Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-01-28
VERMONT PHOENIX.
Brattlebero, Friday, Jan. rs, Is4s.
Editorial Correspondence.


In undertaking TO write to you of events here,
I find myself pcrplcxedi for in oil the daily oc-
curing news am anticipated by the Telegraph.
As soon as, and frequently before, events are
generally known in Washington they are trans
mittcd by fash Of lightning 10 you. shall
not enter into any competition with electricity
as carrier Of the news, but content myself with
such incidental matters of interest as occur to me-
On Tuesday evening last, the annual meeting
of the American Colonization Society was hold
IN the Representatives, Hall. There was nothing
In the notice Of il, &c. excite particular interest
but for a week previous, It created fever
through the city. Mr. ebay was to preside, and
make an address-this was repeated, and circu-
lated, and talked about Every one wanted to
see and hear MIR Clay 1t was said, tina, Mr.
Clay would not probably again appear in public,
or make public address, and this was to be the
last opPor trnity to listen to him. heard this,
among those with whom ! mingled, and il was
supposed there would be respectable audience
but no one had any idea Of the extent and in
tensity of the interest felt You may Judge of
1t by the fact, that as early as O'Clock, people
frOm distance came, and brought their s,ippcrs
with them, into the Capitol. They selected their
seats, and actually ate their suppers, in the Hall
The people began to assemble as early as 4, and
to gather around the doors, which were not to
be opened until O..
Anticipating the possible crowd, I started about
for the Capitol, and on my arrival, found the
porch, the long spiral staircase, and the vestibuc
beyond, leading to the Hall, densely packed with
gentlemen and ladies' considerable space
outside the entrance was also filed and as far
as the eye could reach down the Avenue they
were coming in multitudes Not less than 5000
persons were in that wcdged-up mass Of human
beings-standing with patient endurance, and
knowing that for nj least one hour, they must
wait and stand in that immense thronq. And
these were not the common yeomanry Of the
country alone, but members of Congress, gen.
tlemcn of fashion and wealth, Judges and ele-
CANT ladies, young and oId-all stood enduring
the heat and pressure of that mighty mass, heav.
ing e and fs l&S &, sssf Il asas On
~ on they came, and each took his place, and hi
chance, and added TO the force impclling for
as ward the multitude.
IN AT length forward movement is pcrccptibl,
~ "a cry is heard, that the doors arc opened
pr instantly, the mass struggle and press from be
e, hind, and shrieks are hcard-a lady has faintes
m dresses are torn, beautiful bonnets are smash
y cd, the passages are choked, and the multitud,
:. again are borne backward. Again and acsi,
m the multitude heavc along, and again are hear,
al al.
N and the weak. The gallantry of the gentlemen
. ut hand protected them 10 some extent, but Their,
D. was no escape; willingly or unwilngly they mus
III go with the stream As W. might one e.cap.
ne from the fearful rapids Of Niagara as to resis
- that cataract of human beings. Borne along b,
m the crowd, at length reached the Hall, and b,
n dint Of industry and perseverance, found room
a to stand near the Speakers chair. And whci
= | entered the immense Hall, the galleries, th
n. lobbies, the pasages, were as dcnsely packed a
they could possibly be, and as many If not more
* were outside than in. There could not hay,
ie been less than 5000 persons in the Hall. 1t /
said there has never been, on any occasion saw,
It, the Inauguration of Harrison, 50 great gather
Or ering,and pressure. thought had seen some
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