Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-07-03

spirit OF the dog in the manger You came with the good
OF the country uppermost in your hearts You felt that
great trust should only be confded to great and
proven patriot You felt that the highest honors Of free
people should be the reward only Of great and signal de-
yoton to the whole country You felt and the country
feels that the who is to stand in the great
OF Nauons he representative OF the glory and power Of
the American people-the one chosen by the free
hearts and free voices of millions of freemenshoud be
whose great deeds had already given the world
ance Of man. [Cheers.
No wonder then that you wrestled earnestly in that
friendly contest for each Of you had his heart
upon who up the fitness of the measure Of
the stature of patriot President You had before you
triumvirate each of whom would have suced to
deem century from oblivion In Of them you be-
hold who stood at the helm Of State and when the
storm stormiestwhen the winds Of faction howled
when the surged and dashed against the good old
ship Constuton-(may G cd Almighty preserve her to
and children and childrens children to the latest
generation! when discordant thunder North and South
seemed to threaten that the glorious canopy above
with its lustrous stars and streams Of light should be
riyen in twain-stood at the helm, say with constant
heart and steady eye and weneryed arm and seered
safely into port Loud cheers for Fillmore There
star set in the heavens which clouds obscure lapse
Of ages shall dmhe northstar Of patriots through
out the world, and for all time to comethe erbessed
star GEORGE WAsHIHGToN By that star he steered y
Loud and prolonged cheering. And by his eide stood
whose glorious eyes fixed with rapt intensity
that STAR and whose inspired voice. like the trumpet
Of the archange above the tempest and said LET
THERE PEACE, and there peace; " LET THERE Be
UsIoN" and there Union LrBERrY AND Usros, oSE1
AND NsEpARABLE NOW AND FOREVER" Loud and re-
peated cheers for Webster. F. ~
Oh, yes; such these might well be dear to you,
to all their countrymen But there yet another in
that riumvrate, in form and stature proudly eminent
bearing the gorgeous ensign Of the Republic full high
advanced himself resplendent with reflected light from
that banner whose every he had converted
of glory Like the other two, he stood high and
open theatres and barred his breast and shown that his
heart all too big to be filed by less than his country
and his whole country Like them he has devoted that
heart with all its energies and aspirations the altar
of deep, exhaustless patriotism. But than this
he had given that hearts blood freely many glorious
field. Our native earth itself, albeit dumb and dull
shouted with the great voice of nature from every field
which had been watered with the American blood for two
and forty years. at the name of WINFIELD SCoTT Great
cheering. t>
In that good and true Of all parties, and Of
every section Of every party will hear the charmword
evokng splendid memories from the past and kndling
hopes unquenchable for time to Wings of Wash
ngton, Wings of the Union have monopoly of such
name as this. 1t belongs to the country and to the
world.
Fellow-Whigs, have DONE 1t is now almost the
noon of night 1t lacks but two minutes of it, My
charge to fill up the last moments Of this suspicious
day. Cries of " Go on, 60 on" beg you to excuse
my duty tomorrow You must allow me to conclude
we had more time even, am unequal to the task am
not accustomed to speak to than tweue at
time, and lis of up-turned faces appals me.
Give twelve good and lawful men, let them be dc
mediate hnguo all Democrats, if you will; but let
them be well and truly try this great cause and
true verdict to give according to the evidence. Let me
but read the rd of twoand-forty years. let all evil
passions and hearts combine against me let Satan
Kossuth h4Se with all the eoquence which can mis-
lead the world be my adversary and would stake the
world upon the verdict My friends bid you all good
night
After another song from Mr. PnEUss the meeting sepa-
rated at midnight with hearty cheers.