The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-02-19
The War Meeting in New YOrk-Cen.
Foote'S speech.

YORK convened tor the purpose OF passing y
resolutions and hearing speeches in favor Of
the war. Mayor Mickle was nominated as
chairman; but it was impossible to tell wiicth-
er he was elected or not, a. the numbsr Of
voices for and against the choice seemed about
equal. Mr.. NJ was declared elected, however,
ana took the chair, when cries of ''Put that
man OUTPUT that man out.i-wers heardali
over the room.
A large number Of vice presidents and sec
%retaries were appointed The object Of the
meeting was stated, and Gen. Houston miro
duced He made long and able apeech, which
was listened TO vita attention. When ho had
concluded, Gen. Foote, Of Mississippi, was in
t%roduced, and spoke substantially az follows:
Fe tow Citiaens-(some conrusion,0 | sup
pose it is unnecessary for me t., tell yon who
| am. ['Yesn "No!n "Who are You ?"-
''Go on" "%stop!"l The good old Democrat
ic State OF Mississippi Kisses and groansl-
Of which am q resident ["Put him out!nl-l
has done me the honor to send me to the Unit.
ed States Senate; and | have left, for a short
time, the arduous duties Of that station to min
gle with my fellow Democrats Of New York
and to exchange friendly salutations with
them Wear all Democrats; ['Uv koorss we
are,"l the bonds Of union-EGreat confusion
Kisses, groans, laughter, and a voice "Union
Bonds! och murder!nl
= Mayor Miekle.-Gentlemen will please al
low the speaker to 60 on. C'Three cheers
: for Gen. laylorw-"Thrae cheers for Presi-
dent Polk''-"Threo more" 4 voice-ofhree
d cheers for the Custom neutrality-suspicious.
u and prolonged laughter.)
. Gen. Foole.-It is impossible for me to speak
connectedly under the circumstances; ! know
not, even now, where dropped the thread Of
my discourse ("Cries Of 'Ihe Union Bonds
don't reppdiato them" "Thres cheers Tor
Col. Robins" "Hufrah ~ "Iurrah ~ "Hur-
' rah m-"Three cheers for Shocco Jones.!'-
immense laughter.)
Capt. Rynderss-Let the honorable gentle
man proceed; we want to hear him talk abou'
Mexico: wo want to hear him speak to til,
question-what shall 10 done with MexicO?-
- (From the Crowd-"Annex il, annex it?"-
and laughter)
Gen. Foote.-I am not exactly prepared 70
that; FCries of-Behind the times"' and hi.
ses,l but | will say, taRt it 10 our duty befor
God to protect the people of Mezieo;-
~ her people are begging US not to depriV
them Of the freedom which our arms has giV
: en- them. Under such circum stances, whs
should 0e do? (AAnnex,' "annex," from th
~ crowd) Shall we withdraw our aEmles froI
:, that country? ["No," "no," from all par
Of the bouse.l Shall we permit scenes sim
:. lar to those which have occurred in times pa
to occur again? But there is more than this
England ia ready to step Mexico the momal
we leave IT,. She is ready to occupy the ca
~ tie of San Juan d'Ulua the moment our fore
evacuate-Lord John Russell has said as MUG
in his speeches. England, ever mindful Of b
own interests, will step in and take p~ossesHld
Of Mexico as soon as we withdraw our q
mics from it, and the result would be that, i
St ad of being al war with Mexico alone v
would be at war with Mexico and England t
,' the creates; power in the void BY land al
by sea.
/, in Captain Rynders.-lf she annexes Mexlc
no, we shall annex Ireland and be even with her.
and (This caused another tremendous uproar)
ave Gen. Foote,--I will give way to other spea
DIFF ers whe will address you.
ard Great applause. A voice-"Give US sor
ina poetry"
AMI Gen, Foote.-
r of @Breathes there a man with a soul SO DEF
not Who never to himself has said"'-
[Cries of "That'll do?' "Hurrah for 'TeX
lem and the Texansp " When Gen. Foote
OF down amid thunders Of applauses.
the After this, several other speeches were
the l~ivered and the meeting adjourned with TIL
por- hearty cheers for Gen. Scott.-Vieksburg W
gard |
anne CHOOSING A MINIsTER.-The people in o
nails OF the out parishes in Virginia, wrote to
and Rice, who was then at the mead Of the INT
ted. logical seminary in Prince Edward, for . MIN
lore ter. They SAID they wanted = mo" " =
any rate talents, for they had run down censls'
this bly,, and needed building up They wan
pre- one who could write we'll for some OF
the younger people were very nice about that N
ter. They wanted one who could visit a g
hing deal. ror their former one had neglected II
Is Of and thew wanted to bring tup. They wan
sr OF a man Of ysry gentlemanly department,
But soma thought q great deal Of that. And
ltes, that they went on describing q perfect mil
spir- ter. The last thing they mentioned was, I
yet gave their minister three hundred and fifty
save lars; but if the Doctor would send them 81
be- a man as they described, they wonld raise
iyil- other fifty dollars, making it four hundred
we lars. The doctor sat down and wrote a rel
who telling them that they had better forth"
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