The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-05-09
Were the finest lads that ever you saw,
The gallant young wings from Arkansas"

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The Buffalo hunt, which came of at Canton al
four o'clock in the afternoon, was pretty much Of
hnmbug; and terminated precisely as the one die
at Hoboken, in the getting loose Of one of the Buff
faloes, and the knocking down of a great many
people, only no one was seriously injured. small
enclosed race course is no place TO hunt buffaloes
Nothing further took place the whole dav ex
cept !he lighting OF Monument Square in the even.
ing with the drummond light. few speeches
were made in front Of the Court House between
eight and ten o'clock at night, but they were small
potatoes; and the crowd, after waiting patiently FOL
about an hour, and calling loudly for "Websier-
Observation-Disclosures and being in.
formed that Mr.. Webster was worn out and gone
to bed, and Mr.. Crittenden had gone to Washing
ton, they gave three cheers, and moved of in q
body, laughing heartily at their own disappoint-
ment
The speakers were a Mr.. Richardson, a Mr.
Iiuller, Mr.. Mudd, and one or two Others that
few knew anything about, and cared less. 1t was
very much like taking an emetic the day after
drinking heartily of strong wine.
synopsis OF one speech would serve for all
There was no accommodation for reporters, but ]
caught the following from one of the first speak.
ers;-
"Countrymen-glorious occasion--hearts of people
voice OF freemen-millisns of whigs-gorious dsy-glo
Of Cav q Ffss
<Great cheering) This 10 great country-whig prnc
Pcs--democracy- is ti-new fangled-ask for
bread-give stones-can you live democracy Twill II
feed you1-wl it all the bellies of your wife and chill
dren or clohs their backs',enyy Of the word-si,rn
van Duren-lnl s-Dan'n) -henry Clay-(hur(ahh NJ
this picture and ths-whig principIes-Nsonal Bank
sound currency distribution Of public lands-proec
ton OF laborgeneral sweeping, reform, retrenchmen
and economy. The locofocos give you very sort
OF government (Bah sh) The wings will give you the
very best (Of course-hurrah.ah) Locos promise
gan ah)-whigs perform (who hoohoo) Fellow coun
,rymen (hur-rahah), ] want no ofhce-(huray)-m
est s-distressbetter timesIienry Clay, Of Ken
lucky Theodore Frelnghuy SEN (hurrah)-
very surrrsingsvery body rsn the locos pisen
rlnoorran2 Fellow citizens-love Of country--honor
honesty Patrotism-ruhian locos-gentlemanly wings
train and justicegorious country-nevcr give up the
snip ~ amend ana prosper-we will copquer-( Certain
WLma, same Ola coon (hurrah.ah)-neve say die
ycock , ooae,.oo)-Chapmsn never more-this
"as'e~. o'un''y' ana we are great people"
Mr.; FRANCIS GRANGER delivered a verv good
speech IN ueIehcs OF zen. Harrison's cabinet and
his own course therein. He defended Nv Claw
from the charge OF interfering to have deputy post
masters turned out-,he took that responsbtv on
himself, and was only sorry that he could NOT 6ays
remained in office about a year longer Cor he
would have bundled out about 5000 more, ~ IN mJ
cheers and laughter followed this) \Nouu
Mr. Granger was the only man OF anv in,nor,.n..
left to speak, but his topics were utterly ihrr adhars
Nevertheless. he was greatly admired bv III.
ladies, aad really looked very handsome al he
stood bare-headed in front oil the Court House
with the Drummond Light Illuminating his fin,
features ~
To sum up in a few words-this has been a most
splendid Convention: it has thrown that of 1870
far into the shade-the number of persons exceed.
ed those here in 40, and the procession was twice
rs large as the one on that OCCASION and ten times
superior IN point of brilliancy, and in having
sensible banners Instead of so many coone and