The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-08-30
LETTER I'D THE EDITOR.
THE GREAT MASS CONVENTION AT
NASHVILLE.
NASHVILLE, TENN, Aug. 90, 1914.

to receive letter from me dated at this place.
came, OF course, to witness the Young Mems
Mass Convention, with few friends, from the
Upper Mississippi, and It was indeed "A MON
SrER MEETING" The city of Baltimore was
once famed for the splendor of her civic and mill
tary professions but no exhibition of the kind, in
her pamest days, surpassed this of the noble
Wing youths of Tennessee. The operation of
the mechanic arts was carried on beautifully; the
press throwing off perfectly printed forms, and
the loom its fine fabrics. The attempt to describe
the magnificent pageant would be worse than
foolish, for have neither the time nor the talent;
and sincerely depore my utter incapacy to
give youev faint idea of the great beauty and
sublime effect of the part which the ladies', God
bless them, so CALAMITY BORE say CALAMITY, for
they bore aoft on satin banners, fine and chase
and lovely as themselves, and white as the driven
snow, the full array of all the States of this grad
ContederCy IWenty-sX open carriages, drawn
by ffly-tWo spendld horses, bowling the neck and
champing the Bit were crowded with passengers,
the noble matrons and pretty maidens OF this beau
liful land.
The meeting of the clans, all in their own fan.
cied costume, armed to the teeth, was grand and
truly en- masse-the hearty voters, the hard-fsted
bone and sinew, the genuine hardy yeomanry
of the republic After the three days" of Ten
nessee, who will doubt its perpetui'y. Every
county is here represented They appear to have
come in battalions, in companies, in plaoons, two
deep and sngly, solitary and alone. OF all things
pleasing TO the sight Except the dear ladies) the
company from Robinson took my eye. Coming
in, almost the first from The county, ascending
rr,N ,ID t~,~ tk no1
circuits around the beautiful diamond square OF
Nashville, astonishing even the natives. | adj
dressed the captain, tall, straight old revolution
airy looking man, asking him from whencs he
came, and the number OF his troops. "From old
Robinson,' he promptly replied a leetle over
four hundred, and left boys enough behind to
strip the fodder"
These nubben-hill coon hunters, SO called, are
dressed in neatly trimmed hunting shirts of the
common aronetta dye, and apparently dipped in
the same kettle. The head gear is lud,crous
enough-consislng of white three-cornered cock
ed hats of the true seventy-six stamp, and seem
ingly casually "knocked' into that fashion. The
accoutrements are efficient and formidable, some
of them fearful and in hands that might prove
dangerous to the enemy. All at once, and sud
denly, the we king was filled with an awful sound.
appalling to the soul, and louder than the blast
Of Robin Hoods horn in the hands of Wanda,
the merry jester. Only think such a sound
from four hundred great bulIocks horns, hung to
the sides of the Coon Hunters of the Nubbin
Ridge.
have always been little skeptcal about the
achievement of the rams horns, but now no lon
ger. If these are not the same horns, the martha
blasts are, most assuredly, the same that knocked
down the walls of Jericho. There are innumera-
BILE other companies yet deserving of a better &C.
count Gov. Jnnes's county poured forty 2.7OO
of her spirited Wing population, and Maury coun-
ty proportional force. This is Mr.. Folks own
mass meeting is to come off at his residence
(Columbia) in few days. Mr.. Clay once made
visit to this city, when it was said he came to
beard the old Lion in his den, and now they saw
these mschlevous Wings are going to beard his
young JackaIl. Mr. Pren,iss, in his brilliant
speech of yesterday, drew this comparison be.
tween the parties litgant. Hon. Mr.. Rayner and
Hon. Mr.. Cngman, from the old North State
spoke yesterday. Mr.. Randall Hunt, from New
Orleans, speaks to day, and others TO morrow
The Hon. Messrs. Preston of S c., and Critten-
den, of Kentucky, did not come. The latter was
prevented by the sudden death of his wfe's mo-
Their, just upon the eve of his departure.
1t is admitted by some of the honest Locofocos
here that their procession all counted did not
amount to more than $500. the Wings to more
than double that number-S500 carefully poed,
and fifty thousand on the ground There was one
lele' however, most happy concert, IN which the
Locotocos beat out all the Coon fooleres Of which
they complain, There appeared in the grand pa
rade about 80 men, looking like filthy paupers, all
in fancy costume slashed torags, some of them in
wonen's gasb all personating, as they say. Hem
ry Ciays suffering land pirates and squatters--
poor wretches, just driven from heir claims upon
The public lands by that hard hearted crlter,
Henry Clay aFts as#t.
The Locofocos affect to believe all this, and
heaven help their digestive organs if they can
swallow Inons,rosity SO abhorrent to the feelings
Of every honorable man.
Than this noble ate of Tennessee, rest assur-
ed there is not one more O. K.
MIGHTY GATHERING OF THE WINGS |
OF THE RIVER COUNTIES.