Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-10-24
pemocratIe Mass Meeting in Wilmington.

sembled at the intersection of Front and Market
sireets which exhibited dense mass hlHng the
square space at the crossing, and extending con-
siderable distance up and down both streets. VI
course. estimates will be various, 1t seemed TO US
that there must have been in the neighbornood OF
four thousand; estimating the crowd as we have
seen crowds estimated at other places, we would nave
said eight to ten thousand. But the first IS
moderate calculation. After music and the display
of 'fre-works-a very handsome display lndeed-lhe
procession started up Front street under the decon
of the Marshals We were at the railroad a"alting
the arrival Of the train which late, ana dId ho'
witness the starting of the procession buV' S'duins
at the corner of Red Cross and Front Streets we 80"
the lights and transparencles cleaning out away up
as far as Fourth street, while the rear did not seem W
have left the place of starting. Along the line ol
march, for squares, the streets cleaned WIN H8n1e'
and were alive with people marching IN procession
marching on the sidewalks, marching every way
but all alive To describe the numerous transparent
Ces and devices with their appropriate notices ana IN
scriptions would occupy more time and space IMAM
we have to-day at our command. All Will adml'
that the dfsplay was grand and imposing, and In num-
bers of peope, and the beauty of all its parts, eX-
ceoaed ANYTHING ever witnessed here or elsewhere IN
North Carolina. The full-rigged and manned SNIP
with bor FLAGS and emblems was marked feature In
the procession, and the object OF general remark and
admiration, The town was full of Democrats from
the ccuntrv-from the county of New Hanover, from
Dublin, Sampson, Bladen, Columbus; even from
Cumberland, Robson, Wayne and Onslow, all of
whom did not however, take part IN the procession
When, little after eight o'clock, the procession
halted in front of Holmes Balcony to listed % an cd
dress rom Hon Abram w. Venabe, the attendance
was even greater than at first and required all the
energies of powerful and sonorous voice and the
tact Of practiced orator to be heard over the i'm
mense crowd Eli w. Hail. Esq, on behalf OF the
Democrats of Wilmington, extended cordial well
come to their visitors and guests, after which Hon.
Warren Winslow introduced his Honorable FRIEND
MIR. Tcnablc who proceeded to deliver one OF the
most able, nrcumentatve and interesting addresses
which it has ever been our happiness to hear. Time
oday will not permit TO do anything like justice
to the points made and illustrated by the Speaker, and
we forbear for the present. From beginning to end
the address was listened TO with breathless attention.
The view presented at this point was very striking
From the Market House to the houses on the West
depended United States Hays; across Front street,
on the North, was stretched vast banner, with the
while on Market street, to the eastward, the ship
doomed up and the space was filled up with trans
parences and lights and denseIy packed human be-
ings. After Mr.. Venable had concluded his remarks,
the procession again took up the line of march down
Front to Castle up Castle 10 Third, up Third to Mar
ket down market Front, where it dispersed to as
semble this morning and proceed 10 the place where
the mass meeting and barbecue is TO be held.
The meeting this morning was organized at the
Oaks, Greenfield, by calling DR.. Bellamy, of Will
mngton, to the Chair, and appointing VIM. Fl. Nc
Koy, Esq, of Wilmington, and F. George, Esq, of
Columbus Co., Secretaries.
When we left, about twelve o'clock, very
large assemblage was listening TO able exposition
of national policy and national principles by Hon.
Warren Winsow, who had progress sed little over
half an hour The crowd is swelling every minute
and on our return met groups of pedestrians, and
every species of vehicle, full of people, bound for
the common point of attraction The barbe-
cue will come off at about three o'clock. The
already vast crowd will be still more vast in the af
Daily Journal Of yesterday.
Ray The Fusonists in Philadelphia and indeed
throughout the State of Pennsylvania raise a grea
cry of fraud, and the cry echoed by Southern Know
Nothing papers The great niquity consists in this
that the fusonists were beaten, when they though
they had the game in their own hands. Philadel
pha, a. city under Democratic control, contraste(
strongly and favourably with the Know Nothing city
of Baltimore. On the day of election the peace wa
preserved without interruption, no man was bulle(
or made afraid. 1t is SAID by those who, in thei
chagrin and dispair will say anything, that men wer
coonized here, there and elsewhere. These asser
tons are vague and totally destitute of proof 1t i
contended that the Democrats must have cheated
because the vote in the city and county of Philadel
pha is largely increased since May last. Now Their
might be something in this, were it not that ever
of this increase has gone the Fusionists thai
TO the Democrats, so that if tweleve thousand votes
excess to previous election, be twelve Thousand
sins, the Fusioniss the greatest sinners, because
chargeable with at least thousand of these sins
The Philadelphia Daily Meas. a sort of hybriC
amphlblOus affair, INDUCES in all sorts of ranng a
galnst Mayor NauX, man above reproach in publ
or private hte and admitted 10 be so by friend an
enemy. Such contOrtions and hard names as the de
feated indulge in sufficiently indicate the deptb O
their despair and the extent of their fury It is writ
ten down that James Buchanan shall be PresiJnu,
and the FusOnists can't stop him, and there is no us
IN their pitching and fusSing The fact is that III
blatant fusion organs in Philadelphia kept up tn
game of brag to the very last, thus deceiving sue
OF their deluded followers were foolish enough
place any reliance In their judgment or honesty an
stimulating them to make bets,-and now to tur
away the indignation and bitter curses of their vic
TINS, who relied upon their being even the shadow {