The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-27
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| tAkboLLfONi flckenS 70, Ala, oCt, IA, - is.
To the Editor Of the Union:
DEAR SIR The two past DAYS will be long remembered
In this county The democracy of Pckens, after timely
notice held mass meeting at this place, commencing
| Thursday last
! The meeting called to order by Judge Shth
the president of the Democratic Association, who then
moved that the Hon. William II: King be chosen pre-
side over It's deliberations Col King took the chair and
though enteebed by several days sickness spoke with
force and truthulness which carried Joy to every demo-
cratic heart. and conviction of error to more than one
wing. Col King adverted TO his long and intimate
knowledge OF the talents, patriotism, and virtue of
Generals Cass and Butler of the unbushing abotonism
OF Willard Fillmore and the vast majority Of the Taylor
party, and after speech OF hour, closed amid the
long continued cheers of the assembage
| Gen. Sydenham Moore. of Greene, a captain in the
Twelve months volunteer force under Gen Taylor, and
delegate to the Baltimore Convention next took the
stand; and then we heard the why Alabama al
though the first to send her the field reaped
laurels: the commanding generalOld lack the friend
q Me never once going near their camp, and,
converting the gallant spirits OF Alabama into nurses
FUSED all entrealies from these that they might be
led INTO action. We Alabamans generally do as we are
done by; which, though not scrptura is natural, and
Gen Taylor will find the truth of this assertion Just
twenty -one days from this writing.
| The Hon Samuel W. Inge, our own able and eloquent
representative, next spoke; and 10 say that Sam Inge
made Speech is but another way of saying that for
eoquence, wit, reason, and argument the effort was as
hard "to head" as Bolts found Tyler
Col lnge soon after his return home, entertained de-
sire to withdraw from political life, but his friends
fused to listen TO the proposon and am gra fled to be
able TO say that we will again send him to Washington,
for though we have Stephens from this State yet Par
son HIiard and Squire Gayle need watching, and nge
as good sentinel as want.
Col lnge having paused in his speech at the an
nouncement of dinner the marshal of the day (Gen I,
w Bostickl led the way to the table, spread in beau
full grove OF oaks The company-conssting of about
four hundred ladies' and eighteen hundred or two
thousand men-found ample provision in the way of bar
becued beef, mutton and pork, and 'the Trimmings
Dinner being the company returned to the stand
| and Col lnge finished his remarks.
Geo. w. L. Smith, one of the electors of the State of
commenced by paying deserved and beautiful compli
men to the honored president of the day. whose long
life OF political probity gave earnest to the righteous
ness of any cause in which he engaged. Next he
addressed the ladies'. as only young sou,herner can
address them. Sand now,' said he, "et me talk a
little to the boys who do the voting And long will the
ponent parts are sledge- hammers coach whips. and
whTlwnds, and you will have faint conception of
what poor whige,y had to swallow The speech cannot
be able to take down such speech, you must know
how to make it."
The sun being nearly down, tho crowd called off for
supper after which the court house soon filled by
both sexes in search of more light
John Mccormick of Montgomery, editor of the Flag
and Advertiser in an able argument, triumphany de-
Tended the Alabama platform from wing assaults and
the Baltimore platform from the pamphlet of William
Lowndes Yancey, ",he whom South Carolina loaned
to Alabama" and whom we are ready and willing to
return demand, not considering ourselves liable as
bad or the damage he has sustained since the Balti
more Convention.
formerly president OF the senate answered the loud calls
of the audience and in his nimabe manner, proceeded
to his favorlte pasme -sknning coonsalthough, he
said, they were hardly worth the sknnng SO severely
did he as well as Mr. Smith In the afternoon, handle the
high priest Of whgery in this countrywide in reply
nge, had cited the Brooks letter as proof of Fllmore's
soundness on the slavery ssue-so severely did this
sold COON suffer, that he will be known in this
region as the late iamented DR.. K*'+.
After song from of the boys who do the voting
the meeting adjourned
On the second day, the speaking was commenced by
Col. John Erwin of Greene, formerly president Of the
senate and speaker of the house. who spoke for
some two hours and half with his usual power and
eloquence Colonel Erwin has for many years stood at
the head of the bar in his circuit and of the abest
debaers IN the South; his effort this occasion
equal to himself
B. W. Huntington, ESQ.,, of Sumter, followed Colonel
Erwin, In argument OF great force demonstrating to
the audience the great truth that the democratic party
the party of the constitution with its sacred compro-
Misses that the wing party avowed by its leaders and
most reliable organs, is the only from whose insld
GUS attacks the South need apprehend any danger The
American Review and National ntellgencer corroborae
this fact
paly to Willard Fillmore, who. in the language OF Simon
Suggs suffered some" Col Terry, in closing his re.
marks called on the Hon. w, K. King to state in what
estimation Gen Cass held by the liberal parties in
Europe.
Col King replied, that having succeeded Gen. Cass at
the court OF France and having had the best possible OPP
peunities of knowing the sentiment of the people of
France and other European States he could fearessy
say that no name in America ranked higher in Europe
monarchists hurled more direful anathemas He stated
that Lord Brougham, in denouncing Gen. Cass in the
House of Lords for his opposition to the quntupe treaty
had made declaration which lacked but three weeks OF
its fulhment: "My lords, the course of the American
minister this subject, the an-democratc tendency OF
the measure which he alone has defeated will at no
very distant day make him President of the United
States"
On the 7th of November Gen. Cass can hail Lord
Brougham the truest prophet of the nineteenth CEN
tury.-Q. f.. d.
dislike to trespass your columns, but say
that joyful time has been witnessed by the
democracy OF the 4th district We all rght-the
county, the DISTRICT, THE STATE, THE UNION,
are all safe for Cass and Butler More than one wing
said to me, 81 would believe William r. King in prefer
ence to all the newspapers in the world :; and their
works will prove their faith.
Yours, in the bonds of democratic faith.
IS. forgot to say that we received letter from A.
O. p Nicholson, esq, of Nashville, who gives us every
assurance that Tennessee is safe for us Mr. Smith of
Mississippi told the meeting that he had dned few
days since with Aaron V. Brown, who assured him of
the result by from three to five thousand votes
Mississippi is beyond all shadow of doubt Jefferson
Davis has taken the stump for u.s. And for Alabama,
would not compromise nine thousand nine hundred
and ninety nine. Ten thousand is my minmun-naxi-
mum indefinite.
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