The North-Carolina standard., 1843-10-04
MEETINd IN NEW. YORK.

MEETING IN NEW YORK.
The friends of Mr.. VAN BUREN held meet
ing on the evening of the 25th ul, in the Park at
New York. In speaking of the meeting, the
Evening Post says: a.".
"There seems to be but opinion of the meeting
held in the Park yesterday aernocn, to respond to the
ceedngs OF the convention recently held at Syracuse
that 1t was one OF the largest assembled in this city
on any similar occasion The number present various
ly estimated from five thousand twenty thousand per-
sons-One of the newspapers of this morning says that
there could not have been less any time than
twenty thousand and of those who went and in the
interim not lees than thirty thousand friend Of Mr..
Calhoun who has conversed with this morning, says
the number about four thousand. The whig prints,
we perceive not ready in putting forth conectures
to the number which attended this OCCASION they
have heen former occasions of the kind, the most OF
them considering silence to be the wises policy One
Journal 1t is true the Tribune, nmates that there were
fewer in the Park than there signed
to the call for the meeting but this paper hardly be
considered responsible authority for any statement of
this nature 1t is certain that the whole space between
the staging erected about hundred feet from the steps
of the City Hall, and the City Hall ITSELF dense
mass of human beings Every class OF the community
appeared to be fully represented and the feeling mani
tested by the immense assemblage of the most deci
ded and enthusiastic character.
can attempt made during the proceedings by an
infamous named Walsh, to create disturbance, but
it speedily suppressed by the friends ofdecency and
order"
The Resolutions adopted by the meeting are
characterized by high ability. We give the two
concluding ones:
ResolUed That the record of the life of Mr. Van Bu
but enumeration of acts of aithfnness to the
people From the period when in early manhood he was
the favored friend and trusted counsellor of Daniel D.
Tompkns, to the hour when he borne down at the
head of pure and snglemnded party as the world
ever he has been interviewer and Identified with
the Democracy that its history cannot be written with
out recording his acts of devotion to its From the
dawn of manhood the object ofPohtca persecution, he
fAoo Rlo he
trusted, and who geVe him their trust In each advanc
ing post in which their confidence placed him. his mind
expanded 10 the measure of the station he occupied and
the place he filled gave him no honor that his Abilities
did not repay. In every crisis of his eventu life, his
position with the democracy has been clearly defined
While citizens OF New York, we have delighted to
honor him. it is with sectional feeling that we
urge his claims, for know that his patriotism limit
ed by local bounds, but embraces the whole Repub
lie In his Presidential career not one OF his dstin-
gushed predecessors accomplished more in bringing
back the administration of the government to the stctest
Of the Jeersonan school, and the return of the
Democracy power under his guidance at the head OF
public affairs they have every guarantee of the reestab
shmen of that party basis that will assure its en-
during ascendancy, and promote the welfare OF every
section of our common country.
ResoIped, That in the separation Of Bank and State,
an act which crowned life Of consistency and truth, we
recognise the highest proof Of mental foresight and NOR
al courage and that determined to abandon the
stion then assumed until shall become by the popular
voice. the established policy of the country cannot
abandon the author Of that wise and patriotic measure
To abandon the would be sacrifice OF prIncI-
pe to desert the author would be departure from the
tenets democratic justice Fully apprecating the con-
duct of those wise and able who by their support
that have secured double claims to the conf
dence Of the Democracy justice award still higher
honor the who first conceived it. Nor can we adj
vert without grateful recollectons to the circumstances
under which il put FORTH 1t was the act of period
when the deusons which resulted in the mad triumph
of the Whg party, becoming rife through the land
1t was projected dark hours and waning fortunes, when
seEsiyled friends becoming cold, and coldness was
su5sding into hostility, with almost the conviction thai
temporar, kefeat awaited it, but with equal
that based as it truth, its ultimate triumph was
sure to come. Never abandoning an honest issue, be
when first presented, the public mind may not be
prepared for it, again present it, determined that II
shall be interviewer in the established policy of the
country. Veg, for the measure and its author, the
and the the Independent Treasury and Mar
tin Pan Buren,"