The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-07-16
LIBERTY, ,EQUALITY, PROGRESSION.
The wing Meeting,

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{ Pursuant to notice, wing meeting was
hcllst SHE Mayors Office. on Thursday eve
ming, fof The purpose. as The notice read, q
i'organizing for tle ensuing contest" fbe
place was aiIucky one, being next toahe Post
Office, where some twenty of more persons
we're awaiting the arrival Of the mail. Had
i;not been for this scartely, dozen would
have been present; ;.ss il was, there were 10
the room just 80 souls--Sll told; add to this
number about a bakers dozen who were
looking in atthe Windows and door, and the
reader has the astonishing number of some
thing over 80 persons. This, ina largely
wing city does not show suchfu wonderful
enthusiasm as some would suppose, TAs Of
.ficers of "Scott and Graham Club, ,"Swere
felec!ed--unanimously, of course--and Iste-
raj committees appointed. ito whom wefe as-
signed various important duties, such as
preparing for grand ratification meeting,
&c. saa 81 s.sfg ~ .e
After getting through with the business III
d double quick hurry, Mr. M'vey arose and
said that as we were entering on great po-
liicat campaign he would like to hear some.
remarks upon the platform Of the two par.
ties. He could see no material difference
except that the whig platform went in for
internal improvements. He called on Mr..
Geo. Turner to give the meeting light on the
subject, s1 81
, Mr.. Turnerarose. He felt bound to give
reasons for his opinions whenever called up
on, but was not iust,prepared to talk about
The platforms. (He and good many Others,
would doubtless have been better pleased if
nothing had been said of platforms. He
thought there was more in the relative mer-
its Of candidates than in platforms. He
was opposed to Gen. Pierce because he
didn't like the party that nominated him.
They had endeavored 10 make him out great
General, but he never did nylhing in Mexi-
co-but fight "skrimmage" at Puebla and
faint at Cherubusco. As Statesman he
never distinguished himself except as the
the opposer Of internal Improvements and
religious liberation. Mr.. 7. continued, re-
peating all The stale slang and false charges
that have been made upon Gen. Pierce since
his nomination, OF Wm. R. King be could
tell nothing, except that he wore the best
clothes and the blacklist boots Of any man in
Washington City-"a perfect walking spec
linen" said the speaker. "of the skill Of the
tailor and the barber.r Gen. Scott was q
great man--the "helo of hundred battles,
--fresi. from the battle field covered will
the blood ot his enemies He was a bette
man than Gen, Taylor. The speaker sale
they were done with Taylor, and be nigh
as well be frank. Gen. Taylor was not Fl
for the Presidency. He was nothing buts
military chiefain. This aliusion We tool
to be lille ungenerous. But, III the next
moment, Mr.. I. asserted that Military chief
tains had made the best rulers! He com
pared Gen. Scott with every great and good
man from Moses down TO Washington
While Gen. Pierce wasa low-bread, good
for-nothing, chicken-stealing fellow, Gen
Scott was paragon Of propriety--the EN-
bodimentof every virtue and the possessol
of every accomplishment. He did not say
a word about Graham, for a very good rea.
son, perhaps. The speaker gave the mair
points in his harrangue all the embellish
ments that young man with brilliant fan
cy could imagine. He pumped into hissea
and this "large and enthusiastic" msetins
Eadourned inslanter---that, too without Civ
| ling General McVey single crumb Of salts
faction about the platforms How cruel!
MIR. Turner is not well yersed in politics
lby any means, as was evident from his reite
rating charge made against Gen: Pierce
shortly after his nomination, thathas not on
lly been proven, false by democratic papers
but Acknowledgements by the WashingtoI
whig organ, the Republic, and indignant
denied By many Catholic papers throughou
1.-THE Union, In % community Of less intelli
gence than this, sucha speech might do
there it will not, as was perfectly conclusiv
Efrom the remarks, not very complimentary
ITO Mr.. Tuner,) which were afterwards mad
by intelligent and respectable wings, s.i
From the SavSnnah Republican, ''Unoh'
i E e@t1 whig paper.
+ Whig Sentiment in Georgia.
X Last nighi'smail brought us the following
letter from oneiof the truestwhigs in Georgia.
i BiRbsvrLLE, Burke county,
June "a, 1855.
MRssRs. EbITons. II eladdened my heart I