Mobile register and journal. [volume] (Mobile, Ala.) 1841-1849, 1845-04-30
For the Register and journal
AT "WHIG HALL"

FOR the Register ana Journal,
DOINGS AT "WHIG HALL"
In prompt obedience to a call
The Wings assembled AT the Hall,
Where oft before, with ready hand
They clappd each speaker on the stand,
Where Chiiders fired each patriot breast,
And Mercer met them as guest
Where Bruin growld amid the throng,
And Woodruff ended with song.
Those walls yet give the echo true,
OF "fippecanoe and Tyler too"
They met again-a crowd genteel,
TO ponder for the public veal;
The clock struck eight the Mayor rose
And begged the meeting would composer
Then named for chairman Gov. Gayle,
veteran Whig-neer known to iail
Scarcely was he the chairman made,
He called on Solomon for aid.
The Governor, good man. next rose,
And took his specks from off his nose,
And said he wished this night to see
Each Wing meet Wing in Harmony;
Casting his eyes around the Hall,
lie told thom lIuw lie loved them ALL
"Ho smelt a mice"-with tremulous voice
II ebegged they'd kindly make achoice,
lie told them how in times before,
They batted on this very floor;
Later defeats, he then confessed,
With quvering lip and tear suppressed,
Emotion filled him as he spoke
ofHenry Clay and James X. Polk;
As brethren he had always found
His children in affection bound.
1t was too much, his voice grew weak,
His heart was full, he ceased to speak.
McAlpin's up twas kind relief
To stop further flow 0fgrief,
And with smooth voice went ON to read
Of what the meeting stood in need.
He read, and silence then prevailed,
The timid stared, the movers quailed,
The stream of speech then ceased 10 flow.
So nature stopped awhile 10 blow.
All silent, save each thrObblng breast
Beating hard against each vest.
Nought broke awhile the dLl, repose
Till Gueringer in the gallery rose;
He wished the resolutions now divided
And by the meeting thus decided,
Blocker a Wing who never tlaggd,
Swore he would not now "be gaggd"
His eyes fiash'd fire. his lips gave vent
Tolnnguage strong-ofg grave intent
Ills friend Uas Chiiders-Dunn he knew,
Both are honest, both are true;
lie loved them both with great devotion,
And both are anxious for promotion.
No Democratic tricks he swore
Should stop his voice upon that floor
McAlpln Mt him, hot and free
Perrine and Charley joined the SPREE
Charley said, he had stenld the flood
With ChilderS oft, knee deep in blood"
Guorinee" rashed then 10 ne 'front.'
Chairman, he cried in accents blunt
move you both be now rejected,
And Charley Langdon be selected,
The other branch was no avail
Soon blown to atoms by the GayIe
North gave plug, II would mt stick,
The cries of"question" came too thick.
Some said twas wrong, twas not fair play,
To treat him in rude n way.
Sprague something said we did not hear,
Somebody said twas middiing fair.
Speaking in public does some dimes
But cotton selling makes more dimes.
Twas rich indeed to stand aloof
Aud hear each tauDt and harsh reprocf,
The vote is DER, the deed is Dunn,
The race but short and easy won.
Responding sticks attacked the floor
Voices mingled in the wild uproar.
The chairman now with lifted hand
Begged of the victors to command
Theirjoy-the vanquishcd calm their fears,
And closed the show with three good cheers.
AN lRSER FL