The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-06-29
Remarks of MF. English at the Tammany
Jubilee.

At the late enthusiastic jubilee at Tammany
Hall, in New York, TO exchange congratulations
over the great Virginia triumph, the Hon. w.
Fl. English, of Indiana, made the following pa
triotc and eloquent remarks:
''GENTLENEN ! am a stranger in your CITY !;
aad although | have been democrat from my
earliest boyhood, my father was before mr,
this is the tirsi time my feet ever rrSted on the
inside of the world-renowned Tammany Hall.
Cries OF 'yOu are welcome. | came here to-
night rather 10 listen than to speak, and at this
late hour shall attempt no more than 10 mngle
my humble voice with yours in.congratulatng
the noble democracy OF Virginia on their late
magnificent victory. Loud applause. That
victory, gentlemen, has sent Thrill oil JOY to
the heart Of the democracy Of the whole Union.
IApplause. It has sounded the death-kneII Of
the party OF prescription and religious ntoler-
ance. The gallant Wise. OF Acconac, recrntJv
said that the rock OF defence against know-noth-
ingism was the indomitabIe democracy.
s'tIe might have gone further, and said that
at all times, and under all circumstances, when
the vital principles OF this government have
been assaiIed, or the country hern in danger,
the rock Of defence has been this same indomi-
table democracy. Loud cherring.l When the
odous alien aud sedition laws were fastened
upon the people measures no more repugnant
to the genius Of our institutions than the doc
trineS ofthe know othiRgs-the rock Of defence
was the Jcfiersonian democracy. In the second
war OF independence, who was it burned bIue
lights and refused 10 vote supplies, though the
enemies OF the country were battering down the
gates Of the Capitol! Who we're the men to
proclaim moral treason in the Hartford Conyen-
tion2 They We're, thank Heaven not the de-
mocracy. Democracy was again the rock Of
defence. [Cheers.
$50, too, in the Mexican war that same rock
stood firm, and it was lrit to men Of another
faith 10 sympalhize with the enemy, and wish
that oar brave soldiers might be welcomed TO
Mexico with bloody hands and hospitabIe graves
What party stood forth as the rock of defence
IN that scarcely less momentous contest between
Jackson and the monster United States Bank?
The indomitable democracy. And when the
whig party had given 10 the conntrytasar meth
cd OF paying honest debts by bankrupt law, it
was the democratic party that came 10 the les
cue. Who has extended The boundaries of the
republic Who resisted religious and sectional
taRaticsm! Always the ndomtabe democra-
cy, and so it is now, and will be 10 the end
[AppIause.l
''Gentlenen, You have nothing to fear. The
result IN Virginia has demonstrated that the
know-nothing organization cannot exist as a
national party. 1t must inevitably dwindle to
a mere piiiul sectional abolition concern.-
lCheers.I Ii can never raise IFS head higher
than that. We have but to stand firm by our
principlrs-by the constitution and the Union
-discarding all sectional prejudice and all bick-
erng amongst onrselves-and victory is certain
to perch upon our standard. [Applause. during
which Mr.. English resumed his seat
''The chairman said that the hour had now
arrived when the grave-yards yawn and know
nothing councils meet, and with three cheers
for the democracy of Virginia and Henry A
Wise, he adjourned the meeting"
q Rich Judjcm Case in Dayton, Ohio
Wbiy Parfy not get Dead-A man by the
name Of ellis, as learn from the DAYTON
Empire, lately brought snit against some gen
tlemen in that city for buggy hire.-Thr defen-
dants we're the Wing Central Committee in
Montgomery county, in 1853 and 1884, and
the conVerances were tor the use of that party.