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Aueusta Mestlng.

with dozens Oflsrge banners streaming in the
breeze. and hundreds Of less oaI .autleriug en-.
,igns of the great ground swell that has broken
up the secret springs Of the human heart The
people are aroused, The great issue Of This
campaign brought out hundreds Of men. who
heretofore delighted to call themselves Demo
Gratis, and who declare for right justice and
humanitys
The procession Of a mile long, marched
through the town to the grove. under the soul
stirring mAsic Of the 6fe and drum and the
grand National airs played by that excellent
brass Band, interlarded by ihe way with patri-
otc songs by the Augusta and CarrOllton. and
other Glee Clubs. That WaS a pIoud day for
qld liberty. loving, tyranny hating Augusta
We met The Brown township people there, the
Minerva and Stark county people, the Hano-
yer aud Columbiana county people, the Wash
ington, Harrison, Union. Lee and Centre town.
ship people we're therei and lSslly, We saw
that procession from East and Fox townships,
there, scarcely leaving enough at home to take
care Of the real estate, for in fact we thought
everything was there but the real estate Such
ia glorious Outpouring Of the inconuptible peO-
pie, will tell in thunder tones on the 4th oil
November. Old Fox, that has frequently
given ffty votes majority for the true Demoe'
Tracy, will not this fall, out Of. two hundred
votes, give fifty for Slavery and Buchanan
And Augusta beats her most sanguine friends
| But we digrsSs. The people were called to a
Ihalt in and around beautiful grove. inlaid
iwib seats sufficient to seat fifteen hundred
tpeople: but it was evident the masses exceed
ed the anticipstions Of the arrangers, Ger but
little over one half present could be seated; be.
tsIes, hundreds who were necessarily still re-
tanned in the village to get dinner attend
horses and so forth.
The meeting Wa1 called 10 order by the &C.
Iisction of DR.. L. Halderman, rs President, and
NJ. Artsr, P, w. Smith and r. McLave, Esq
Vice Presidents, with Secretaries F. 8. Ca
bic, l. P.HOle and VIM. Mccoy.
The frst speaker who addressed the Assem-.
lblAge was ]. E. Wharton. Esq. ofthe Massi-
lon NeDs He showed in mastery manner,
the eneroaChments of the slave power, ever
since the formation OF the Government And
that the true intent Of the trainers Of the Gov.
eminent 1T the close Of the Revolution. was 4
naIly to eradicate Slavery, and not extend it.
Hon. o. p. Brown, Of Ravenna, next adj
dressed them 10 fluent, easy style, impressing
home the truths he uttered with illustrations
scmparsons and anecdotes, that convulsed The
audience with his happy and well timed hits
occasionally carrying them away with sympa
thy for the poor, down.trodden African mothers
who yield with the rending of their heart
strings under the lash Of the Slave Master
and give up their bosom infants to fill the fesl
pens that people the dismal rice swAmps Of tn,
far down South. And oil is done in th,
name of the Lord, under the rsls Of Democra
cy. -
Afer which, Gen, E. R. Eckley delivered
9 most powerful and happy speech for freedom
and Humanity, showing up 10 the ocular dem
ons;ration of every maf present, as With line
and plummet, the utter and absurd iDconsis.
tencies of this most weak and dastardly ad-
mnstration. that is endorsed an | attempted to
be prolonged by James Buchanan, astride his
Cincinnati Platform - which every man
iS to be retained as NJ 90 catcher under the
penalty Of thousand dollars fine and impris-
}onment in the PeuiLentiOry, il, per chance, be
should give br altoa poor soul fleeing from his
task master, in pursuit of that God.given boom
Freedom for himself and hisposterity. All to
be done under The once sacred name of De.
imOCracyl Democratsl you who., .,stIl feel the
blood OF your 70, ,efstherS trlckle through your
veins, how can you lend yourself to so ignoblo
Iapurpose? By hundreds Vo hear you say,
never! no, never, ....-
After which the meeting adjourned with a
'ifull determination to do what is right, thou.h
the name Democrat should bO torn from them
by the Slave Drivers lash. ThStwasa proud
day for Augusta, long to D remembered by
ono or two individuals who felt the iron Of con.
VictiOn had entered their souls, still determined
to carry out their former plan OF veugeance!--
Vengeance though conscience and the An0e
D. Gabriel stood a! the door Of their hearts cry
,e ing' peace, peace. .--hsVe mercy upon the dowr
:, hOdden Slave .'.
Hon. JnO, A. Bingham