New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-08
FROM HHADELPHIh.
s...;s Correspondent.

hon Yesterday IN INDEPENDENCE qu"io' 'i'' D'"'
'u,a.ssd the merchants Of this city, for upwards
= ,,,o hours Speaking in the open air is trying
-, MT merely to the lungs, which, as general
- have 10 be Over-exerted, TO render the words
.,.dble. but there is another and more serious
'Loo,;on which s that where the object is to bring
nor, into the fold-to make converts and not
III, 20 raise o shout Of cOncOrdant triumph, the
.noaker il not put into adequate sympathetic rea-
.ons with bis hearers the vocal electricity goes to
,be Glands and does not ring around as It can with
:, ,bewals Of a room. Very much Of thesuccess Of
nrncple may depend upon the appropriation OF
,bese physicO-artstic requirements. The purposes
&C. sneaker. in a word, who addresses with good
.Lect peOplc and not simply for the ends OF self
alS,tration require cOmmodious hall aud an audi
arce seated Concentration, then, in the hearers Is
ob,ained: Indifference which comes Of moving
about and the noise Of many feet on the periphery
If the crowded circle, is ObViated. ] need not
dwell on Mr.. Banks's abilities, whether as speaker
in the House or speaker III the open ar Inc
meeting in question was commercially one oi the
most respectable that could be imagined. Mer.
chants of 40 years standlng-tbe large and genial
sccretlous Of lives of business-were there repre-
serted and Philadelphia, which has been Ike Bal
timore in her stifed voice for Republlcanism, now
finds tongue
The headquarters Of the Republicans, Chestnut
street il very cOmmOdOus, and notwithstanding
The fact that there had been town meeting IN the
afternoon. there was another town meeting Oh those
PREMISES ia the evening Among other things that
his capyass has de- ne is to reveal great amount OF
,orslly underground talent. Repubicansm seems
IA have SUBSIDIZED the impalpdbe world, and pro-
duced fruits accordingly, in an extraordinary de-
cree Here. for example, last night, was case
N point Mr. HUrd was on the PLATFORM mean
,Ie nlatform of bOards-at the headquarters last
';obt And who is Mr.. Hurd Mr.. Hurd Is IRON
Teyette County Penn. He is stout gentleman
9TH A healthy Republican-loOkng tace-the lace OF
= man who could not be hired to live OIL the unre-
crted toll of his fellow creatures THIS face ennis
ta moral sentiments without malice prepense.
Mo,slIy MIR. Hurd is Just the man to talk on this
tiect But more than that he is thoroughly lOgl-
ssI' And more than that, he is good comedian
IIe would bring down the house al w allack !. vi
s,o,ie. Of n certain sOrt-thOse OF huge physical
Cher illustrating mOralitcs or. ldeallsrnS IN the
same way that Egyptian c0lossalitles carve the
eern;ties IN the rough-Mr. Hurd has wallet full.
Ue onens the wallet and they tumble out, thirteen
10 tbe dozen And then, having given the auditors
,rmment and humOr he finished seriously as to the
duties of the crisis The President then asked Inc
10 .pesk but told the crowd | would do so at
length on this Wednesday when want to see the
mechanics and wOrkingmen particularly; Tor the
most mOnstrOus spectacle OF m0nstrOus spectacies,
ttp civ OF IfIl-Oi "PV'i' va i"iuo''y'
thc man who though an drlstOcrat by birth,
broucht I'D his three sons mechanics Gone was
a eather-breeches maker)-Of Penn who re-
yersed each aud every an;ecedent OF his
Tory IA TO what constituted resPectabll-
ity and made lofty politics and desPlsed
bsndicraft convertible terms-Penn, OF whose social
immensties Macauay has not the first perception
Il saw that in view of all this the dlrest gorgon OF
tbe diseased imagination of shareholders and their
Northern "ta -" is the spectacle OF any portion OF
Philadelphia promising to vote for Buchanan ana
Slavery And yet in the " Practical Hatters'
District (ior that is what Th0s. Florence used TO
cali bmselO and under his slNe-Ogarchc dlrcc-
lion the promises are that the SaVeOcra's VIII sue
coed owing TO the delusiOns OF the shpwrghts
and ron.fasbioners and other such representatives
Of Penn-ike pursuits Chaos has come again
in the mind when such disturbances can he fused
and the antipOdes of the world of opinion can 80
meet
The Fremont Committees here work like New
York omnibus horses oil rainy days just after break
fast and Just before dinner, Their daily labors are
about seven or eight hours, aud that is superadded
10 their hours Of personal business. never knew
men work harder And they are not, with hardly
Nm exception politicians or men who have been
act vcly engaged hitl erto III canvasses.
For example, there is II. c. Carey. MIR. Carey
il is true has retired from business, hut only to be
buser n, a political economist and Republican.
He is President of the Philadelphia Republican
Club lie told me that upward OF S2o,OO0 had
becn raised here TO distribute documents, and for
the inevitable expenses Of cub-r0oms and public
meetings But the whole question has been sud
de,ly hurled upon the active handful here. The
Republican party few months ago had no exist.
encc friend tells me that in his Ward one OF
the largest and certainly the richest in the city
little while ago no Republican constituency was to
b. found; and at meeting OF the Ward but three
voters were present, and they had to elect them
selves to the General Conference. Now, IN this
very Ward many of the most ~ solid men are en-
rolled as Republicans. OF the result in Eastern
PENNSYLVANIA, that is to say, of its bringing into
the victory as brushing majority as trans
Alleghanian Pennsylvania, i have no doubt,
could only the ground be illumined foot by foot.
hut | have been surprised to fluid even in New
York and certain crcumbient portions Of II IN
New jersey, that the people were addressed very
recently for the first time by Republican speaker,
though they were hungry for good political ament,
and would sit deyOuring between two or three
hours all the speaker had to say. have seen on
different evenings men almost exclusively ehgageu
IN a particular tradc-in iron founderes tor exam
ole. in shipbuding, in oyster-raising-gNe the
kcenest attention to the Republican speaker OF the
occasion; and the meeting over, acknowledge their
satisfaction and regret that they had been so long
bell in the dark as TO the conspiracy against their
Ihcrties and dignties.
Apropos of Mr.. III. {. Carey. We had supper
party at his house last night. Present, working
men of the party; for example, Mr.. Morton Mae
Michael, MIR. Speaker Banks, Senator Wilson, MIR
Thomas Balch Mr. George W. Curtis, and Mr.
lrds1 of THR TRIBUNE Ga mOnstrous clever fellow
ste: ,0minis umbra), &c. We had Jolly time OF it.
5 ',c If them were a little hoarse, some good
,,. For example in his ccoquials, Mr.. Speaker
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