The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-09-13


THE BALLIN NOTION.
The reception of the faithful Wing mem
bers of Congress, on their return from
Washington, al different points along the
route shows that the spirit of 1910 is still
alive, and that, oppressed and insulted, as
the Wing party have been, they are not
discouraged nor divided.
OF the doings in Philadelphia, we have a
long account, but the arrival of the foreign
news renders If impossible to publish L.
The next morning, yesterday the men,
bers passed through New Jersey Railroad.
10 Elizabethtown, where they were to leave
the cars, and be thence escorted TO New
York. The citizens of that old borough
Wing to the core, and always ready for
action assembled in force, and as the cars
reached their stopping place, welcomed the
+ members with oft-repeated cheers.
They were then received by the Mayor,
Major Chetwood, and all the principal citi-
zens. The address of the Mayor was brief,
pointed, and happy. Mr.. Fillmore, in be
half OF his associates, replied with earnest
ness. and tones Of his manly voice, and the
plain spoken truths he uttered, as to the dis
couragements and difficulties which the
wing members of Congress had labored un.
der in transacting the business Of the ma
ton from the perlidy Of john Tyler, and the
utterly unprincipled course of LocOfocOism,
fell upon attentive ears and burning hearts.
The Company then proceeded in carriages
to Elizabethport, forming a very long pro
cession proceeded by band of music anu
as they passed through the town, greeted
with ringing of bells and the firing of can
non.
At Elizabethport, the steamer Fairfield,
gaily decorated, had landed deputation Of
several hundred from New York, who there
awaited to receive from their New Jersey
br' thren, their common guests and friends.
On the lawn, in front of the large hotel.
the members were addressed, first by A.
Dougherty, in behalf of the Young Mems
Committee, and then by J. C. Hamilton.
Esq A reply. full of animation, was
made by Senator Tallmadge who was sue.
ceeded by Mr.. Halsted of New Jersey; the
latter claiming for his glorious little State
which Mr.. Tallmadge had highly com.
plimcnted as the very battle ground of Free.
dom, and from the Revolution to resist Cd.
pression--that she traced back her Tippe-
canoe zeal TO '36-(veteran of the RevoIu-
ton standing in the crowd said to '76)-ave
to 76, said Mr.. Halstead, for the spirit is the
same, and it will rise again, be manifested
now and henceforth until 1915, in favor of
Henry Clay and the principles with which
that name is identified
The guests were then invited to partake
of collection, provided in the long room
of this vast establishment. which was some.
what hurried, from the necessity of being
in New York at o'clock to meet the Cit
zens who should there be assembled in wal
ting.
The boat cast off about o'clock and
as she turned her PROV to the city. round
of cheers was sent up from the shore. which
thosa on board returned with abundant in.
terest.
The trip to the City was delightful for
crowded as the boat was, there was fine
breeze, and the spirit of all were in keeping
with the brightness of the skies and the Joy
business of the occasion.
The Battery, at the foot of which The
party landed, was alive with people--the
Tribune estimates the number at 20, OO0-a
procession was formed. which, passing thro'
the appointed route, finally left the guests
at the Aston House.
In the evening an overlooking multitude
filled the Tabernacle, but all that there pas
sed, we must take another day to speak,
Suffice it here to say, hastily, that the most
earnest days Of the Tippecanoe campaign
did not exceed the display and enthusiasm
ofyesterday; and that the banner Of Henry
Clay, now spread TO the breeze, TO be borne
onward, and onward, until it valves over
the White House at the installation of Pres
ident Clay in IS45.
MIR, J. l. Lawrence presided in the Tab
ernacle. The guests were welcomed by
MIR. ID. Selden, and speeches were made by
Mr.. Fillmore, Senator Morehead of Ken,
lucky, and Messrs. Stanly of North Caro-.
lima, Thompson of Indiana, the two self
sacrificing Wings. whose final votes on the
Tariff bill saved it in the House of Repre-.
sentatives.
Messrs. Milton Brown, and Caruthers of
Tenn, (the latter from the very precincts
of the Hermitage; , Mr.. Butler King, of Ga.
Senator Bates of Mass, and others are ex.
pecteo to address their Wing brethren at
the sans place this evening.