Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-08-30
a RrecLinrsdSe a. Modification Meet

A RreoLinrSdGe " Modification" Meeting!
We had the melancholy pleasure Of attending Brock
infJge modification meeting 81 Metropolitan Hall, in
III. CITY. Tuesday evening The audience small but
s.u,. solemn. and suucu. There were exactly treaty
Jst Bretkiu-iigers in the Hail. exclusive Of those who
occupied the stand dozen or twenty Wings were also
eat bu: they TOO eaugh; the spirit Of the occasion
and were mouruful and sorroEiul. We have attended
in the course Of our lives thousand or two political
meetings bun sever have sc seen so small and so iune
raj taroa az assembled at Metropolitan Hall evening
before last The evening il is true, rainy one, but
We Joub. whether double the number would have beca
p-essni, # IL had been fair.
A. q long and painful Intervals person would enter
tie door the tNen;y.eisbt BrccIaFjgers wOuid turn
their heads and look their gratitude, while desp,-
rl,, Ca5r; at smile would be visible their melsr
choy faces There these twenty eight sa, aud waited
sni waited and sat- without speaking or moving, be-,
a.np; and merely inlagag in the rSury Of sitting and
wai,i'g and waiting and sitting Fdoss dai." and,
Wioa. fnsra,s' were tie questions naturally asked
by each struggling yser he entered the door, and
glr7i upos the flaerel scene before him. TIE
question was put 20 Is again and again, but answer had
ne none for knew not who was dead nor whose fr-
neral {; vas Beside, had 10 heart to open our lips
IN m, melancholy assembly. We felt IS though We
vr, p,rry ga,-s in bur, ceremony, aud, out Of pure
syura Ly and courtesy deliberately shed two tears,
which were as 1.rb,ra,ey wiped away With our white
l,rl efcAi.f and then quietly resumed q posture
l.7:i3z the mouralgl occasion. Our face sPprO-
p-.,ry schema and our head inclined doWnwerds and
tlls in humble imitation OF the example Of the
IN ts,uy.ssa. w too sll and waited aad waited and
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And Will al Of Us were si.iag and waiting, and wait
ing aat sil1sr solemn and u0iseess ceremony was be-
ia. performed on the stage. Toere in circle sat abou'
dozen Breckenridge chiefs ooli- g5ayely in each 9TH
,.- fl,es. sLisp.ras aud uoddias thcir beads myse
ti,asy saI occasionally indugirs iu gentle gesture
MlAi are th-y dciac the stage those solemn dumb
r.e,lre, = vas lie anxious and universal inquiry. We
although .ur ihoccal and .poke not and no could
I'll A. lst some one ahou. smarter than the rest
e.'yl oa. "Erftt"-and 10 the peIp,cNius problem
u4s s1lr.i' p. Br5cAiuu5se chiefs there 10 GIRL
O. che sage ss-c holding N iagvf' Il vas obliged
o. a. IN aqn.'i aaL Lo.L.ug c'e but over whom or
MA. 70 ain ls yer been able to tell There we're tao
rsvs.,rs 60 th1 & ce and sn undertaken, and what
locked a-o Eee Uuister-f0r Of the CHIEFS, there
u he circle on tie s,sce rorca loos white robe that
reached ,..an dowa to bis arsles 1t undoubtedly
su i.l-.-- bul over whom or what the Eis7sir0 aud
Ls.ai,.5 VIII Dcrlaps inform "a this morning.
Wtl itolst, fsaereal and solemn steps snd s!ow, We
to5s orr .pr.src-,ayiag the chiefs there in the circle
Ca tie Sage and ,he melancholy yweEty-eght still sitting
aLI.aai-ir- ard waiting aad sitting.