The Arkansas banner., 1844-07-17
From h,e Ne,c York Erenmg PoSt. IF, MEETING AT CASTLE GARDE


 Ill the Park recently, and exhibited quite as much, if not nore enthusiasm. About SIX o'clock the crowd began to assemble, and ln less than an hour the entire area of the garden was filed It was certainly larger meeting than the celebrated meeting of 1S40, in the same place, which was supposed 10 be one of the largest political assemblages ever held in this city Considering that there had been no organization in the wards, and that no efforts were made 10 bring out this demon- stration except by the ordinary notices in the newspapers, this meeting may be regarded as the most successful and enthusiastic of the season.
 Yet in theface of this evidence, the Express and Tribune attempt to misead their readers by such paragraphs as the following
 "I'he various imitation processlons got up to create an excitement, decidedly failed i'll their object, for al the hour at which the meeting was called, there were certainly not more than 800 or 900 persons present, which increased to about 2,000. and but little enthu- siasm was exhibited.o Express.
 "There was cold gathering of locos at Castle Garden last evening, at which a Folk speech was at last extracted from Slas Wright, luOuSH le iTdlhlN SdNC uAVHi to uiiuClHtdiiN that he didn't like the nomination. Mir. Brin- kerhoff, member of Congress from Ohio, and Senator Breese. also spoke. It was solemn meeting. but not so forlorn as it looked to our citizens, from the extraordinary leanness of the apologies for proccssions. Tribune.
 Now, 1t is an easy matter to estimate the number present, and show the recklessness of these assertions. Mir. French, the propri- etor of the Garden, who has of course often taken an accurate measurement of the place, when making arrangements for concerts and exhibitions, calculates that the area will hold about ten thousand people. and that the boxes and galleries will hold some five thousand more. Well, at the meeting last evening. all parts of the Garden were as full of people as they could comfortably be. The Sun, a neu- tral paper, estimates the number at twelve thousand; we suppose it was nearer fifteen. MT. Pollard, the architect. once measured the Garden for roof, to extend from the inner walls. and found that it contained thirty thou sandsquare feet. Allowing two square feet for man, the Garden would hold fifteen thou sand persons with great ease. We should not dwell upon the subject, but for inc fact, that the whig prints are endeavoring to sup press the truth. Some of them do not men, ton the meeting of last evening, and others misrepresent it's size and proceedings.
 When the time for organizing the meeting had arrived. Mr. w. H. Cornell came forward and nominated as president of the meeting BENJAMIN r. BUTLER, whotook his seat amid great cheering. Colonel Joseph C. Hart then nominated the following gentlemen as vice presidents
 Andrew II. Mickle, Walter Browne, George Douglass, Henry Cornell, Charles A. Secor, John MeNIahon, Allen M. Snippen, David Nandervoort, Vim. Quackenbush, Mel Gray, Joseph Bishop, Isaac Dyckman, Alexander Stewart, Robert A. Sands, J. l. Coddington, Issac l.. Varian, Charles Wright, Michael Burke, Philip Johnson, Barnet Cole, James Peach, Jesse Van Auken Cyrus Refill, Wm l.. Wood, Peter Crawford. Jacob Brush, Elijah r. Purdy, Wm. Wells, David s. Jackson, Wm. A. Walters, Michael Gaflney, John F. Ross, John Meyer, Joseph Alden.
 They were unanimously chosen and took their seats. Clement Guion, Esq, nominated the following gentlemen as secretaries, who were also unanimously elected
 William Harris, B. F. Cornell, George H. Varian, Wm. H. Baker, Ira B. Davis, and Peter L. Fiertv.
 The meeting having been organized, Mir. Butler rose and said that he esteemed il high honor to be called to preside over so nume- rous and respectable meeting of the democ- racy of New Y ork :; and he begged them to receive his grateful thanks for the honor.- Without detaining them another moment in giving expression to his feeling. he could call their attention to the circumstances under which they had assembled, and to the pur- pose they had in view. This great assem- : blaze of the democracy of New Y York had been convened by the Central Van Buren Convention composed of delegates from the Van Buren associations of the several wards. The purpose for which they had been called together, was to give another impulse, like that given two weeks since by the great rati- fication meeting in the Park, to the nomina- tions of Polk and Dallas.
 It was but three weeks since these nomi- nations issued from the monumental city, and already they had been responded to, not only by the democracy of this city and State. but by that of the Union From the North and from the South--from the rock-bound shores of New England 10 the wide praires ofthe West. The democracy have responded to these nominations with the same unanim- ity which had pervaded the convention at Baltimore. Everywhere, in the sequestered hamlet. the bustling villages, the crowded and gay metropolis of our country, they had been hailed as the pledge of union and of harmony, and. therefore, of success. This feeling, if we do our duty. and our brother democrats in other States do theirs, will spread, and go forward, and triumph. Butwemust not suffer 1t to flag; we must remember-it had been repeated thousand times, but was not too late to be repeated agan-that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance; and that to van qush the foe with whom we have 10 contend, we must be ever on the alert, prepared to do battle for the constitution and the country It was in this spirit and for these reasons, that this meeting had been called: and from no