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Let not the fearful array of solid columns,
caps. small caps italics, and exclamation points,
which, in our city Journals. tell the tale Of the
nGreat -, Union Meeting at JaJne's Hail." on
Wednesday night. mislead the sober judgment
Of the public abroad as to the true character
and purposes Of the assemblage- The dodge
here was 20 we'll understoodthai its Transparent.
cy scarcely deceived anybody but the very
greenest Of gudgeons. The hopeless collapse
into which the recent State election has precp-
'itated tie sham Democracy hcreabouts, has been:
SO plainly palpable that the smallest straw Of
comfort v as hailed as godsend BY the Demo
cratic engineers: The glorious chance Of sar-
ing the 0nion, with the brilliant hope Of gal
EauizIng Into sepufchra1 semhlauco Of life =
lew political fossils, was too fine chance to let
slide. And, under this charitable feeling. the
sham Democratic leaders have a gone and went
and did it" with au amusing looseness. The
trick Of getting up a meeting os.eusibiy :" With
out distinction Of party," but really to grind
private axes for tue managers Of q desperate
party. was the programme resolved upon-a
trick neither stunningly brilliant nor ssrikipgy
ninble Committeo Of Arrangements to ca1ry
out their sinister ends. Under the coTer: Of .
dissu1created regard for the integrity Of the
Commonwealth, they hoped to conceal the De-
mocratic capital, they were eager to make Tor
the spring municipal election. Cotton, Com
bleed most freely. aud money was spent like
water to furnish forth fittingly the monster"
entertainment. And get, with oil the prellmi.-
nary parade, the booming Of the big guns, and
the aaunting Of the dripping and bedraggted
flags, the game Was scarcely worth the candle.
To tel the honest truth, the demonssration.
morally, was fzzle, though hyalcally the most
milky and musrr1nr nf rrPntinrH
After oil the berculean efforts spent upon tho
affair, it was no wonder that the people turned
out en- nsasst 10 sea what was really the matter.
1T the opening Of the meeting, curiosity drew
thousands who were soou glad to escape tho
dreary shower Of platitudes, md the fearful
o'clock the room wa4 not more than half full
and the crowd then seemed. d moving mass OF
uneasy spirits wandering to aud fro without de-
finite purpose. The uproar Of tramping feet
There was not single seat for solitary spec
tatol) of cat-ealls Of yells, Ct hooting., Of pa;
fairly drowned the language Of the speaker, 50
that even the suffering reporters could scarcely
| catch the semb1ance Of en- idea. a card IN the
| PaJlac L<dgtr had specially called "a all friends
| Of Gov. Wise" to be present; and m etfic'en'
force Of claqueurs in the upper galleries gave
coiorabie suspicion to the impression that F" all
the friends" had cordially Needed tue inrlta-
tion.
"A glance at the speakers will give Jon fna1
| notion Of the aninus Of the meeting. Wm. b.
Reed, renegade Whig and present pet Of the
/ Administration, drafted the resolutions, which
are Tspid to the lowest degree Of pathetic dnll
ness The Hon. Josiah Kendall, smother rene
gadc from his party, made the most blatant DE-
| clarations Of regard for the peace Of Tirginla,
while, nt the same breath, denounclng May OF
Henry for not breaking up the pence Of cur OWE
city By interfering to suppress the recent a5m.
paihy meeting at Na.ionul Hall: land let me
say parentbetically, that everybody here ap
that occasion-that "the right Of free discus
sion in philade1phia should be preserved, If i
| should take oil the troops in the Commonwealth
to do itT The Hon. Judge King. long knoH1
as Democrat Of rampant Lecompton Proci1Tl
ties, vas fitting confreEe to these distinguish
nous address Of the Democratic Executive
Committee, which swsmped tic Lecompton De
mocracy Al the last election, Charles J. 1oger
| soil, whose Democracy is almost as old rs th'
State House, the Hon: Dicky Van1, Benz. Il
T. Brewster, Col. James Page, and last, though no
least, the immortal "Woice Of the People
| ", liam u. Rankin--all old stagers, wlthou
whom Democratic meeting would be lam
and impoteut conclusion, also figured IN IN
great drama. The rest Of the performers playe'
80 small part that, even it they were the peer
of Webster md Clay, they would have bee'
comn1cte1v eclipsed by tho dazzling array Q
lesser lights.
Nupu1y vi h m atom Of brains imagined TIN
there is any particular fissure Of the Union las
about here. Indeed, for ertry oas dtfunioai*ts i
The city of Rtnnsylraaia, see are quits fure tdd
CAarlcst6n or Richmond could produce easily
thoa,and. And get with this palpahle tEut
staring them right in the face, these platform
orators had not one sy liable to oder in regard
Southern fanaticism, not q demur to make t
the blocking the viii els Of government by II
sane csasnos over Helpers b0oe, ou tue part {
southern dlsorganizers. Us assured, however
that VIC breathe freer now, that the grea. agon
is over. Still, the whole town, NJ if nnnwaret
the peril safely passed, is laughing ontrigh
: aud well it may, At the soothing declaration {
Robert Tyler, That although the Union toa
have been in danger month or tsro ago, it is n
longer soF So ih4t the orerpowesiag pars
mount occasion for the great neeting: judge
: | from the oracular standpoint Of this brilliat
aon Of brave Virginia, does appear at this pre-
ent But let us take solace from this comfor
| ing assurance, and meanwhile a~ait with du
tranquility the coming Of the next " awful q
! sis When tn. old play will be resired, "r
| rsrdleas Of ozpeuko" AArA.
, Fxarno~x tferrv Carr eknu undenct.