Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-08-22
Foa THE ENQUIRER.

1 FoR THE ENQUIRER.
Tremendous Excitement (,oanting) in the Sen
trail Rough aud Ready Club of Pittsyipania.
"SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTiONn-NO GO!
For the last eight or ten days, Messrs Edi.
tors, or perhaps longer, the p.ople at large,
Without distinction of party, have By several ad
ycr.isemcnts been respectfully invited 10 attend
a meeting of the "Ccntral Rough and Ready
Club for this county, which assembled on Sa-
turday last, and as an inducement for their at
tendance, it was particularly mentioned mat
speeches would be delivered. BY a0hom the
Speeches were 10 be made the community
were not informed; but those who had the ar
-anyenents in hand considered it sufficient an
annexation no doubt, in the promise that there
sbould he speeches" OF course. IN ms great
uhie county,, the land of the soil tohsa horse,
and Of many other gallant spirits, the faithful
would be expected at all times to como 10 Inc
scratch without any "extra" lnducement 10
former days it was 50. In the Hard CIDER ana
coon. skin" campaign, &C., and IN that OF 1914
il required no "grand flourish 10 gather up Inc
.b'hoys.n The word then had but to be spoken,
and they were there. But how Is It now! "Uld
Rough and Ready" you know, rashcr approves
the a,,nanimouS and spontaneous" assemblages
Of the people; and it has been believed by some
that he and sold Witty would arouse an en-
thusiasm which would sweep the country. The
"fuid" did not pass SO well on last Saturday
however. At the appointed hour for the meet
ing, there were all sorts of long faces and qui-
zical looks Here and there you might see
knot of two or three, and now and then an oc-
casiona look up AID down street, wondering,
perhaps, "why they don't come . The officers
of the club (or enough of them for an organ
ization) were on the ground, aRd consultations
apparently were he'd, but, somehow or other,
the spontaneous combustion" would not exhibit
itself What was the matter!' The NOTES
had been duly posted, and s'speeches" had been
promised, still the cry was, ''ihey don't GOMEZ"
in this, the hour Of their extremity, what were
the though aud Ready" boys 10 do? cold
Rough and Ready" himself ''neyer surrenders,"
you know, eren when he gare IN at IN lodelptiG
to the Wigs; and for his fOlIOws,s to back out
from the meeting of the club wouldn't do exact
". Go it, they would, whether, as one of
their champions would say, "uiih G looseaess'
or not, the crowd will determine.
Its true that the band "dscoursed" no "sweet
music" 10 us.-"Not drum was heard, nor
funeral note" unless it be that the Iarcrm bell,
which was runs a, The signal for The Assem-.
Al any rate al is ringing the "cro1d" started
down 10 rhe Court House 1.-THE leaders thinking
that sufficiently commodious no doubD and, al
Ter wailins sufficiently long lor the immense as.
semblage TO ener and be comfortably seated, Il
believe ttsTe 1c,re seats enough Tor all tire ciuo
was duly organized. As al persons without
distinction of party" we're invited b. The notices 10
attend, concluded 10 drop in, as mere 'looker-
on in Venice" |, strikes me that | haze seen
larger gatherings al The same place in times gone
by than there were then congregaied Every
nnok and corner were not filled and a sea; copH
therefore be procured Many years ago | %as
an eyewitness TO the giving away OF the door OF
The same house, produced by political gather
ins OF The peotle. On this OCCASION, however, the
door bling stronger, felt no sleh apprehension
But, 10 be scriois, Messrs Editors. not having
much else 10 do | made a counI Of this 'sponta
neous assemb age" sho5tly eHer is orgGnizcti2n,
and, after carefully counting tDtre, found he
whole number 10 be just twenty three, Including
thee boys, Two of them less than eight years OF
age a,ac Of c % not enilcdto rGts-so that, de-
duel the NUMBER not entitled 10 ya!e, and the
.sspon,aneoas assemblagc" is reduced to II :
Thns lar things wore rather gloomy aspect
True, some in exchanging slances. put on
a smile, but appearances gave strong indiea-
ton that underneath luIked a bitter disap
cor situlion, or rules, Tor the inture govern
menl OF The club which, having been concluded,
was adopted without division IL was then le-
solved, that those willing 10 become members 0:
The club should sign the aforesaid constitution, or
rules and ire Secretary politely invited The crowd
10 come up 10 he scratch-Q do moi, Of course
mean that he used these exact words.) Some teo
3ia 90 up, hut. To use the words Of q was they
we're "like angels visits fe1 AMI ,cide apart. y
Al leaf hall the crowd heard no. The invitation.
The Secretary however, naturally inclined TO go
ahead" was not 10 be bufied of in tbs way; SO
he took The document aforesaid, and, with pen
and ink in hand, "caled on" the immovabes al
their seats Four OF live stW held out, and touch
cd mol (Tbe lille boys had by this lime
lctl, and al course were no, called on.) This
way Of signing he 'Bdoys" doun is pretty strong
turn taken on them. They there 10 btaGk aud
1chte And what, il they should be disposed
hereafter 10 change their opinions What, tho
they might be convinced that they had taken
wrong direction! And what Of il, though another
candidate hereafter might be entitled 10 their sui.
TRACES Is mol there The record asains Them =
Have they mol pledged Themselves SO lar as their
signatures are evidence OF ii, 10 go il any hclr?-
Is there any clause in The constitution or rules
or in The resolution allowing them 10 unstsD
lhemseives2 II So | heard nothing OF il.
Having then proceeded, and ordered the pur
chase Of - copies of ray lor's life, and
copies Of Clayton and 7oombs' speeches,
the promised speeches were called for. About
this iuncture, or little after perhaps, few
,lraggle.s dropped in. until the meeting increased
to some thirty-four, including eight Democrats,
one Wing, who has not voted for many years,
and two of the aforesaid boys. One Of The
orators. in speaking of General Taylor informed
his audience Of the 'tgrsat increment Of The so
ple" in hi. b-half-that an enthusiasm had arisen
Tor him, which was being waited from East TO
West ard from North TO South, and that, by the
eth Of November next, the breezes OH which il
was transported, would increase into a "hurri-
cane" that would sweep the land. What part
this "great movement Of the people," and This
tremendous enthusiasm arc 10 ill in the "hufr,
cane" aforesaid, whether they are 10 be used AZ
the corner or cap-stoDe of the tempestuous
structure, with which we are threatened, we
we're not informed; but it struck me that unless
they increased more rapidly than the exhibition
hen indicated, they would be thrown among the
rubbish Of the temple, as 100 small for any part
OF the building.
There were many other portions Of the
speeches highly Vulnerable, but as they were
made BY ''good teHous,'' and did not the least
harm to tie Democracy, will let them pass
A LOOKER-oN.
PlrTsYLvlNIi, Aug. 6, lS4S.
For The Enquirer.
TIDE-WATER VIRGINIA.