The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-02-28
THE UNION Neutrality-suspicious. MEETING
IN PHILADELPHIA.
MEsSRs. BROWN, CADwALLADER, PAGE,
AND TAYLOR.

WILMINGTON, FsJruary 49, 1850.
To the Edi,or Of tie National Era:
attended the Union Meetingn of the Hun
ker Democracy, held last night in the Chinese
Museum, in the city Of Philadelphia. 1t was a
crowd indeed--for those who were called were
present, and perhaps quite as many more who
were not called. The meeting was to be o curious
one, and curious people went in great numbers to
see the show. The PeaaSylUanian, edited by the
rejected Mr. Forney, had been for weeks cooking
up crisis for its own purposes, and scducing the
patriotism of the party, to sustain its devotion to
Southern slavery. The Times, the other Demo-
cratic paper of Philadelphia, took an attitude Of
brave and bold resistance to the movement, and
so the interest and importance of the meeting was
deepened by every circumstance attending it.
The chair was occupied by Charles Brown,
Esq late member of Congress, and the object of
the meeting was stated by him, by reading a
printed address, prepared he said, to prevent
mistake and Misrepresentation. The proceedings,
embracing the resolutions and speeches, which
have not yet had the leisure to consult in the
printed form, will come to you 10 your exchanges
and you will notice them as they deserve.
have word to say about the meeting, induced
by impressions received at it. Excuse the man
ner-the lack of method-which great haste and
other embarrassments impose upon me.
Ii was a democratic meeting. Its managers were
Brown, Forney, and Pagei-men who keep no
terms with conscience or constancy, in their pres
titution to the aristocracy which claims men for
property, and makes the llborer commodity.
Brown in his opening address, took the pains 10
reproach the North with it's whiskey instruction
and its Shay's rebellion, and affirmed, in Halter
ing contrast, that no armed bands had ever been
required to control insurrection in the South. lie
charged the North with studied, aud persevering,
and intolerable aggressions upon the peace and
rights Of the South. He excused the call OF the
meeting for emitting Southern fanaticism from the
objects of its denuncation, on the ground that we
must first take the beam out OF our own eye, &c.
The notification OF South Carolina somehow did
not Affect the devotion of the South to the Union,
because it was the action Of only single state
but now, all the slave States, from the chesapeake
to the Rio Grande, are united in one determine
tion To secede, IL the Wilmot Proviso is pushed
upon them and, somehow or other, this fact did
not sensibly affect the Southern devotion TO the
Union. IL was not exactly in that connection that
~ was urged 1t was 10 the bugbear department
OF the argument that this alarm WAS employed,
which makes quite difference In the effect OF II
upon those who allow the speaker to draw all the
conclusions ~ well to furnish all the arguments
! was indebted to him for his explanation OF the
call 1t was not, according to him, to oppose the
Free-Soilers, but the jonnical Free-Soilers, who
are seeking dissolution Of the Union. BY fair
construction then, 1t wac Garrisonism, and not Van
Burenism, that the people of Philadelphia were
invited to denouncs Mr.. Brown felt the necessity
OF compromising 30 far as to leave the natural In