New-York daily tribune., 1844-05-08
VOL. Nv. NO. e5.

lana there met face to face, exchanged their ideas
and the greetings OF brotherhood Here Mr..
DAWSON attempted 10 draw his Address 10 a
Close but, by continued cries of Go on 90 on,
was obliged to continue, Your great State OF
New York expects. with its 100000 votes, 10
give greater majority than VIC of Georgia
I've do! We do !" from the crowd) / II bet
hamper of Champagne you do not. q take
It from various of the audicEce.) We will give
the largest majority; and how 2 Not by Coon
Skins; not by The clap-trap of election tricks, as
our opponents say, but fairly, openly at the ballot
box.
Whoever, fellow citizens, would drive wedge
into the fai. fabric OF our Union deserves TO be
eXecratcd, and he deserves the exccration Of hu,
manly who would deprive US Of the p!oud salts.
faction Of saying that VIC are citizens alike ol
Maine and of Georgia.
Col. LuMrKIN said-I left Georgia an invalid
with the express agreement that Col Toombs was
to do the talking part Of cur duty and Gen. Daw-
son the drinking; Gen. Dawson here rose and
protested against the revelation of family secrets j
hut though was by contract dumb, yet the stir
ring events of tha great christening we have wit
messed has acted on me as on Zacharias Of old,
and if were 10 continue silent the very stones
would find tongues whcrcwith TO cry out against
me. My tongue is now looscda and must speak.
OF all the abuses the Wing party wishes to re-
form, the greatest TO my mind is the e1ertion of
Executive influence on our Legislative delibcra-
tions Where 90 VIC find its prototype. Let us
look to the Declaration Of Independence, that in
dictmcnt found and presented against George | III.
there will you find similar state Of things
chroniclcd
am opposed TO the whole Veto power-to
even modification Of it: nor am singular IN
this-Frankln was opposed toit Whatever the
people in Congress shall will, that should be law;
but the argument used in opposition 10 DR.. Frank
lin was, that siucc 1878 in England, this power
had never once been excrted But how erronc-
Gus has been the deduction made from it in our
country. Now crowd bcsels the doors of the
Cabinet officers to kdow what they will recon-
mend-what his Exceency will please to ap-
prove of.
But a better day dawns-a light has appeared
in the horizon; and even nov it is at the zenilh.
a Moses and an Aaron, as had been said, have
appeared to US, and the man of promise appears
in tnenvista, reaching one hand over the North,
another over the South and embracing the whole
country.
This Convention is thing to talk of to our
children. have eight sons, fellow citizens. the
eldest of whom, yet minor, accompanied Inc tn
Baltimore as 4 Delegate to the Young Mems
Convention Like Hamiican OF old, have made
my son swear upon the altar OF patriotism. fidtl
ty to his Country, and eternal war upon her ene-
mes.
Said one Of old, and wisely, "whcn converted
confirm your brethren" Therefore let US g
on until the Loco Foco Apolyon is drowned IN The
sea Of Whig principle. Go on, until your 1r'
umpl shall resound like the voices OF many Wa
tcrs-liIl the light of your rciocings, like tn,
watch. fires Of Scotland, shall beam from hill Il
nll-,ill, like the Alpine Echoes, Iura shall an
swcr To Gems, and Gems reply again.
We are row in lhe1rultlon OF our hopes III The
iulness of our rejoicing. And you, young Wings
watch carefully the torch your fathers have be-
quealhed TO you-sec, like the Vestal.firc, that IL
be never extlngulshcd.
The meeting hoao adjourned to Mr. Freling-
huysens house.