The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-09-09


of the great Wing rally at Fort Harrison on
Tuesday last. We have not room 10 give them
this morning ,.but from what we can learn from
the papers our Terre Haute friends had most
glorious time; the fire and enthusiasm of 1910
was rekindIed, and the ''dear people have now
resolved to work on from this time until the
election in the cause of Old lack, and that they
will succeed in placing him in the seat once
filled by Washington, there is no doubt We
copy smell portion Of the account of the meet
ing as given BY the Express:
Al s o'clock on the morning of the 9Th, al
the firing of signal gun on the prairie, an at
tempt was made TO fern the multitude into one
common procession, 10 march up TO the Fort,
p miles north, but it was impossible TO do so,
for it seemed We had not ground enough in
town for them all TO stand upon. A process
ion, however, was formed, covering all the
streets from the Court House east TO the Prairie
House, but those out of The procession were
more than those in, and each son his own hook"
made his way BY all accessible roads 10 the
ground intended for the celebration. At this
time, we left town in buggy, as we thought
by by-way. but we found beyond and behind
us, constant stream OF people, on horse back.
in carriages and on foot, all going to the ''Old
Fort"-the attractive point for the day.
AT about 10 O'Clock in the morning, the last
end Of the main procession arrived on the
al. of FL, Il law
commenced, by Col. Blake introducing Gov.
LErcgrn. Of Nv, TO the assembled thousa nd-,
male and female, as The Prssldfat Of the day.
| the old Kentucky Governor responded to the
call in a short address, and very soon gave all
to understand that he had, perhaps for the last
time, volunteered TO battle for bis country, and
although he had grown gray in her service. he
could not be an idle spectator when OLD ZACH
was in the field. When the President took his
seat, letters from Gen. Taylor, Millard Fillmore,
Andrew Stewart and VIM. l.. Dayton were
read, aud the Vice Presidents aud Secretaries of
the meeting were announced, consisting Of
some fifteen of the former (among whom we
noticed Col. John ID. White, of Ripley, and
other gentlemen from distant partsof the coun-
try.) and perhaps half dozen of the latter
The public speaking of the day then commenced
under the direction OF the Vice Presidents.
The central stand was occupied by r. w.
Thompson, the southern by Z. w. McGauSh-
ey, and the northern by Henry s. Lane, all
speaking al the same time until the signal gun
for dinner. After dinner vas ovtr, the central
stand was occupied by Gov. Letcher, and John
IL. Thompson, of indianapolis, and the south
ern stand By John Ewing. the northern being
without speaker, at the time.
1t is impossible now TO give sketch of any
OF The fine spec, hes TO which we listened, and
where all were excellent, it..would perhaps be
improper 10 attempt naming the superior; from
our Kentucky predictions. however, Others
will excuse us for saying that Gov. L. certainly
made most effective address-one that not on
y confirmed every Ia yor man Of the assembly
but which will likely draw largely to his
strength froni those who may hare determined
T TO vote for Gen. Cass. The old man was truly
eloquent, persuasive and effective, as also were
all those to whom we have alluded, and we
think from this day until the election, we shall
have duly accession of frienls 10 the cause OF
Gen, Taylor in Indiana
The num5ers present were variously estima.
ed at from fifteen TO thirty thousand; those
who did not wish to hsve seen large assem-
blage taking the. smaller figure-some little
less, while the other side invariably claimed
the latter amount. We are. not judge Of
such things, and can only say that about TWEEN
| ty acres of grove seemed literally jammed
while the adjoining prairie had living being,
of both sexes, horses, wagons, carriages, &c
scattered pretty much all over it. We will
never agree that there was one being less il
this vast assembly than was the number of the
! the veteran army under Santa Anna, which
attacked Gen. Taylor at Buena Vista. Per
sons at distance may form some estimate o
the numbers present, whenwe stale that Ter
re- Haute was fall the evening previous AM
that by sun rise next morning. all the avenue!
to the place were crowded. One delegation
alone, took two hours to pass over the Wabash
bridge, and the common exclamation on tn
ground was: "tAis is The largest uisembly ferel
salr" M .t. alp "a
Il On returning to Tcrre-Haute in the evening
: The court house was filled 10 overlowing, viii
0 grntlemCn, anxious 10 hear the orators tall
about OLD lack, and until III o'clock, at whic
: time we left. the ''stated preaching of tn
k word was eloquently dispensed from truthful