The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-08-18

Regular train Is cars; excursion train from
North % cars; excursion train from South
| Ii cars. Total number of cars by this road
60.
/. will probably be entirely fair to esti.
innate the number Of persons in these train.
A. an average of so to the car. Every one
who saw the trains come in i. awar. tina,
they were filed to repletion, many being
compelled to stand in the aislss and others
riding on the roofs of the cars. According
TO this estimate the $50 cars which came IN
Yesterday added about IA, 500 persons to
the crowd.
The procession reached the Fair Grounds
at about O'Clock P. NJ, and in very short
time thereafte, the en- ire grove was filled
crowded to excess with the vast multitude.
How many were present, it is impossible to
tell. but by actual count more than $4,000
passed in at one of the entrances alone,
while the fields adjoining were packed and
damned with wagons and other vehicles.
And vet while this immense mass of human
beings were ont at the Fair Grounds listen
ing to the speaking, the throng upon the
streets was not apparently in the least di-
minshed in numbers.
Owing to the impossibility of one speaker
making himself heard by the entire crowd,
FIVE stands were erected in different parts Of
the ground.
At the first stand the people were ad-
dressed by Judge Trumbull, Senator Doc
little of Wisconsin, Hon. John Wilson
Commissioner of the U. S. Land Office
under Mr.. Fillmore,) and by Hon. 0. H.
Browning. Most Of these speeches were
taken down in short hand, and We shall,
probably, at On early Gay, lay them before
our readers. They were all most admi-
rable.
At the second stand, Mr.. Case, Republi-
can candidate for Congress, Mr.. Cowan Of
Menard, Mr.. Ke,chum of Morgan, and
Mesers. Wolf and LaRue made telling
speeches.
At the third stand, Hon. R. J. Oglesby
of Decatur held an immense crowd for full
two hours, and made most telling speech,
bristling with sharp points.
At the fourth stand, Mr.. Carr and Hon.
Joseph Gillespie spoke. We heard a par;
of the latter speech, which was most elo
quent, and brought the cheers from the
crowd necessarily.
At the fifth stand. where a very large au-
dience was assembled, the speeches were
made by Judge Palmer, of Macoupin, Mr..
Ferree, of Lebanon, Mr.. Linegar. Republi.
can candidate for Congress in the ninth
district. Henry S. Baker, of Alton, and Dr..
Dyer, of Chicago. Several songs were
also sung with fine effect by the Lumbard
brothers, of Chicago, and a gentleman,
whose name has escaped us, from Maine.
While Mr.. Wilson was speaking at the
first stand, it was announced that Mr.. Lin
coin had arrived upon the Fair Grounds
This was the signal for a display of wild
enthusiasm, the like of which was never
before witnessed by an Illinois audience
There was arush from every stand, toward
bis carriage, which was Immediately sur
rounded by his warm admirers, and Mr..
Lincoln was forced, almost violently from
the vehicle, and carried upon the shoulders
Of the crowd, to an impromptu stand, where
he was called upon for speech. The huz-
zahs and cheers which greeted him, were
continued for nearly ten minutes without
cessation, the uproar being so great that
he could not make himself heard. When
order was partially restored, Mr.. Linen
declined making a speech, in the following
words
M Felton, Cifieens:-
appear before you upon this occasion
with no intention of making speech. 1t
is my purpose, since | have been placed in
my present position, to make no speeches.
This assembly having been drawn together
at the plnce of my residence, it appears to
be the wish Of those constituting this vast
assemblage to see me, and it certainly is my
wish to see all of you. appear upon the
ground here at this time only for the purpose
of Offering myself the best opportunity of
seeing you and enabling you to see me.
confess with gratitude, be it understood,
that did not suppose that my appearance
among YOU would create the tumult which
now witness.
lam profoundly grateful for this NANTES.
tation of your feelings. am grateful be-
cause it is tribute such as can be paid to
no man as man. 1t is the evidence that
four years from this time you will give a
/ like manifestation to the new man who is to
be the representative of the truth on the
questions that now agsate the public mind
and it is because you will then fight for
this cause as you do now, or with even
greater ardor than now. though | be dead
and gone. lmost profoundly and sincerely
thank you. Having said thus much, allow
/
will hear this public discussion by others OF
our friends who are present for the purpose
of addressing you, and that you will kindly
| let me he silent.
At the conclusion of these remarks. Mr.
! Lincoln descended from the PLATFORM, and
with difficulty made his way through the
vast thropg who eagerly pressed around to
take him by the hand. BY an adroit IN ove-
ment he escaped on horseback, while the
crowd were beseiging The carriage to which
it was expected lie would return.
| In the evening there was magnificent
| display of torch-Iights,and fire, works gcner-
ally. The streets were all ablaze with light
and enthusiasm. Never, we will venture to
say, have the highways and by-w of any
town. large or small, been so completely
surcharged with the electric current which
! lows from the consciousness Of being en-
braced in that prayer which says, "Alay God
speed the right.'' Hearts beating to the
sublime cadence of ''freedom for the op.
/ pressed" backed by tongues and lungs that
made the very heavens echo with the glad
accIaims Of victory, rendered the scene one
sublime, magnificent spectacle Of triumph
and Joy. seemingly illimitable line oil
! torches, bringing into buld relief vast sea
/ of human heads on either side of the pro.
ces-Ion, made our city the theater Of Q
splendid pageant, the beauty and suhlimity
Of which was only equaled by its vast ex.
! tent.
At about seven O'Clock the various dele.
| cations Of "Wide Awakes," to the humble,
Of more than two thousand, assembled al
the Wigwam, and formed in marching or.
der. In few moments the long procession
began TO mavc, and for more than an hou.
it presented the appearance of great con
! fagratIon. As far rs the eye could reach
to the north and to the south, to the ea.
and to the west, a seemingly interminabl,
line of fame stretched out its moving
length.
Buildings along the route assisted in tn,
display. Tn. Journal buildings. and tht
stores Of Mr.. Il. T. Fox and Mr.. Geo. w
ChatteTton, besides others in variou. parts
Of the city, were brilliantly lighted up
The front Of Mr.. Fox's store was decorate ed
with numerous transparencies which wer,
especially worthy of notice. A large bal
was placed upon the top with lights inside
90 which were inscribed in large letters, tn,
names of Lincoln and Hamliu. Atthe mid
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