Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-10-04
GREAT DEMOCRATIC" RALLY,

GREAT "DEMOCRATIC" RALLY,
The great rally of our opponents came
off in this place on Monday last. Neither
General Cass, Hamer, Medill, McReynolds,
or any other of the great men announced
in their bills. At an early hour Of the day
the democracy" of the county came in
with Poke stalks ip abundance. The meet
ing numbered from three TO FIVE hundred
raen, lone or two hundred Of whom were
Wings. There were 236 in their process
son as they went to the stand. A certain
GGaSeooort ,NeIl1HIP, Of the city Of New
York, addressed the meeting for near three
hours, His speech was in the usual Loco
foce Tammany Hall style Of the "Otd HIM
kers." Henry Ciny,--a ProtectiUe Tariff
Land DdStyibutian--a Nayi0Rat Bank; all
came in for the slang usual from such
Orators, He, however, shouldered Texas,
Debts, Negroes, war, with Mexico, and all.
Verify, the focefocos hereabouts must
change their tone. Texas, Mr., Melville
says, was determined on by NE National
Convention at Baltimore, and must come
in if Polk is elected, He put up no affir-
native measure for the Democracy His
only ground was opposition to the Wing
measures, and Wing men; and the battle
cry, PoM, DeItas, end Teas.
The speaker gave us a glowing descrip-
ton of the prospects of the democracy"
North, South, East, and West,--told us
he had been at the Hernitage-was della
gate from New York, to the Nashville
Convention. That he had been OF Con-
vention of the Wings in Columbia, Ten
nessee, (the residence Of James K. Polk,)
He impugned the character Of one OF the
speakers at Columbia, to wit one Albert
Pike, Of Arkansas, who, he says had stolen
canoe some fifteen years since, at that
same town of Columbia, and run otf--that
after he spoke sometime he was recognized
by q man present to be the same individual
who had committed the larceny before stat
ed. That a capias was issued against him
for boarding bill, which he paid, &c.
Now all this may be true; but it looks so
much unlike the truth, that we think it is
all a lie. Does any one suppose that Mr..
Pike would come back to place where he
had stolen property? Is it likely that man
who resided in q town fifteen years since,
and left in the manner above stated, would
not be known atsight! But without dwell
ling further on Mr.. Pike, who is this same
orator Of Tammany Hall, this Major Nell
vile! Who is this man who is so honest
himself! Who is this denunciatcr Of the
Wings, the party who he says, "ntUer steal
Jut htey take" This same Melville, after
being relieved of some little debt OF $751;
900, by the "infamous wing Bankrupt law"
comes out here to tell our people the dan
ger of putting the Wings in office. We
suppose he speaks by the book. We clip
the following from the Cincinnati "Daily
Straighout, Of the Gath Sept;
"tFGansevoort Melville, who faced
that terrible bannerof" 900, 900 bankrupts," "
and spoke with it directly in front Of him
for three hours, must have had his memory
greatly refreshed at the thoughts of his re-
cent bankruptcy in New York, for an im-
mense amount, No wonder thai his
democratic" brother, Mike Walsh, thought
it so strange that he should delegated to
represent the locos of New York, at the
Nashville convention"
When Mr. Melville left New York, we
suppose he might in the language OF the
poet say:
"Patriots we, for be it understood,
We left our country, for our country's
good"
After the adjournment, the Wings re-
pared 10 the Wing pole in the centre of
the town, and T. R. Eckley and Ourself,
replied to the speech of this man who
knows so much about the iniquity OF the
Wings.
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