, the five
thousand at Dayton
| What now, but the Spirit of Seventy-Six
does all this manifesto Ay, and ohat tale does
IL all teH2 Does it not say, that the wicked
charlatanry, and mad ambition, and selfish
Screenings, of the leading members of this Ad-
| r al. hay,r
made themselves felt in the very sanctum sane
forum of domestic life. Does it not speak of
the cherries hearth, where willing hands sit
without empoyment2 Does il not speak of the
half recompensed toll of the worn laborer, who
finds, now and then, a weeks hard work, upon
the scant proceeds of which he must subsist
himself and his family for month Does it
not speak of empty larders in the town, while
the gamers OF the country are overlooking
Does il not speak of want here and abundance
there, without any medium of exchange to
equalize the disparity Does it not speak of
general Reorganization of conventional opera
tions-of embarrassment, stagnation, idleness,
| and espondency-whose "malign influences "
have penetrated the inner temples of Mans
Home, and aroused, TO indignant speech and
unusual action, her who is its peace, its gentle
ness, its love, its all but divinity {?
The truth s-and it should be told--the wo-
men are the very life and soul of these move
ments of the People. Look at their liberal prepa-
rations at Nashville Look at their boundless
hospitality at Dayton. Look at their ardor and
activity every where. And last, though far from
the least important, look at their presence, in
hundreds and by thousands, wherever there is
any good to be done, to animate, and encourage,
and urge on, their fathers, husbands, and bro
Tiers.
Whence those six hundred and forty -four
flags, whose stars and stripes wave in the morn
ing breeze, from nearly every housetop, as we