The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-06-07

Gathering OF the People at indianapolis.
Yesterday evening about dusk, crowd Of
thesfeople, estimating BY the Scutinel's stan
dard, numbering about twelve thousand tho
by more correct estimate not exceeding.
probably, one thousand, assembled in front 81
the Bates House. to hear some speeches by
some of the leading speakers Of the Republi-
can party.
Henry S. Lane was first called out and led
off in one of the best of the manv good speech
es we have heard from him. He first alluded
10 the charge made by 'Pomeroy" Fitch that
the Legislature elected by the people of Indi-
ana was incompetent and corrupt and asked
II it were possible that '.old liners who made
the voice of the people their special deity,
could thus stultify themselves BY declaring in
effect that the people could not govern them
selves? That Legislature had been selected
by nearly one hundred thousand voters of In
diana, as well able to Judge accurately and
honestly as Mr.. Fitch or any other man
He then alluded to the occasion of the dis
play bv the sOld Liners on the evening be-
fore What, said he, was that demonstra-
ton anG exultation for9 For eirtoyy in Fir-
ginia? No. But their escape from de-
feat Out of seventeen States that had spoken
since the infamous swinde passed. but one
dorsed that great fraud The cold Line"
party had been beaten till it was killed, and
this victory only gave it a temporary vitality
1t reminded him, he said. of the effect of a
galvanic battery on a dead frog. |, had stir
red the lifeess and rotten corpse INTO motion,
and that was all He didn't think. though
that its unquet ghost would have 50 oon re
visited the glimpses of the moon 1T this
part of his speech his keen hits were greeted
with tremendous cheering at nearly every
sentence. We cannot give any thing Ike an
idea of his happy points, but only aim to pre-
sent an outline.
He then noticed the course OF Henry \.
Wise, the demi god of old line idola,ry. Who
was he9 He had been elected as a fast friend
of General Jackson, and in year had aban-
doned the old warrior, and became one Of the
most bitter and proscriptive Wings in the
Union. Then he passed to Tylerism, that
half way house, that purgatory between per
sage to cold lineism' was rapid and easy
And now he was the most ultra # all '@oil
liners, surprising all their extremes and over
topping their greatest abSurdities. lie was
the man over whose victory they We're rejoe-
ing They glorifed over their escape from
defeat, and ne, said he, are rejoicing that we
have suffered so little by it.
The speakers of last night. he said, took
particular pains to eyade the great issue upon
which the battle in this State had been fought.
Not one Of them had alluded to the Kansas
and Nebraska Bill which was the gIea. ques-
ton in this contest. Their darling Of last fall,
Squatter Sovereignty" could not GET a pat
on the shoulder from a solitary speaker. They
had asserted that Atchison and his scoIndrels
We're Know Nothings, in order to throw the
party, but they had adduced no proof that
any Of the infamous gang either belonged to
or sympathized with the American party. But
not one of the speakers dared to hint at the
Nebraska Bill, the sole cause and origin OF
all our troubles, and of this great Kansas out
rage.
The speaker then alluded to the condition
of the country before the introduction Of that
BILL and its condition, now, and said that he
for one was willing to lay down this platform
He would have the Missouri Compromise re-
stored, and he would have no cessation of eff
fort and agitation till it were done, and failing
in that he ,Coazd oppose TO tie last the aai,is-
sion Of q single State, aciM slaUery permitted
by her Constitution carved ont Of this Terri
tory once consecrated to freedons.'' This may
not be his exact language, but it IS substan
tally correct. (Cries of ''That's right
That's the doctrine and hearty cheer:
greeted this manly and plain declaration o
principle The feeling Of thai large crost
was unmistakable, and those who think tc
close the peoples mouths against the Nebras
ka outrage, by clamors OF disunion. would dc
we'll to heed this indication of popular feeling
He then noticed the false and foolish charge,
OF proscriptiveness made against the Ameri
can party, and said that no man had eveI
claimed that foreigners should be excluded
from any right or any Office, By law, bat onl,
tlsat between foreign and native born citizens
native should be preferred. if eiually desarv
ing in other respects. They did uot wish tc
drive foreigners from cur country, but to makc
il law that no man should vote till he was
citizen of the United States. No maa ough
to vote who owed allegiance to a foreign pow
er, but our cold Line Constitution gave tha
right Aliens. subjects Of foreign princes
could exercise as much power in the direction
of our affairs, as the wlsest voters In the land
This evil should be corrected.
He also noticed a remark Of Dr. Fitch tha
the great Democratic party had never paSse,
any act or been guilty of any conduct whici
could mantle the cheek OF a Democrat witt
shame. Yet said Mr. Lane, who flooded thi
State with worthless Free Bank paper? Th
"Old Liners" They had the majority. ant
controlled Dotn the convention dild -ae Legs
lature. During the last six months. he said
the actions of the Free Bankers had been 5
mixed up with the idea of treeto2.iag an,
Free Banking. that he could not separat
them to save him. But, said ile, let US loo
at the National Government, as well as ID
State Administration, to see If this gospel la
ting whisky loving "old lineisin'' has nothin
to Be ashamed of Did any of the speaker
last nIpht mention the bon1barinert af Grey
town, that wretched piece Of bulving an
cowardice. that by its deep inlamy has left
halo Of glory around even the adnainis.ra