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From the Cincinnati atlas.
WING MEETING AT LEBANON.

WING MEETING All LEBANON.
In pursuance to previous notice, large assem-.
b!age Of Wings took place at Lebanon on Salur.
day the 28h inst. The specific object of the
meeting was to receive from the Hon. r. C.
Schenck, report of his stewardship; the county
| of Warren, which he represented in the last
Congress, being struck out of the district which
he now represents.
The meeting was organized by the election Of
the following officers:
! PreSideat-lIon. Jeremiah Morrow, of War.
ren.
Vice Prcaidcnis-Gov. VIM. Bebb, Hon. John
Woods aud John MiIlikin, of Butler, John N.
C.. Schcnck, of Warren, and John NJ. Gallagher,
of Clark.
Secretories--W. II. P. Denny, of Warren, and
VIM. e. Ilowes, of Butler.
Committee on ReSoIuiions--Lewis D. Camp.
bell, of Butler, Hon. David Fisher, of Clinton,
ThoS. B. Stevenson, ol Cincinnati, VIM. Cross.
lev, Of Montgomery, and A. II. Dunlevy,J J. J.
fanny, f. Baily, Col. John Hopkins, and Gid.
con d Hart, of Warren.
During the absence Of the Committee on Re.
solutions, Mr. Thomas B. Stevenson addressed
the meeting. The committee having returned
and reported resolutions for consideration, the
meeting adjourned for dinner, after which they
were resumed and unanimously adopted as copied
below. Mr.. Schenck then delivered powerful
discourse on the origin and objects of the war,
as well as the means Of terminating it honoraby,
and embracing, besides, a mastery, manly and
conclusive defence of himself for his own course
in Congress on that subject. He was listened
10 with deep attention, and frequently respond.
ed to from the audience by expressive bursts
of appreciation, as period after period Of indig. |
uant attack or triumphant selEdelence rolled
ooqueutIy upon his tongue.
Mr. Corwin followed. We had never heard
him before. We have heard some good speak
ing in our time, having grown up among peo.
Pile where oratory aud eloquencc seem TO the
''manor bon;" but we must say, for sober con.
vcon cXlors il) that Mr. Corwn's speech at
Lebanon last Saturday was the nobesI, whether
considered with reference to ITS matter or man.
ner, or both, that we ever heard from mortal lips.
1t was directed TO n defence of his vote against
war supplies; to the maintanance of the unda.
mental principle Of free government that the re.
prcsenalves Of the people must Judge of the
prOprIcly of objects for the attainment of which
they Nre called on 10 furnish means-a principle
for which, he solemnIy declared, he was ready
to lay down his life as did our loreiaihers of the
Revolution; and to the consideration of the prac.
tcal means of preserving the Union from the
overthrow threatened by the acquisition Of new
territory in the prosecution of the Mexican War.
On this last point he concurrcd with Mr.. Schenck
and the resolutions Of the meeting, that no safe
plan of redemption remained but that Of refus.
ing to take any portion of Mexican territory
On the blessings of the Union, on the duty to
preserve it, and the means of preservation, his
cloQuence seemed superhuman. Never before
was assembled an audience so solemn, so rapt,
so deeply moved; and, on the checks Of the old,
the mlddIe.aged and the young, rolled down tor
rents of tears us the eloquent and patriotic truths
Of the noble orator of the people fell from lips
that seemed almost inspired.
Bui We feel how vain and presumptuous the
attempt to describe such a speech. Some idea
If It's eloquencc and power aud effect may be in.
erred, though not realized, by the fact that eve.
y one who heard it, declared il the abest speech
40 ever delivered; and to say that Mr., Corwin
lar surpassed himself is the highest euogium
that can be pronounced upon his effort. 1t was
certainly superior in ability to his great speech
in the Senate; and it would be worth more to this
country than the expense of this Mexican war,
could it be printed verbatim and given TO every
man, woman, and child in tho land. 1t should
bo put in the hands of school boys for all time
to come, and ltwould be appropriate both TO the
Sunday school aud the pulpit.
The Wings of Warren county have made
renewed declaration OF the faith that is in them |
tho faith by which they have directed their ,
political course hitherto aud by which they will [
BE- guided hereafter. We have no doubt that this L
expression will be responded TO ihroughou, the t
Union. aud we think we assume nothing in say. B
ing that the Wings OF Warren have expressed
he sense of The enliro Wing party Of tho great
md growing Safe OF Ohio
The resolutions OF the meeting arc in the
words following:
|. Resolved, That the usurpalions of power
by the President OF the United States, and the
wanton abuse by his administration Of sound mo-
raj aud political principles, have involved the
country ln an alarming crisis which threatens