Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-10-06
The LoG Cabin C0Hrcrtion.'

Well-the great Spectacle has come, but has not YET
passed away. The great Wing Convention, which has
and presentation, came off yeserday-but suspect
of its warmest amateurs disposed to consider
il splendid failure We have Mr. Webster here, and
Mr.. Rves, and we know not how many other great
pirants TO distinction and oiceWe have had banners
enough (ieaven knows) with all SORTS Of emblcms and
insc ptons We have had still morc--a miserable log
cabin, magnificent specimen OF Wing taste, so
wretchedly put together that 1t would scarcely bear
transportation through the streets. Iii about large
| small wagon drawn By six mules God save the mark
IF they could get few Jackasses, it would have been
in more congenial taste land tenanted by poor
negro, and one two whites, graccd with guam
uty OF broom straw on the top, and sort OF bunt-
ing for flag, besides GoOdly number OF coon
muskrat skins. This noble specimen OF the archi-
lecture of Caroline has actually been drawn in the
great procession of the Wings OF the Metropolis, and
has constituted part of the ornament OF the Capitol
Square: then destined perhaps TO become hen-coCp
goose house. All this splendid arapharnaa u'
susieS ana with badges oil every variety OF
hne suit the kindred diversity Of this many-colored
party were Yesterday exhibited in the streets and
The public square of Richmond II was after all
falure-the whole line of the Procession, orators
shals minors and all not amounting to more, accord
ing 10 the best estimate we could collect than '1uO-
Various persons that know counted the Procession
) 600 the highest made, and thus took IN boys and
all What falling OF from the 10000, 10000
which the extravagant iuaginatons of the Wing
Slang whangers had SO confidently anticipated We are
informed that there about 200 boys (Junor lips)
in the Processson and great number ofmnorS scatter
ed throughput the different delegations. The above est
mate udes considerable and respectable number OF
Tippecanoes and other Delegates from the good Ci-
ties Of Washington and Alexandra.
| Will the curious reader refresh his memory with the
idle pagean,s and the ''succession OF fooleres which
the innitabe genius of Walter Scott has depicted in
his Kenilworth castle Yet amid all his exuberant
conceptions, venture TO say he never dreamed OF IN.
PRODUCING log cabin, with the broom straw, or the coon
skins to grace hrs procession We presume too, that
the hurras of the crowd who witnessed that gorgeous
spectacle could scarcely have valcd the yelling hur
rahs of the promscuous multitude who ''asonlshcd The
natives yesterday in this our gocdIy city But more
acknowledgements Barbour was appointed the President
MIR Webster addressed the meeting-he was not
heard BY a-ard of them, who had the honor Of
hearing him, candid enough to confess, that they
were disappointed in the eoquence and powers which
he exhibited. Ills was subdned--thougt many
of his expressions towards the Administration and It's
friends bitter enough-but nothing to breathe the
spirit ofenthusiasm into his followers He must try his
hand more-and attempt 10 support the reputation,
which he has elsewhere won as an Orator.
| Upon the whole, these Wings fine, magnificent
| fellows-but they have missed their mark. Although
they had every appliance which the wealth of rich
Metropolis or The command Of the State and municipal
authorities could contribute TO the 'swelling scene
although they undertook to usurp authority over
the Public Square, which has disguised many an i'm
martial citizen--denying Ingress yesterday
through the public that leads through the
square except the ladies and few attendants, until
the Elite of the Procession could pass in and obtain
accommodations although this arrangement produced
great excitement for time, and might have cut off
even strangers from the country from doing their bns.
ness in the Public Offices in the Capitol yet the pa
geant has failed Of its effect The unterrited De-
mocracy still stand their ground. Richmond IS not
vet Virginia and Virginia will prove herself IN
changed on the second Of November. The soaring
genius of Whiggery, like the waxen wing Of lcarus,
/ has fallen TO the ground-and again announce TO
our brethren every where that neither the eoquence of
Webster nor the spendor Of the pageant, has revolu
tonized this proud, old Commonwealth. To adopt one
of the Wing Inscriptions 'She is as she has been,
and ever will be-true to her old State Rights doc
| trines-true to Jcfferson--true to herself.