The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-31
INTERESTING POLITICAL INrEMIGENCE.



mass Meeting I'm Philadelphia-speseh OF
Hon. Lewis c. levin.
II pursuance Of notice immense mass meeting OF
she Americans was held at Southwark Hall, in the city
q phiEsdelphia, Saturday evening July IS. MOI
withdrawing the extraordinary heat OF the weather
sspacious Ian sss crowded TO overlooking, and large
nmber we're unable to octain aimittsttsncs The Hon
LEWIS c. LEyrs addressed the meeting as follews:-
rhe lous gathering moral force has at length bro
tsn upon The Ia nd ike Ia 1ndsrbo and our enemies
.hrink hack amazed and disappointed The hlsst effects
Of this great American movement will long connu e 20
now psafOrnrg which has lie people q these United
states actors and those OF all Europe deeply in.
ssess our ancestors they Registered vow IN hssysp
drew their broadswords and they shesthed them
TN they had asserted and established the great prin,i
they succeeded but in the midst OF their defeats
sAsy showed that they were persevering aad
spirit yet abroad in the land. The people Of this coun-
ny have discovered that formidable foreign organ,za.
tAa1 the power England existed n the the
naton Its subtle power and practical influence, psns
The civil administraton The people pinned in miserable
thrAdona, while fhis wicked and insoent ascendancy
thsir PROSTATE rights At length wrong had ovsrpssssd
the limit Of endurance. The nation expanding phys
intellectual proportions chafed against its crack
ling bonds-ths time was ripe, and millions painted Tor
pure, unadulterAted American freedom. Every thing
around shows that the active and Irresistible Aaer
can schoomaster ia abroad-that there is = tendency
widely dused throughout our land, to the prn cpes Of
al sane reform and saiutary Determination, tnat no
or privileged by it's antiquity. If that moral power
which is erecting its crest country continues
consequences may be easiy foretold Every liberal
10 yielding to his cause Its rapid spread tslegrsphs
sloser communion shall have riveted units into bat
tAiops and phaansed them in might, let alienated Aer
from their dream Of repose, for the Mede will be
the gate The people, the American people, uniting
N one common American sympathy. What aomsn-
teae occasion How beautiful-how noble are the
day workings Of the human mlnd-the progress OF a
nation, the civilization Of mankind! Who can marvel
then at the sxuiaton feel when bursting asuudsr
Ne tranamels of party, fir ourselves among our
sssntrymen battling for their rights and moving
wards in the accelerated progress Of
heundess might and resis.ess fury that prostrats
the dust all the puny obstacles that be raised by
No perceptions Of the bgoted? In this position ss
stand absolutely fresthe slave Of party, at the
God. Recent events have shown that the
cause far too powerful TO be couneracted by all the
appointments which be piled up in the line of it's
triumphant march, 70 be baed by all the artihcss
which demssogues employ to detach its adheren.s
g Abste Its energy Its vgor is unconqusrabe, its ul
GEES this great must remain In the hands Of the
people from whom it sprung the struggle now is be-
politicians who seek its Every secondary
minor consde ration that Ia being agitstea 10
ssensss principle u and
POSE. No true friend Of this cause will attempt 70
.erse or absorb one particle Of the enthusiasm now
Every ism" that has been drawn towards this great
movement has entered it with trAsorous pur-
ne own WILL to stamp it with it's image
n has RETIRED carrying away with it much OF evil
course Of the Know Something's in the packed
ton At Reading. Had they besn honest in their devo
within the circle Of the national orsanzauon2 II sin
cere in ther professions Of pnanthrophy in behalf Of
me eolored slave, they had even ccpadered Amer
E4nEm Btion OF secondary inheritance, would
they not have been willing to have adopted the national
ten would have gwen them asmple room and verge
enough to discuss any question, however irrelevant
sui. their unSoy purposes Their aim has esen to rule
Or TO ruin-to make this great American movement
TO Or 70 Us so s1S q
sounds. Experience whispers caution when ambition
strikes for power. Kings have been known TO array
under the mask OF pisy while asssssns to DO success
fal clothe themselves in the gown Of the monk Pro
republicans Of Ohio and Pennsylvania hare put the
gaIb Of Amercansm to mslesd the psops snd destroy
State u Psnnsyvsni.. There Is no aanity Of sttras
t<n and there be no affinity OF cohesion between
them and the honest members Of the AMERICAN party,
Something's are aeitating an abstraction. while
e ar: s.p2Ss existing .,t, w.o9 9s.
Union she win enter as free Slater Who does not
know tnat while Kansas may protest the vested rights
their slaves that the political preponderAucs will be
ave TO one In favor Of freedom? Are eithsr OF these
Mo- That oscason would BE- the sppr.prss time to
discuss this question At juncture Ike this, every
true American keePs his aim and his eye single dFs
ie manifest that practical good result from the
agitation Of the slavery question at this time bat that
the contrary, every effort to make 1t the paramount
consideration weakens this great American movement.
The condition of the Southern slave can never be iui
ton by the selfish srts Of ambition, the more ao
jset motives Of avaricous rapsciy wids and desoste
paratss the man Of berevolercs the political char
tAn who borrows cloak to FIRE ths premises OF those
An infinite moral i' desert separates seward, Or
. Chase, from William Penal While We vene-
And yet the wrstched tools-the incendiary conspi-
Tators in own State-are struggling to rant the
no1emsp. to the support Of those arch ismasogass
who. while they point to the Constitution, sees to
overthrow the Union. They are strugglng 70 buii
She irsiigation OF Seward, Wilson is brought TO
New York 70 deliver speech, hSving ior It's
and as soon as the plot succeeds these Tesuts tell
thAt there il no Americansm south Of Maso, D1ous
Mnei The wish father 10 the thought Our South
brethren rely upon the nationality Of our party and
the people of Pennsylvania will sustain It, Pennsyiva
iahsr.ns rot isriva.ive There Is an American spirit
now shouting on every hh and IN every valley nhsng
before said the traitors who packed the convention
Reading had felt moments ny glow Of Amercen'sn in
their hearts, they wosd have been content 70 oAye
sdopted the national platform under protest Did they
40 60? No The sauze veil OF Amercanism is throFn
aside. The scheme was Jeauticsly perfected; but
thank God the plot nevsr be consummsted. The
last resolution adopted by the packed convention illua
rates the purposes of these incendry
AGAINST tho American party and the American Union
The position they occnpy z identical with that Of Chase
and Wilson and Seward, al Of WHOM are known TO be in
positive antagonsm 70 the Amsricsn psrty. Their
agents will be for nd at Oncnnat tbs eighth day o.
January next, in full fellowship with the cons2rators
from this state who dslied at aer posts Ike itnbc
Giles and then deserted noble cause lse traitors
This too in the face Of resolution adopted % tue
National Council providing foi the messing OF rs
tiopaI nominating convention IN the city oil Pnafepnis
on the 22d day OF February, 1855. Tell me tha'
such men love American principles Men Woo res
pect nothing-Dot their solemn pledge 70 ADDS
by the will Of the najory-men who care for nothing,
who honor notbing-nen who pever ass no the coua
try shah be governed but nov they may control par
y-nen who spare no interest who regard no duty,
Who acTuple nYOyidad only that