Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-04-27
GREAT WING CONVENTION.

and Vice President of the United States
will meet in Baltimore on Wednesday,
the first Of May.
The Young Mems Wing National Con.
veutian of Ratification (to which every
Wing in the Union, rhstter specially del.
eeated or not, is invited, and for whose
accommodation ample provision will lie
made By the Wings of Bll,imore) will
meet in Baltimore on Thursday, the sec
ond of May-Balimore Patriot.
/ As soon as the above conventions shall
have been held we expect to see it an.
nounced in all the whig papers: a
great, unparalleled, countless, unprece.
denied, unimaginatle, astounding gather.
ing of gallant wings took place on Wed.
nesday, the lst, from all parts of the
world. The Baltimore Patriot estimates
The number at 10000. The National
lntelligencer thinks the number might
reach 100000, while others estimate it at
near half million. On the next DIV,
about the same number Of young gallant
wings came 10 swell the ranks Of the con-
ventlon 10 the Innumerable and iranscen.
dant estimate Of at least elcven-teen
hundred thousand gallant wings. In The
course OF the day nineteen hundred and
slxty-SeVen speeches were made by MS
many gallant wings, all of which clearly
demonstrated that one Martin Van Buren,
who lived at Undertook. was VIGOROUSLY
engaged in the unlawful and nefarious
practice Of raising ca}bages, and never
wore q coon.skin on his vile bald head,
but has often been known, in a manner
contemptuous and disrespectlui towards
the American people, to wear n hail.
And they also concusiveIy proved that
Henry Clay is "the gallant Harry, and the
mlI-boy of the slashes;" that ofel in the
slashcs Of Hanover he hls been seen rca.
ding his bible. and riding along on his
mule, his neither person diedaining those
conventional convenience" which hide
the anstocratlc limbs of mo Tern efcuipa-
cy. They showed also that he is 10 This
day IN the HABIT Of going 10 nil, EXCEPT
when engaged in ploughlng on his lit lie
farm at Ashland, place 70 which he il
exceedingly attached, and from whence
he viii tie drawn with great difficulty.
having never left it for d moment for the
last seven years either to elec,ioneer or
tor any other purpose. They also showed |
that heil.deserving attempt was in con.
temptation 10 annex Texas to this Union,
an infamous project, which could have no
other effect than to strengthen and extend
the influence of the slave. holding States,
and might IN some way or other interfere
with the prospects of "gallant Harry"
for the Presidency. Although thirteen
thousand hogshcads of hard cider were
drunk, the greatest harmony prevailed in
consequence of the singing of thirty.fou
thousand nine hundred and twenty. three
songs, which awoke in the breast of every
gallant wing the most devoted love off
country and Office"
sit was noticed that during the progress
of the meeting one Horace Greedy, an
abolitonist, was Iccturng to the crowd on
the evils of slavery and the blessings Of
protection; while in another quarter Mr.. |
Dellett of Alabama, was denouncing abo-
h'lon and high tariff, which it wos
thought by some might create some dis.
crepancy, but the Hon. and gallant John
M. Bolts, after giving vent TO one or Two
energetic affidavits, raised the stirring and
patriotic hym of
High on limb that same old coon,
was singing to himself this tune"
and in the midst Of the enthusiastic feobn,
created by this elevated" sentiment the
convention very appropriately dispersed."
We publish the following TO show the
spirit which actuates the enemies of tho
southern institutions and the constitution
" Rouse up New England" what would
they DO with it when they had roused !,
up, and "buckled on its mail of proof
sublime?'' sentence by The wav as
destitute of sense as the whole article is j..
oil patriotism AMI discretion This " sub.
lime " production first appeared in the
Boston Courier, leading whig paper, and
S only another evidence of what is the
rue source of the opposition TO Texas an n