Washington sentinel., 1854-02-02

the Immaculate Rinders was not heard for he,
too, was absent. Many others whom we had
expected to attend very prudently kept away.
Everybody from every part of the country
looked to this meeting with anxiety Agitators
looked to it with hope; patriots with apprehen-
sion We expected from it blast that would
ring through mountain and valley, filling friends
with Joy and enemies with dismay. Brit, alas
for human expectations! What was expected
to be an army with banners, turned out to be a
wretched corporal's guard; and what was
dreaded as trumpet, is laughed at as two
penny whistle fUt
But what though the meeting was deficient
in numbers, it was yet respectable in quality,
so at least they say and, indeed, it must be con-
fessed that some very respectable persons par
ticipated in the proceedings. The meeting was
organized thus:
President: SHEPHERD KNAPP.
Vice Presidents: VIM. +. Havemeyer, Geo.
Newbold, Myndert yanSchaick, Walter R.
Jones, David Codwise, John Paine, Moses
Taylor, G. O. Halstead John Q. Jones, 7. b.
Satterthwaite, Wilson G.. Hunt, +. w. Ed
monds, Zebedee Cook, Edmund NJ. Young,
Adam Norrie, Mark Spenser, Benjamin F..
Camp, Z. H. Ludlow, Thomas r. Minturn,
Luther Bradish, Moses H. Grinnell, Charles Fl.
Marshall, John Haggsrty, Joseph Hoxie,
Charles p. kirkland, Thomas Dewitt, DID,,
E. H. Chaplin, DID,. Robert B. Minturn, VIM.
Whitlock, Jr., Vim. Cullen Bryant, William A.
Hall, John A. King, John ]. Phelps, William
Tucker, James Snydam, Freeman Campbell,
Tanning G. Tucker.
Secretaries: Walter r. Jones, Jr., George
N, Titus, Lucius Robinson, James L. Everett,
VIM. Curtis Noyes, w. Z, Dodge John Nc
Kesson, Edward Prime,
Speeches were made by Hon. Robert Emmett,
and J. W. Gerard, Esq. The letters read were
more numerous than the speeches. A string
of resolutions offered by Mr. Emmett was
adopted, and then the meeting adjourned.
Such is the blast from the meeting at the
Tabernacle. 1t is said by the Express and by the
Times that this was most respectable and
influential meeting, and great results are to be
worked out by it. By this, perhaps, is meant
that the " silk-stocking gentry" attended it;
and that the good, honest, trus-hearted people
| of New York, who did not attend it, and whose
presence would no doubt have been offensive
to the before-named gentry, are to be led by
their noses into the mischief that is brewing.
| We take it as most auspicious sign that this
was no assembage Of THE PEOPLE If they
had concurred in the call, if they had approved
Of the object they would have assembled in
their strength and majesty. The Tabernacle
would not have held them. Forms, etiquette,
and stringent rules would not have restrained
them. Shouts, deafening and terrible, would
have broken in on that order and decorum
which is boasted of as having characterized the
meeting; and there is more honesty, more
heart, in the wild shouts and loud tumults Of
such an assemblage than in all the solemnty
and grave-like stiffness Of a few cold-hearted,
dignifed, stately aristocrats.
But the still small voice of the eight hun.
dred, or the three thousand, 1.-THE Times thus
states the number,) is to be taken as the voice
of New York. This is simply ridiculous. We
regard the whole affair as miserable failure
as fash in the pan.
If the senator from Illinois, the able advo
i cate of the Nebraska bill, encounters no more
formidable opposition than that of the meeting
at the Tabernacle, he will have smooth and
easy time Of it.