New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-25
Second Grand Blowout of the ss Iniepend
ent Americnns..

The middle of Canal street, between St. Charles
and Carondelet, to the south, and between Royal
and Dauphne to the north, was full of people last
night.
Premonitory posters about town had predicted the
entertainment to be mass meeting of the Inde-
pendent American party; and music, cannon,
rockets, and flag last evening proved the perfect
honesty of the posters.
The Independents, for the 6rst time, arere hon.
ored with very large assemblage of spectators.
The town being full of returned citizens and
strangers and only one theater being open, and
the night being pleasant, the multitude went to
Canal street as they would to any other public free
show.
Music, rockets, and cannon inaugurated the
meeting, kept the spectators awake and threw the
multitudinous boys into the most screccing enthu-
siasnl.
The meeting was organized by the appointment
of one gentleman as President, and host of other
gentlemen as Vice Presidents. Some Secretaries
were also appointed, As this went on, down
town club and an uptown club arrived with music,
| and sprinkled themselves around among the spec
tators. The downtown club had lanterns and
blank transparencies; the uptown club had no
| lights, but music and flag.
| Mr.. ]. Horncr was introduced as the first speak
er. He delivered most powerful and eloquent
address, in which he appalled, the majority of his
friends and spectators by the vivdness of his por-
traiture of the last five years. and his punctua-
ton of it with pistols revolvers and brass knuckles
He promised protection to the crushed and down
trodden citizens of foreign birth at the coming elec
ton: whereat the boys OH and around the stand
eociferated heathily.
Our stentorian FRIEND Judge Cotton, was the
next astonishment. His tack was the same as that
of his predecessor; about the abominable Ameri-
can party and blood and other things. This speech
was literally interlarded with choice expressions
\ from the "Police Gazette" such damning
damnable, hellish, MURDER thug, assassin, assassi
nation, bowie knife, slung shot, revolver, brass
knuckles, do-or.die, good-time-comng liberty-or-
death, hang -murderers, etc. After soaring the
multitude in this style, he tried to scare them still
worse, by announcing that the Independent
Americans candidates, voters and all, would be
at the polls on the It'll, and would, if necessary
then and there shed their dearest blood. The
Judge also condescended to admit that he read the
Crescent once in while. He concluded amid a
tunultuous uproar Of boys and sky rockets.
Our handsome and popular young townsman
Charles d. DreuX was the dessert Of the occasion
We will do him the justice to say that we believe
his physical beauty and his talent and grace as O
public speaker was the chief allurement to the
great mass of the spectators present. He made Q
capital speech every time he took breath ant
drink of water the rockets popped and the boy:
yelled, whilst the grown up lovers of real fur
laughed heartily. He harped on the Crescent
humorously and in his last alusion spoke of thu
Crescent as something weak and insignificant
This was the climax of his humor, and afforded
much mrth, not only to the boys, but to the grea
mass Of the gentlemen spectators who knew how
to relish good thing.
The boys and the rockets screeched and popped
the music and the lanterns got together, and tn
" Independent Americans" in grand procession
marched past the principal coffee-houses, heade
by Nm Wilson, alias Red Bill, carrying the Alneri
can flag.