The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-07

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
New YonK. Tuesday night, J


October 5, 1858.
The first gun of the campaign in vicinity fired
last night by the democracy of Kings county Brooklyn
who turned out in thousands to attend meeting in the
City Hall park to ratiy the State ticket and the nom
nation of their trusty representative, George Taylor
With drums beating and coors flying the democracy Of
the several wards marched in procession to the place of
meeting, and by quarter after o'clock the entire
park filled with dense mass of honest, faithful
democrats ready pledge themselves to the support Of
the ticket presented to them by the regular organization
of the party to defeat every other and their
fdence in the honesty ability and wisdom of Mr. Blu
chanan and his cabinet. There all the appurte-
calcium light, bands of music banners, guns,
fireworks and transpaencies but these We're the mere
accessories There the honestand eloquent express
sons of true democratic doctrine from number of speak
ers and there the and hcartissuing plaudits
of thousand democrats to welcome those express
sons and add TO their force The first speaker Mr.
De Witt, of Brooklyn who in long and very eloquent
Speech reviewed the history Of the democratic party its
great achievements and its claims to the support of the
American people; sketchcd, with great power, the
bright career of truly national administration |;
and urged the democracy to show their appreciation
of the merits of the administration by electing the
democratic candidates the State, congressional and
county tickets. Mr.. Hitchcock, I" the war-horse' of
Cattaraugus county followed in humorous and thor
oughly democratic speech, and then Mr.. William M.
Browne of the editors of the Journal of Commerce,
and resident Of Brooklyn, addressed the meeting for
about half hour, urging the democracy to union
showing them that by union alone they can triumph
and reminding them that though they invincible
when harmonious, they have sustained many de-
feats through their feuds and divisions Mr. Browne
strongly urged the support of the Hon George Taylor
for reelection to Congress- and concluded by
logium the President and his cabinet. Mr.. Taylor
then forward, and received with loud and pro-
longed cheering He addressed the meeting in spirit
ed, independent speech in which he prided himself on
his support of the Presidents Kansas policy, and asked
for the votes of his constituents not aims but what
he believes that he is entitled to receive Several other
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late hour Dsorganizers must have embed when they
the vast asscmblage of true democrats at the Brook
lyn meeting tonight | never attended more thor
oughy harmonious orderly and intelligent meeting, and
left il convinced that the democracy of Kings will do
their utmost in support of our ticket, and triumph
against the backrepublicans and knownothings wheth
fused divided and the schemes of ploters claiming
to be democrats who refuse to support the regular nom
of the party, and 'spt tickets and ''inde-
pendent candidates thus doing all they to defeat
the party to which they falsely claim to belong
The cash transactions for the week ending Monday
at the custom house and in this city have
been follows