Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-09-20
PEOPLES MASS CONVENTION.


There to be two grand Fremont mass meet
ings in Connecticut, next Tuesday, 23d inst, one
at Brooklyn, in the eastern part of the State, to
be addressed by Henry Ward Beecber Lieut. Gov.
Raymond of New York. and Isaac F. Shepard of
Boston the other at Meriden, with addresses
from Arson Burlingame. Senator Foot of Ver-
mont, Gen. Nye of New York, Senators Foster
and Dixon of Connecticut and others
We learn that there was really immense
Fremont mass meeting az Pittsburg Pa on
Wednesday one hundred thousand is the est
mated number present; the procession was five
miles long and three hours in passing business
was almost entirely suspended and with the
SIV''s-~,-a 49, l->~-e &c the streets wore
holiday appearance. The telegraphic account
says -" Gentlemen from Ohio and Indiana, who
attended the mass meetings at Tippecanoe and
Dayton, in 1910, say that the meeting here to-day
was the largest ever held in the United States"
A letter from Philadelphia on Wednesday, says:
&C. ID. Hineline was nominated o-day BY
the BUCCANEERS for Congress in the LIST dis
triet (Florence's.) He will be beaten. This
nomination has increased the Fremont feel
ing. Everything is working in favor OF free
dom. The Border Ruffian mass meeting to-
day was small, notwithstanding the great ex-
ertions made"
Gen. Purviance, late democratic Auditor Cen
eral of Pennsylvania, has taken the stump in
Butler county for Fremont. Gen. Purviance was
a member of the Cincinnati Convention which
nominated Buchanan, and was Chairmad of the
Committee on its permanent organization.
CALIFORNIA. The advices from California
continue more and more encouraging to the Ere.
mont cause. The action of the Administration
against the Vigilance Committee government
will have the tendency to drive its friends and
sympathizers to the Republican party. A letter
by the last steamer remarks -
"We have cheering news from all parts of
the State. Fremont clubs are formed in eve
ry mining town and district The democra-
cy' will be entirely routed and scattered at
the coming election in November. One gen.
tleman, hitherto a staunch adherent of the
party, and who was a member of the conven.
ton to choose delegates to the Cincinnati
convention, and aided in instructing them to
vote for Buchanan, now boldly and unequivo-
cally declares himself opposed to the platform
and the square standing thereon
Lewis D. Campbell of Ohio has been claim.
ed even lately as for Fillmore but he remov-
ed all doubt as to his political position in
recent speech at Hamilton. when he said -
"And now l suppose you would like to
know who intend to vote for for president"
Cas- soon as the remark was made, the crowd
ed hall became as silent as a death chamber.)
al intend to vote at the next election, and l
shall on that occasion vote by ballot, and the
first name on the ticket to be deposited by me
in the ballot box, will pc John Charles FIRE.
mont" This announcement was received
with deafening and prolonged applause. 1t
was fully five minutes before the speaker
could proceed. Cheer after cheer shook the
house to its foundations, and the scene was
one of the widest excitement. Mr.. Camp
bell subsequently remarked that it was evil
dent the Hamilton people we're for Fremont.