Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-20
Great American Meeting in New York.


patch. 1t viii appear tomorrow.
Great American Meeting in New York.
From $4,000 TO 10000 People an the ParkN-
The" American Platform" Confirmed and En-
dorsedil
The New York Express oflast evening gives the
f,llowing account of the great American meeting
in the Park on Monday evening:
Hereafter Sam is no longer STRIPPING He is
a giaut-yea, vertable Samson-for nothing but
a live Samson could have raised, at a single days
notice, from twenty-five TO thirty thousand Amer
leans, in the Park last evening. 1t was to re-
spond to the National Council in Philadelphia, to
bs sure and everybody expected that the strip
ling would be about, but nobody expected to see
him bring with him men land women too) by the
square mile. II was all in all, such mighty
demonstration of the people-the real American
people, we mean-such as the Commercial Empo-
rum never beheld before.
This Park meeting was In a good degree i'm
promptu, no time having been allowed for any Of
the usual preparations in the wards or for gather
ing together the large suburban population that
now surround this city. Notwithstanding, however,
all that, and the very early hour, p. NJ at which
men Of labor aud of business were summoned
from their various avocations, thousands were on
hand, and the crowd kept on continually increas-
ing till after dark. At six o'clock the whole lower
end Of the Park was full Of people, and the gene
raj estimate was, that no fewer than twenty five
thousand persons were on the ground.
The platform was accepted, with scarcely dis
sentieat voice-and the cheers Of acceptance were
renewed and prolonged. Mr.. Barker and his
friends without any Of the preparation Of claquers,
trusted to the absorbing American sentiment Of
their countrymen, and trusted not in vain. The
unity, concord, and harmony of the American
party triumphed over every other sentiment-and,
as it triumphed among the American masses, 30
will it triumph in every part of the United States.
The meeting was addressed by Ex-Governor
Brown and Hon. A. j. Donelson, of Tennessee;
E. B. Bartlett, Esq, of Kentucky; Judge Hopkins,
Cunningham, of South Carolina; Mr. Burwell, Of
Virginia; and many other speakers.
We give below the speech of Andrew Jackson
Donelson, the private secretary and nephew Of
General Jackson, late Minister to Berlin, and re-
Gently editor of the Washington Union:
SPEECH OF HON. A. J. DosELsoN
The mention of my name on this important &C.
casion, in connection with the Hermitage, and the
hero and patriot that word recalls to your memory,
Is sufficient indication Of the thought that is up
pcrmost in your mind and to which must ad-
dress myself You desire TO hear how ], an old
friend and relative OF Andrew Jackson-his pri-
vate secretary during his Presidency, and for more
than thirty years. up to the last hours of his life
enjoying the freest access TO all his papers, and
maintaining the most intimate and confidential re-
lations with him--can defend the principles of the
newly-organized American party. Listen TO me,
fellow-citizens, and think | can satisfy you not
only that consistent, but that every motive Of
patriotism and public duty demanded of me the
abandonment Of party which no longer practises
the old-fashioned democracy of jefferson, Madison,
and jackson, but has done all that it could to
bling into discredit the most essential and charac-
teristic features of that democracy. Franklin
Pierce came into power, TO use sea-phrase in
the wake Of the compromise OF 1850. That
measure, carried through by the united action Of
such statesmen as Clay, Webster, Cass, and Hous-
ton, enlisted the sympathies Of the American peo
pie and was welcomed in every corner OF our
widespread Union as a rebuke to those factions
which had labored under the garb Of State rights,
TO bring the Federal and State authorities In open
conflict with each other.
At several places In New England, Mr. Pierce
stigmatizcd the opponents OF that measure as NOR
al traitors He went SO far as to compliment me
for my services In what he called battle for the
Union. He declared that in that battle he stood
where General jackson did. Now, call TO mind
what General jackson did-what he said-and
what the Democratic party mai ltained when the
country was in the crisis TO which Mr.. Pierce al
luded. Do you remember the ordinance Of South
Carolina srming her citizens, establishing test
oaths, and declaring her determination to carry
into execution her threat Of nulfcatonf The
proclamation OF General Jackson, denouncing the
whole proceeding as unauthorized, rebellous and
traitorous-the force bill passed by Congress with
great promptness enabling the President TO repel
by force all the opposition 10 the execution Of the
lawsY And then, gentlemen, do you remember
the unanimity with which not only the Democratic
party applauded It's President, but how the great
body OF the American people, looking above party,
and surveying only the good Of the country, came
forward by thousands and thousands TO testify
their respect for a statesman who fatered not in
the performance Of high constitutional duty
Mr. jefferson had said Of General jackson, after
the victory Of New Orleans, that he filed the mes-
sure Of his countrys glory.
But the patriotic American people proclaimed,
when the old hero carried the constitution unhurt
through the struggles with notification, that his
name would hereafter stand by the side Of Wash
ington as the preserver Of the Union. Yes, gen.
tlemen, Il was here, In New York, that countless
thousands came forward 10 greet the old hero, and
the reclamation Of Joy and love the man who, when
the safety Of the constitution threatened, de-
cared fearlcssly that he would not survive its fall,
but wo Id uphold IL, como what might
Now, gentlemen, this was Democratic practice
in 1882 Let US nov see how General Pierce has
acted in crisis which he has admitted 10 be full
Of similar perils 10 us and 10 our posterity When
the compromise was passed, you all know that
there was party called at the North abolitionsts
and at the South nullifiers who insisted that that
measure was base surrender Of State rights, and
who set on foot measures which, IL carried out
would have produced immediate bloodshed and
civil war. This party at the South had an organ,
whose columns teemsd with the dirtiest abuse Of
every man who would not subscribe 10 it's scheme
OF holding Southern Congress, with powers not
only to declare the compromise unconstitutional,
but TO provide for It's resistance, precisely South
Carolina had done In 1882.
When the great and lamented Webster deliver
ed his speech, on the occasion Of laying the cor
nor stone Of the Capitol, the response Of this
Southern-rights Democratic sheet was that Il was
vain ceremony-that the people Of the South
ahould hc rotfin0 THAR In N the