The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-14

READING, fn. sept. IL, l54S.
The Run up 20 Reading-Prsliminary Proceedings
the Free Soil State Contention.
Four thousand majority has been given in Berks
county for Martin Van Buren, Reading Is the capita
Of Berks and here, day after to- morrow, the free
soil Van Buren, State convention is to be held How
will 1t affect the sturdy Dutch free soil democracy
the State Of Berks this great county is often dstin
guished How will 1t operate upon the regular,
irregular, nominations of Baltimore and Philadelphia
We shall see. 1t may do something. Who knows
We had pleasant by rail up the Schuylkl this
afternoon through fine cultivated country, teeming
with the rich products Of the Dutch farmers and beau
tiful in its repleton Of subsistence. Bread-bresd
the hills and valleys smiling with their abundance
Of bread and meat, butter milk honey, corn, cakeE
and clover. clear fresh water, sparkling river wind
ing dewn rich and garden like valley, bounded by
wooded hills and mountsins-with ever and anon, along
the way, town with Its mills furnaces and foundriss
such is the valley Of the Schuylkill. The great
charm Of this valley its subsistence Here lies the
fecret Of good government. Give the people bread,
and plenty Of 1t, and constitutions and governments
are easy Of administration Thank God for the rich
harvests that bless all the land. Amen ray all the
people What wealth, even from the famine
the sea- shall flow in again upon from the rich pro-
ducts OF the year over the broad acres of this broad
empire of I ncle Sam
As evidence of the substantial fire of Reading
and Berks county when called in to tea this evening
at the Mansion House, we not limited to cup Of
Young Ilyson or La Guyra and a plate Of chopped
beef us in the cities of the scaboard but had good
old fashioned, country Pennsylvania supper of beef
steaks veal outlets ham and eggs fried Chickens tea
coffee milk and toast bread, preserves schnits
schmeerkaes, and doubled and twisted doughnuts,
fried In fat That's the way to do it, That's the fare
which, in Berks county, produced your medium sized
men Of two hundred pounds avoirdupois, and rosy
young damsels Of sixteen, of one hundred and fifty
Some Of the county delegates are already on the
ground preliminary town meeting Of the free
soilers, was held in Deyers Hotel tonight Five de.
gaes appointed for the city to attend State
convention here ON the 18th. After which, there
being acrowd Of hundred persons, or less, in
front Of the house, DR.. Edward D. Gazzam OF Pitts
burg, came forward and addressed them for hour,
taking the Buffalo platform as his guide.
Mr.. GAzzAM contended that neither Cass ner Tay-
for and that neither of the conventions nom nating
the the other, sound upon the question Of
free soil II vas the slave power which had raled out
MIR. Van Buren, in ~ and the slave power which ruled
out the New York democracy from the convention Of
As. lie then described the Buffalo convention as
labor feo speech and free soil Hc-read the Buffalo
platform, ard commented upon 1t, section by section
IL demands that there shall be more extension of
ssrory Henry Clay, like Mr. Van Barren was believed
TO tc IN heart sound upon this question: but the ave
power Lad ostracisod him, and the wings the
bad iruclded to the South and taken up STAKEHOLDER
The doctrine Of free soil the true ground. We
want these territories labor for our own
children and the oppressed OF the old verdi and
want grants Of land in limited quantities to actual
settlers. We want to keep the public domain out
OF the hands OF sordid specu!ators-we want it for
tend the glory and property of the country. We
want as far as proccabe, the officers Of the federal
government elected by the people. We want the
Iosteses reduced-the Southern states are an ex-
Fensc TO tho Post Office Department-tbe North
pays the revenue, and the free North may, there
lore, demand reduction Of the postayes, to en-
courage and sustain the social ties which binds us to-
goher Such tho doctrines Of the Buffalo platform
and when that convention lie cared for the repeal oil
any act admitting slavery into the territories how aid
II tell in Congress IL told Ike the nj M voice Of the
people 1t came upon them IKE the deep thunder of
Niagara 1T was th which tlcured freedom 10 Oregon
and the Wimot prov,o. 1t was this which persuaded
James X. Polk to sisu that BILL in express condsnna-
ton OF The Nicholson letter Of Gen Cass After this
fashion Mr.. Gazzam continued fer hour, winding
up with direct challenge to the Csss Taylor men
TO r.fnte him II they could for that he ready to
meet The on the spot II time for free Peunsyva-
MIA TO le M. and doing Virginia slave State has
free SOIL electoral ticket Maryland has done the same
lining and free soil meetings have been held even in
the city OF New Orleans Free soil, free labor, aud
fee speech public election OF officers by the
people, cheap potsges and harbor and river improves
Is the platform Of the free soil didstss
MIR. DonKRry, of huntington county, was next
brought forward and spoke for half hour In support
Of the views Of Mr. Gaszam, and particularly in expo
stion Of the tricsery Of the democratic and whi9
national conventions, and tho necessity Of indie
pendent ticket The Pennsylvania delegation at Buf
alo Of about ndred and fifty, had selected By
accident in the Park small button wood tree TO de-
sguats their position 10 as not to se utterly swallowed