The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-09-15
| NUMBER 81.
From The Nashville Wing, August %.
THE MEETING.

! county courtroom Of the Court House, on
Saturday last, 9th instant 10 describe
d The numbers which composed this ingalher.
ing Of The freemen Of Davidson, we nigh,
say, that the spacious hall IN which if was
mrs! called 10 order, was filed 10 overflow.
ing, and that many of our friends were I'm.
e abie with comfort 10 get v thin hearing Of
The speeches; but no one, we believe, nor
even The most skeptieal OF our opponents,
doubts that II was, altogether, one Of Tho
largest County meetings ever convened m
the City Of Nashville. This fact, Of itself
Is sufficient, without more formal estimate
ct the extent oil the meeting or The uumer.
zeal voting strength which it embodied in
favor OF this first popular nomination, in tho
metropolis county Of Tennessee of
HENRY CLAY, of Kentucky.
he spirit which animal. the meetlur,
IS reflected IN the eloquent and uncomprom.
! Isng declaration Of sentiments moved on
the occasion by the Hon. l.. H. Foster,
and adopted by the unanimous voice of the
meeting 1t was manifested, too, by the
frequent bursts Of applause, which inter.
rnpted the reading OF this able paper, and
The long, loud aud enthusiastic shout which
followed the nomination with which it con.
cIudes. Nor did the enthusiasm of the
meeting stop here. Speaker after speaker
was called for and listened to with the most
respectful attention. and It was not until
late hour al night, {the meeting having ad.
Iourned from TIL o'clock, =. NJ. that the
proceedings were finally brought TO close.
Al the ringing Of the CITY Hall bell at
eleven O'Clock, the people (such as could
get entrance) crowded into the spacious
court room in the State House whereupon,
on motion of Dr. Boyd McNary, Thomas
3 hing, Esq was called upon to preside
over the meeting. On motion Of Thomas
1. Smiley, Esq, Williamson H. Horn,
Geofge II Burton Isaac Paul, George w.
Coleman, John Nichol, Boyd MeNairy, E.
II East, William Edmston, S. B. David.
son, Joseph Gee, VIM Il Clemons, j. E..
Manlove, and Martin Fnrehand, we're an.
pointed Vice Presidents; and Wilkins Tan.
nehlll and F. X. Zolhcofer appointed Sc.
cretaries.
ni' r0e'v. 49,. .vov, ,.".,Je, mt wu,..-
applause oil the meeting, and after few ap.
PfoprIate and stirring remarks, delivered
with the characteristic grace and manner
OF the speaker, moved the following
DECLARATION AND RESOLUTIONS.
The causes which led to the early polit.
zeal movements that now quicken the Wing
party throughout the Union bespeak their
own importance, and claim the Immediate
and unceasing energies Of every patriotic
heart. Great, indeed, is the necessity for
vigorous popular action, when a nation
mo0rns IN one calamitous year, the increas.
ing decay of political morals, the loss Of a
faithful aud upright ruler, and the exaia.
ton OF man who abandous bis coufding
and, IN a sordid lust of Office,
btlrays all the cherished principles he was
chosen TO vindicate and defend. Such is
The short but melancholy picture of the
present state and condition of things in this
suffering country, and to every sober and
rejecting mind the portrait grows darker
aud darker with each revolving day. That
ambition, which in the purer days Of the
Republic, devoted itself 10 the investigation
and the practice of the principles Of true
and unadulera.ed democracy, and to the
preservation of our youthful institutions,
seeks its qualification now in the basest
channels, and political traitors add to their
crimes by pleading virtuous influences that
do not chasten their hearts or guide their
guilty counses. In one signal and elevated
example, the inward monitor is made
pack horse for acts of peridy and deceit,
such as have never before furnished the fame
oil first magistrate of the nation, and
conscience is pressed forward TO cloak
The condacs of the Executive who turns his
face from his friends, disregards popular
sentiment, and threatens public liberty by
assuming powers which are no
where safe out Of the hands Of the immedi-
ate representatives of the people. By the
same high dignitary, offices Of honour and
profit, have been frequently bestowed upon
sycophants, hatterers and deserters, aud an
American Congress is publicly denounced
because majority of its members adhere
to their pledges and stand sternly
seadiast upon the doctrines and the policy
they had everywhere avowed and promi.
nen,y proclaimed.
The wickedness and imbecility which
could prompt to the preparation of the per.
fjy we now portray, are never without
sufficient discretion to teach the delinquent
here to search for, or who 10 call his
friends; and spark of magnanimity would
earn him to own and acknow ledge his new
associates. But the acting President of the
United States heightens duplici,y and deep.
ems his guilt, by affecting, at times, polite.
Al synlpathes he does no, feel, thereby the
more fatally betrayng the men and the
principles he has long since deliberately
deserted. In heart and purpose he belongs
o our adversaries. To these, our bitter
nemies and his new allies, we now public.
y cohslgn John Tyler and against them
10Th, as uniting together in The support of
doctrines and practices which must Grad.