Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-09-03
MIR. Wilmot's Progress.


| WILMoT'S RECEPTION IN THE w Esr.-We e
| have advices from the West stating that i'm
mense crowds turned out to hear Judge WILL
MOT at Somerset, Greensburg and Washington.
The largest meetings held at this point were
| not larger. As we predicted, the people are
| turning out in vast masses to hear him. His
name all through the west is tower of strength.
No other name in the State has SO deep ho,d
upon the popular heart of that region. Let
the East and centre but respond to the voice
of the North and West, and his triumph will
not only be great it will he nsagnifcent.-
PhiLa. Times.
Mr.. WILMoT's PHILADELPHIA SPEECH
Great have been the effects produced in Phil
adelphia by Mr.. Wilmot's speech, made here
recently. Many of the most influential Of the
old old line Wings were in attendance, and
expressed themselves highly gratifed at the
sensible and Statesmanlike views of that dis.
tnguished gentleman. 1t reminded them of
the good old days of Clay and Webster, when
people went public meetings for the purpose of
receiving instruction, and not be disgusted at
the incoherent rawlings of some miserable
mountebank, who had the gift of talking by
the hour, aud saying nothing.
Mr.. WilmOt's exposition of his famous Pro-
viso was masterpiece, and convinced all who
heard him that he is indeed one of the giant
statesmen of the country. After the concu-
sion Of his speech many come to the conclusion
that the Democratic State Committee might
be well called prudential Committee, from
the fact of their positively forbidding General
Packer to discuss the political topics of the
of the day with Mr. Wilmot
The only good that we can conceive would
have arisen from General Packers presence at
the public meetings, would have been to per-
form an interlude, so as to afford Mr. Wilmot
a resting place.-Phita. Sun.
JUDGE WuMor's ADDREss.-Lafayette Hall
was crowded to its utmost capacity last even
ing-hundreds failing to obtain admission
to hear the address of Hon. David Wilmot,
the Republican candidate for Governor. He
is handsome, portly looking man, with an in
tellectual head and face, but was evidently suf-
fering much Inconvenience from a cold and
hoarseness. His speech was plain and cogent
his facts and arguments presented with
clcarnesS and occasional playfulness. He sketch
ed the history of Southern encroachment and
Northern submission-the action of Congress
and Northern Legislators in his famous Pro
ylSo-the steady yielding up OF the position
then taken by the Northern politicians of all
parties, &c. His exhibition of the real cause
of the preponderance of the slave power in the
Government was very clear and logical
He closed with brief sketch of the Kansas
difficulties what brief sketch of the
history of that struggle, hitherto and now,
from the first usurpaton of the Missouri inva-
ders and the bogus Legislature elected by them,
the Government had sustained the wrong-doers
and from the very fact of its determination to
uphold the laws of that legislature by force, if
necessary, the Free State party were certain
ly precluded from fair election, and with the
present apportionment and the required pay
ment of the Bogus taxes as decided by Judge
Cato, they were bound hand and foot. He
spoke at considerable length, though evidently
not in good physical condition of doing justice
to himself. The committee have "cut out" too
much labor for one man-Putsburg Dispatch
SATURDAY.