The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1840-09-25
From the Erie Observer
THE GLORIOUS TENTH!..M!
THE WEST IN MOTION.!

On Tuesday, the 9Th, the people began
to arrive in town from different sections
of the State, and the intelligence they
brought satisfied us that the Convention
of the Tenth would be proud and glori-
Gus era for the Democracy of the West.
The curious observer was by this time
engaged to estimate the relative force of
British whiggery and the incorruptible
democracy. No man we saw estimated
our strength at less than five to their one,
and many claimed twenty to one. A
circumstance may serve as a guide to the
judgment. On Tuesday evening the
wings held meeting at their log cabin,
and it required loud, long, and Oft repeat
ed blasts upon their long tin horn to get
together whiglings sufficient to fill its
walls, capable of the reception Of about
one hundred. The democracy met in
the open square, and more than one thou
sand surrounded the humble dry goods
box on which the eloquent advocates of
equal rights and equal privileges were
standing to address the people. Mr.. Nc
Dowell of Cambria and Mr. Randall of
Erie, addressed the meeting at some
length, in strains of cloquence, which
were responded to by enthusiastic APP
plauscs, when the multitude retired to
such quarters as could be found, hut
which had already become somewhat
crowded.
Wednesday opened upon us new
scene. Delegation after delegation pour
ed in singly and in procession, till our
borough seemed thronged by strangers.
In the afternoon, the patriotic young men
of Harborcreck and other townships of
the vicinity joined those of our borough
and brought into our town a splendid
hickory tree one hundred feet high, and
raised it in front Of our Tammany Hall,
there to wave its towering branches, and
bear the glorious stars and stripes of our
country, until the struggle of freemcn is
closed by the loud shout of victory. On
Wednesday evening. John X. Kane of
Philadelphia, and Maj. James II. Snow
den of Venango, addressed the multitude
amidst the shouts and plaudits of thou
sands. A shower interrupted the meeting
for a short time, but in about half an hour
it subsidized and the meeting was revived
by the young but eloquent Forncy of
Lancaster, who was followed in spirited
and thrilling effort from NJ. p. Young,
Esq. of Erie, when the meeting again
broke up, and the multitude sought such
shelter and repose as our town could
afford.
Thursday morning, the glorious tenth,
was ushered in by the thunder of artillery
upon the Aotilla, answered by the roar of
our battery upon the land. Bustle and
commotion were every where visible.
Taking an excursion to Eagle Village.
mile distant, at day light, we saw from
three to five thousand frcemen, with the
banners Of our country proudly floating
above them, their wagons filling every
lot, street and lane in one vast encamp-
ment as they had arrived during the night
and were now waiting for their brethrcn
and companions from good old Crawford,
and venango, who had encamped along
the turnpike between Waterford ard Eagle
Village, and expecting also, the mingled
professions Of from eight to ten thousand
encamped in Girard, and between that
place and Eagle Village.
By eight o'clock Our borough literally
presented one moving mass of human
beings. The streets on all hands were
so thronged. Nat the procession from
Eagle Village had but barely room 10
pass through the borough. The arrival
Of tho steamboat Constitution, so heavily