Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-08

| THE WEBSTER MEETING LAST NIGHT.
| We got I'D to the Court-House last nik hi short
time after the organization, and just as Vol. Jonn
McRae, the chairman, concluding his remakrs
| explanatory of the objects of the meeting. On mo-
ton of Col. VIM. E. Anderson, committee of three
was appointed by the chair to prepare business and
in short time the committee, consisting Of X. IL.
| Cowan, II. w. Brown, and J. A. Taylor, Esqs, re-
ported through their chairman. Mr.. Cowan, series
of resolutions denuhciaory OF both partles and de-
carng necessary separate from them as at pres
en organized and also placing before the people The
names of Daniel Webster and VIM. A. Graham
We do recollect all the resolutions very exactly,
however; but the foregoing are the important points.
| Robert H. Cowan, Esq, being called upon, ex-
planned in clear, able and logical address, his own
position in regard to Gen. Scott, showing why he
could not support him. Mr.. e. took rapid glance
at the of the last four years-the movements
connected with the slavery agitation and the pass
age OF the compromise; dwelt upon the efforts OF
Fillmore and Webster in favor OF that passage; spoke
of the opposition to the enforcement of the gtive
slave Law the North, and the rallyng of the abo-
litionists under banner gotten up by Seward in New
| York, with this device, Repeal of the Fugitive
slave Law, and Winfield Scott, for President That
same banner hoisted by the Pennsylvania Con-
vention which nominated Gov. Johnston, and that
same notorious " higher-law man bore it alot in
the canvass for Governor, and was defeated to the
great satisfaction of the Southern people, Wings and
Democrats. Nj. Vinton of Ohio, while candidate
for Governor in that State, hosted the banner.
All this Gen. Scott knew-he knew that while all
good men and patriots were throwing themselves in
to the breach for the defence of the constitution, and
the maintenance Of the law, his own great name was
used by the enemies of both, and yet he was silent
from hin, the Fugitiveslave Law received no sup
pot--the law-breakers rebuke their use OF his
name any contradiction. TO please these people, he
was silent, and they rewarded him by the nomlna-
ton, against the protest of the whole South Can
that South support Gen. Scott!
When Mr.. Corwan had concluded, Mr.. Loring was
called upon, and told made very good speech,
which we did not hear, having overstayed our time
Erofc aEor he
up about 10 o'clock. There was from one hundred
and fifty two hundred persons at one time In the
room,-not all Webster men, of course,-but among
these latter noticed many of the most working
and influential Wings in town. We cannot calculate
the result of the movement nor were we present save
as spectator, but the meeting certainly gave evil
dence of deep and earnest feeling OF opposition to
Gen. Scott among serious and earnest and renectlng
members of the Wing party-men who do not Eeck-
essly assume such positions, nor lightly abandon
them. Wilmington Journal
AN OXFORD BEAR FIGHT. In Andover North Sur
plus, (Oxford County, Maine,) Thursday last, one
of the smartest bear fights off, that ever hap
pened in this State, or any other AS Erastus Bean,
young of twenty years, was hayIng In his field
accompanied by boy of twelve, named Dunn, he
looked up and him large black bear, Of the
whitefaced breed (the most savage of the black va
riety) Having taken his gun with him to shoot pat
ges he caught up and fred the brue-bntwith
little effect the bear Immediately began to close
| upon him. Bean fell back slowly, loading his gun
the meantime, when, Just as ne nao got MS charge IN,
his heel caught against twIg and he fell backwards,
and bruin leaped upon him His situation now was
frightfu one-but his GOODNESS did not forsake him
and he Immediately fired again. but with no visible
effect The bear at once went to woIk-selzlRg his
left arm, biting through it and decorating severely
While thus amusing himself, he was tearing with his
fore-paws the clothes and scratching the flesh the
young mans breast. Having dropped his arm, he
opened his huge mouth to make pounce at his face
Then 1t was that the young man made the dash that
saved his life. AS the bear opened his jaws, Bean
thrust his acerated down the brutes throat far
as desperation would enable him. There he had him
The bear could neither retreat nor advance-though
the position of the beseged any thing but agree
able warm day Thursday last.
Bean now called upon the lad 10 come and take
from his pocket jack-knife, and open it. The boy
fitting companion for this brave young man.
He marched up to the work boldly. But before he
could get at the pocket, he had crowd the bears
head over a little TO get at 1.-THE beast mean time
not being at all easy with such huge mouthtul in
his throat. Having got the knife, Bean with his
trammeed hand, The bears throat from ear,
killing him stone dead whih he lay ON his back
He then threw the beast off, notified his friends,
had his wounds dressed. and is comfortable. 1t
was judged the bear weighed nearly four hundred
pounds! One of his paws, which our informant saw,
| weighed two pounds eleven ounces.
1t takes Oxford boy to do deed like that-and
this young may well be proud of his perform
ance. The early annals of the settlement of
country furnish few cool, resolute, and heroic
fights, either with Indians or wild beasts, than this
The young man had been married but few weeks,
and the thought of his young wife, mourning discon
solately his untmely end, no doubt nerved his arm
to make noble fight for her happiness, as well as
for his own life. Oxford takes the palm for bears,
and for stalworth boys that put the knife into
them when they make too familiar with their persons.
Portland (Me.) Argus.
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