The Yazoo Democrat., 1860-05-26
OPPOSITION MEETING.

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tonal, conservative, national, high-tailed, up
headed, Bell and Everett, Congressional legisla-
tive, Opposition party responded to divers and
sundry ringings of the Market House bell, and met
In small, tmid and siskly squad at the Mayors
Office in Yazoo City to listen to speeches propos-
ed to be made by Messrs. Dubussou, Henderson,
Simmons and others, touching the propriety Of
ratifying the nominations of Bell and Everett for
the Presidency and Vice Presidency.
DR.. J. W. Barnett was called upon to take the
Chair, and after few singing remarks upon the
Democratic party-whch were much appreciated
and highly applsuded by those s0hO saV the point
he concluded his sayings by remarking that while
he was wholly unaccustomed to gracing such a
position as the one which he thus founl himself
called upon to occupy, yet it was glorious under
taking, and he should endeavor to prescribe for
the meeting to the best of his ability.
Nextly speaking was in order, and upon taking
the census of the number present of the dstin-
guished gentlemen who had been advertised to
speak on the occasion, it was found that there
was only one faithful adherent to the cause pres
ent; who. after an unusual amount of bushes,
preparation, was at last prevailed upon, and
"half resisting, half refusing" ushered in upon
the expectant multitude, who received him with
open arms and ascending and descending feet,
and after the 'noise and confusion had subsided
Tin the midst Of which you could have heard a
pin drap)-the young orator began as follows, to-
WITT and 0. E.
Fellow. citizens-I must confess that am some
what at loss todetermine what to say to you, hav
ing long since withdrawn myself from intellectual
contests of all and every description whatever;
having retired TO private life and secluded myself
midst the outrageous shades of an almostim impene
trable forest; having almost given up our country
to the merciess ravages of set of political "Goths
and Vandals." l had dispaired of the nations
ever being brought back to recognition of the
policy and reasserton of the principles that pre-
vailed and were adhered to in the purer days of
Il cpublic.
| BIS political gloom Huriss all
| Il Vat now span, and have spanned
| Il horizon for the last thirty years, and
| e since the damna6le principles Of the
Ic ind unscrupulous Democracy have ridden
ri ystnt over the land, Bo,0 of promise has ap
peared-a bop which will direct the ship of State,
ekd lead the children of Constitutional liberty
irko the promised land of peace and good will
6ow upon which the patriot may look with hopes
upon which the freeman may gaze and rejoice,
with the assurance that the same american Eagte
that sOt upon the flagstaff of the hosts of the
army of independence in 1776 will perch himself
OF herself upon the flag. staff of those who will
battle in the contest of Bell and Everett, in the
holy warfare against aboltionism, free-soiiispI,
Mormonism, free-loveism, Black Republicanism,
and any other despisabe isr4 that Democracy is
heirto. Immense applause, and vociferous cries
of Hear" " Hear" "Go on"1
Mr.. Chairman, did not come hero to speak.
and had hoped that some of the distinguished
gentlemen whose names had been mentioned in
this connection, would have been here Tonight
to electrify this audience with the honeyeu accents
of their sonorous and mellif1uous voices | had
hoped that those whose eloquence and whose
oratory in days gone by, had stirred the hearts
of their countryuen to feeling appreciation of
the danger to which our glorious Union has in
times past been subjected, would have been here
tonight with the same patriotism in their
bOsoms. and the same persuasion upon their lips,
which made them in days of yore to stand upon
the very crest of the Constitution, whilst they
swept a political harp that entranced the world
[Applause But they are not here. Excite
nept and applause.
Fellow-citizens, had no idea of addressing
you when came to this meeting to night But
we have great country, and God Almigdty never
intended that it should be torn into fragments by
fanaticism. 1t never was intended that the fair
est land that the god Of nature has allowed the
sun Of heaven to shine upon, should be distracted
by intestine feuds and civil CONNEXIONS The
theme is an alluring oney and must be pardoned
for growing enthusiastic upon q subject that has
commanded the encomiums of patriots and sages
for almost a century. Shall we allow such
calamity to befall our republic in our day p
CHoii "O hO0 ihtuOIi W manu- uOWu
paired the boon that our ancestors, through the
long and troublous Vicisstudes of seven years
war, won for US? When look upon our nation
should we Iot be proud of her progscsst Look
at her commerce abroad her canvass whitens
every sea, and her ships float upon the throbbing
bosoms Of every gulf and ocean known to the
compass of the navigator. Louder Look at
her commercial power at home. Why fellow
citizens, the Mississippi River, the great grand
ather of waters, is not the vein of State, but
he artery of a nation; Niagara Falls is not the
Minstrel of province, but the bard of cont
located just between Canada and the
United States, for she "plsys upon harp of
bousand strings.
Fellow-ctizens--I was raised in opposition to
Democracy. have been taught to regard that
arty as the sublimation, of rottenness and cor.
upton, and since got to noticing things for
lyself, (which occurred at rather an early date,
or was precocious young man, have never
cen anything in the Democratic party that has