The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-16
Union Meeting in Boston.

Union Meeting in Boston.
There was tremendous Union demon:
tratioif in Boston on the 9Th. 1t was gotten
up to give decided expression OF popular
opinion in regard to the seditious clam
orings Of disaffected people IN some parts
of the country, in reference to the late
bloody and reasonable assaults upon
the integrity of Southern interests in vir.
ginin, was one of the most numerous and
completely successful manifestations ever
held in that ancient city. Some of tho
papers estimate the number present, at
10000. Among the crowd, says one of
the journals, we observed several old
white haired citizens of Boston, who
were in the front ranks among the loyal
hearts assembled there that day TO bear
testimony to their love and affection for
their brethren in the South and to have
witnessed the enthusiasm and devotion
OF these survivors of some of the most
glorious days of the republic, would
have moved the hearts of the most solid
and obdurate. As the eloquent Everett
and the logical Cushing poured forth their
imprisoned and earnestly eloquent ap-
peals to the patriotism and honor of their
countrymen, the smouldering embers of
the fires of other days were once more
famed into glowing flame in the gen.
crous hearts of these aged men and as
they had long passed the period of life
when they could manifest their thoughts
in words and deeds, they gave vent to
their emotion in copious floods of tears.
One venerable old man was so powerful
ly affected when the blessings of the I'm
ion, and the attempts to endanger its
safety were being portrayed, that had he
not firmly grasped the iron railing in
front of the platform, he must have fallen
into the arms of those who surrounded
him. Ex-Governor Levi Lincoln, was
| chosen President.
In noticing this great demonstration in
behalf OF the Union, q leading New York
journal says:
We submit to our readers this morning
heprocecdings Of the great Union held
in Boston yesterday. They show that,
although the cause of the Union, and of
peace and concord with the South, is
without representative from the New
England States in Congress, there is still,
perhaps, q sufficient amount of patriotic
leaven around Bunker Hill to leayen the
whole batch. simultaneously with these
Union proceedings in Boston, our des-
patches from the South exhibit most
startling sensation in the public mind in
that section. 1t would really thus appear
that Northern travellers, Northern COM
mercial agents, and even citizens of the
Southern States of Northern birth, are all
liable to suspicion and in danger of ex-
pulsion, under that rigid system against
social and commercial intercourse which
prevails between two nations in q state of
war.
These manifestations in the South, we
presume will suffice to convince the most
incredulous Northern agitatcr that tho
"irrepressible conflict" with the "slave
power" has been pushed to the point of
revolution. In this connection, We are
glad to know that in this great CONNER
cial city--whose interests are so intimate
ly blended with the Union that we cam
not dissolve the one without DESTROYING
the other-our commercial men are ac-
lively moving to ratify the late Union
meeting of Philadelphia and BOSTON,
Nor have any doubt that this imperial me-
tropol!s, in 1859, will be as potential in
behalf OF the compromises and compacts
OF the constitution as it was in our great
political crisis of 1850.
Tho same paper states that the enthu-
siasm was of the most exciting character
in fact more enthusiastic meeting
was never held in any city in the Union,
although the early part of the day was
wet and stormy. Eloquent addresses
were delivered by the Hon. Edward
Everett, Hon. Caleb Cushing, and Gov
ernor Lincoln, of Massachusetts,.