Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-02-15
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BOMBAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1858
Ths Ant5-LeoOmPson MeetiuR IN New
Kor1.

Ths Ant5-LecomPsOu McetiHg in New
York.
1t will be recollected that call was published
in the New York papers, signed by George Ban
croft, William Havemeyer George B. Butler
aud other leading Democrats in New York city,
for a meeting Friday evening last, in the Acad-
envy Of Music to protest against the Lecompton
fraud. the meeting to be addressed by Hon. Rob.
ert J. Walker, Hon. F. P. Stanton and others.
Well long before the hour for the gathering,
many hundreds hae collected around the main
entrance, and the multitude was rapidly and
largely increasing. and il the short space of
quarter Of hour, says the Tribune, had increas-
ed to nearly thousand. None of the doors were
yet opened though by this time the interior of
the building was partially lighted This however
was interrupted BY the entrance Of some Of the
stockholders of the Academy, who gave orders to
the attendant of the building to turn off the gas,
and not permit the doors to be opened. At this
time platoon of police, under Capt. Besnett,
arrived, request having been made by three of
the stockholders to Capt. Bennett at the station
house, to be present and prevent any attempt to
open the building on the part Of the citizens as
semblsd Sergeant Birney had also arrived with
a squad of men from the Mayors Office, whom
he had stationed at the different doors. The
crowd continued to increase rapidly, until the
number present was not less than three thousand
persons. Inquiries made why the building
was not spened, and the officers stated that no
reason had been assigned.
Deputy Superintendent Carpenter subsequently
arrived, and stationed the police, under Capt.
HART, at the different entrances to the building.
There were however, at no time any demonstra-
tons Of violence. The weather was cold, and
citizens soon left the place, but their places
filled by others, who came, supposing that the
meeting would be held The crowds amused
themselves by cheers for " Topeka, Douglas"
Walker" f" Stanton" with occasional groans
for 8 Lecompton."
At quarter of eight O'Clock a gentleman
nounced from the steps of the residence on the
West side of Irving Place that Hon. Frederick
P Stanton was present and would briefly address
the meeting. The announcement was received
with loud cheers.
Mr.. Stanton came forward and said
tFellow Citizens-I came here tonight prepar-
ed to address you upon that most important sub
ject which is now before the Congress of the
United States, and which affects the integrity of
TINS Union ana the rlgntS OF the people OF TINS
whole confederacy. l very much regret that the
doors of this building have been unexpectedly
closed upon YOU l know that it is utterly i'm
possible, on account Of recent exertlon, to do
justice to the subject in speaking tonight in the
open air and cold. At some other time. fellow
citizens, it will give the greatest pleasure and
pride, when you shall be able to procure suita
BILE hall, to calmly and deliberately and in such
manner, hope, as will enable you to have a
clear understanding of the subject, to give you
the information possess of the difficulties in the
unhappy Territory of Kanzas But at the pres
ent time have to ask your indulgence, that
may be permitted to pass over this occasion, for
l know that it would be impossible for me to ad-
dress you fully and satisfactorily under these cir
cumstances. l am under deep obligations 10 you
for your kindness and for the high compliment
paid me by the greetings of so large gathering
of the citizens of this metropolis.
Mr. Stanton returned from the stand amid pro-
longed cheers. The people soon after dispersed
Thus it would seem that the time has at last
arrived when the doors of Northern hall are
shut against even a Southern man, lest he might
say something against the ultra pro slavery poll
cy Of a national administration, at the head Of
which is a recreant son of Pennsylvania. So
contemplate has become the policy of Mr.. Blu
chanan, that his supporters at the North, in order
to keep in good standing with the party, are
obliged even to refuse hearing to distinguished
Southern men of their own party, who have act.
ed an important part in the politics of the eoun-
try, by the appointment of the Administration.
George B. Butler, one of the signers to the
call for the meeting, and who the principal
agent in making arrangements for the meeting,
publishes card in the New York papers of Sat
urday, in which he shows up the duplrcity of the
Directors of the Academy of Music hall, who
are Buchanan men, in first granting the of
the hall, and afterwards ordering the doors of the
hall not to be opened on the occasion, when the
money for its use had been already paid in ad
vance.
We trust the anticipated meeting will soon
come off in some other hall, and thus the metro
potan capital of the nation be allowed to ex-
press its detestation Of the acts of the national
administration, though those so protesting may
have been until recently in full unison with that
administration.
Mr.. Stanton announced, in his remarks on Fri
day evening, his readiness to respond to another
invitation to speak, and we trust Gov. Walker
and Mr.. Douglas will find it convenient to be
there, and add new and powerful testimony to
the evidence already afforded of the injustice and
iniquity of the course Of the Buchanan Admins
tration, in its Kanzas policy.