Washington telegraph., 1855-07-11
Sam taking the City by Storm.

Hereafter Sem IS no longer siriplinsi He is
giant-vca- veri'able Sausson-f,r nothing hut
a live Samson could have raised. at single davis
uoiire- from TWENTY-FIVE to thirty thousand A IN
eTlrans- IN the Park last evening Il was to re-
spond TO the action of his National Council in
Phade' phIa 10 lie sure-and every boiy expect-
ed that the stripping would be akout-5ut nobody
expected to see MIN bring with him men land
Women tool by the square mile 1t was all in all
such mighty demonstration of the peopIe-the
real American people. mean-Such as the
commercial emporium never beheld before.
The Park meeting was in good degree i'm
pronlpta-nO time having been allowed ior any OF
the usual preparations in the wards or for gather
ing together the large suburban population.
that npw surrounds this citv- NotwithStand nd
ing. however. all that and the very early hour. )
F. VI. at which men of labor and of business were
summoned rom their various avocations-thou-
sands were or hand and the crowd kept on con-
tnuafiy increasing till after dark At six O'Clock
the whole ;Ower end Of The PARK was fIiI OF r,eo-
pie and the general estimate was that no fewer
than tsreHty5fiCe thousand persons were on tn.
ground
From the OH'g:vings oi the press here and Else
where tha. the New York meInber rs of the conn
cii were digging their graves. and that no audi
ence IN New York would have patience with
thern- because OF their acting concord with their
Southern cOuntTymen-there was naturally o
nnuoh some anxiety when James W Barker read
The Philadelphia platform and Submitted Il to the
appTooatIon ot the people as the plan for unitv
and peace and harmony with all the Uui.ed States
of America No doubt there were many in th,t
vast concOurse who did not approve in specifra-
uon ant' detaI! everything and all things in that
Platform; but there burst forth from the masses one
almost ufiI;eti cheer which soon relieved all any
lety and demonstrated that the American Marty
OF New York was one The platform was accen-
TED without dIsseniieat voice and the cheers nj
acceptance were renewed ami prolonged. Mr..
Darker and ms friends without Of the prepar-
alton OF otd7Wers. trusted 70 the absorbIng Amer
can sentiment oi his conntryulen and ,r1s.,I ~.
In vain ine unity concord. and harmony M the
Ainerlcan party trIHmp.Ied over every other SON
hmenti aEd- as IT trinmpheI among the American
masses. 50 Will It triumph in every mart of the
Unitel States " ''
-, ne meeting was called 10 order by c,Il,nu 7
:" barker TO the Chair, and appointing twenty
lhree vice presidents The c-esino v,s al
dressed by the Chairman Gov. Neil s BroT,n n-
Tenn. Hon F. Bartlett. OF XIV. Hon. 7. g L.
~, OF "a A J. Dnnelson- Of Tenn Judge Hon.
kiis OF Aia-- and Cen W S Pilrhe.. OF XIV In
a"dltion 10 the proceedings at the srandstan,l
mere We're speeches from three other DoInts in
-edI 20 Broadway a stand was erected rDon
~aSh- Sgn "alch Nas sIirruounted with the AmerI-
can flag Some Thousand ,,ao,is -
n, =, aai Were addressed bv Mr.. WIl,not of
&C, - 'i'- J. BaiOek. OF New York. Nr. Souiras
tbs o"]. =; AMI Nr- Lyon OF Port Jervis. On
o-.-I ~ Siie oi fhe Park there was another wap.
IN ~ speaking by Mr. S. V.R. Mallory
IT, = VT Houshton. of \. c.. ane: others
r,,se4 IOlm OF the National Convention was
70 a''o me whole proceedings were after the
'"e most spirited manner.
tN- r Express, 18Th ult