The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-08

been broken Here, vithia hearing Of the White pa
lace continued MT Bowie. Who, BY thu: time, vas
PIX, that he compelled, notvithstand ing all his
bravado, TO sign the wmot proviso 90! lknocking
ss saSnps at tine crowd FS too much and
. universal screech Of laughter greeted the speaker)
The wings Of this country the Irish are told are the
so; they are a different article Atogethe. They sym
pathise with oppressed Ireland. am not afraid to
declare myself an American sympathiser, ana only
wish Gen. Shields or old Rough and Ready was in
ireland now. Great laughter) All Ireland wants Is
leaders The Irish love liberty even more than do,
because they have felt greater tyranny Wish to God
they only had some Of our AngloSaxon blood. (Hs
ha ha Gentleman, have assisted Ireland with
my opinions-with the weight Of my character, aye,
and with my purse and II general by the i'm
mortal gods, I'd help her with my sword" a perfect
tornado Of laughter followed this vaorous decsrston)
MIR. WALLAcK vainiy endeavored to prevail on the
gentleman TO bring his remarks TO close but II was no
Continued TO ,fford Amusement to he crowd for some
time longer, when at length the happy expedent was
thought Of, Of drowning his voice with sweet sounds
Accordingly he be nd struck up loud il could,
and MIR. Lennox pulled the unfortunate Bowie down
from the stand the latter all the time loudly protesting
against this infringement of the liberty of speech-a
liberty which he contended forethers fought and
bled for. -......
The Alexandria Glee Club then sang a clee in honor
of General Taylor, the words of which we could not
catch. 1t went to the tune of "Lucy Neal.n
Mr.. LEE, Of Maryland. was the next speaker. He
compared the relative characters Of Taylor aud Cass
tGen Taylor the hero OF Of the greatest
tories the world ever heard of. The democrats had
accuteu nim OF not Delpg aDe TO write, and that he
had not written his dispatches Twill not stop to rebuff
these falseboods. Gen Taylor has written achieve
ments with his sword which win furnish food for the
historian when the memories Of Polk and Cass shall be
consigned to oblivion Gen Cass it said was also
hero-the hero Of Hulls surrender (Ha hs, oh! oh.
ohD 1t said that he broke his sword there Well
don't believe that, because he never made any
barge for tand If he had broken it. General Extra
would bave been sure to have placed it in his bill
Great laughter) The democratic party, under Jack
OF, had some virtue, but since then it had gradu.
ally deteriorated; but 1t left for James X.
of honest respectability. The democratic party
now resemble an old gobber friend of mine owned
sobbler intending to permit him to difuse his bless
ings throughout his farm yard The gobbler went at
to have her and not to allow nature to take its
course. The gobber stouty resisted for long time,
bat at last had to give way to Mrs 7. and sit upon
hens eggs and ducks eggs, and attend to everything
but his legitimate business MIR P. observed this and
remarked that it would do posterity would not
Alas responded Jacob 'the gobbler full well
am j aware Of 1t but what can do Mrs. P. won't
permit me to do otherwise Things progressed thus
for some time when one day MIR p on go ng into his
orchard observed Jacob sitting something, and on
examination, discovered Jacob was lifeless, having
died setting on rotten apples ha ha y Thus
it was with the democratic party. They were with
out principles, and were new advocating rotten
admire the spirit displayed by the wings OF this dis
trict; although you have votes wish could place
throughout the Union" Mr. Lee concluded. by enter.
ing into a minute, and apparently to his own mind,
very satisfactory calculation that, under no combi
nation of circumstances could Gen Taylor be defeat
ed be of 100 votes and in all probability
would get great ma ny more.
MIR. BRADY then claimed the attention Of the meet
ing He begged its indulgence as he had before
addressed larger assemblage than a school-house
meeting house could conveniently hold and now
felt like the boy who went to militia muster, and de-
clared that he quite COMPOUNDED with the crowd
which numbered either a hundred or million, he
didn't know which. Now, gentlemen, eaid Mr.. B..
give your cheers for see you're getting ready am
about to mention the name of the most illustrious
man the United States ever mean the great
and immortal Harry Clay Alas, for human great
ness. " Ianitas, ranifais, ct omniI rGnidS" Not a
voice was heard not raised solemn
silence prevailed. Henry Clsy's name, for the first
time in Washington, awoke no enthusiasm in whig
audience.
couple Of gentlemen addressed the meeting when
Mir Brady had concluded and there still % few
Of the sort left,n when 1t unfortunately
commenced to rain, which, of course, dampened the
the enthusiasm of the audience, and the different
clubs marched home in good spirits, ding
their jackets soaked. OMEGA.