Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-02-22
THE SECOND FAILURE AT THE TAB
ERNACLE.

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by the most clamorous and violent advocates.
Fanatical feryor takes the place of calm rea-
son, and inAammatory appeals of sober ex-
position. This has been singularly true of all
the frantic movements of that pestilent gang
known as abolitionists. They invoke the aid
of women, children, lunatics, and blockheads.
They attempt to win the philanthropists BY
cries of persecution, and the pious by appeals
to religious sentiments. They foolishly illus
trate the condition of servitude by reference
to our colonial expressions when under English
rule. They quote the Declaration of indie
pendence, which does not pretend to define
and to fix the rights of property to prove that
the Constitution and laws which recognise and
protect slaves as property are wicked and
ungodly They get crowds together that they
may most vulgarly and brutally howl people
into excitement.
These abolitionists are making efforts to
create agitation, by holding public meetings,
putting forth infammatory addresses, passing
angry resolutions, and circulating petitions and
Inconsistencies
Not content with their late failure in the city
of New York. they have recently held another
meeting in the same city. 1t was held last
Saturday evening, at the Tabernacle. 1t was
called the peoples meeting. The mechanics
were invited to attend. By dint Of industrious
drumming fifteen hundred were got together.
They passed resolutions against the repeal of
the Missouri compromise, and against the ex-
tension Of slavery. Ex-senator John P. Hale
and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher addressed the
meeting.
That the fanatics have not yet succeeded IN
causing the agitation they so much love, may
be gathered from the sorrowful expressions Of
their great apostle, John p Hale. He evil
IDENTIFY felt fat, detected, and disappointed, like
"an efferyescence that has effervesced." He
referred to the fact that when Senator Seward
presented to the Senate the resolutions OF the
New York legislature, demonstrating against
the passage of the Nebraska bill with the
clause repeating the Missouri compromise in
it, there was no manner of excitement. he
said they were "quietly read and ordered to be
printed and laid upon the table, producing no
more impression than was produced a moment
after when the Clerk of the House came In and
announced that the House had passed GER
tain bill, upon some very trivial subject, IN
which they asked the concurrence of the Sem
ate. The one produced as much excitement,
as much emotion, as the other"
After the labored efforts made by the aboli-
tionists and freesoilers to get up excitement
and to re-enact the terrible scenes of 1920 and
1850, it is cheering to hear the confession that
there is no excitement in the public mind. 1t
is pleasant to hear this confession from the
lips of one of the arch agitators himself. It's
gratifying to hear him scolding a calm, I'M
moved freesoil meeting for being SO cold and
quiet.
This state of things argues well for the po-
litical soundness of the masses, and indicates
that there will be peaceful settlement Of the
great constitutional doctrine Of congressional
non-interyention.
Happily for the country, agitators and bad
men cannot, at will, rouse the public mind into
frenzied excitement, and roll over the country
the angry pillows of sectional strife.
Mr.. Hale and that reverend son of thunder,
Henry Ward Beecher, labored hard to get up
excitement. They made the most infammato-
ry appeals, and uttered the most coaxing sup
pications, bnt all in vain.
The meeting to which we refer, is called a
meeting of the mechanics, and great results
are expected from it. twas to be taken as
the mighty voice of the great State Of New
York That other meeting the irst) was
composed of the choice gentlemen and aristo-
Gratis. This was to be peoples meeting Let
us see whether the number present entities it
to consideration. The report of the Herald
represents that fifteen hundred were present.
Now to show what a grand failure it was, we
avail ourselves of an extract from the Albany
atlas, showing the number tower one thous-
andy engaged in the different trades, occupa-
tons, and professions, in the Empire State. Of
course the Atlds did not make the same use of
it that we now do. 1t is as follows:
agents, 1876; apothecaries and druggists,
1882; bakers, 4,l64; BARRIERS, 1910; bar
keepers, l,090 black and white smiths lS,255 !;
boatmen, $500; bookbinders, l,l49; brick
makers, 1856 butchers, 1926; cabinet and
chair Makers S,ll3; canal men, l,O32 car
penters, 34.7Sl carriers, 1921 city, county,
and town officers, 2,2O4 clerks, 26,562 cler
gymen, 1920; clothiers, l,454; coachmakers,
1892; coopers, 1888; cordwainers, 24,26S;
dealers, LAPS; drovers, 2,54l; engineers,
2,l4l farmers, 3ll,59l; foundrymen, l,OO6 ;
gardeners and florists 3,204; grocers 1916 !;
hat and cap manufacturers, 2,445; innkeepers
5,l95; jewellers, ADJ joiners, 1885, laborers,
1T4,S67; lawyers, 4, 1866 lumbermen, 2, 220; ma
chinists 5,l57; manufacturers not otherwise
specified, 1854; mariners, HOP; masons,
10, 1872; mechanics not otherwise specified, l,20l;
merchants, II, l5l millers, 3,7s5; millwrights,
1926; moulders, 1858; painters and GLACIERS
7,435 pedlers, 1888; physicians, 5000; por
tiers, l,l9s; printers, 3,797; railroad men,
1853; refectory keepers, 1908; saddle and