The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-29
RATIFICATION MEETING IN NEW


YORK.
There was an immense meeting held IN
New York, ratifying the action of the
National American Convention, lately held
at Philadelphia, which resulted in the adop-
ton of the truly National Platform, which
we publish to-day, and which is being re-
spOnded to all over the Union, wherever the
party has an existence, East, West, North
and Southland nowhere more heartily than
at the North. 1t is said that not less than
$4,000, people were present at the meeting
in New York, although there was only time
for few hours notice. Among the speakers
on the occasion we notice the names OF En-
Gov. Neil S. Brown. of this State, A. J. Don
elson, of the Hermitage, and other distin-
] guished gentlemen We regret want of
space will not admit of our publishing the
proceedings entire-we, however, take the
following extract from the Express. 1t
says:
Hereafter Sam is no longer stripling-
tie Is glant-ves, n veritable Samson-for
nothing but live Samson could have raised,
at single days notice, from twenty-five to
thirty thousand Americans, in the Park, last
evening. 1t was to respond to the action of
his National Council in Philadelphia, TO be
sure-and everybody expected that the strip
ling would be about-but nobody expected
to see him bring with him men (and women
tool by the square mile. 1t WAS, all in all,
such a mighty demonstration Of the People
the real American People, we mean-such
as the the Commercial Emporium never be-
held before.
This Park meeting was in good degree
imprOmptu-no time having been allowed for
any of the usual preparations in the Wards,
or for gathering together the large suburban
population, that row surround this CITY,
| Notwithstanding. however, all that, and the
very early hour, 5, P. NJ. at which men Of la.
Dor and of business were summoned from
their various Observation-Disclosures were on
hand, and the crowd kept on continually in
creasng till after dark. At six o'clock the
whole lower end of the Park was full of peo-
pie, and the general estimate was, that no
fewer than twenty-five thousand persons were
on the ground.
From the outgivings Of the Press here and
elsewhere, that the New York members of
the Council were digging their graves, and
that no audience IN New York would have
Lpatience with them, because of their acting
in concord with their Southern countrymen
there was naturally enough some anxiety
when james W. Barker read the Philadelphia
Platform, and submitted it to the appreciation
of the people, as the plan for unity, and
peace, and harmony with all the United
States of America. No doubt there were
many in that vast concourse, who did not
approve in specification and detail every thing,
and all things in that patform-but there
burst forth from the masses one almost unit
ed CHEER, which soon relieved all anxiety, and
demonstrated that the American Party OF
New York was one. The Platform was ac-
cepted without dissentient voice-and the
cheers ofacceptance were renewed and pro-
longed. Mr.. Barker ard his friends, without
any of the preparation of cLaquers, trusted to
the absorbing American sentiment OF his
countrymen, and trusted not in vain. The
unity, concord and harmony Of the American
Party triumphcd over every other sentiment
and us il triumphed among the American
masses, so will it triumph in every part OF
| the Unlted 0taleS.
For the following particulars we are also
indebted to the Express:
According to previous notice, there drawn
together last evening, in the Park, such y
crowd as is but seldom seen in this our good.
~ city-the array of persons was tremendous,
and their voices occasionally went up in
unanimous concord, it seemed as though the
platform tottered with the reverberaton of
the mighty cry
At about a quarter past 4 o'clock might
have been seen focking from all quarters
representatives of every class of our commu-
nifty; the merchant walked side by side with
his clerk, and the artisan met them in full
vigor of his noble manhood in the Park-al
seemed equal and free-the few eager to Sc
cure the prominent places, increased to the
many--the many grew to the crowd, and the
crowd, u multitudinous gathering Of quiet,
peaceeble men, grew denser and dcnser yet,
until shortly before five the capnons expend.
ed their strength to salute the presence of
"Sam," in consultation with his followers.
Thirty-tw0 booming cries went forth, and
then the mighty and evcr-increasing throng,
swollen into living mass, stood waiting the
moment when the voice should proclaim the
Americans organized
But while this vast assembIage were com
ing together, there was busy few with their
duties to perform on the occasion. These
were the officers and speakers of the evening;
who, on their part, assembled in large num-
bers on the various platforms whence the
followers of the ubiquitous Sam" should
proclaim his principles open to the criticism
Of the many whom he hoped to lead
Mounting the platforms lnidst the enlivening
strains sent up by the band, and comprised in
the air of shall Columbia" they Haunted to
the breeze the emblem of our country, the
"Stars and Stripes" With them, also, they
brought other banners bearing mottoes and
inscriptions pertaining to the "myth' who
presided over the meeting Deposited oppo'
site the crowd was the inscription
THE BIBLE,
GOOD SCHOOL BOOK.
| TO the left of the speakers "Sam" testified
10 his sentiments as follows: