Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-02
Grand o m o Ii lat e Ratification
meetfng of the Breckinridge Demo


Everything you run against in the news
papers nowadays is grand. Our concerts
are grand; our soirees are grand; our operas.
both horse and human, are grand our balls
are grand our circusses are grand our
raseals are grand, and now and then you'll
find it the case that our children are grand.
Hence the propriety of styling the little
affair at the Court-House last Saturday the
Grand Consolidated Ratification Meeting of
the Breckenridge Democracy.
Our reporter lives about one hundred
yards from the foot of Capitol Hill-in the
direction of the Post-office. Last Saturday
morni ng he was Lying there fast asleep"
dreaming scary dreams about that part of
Central America where earthquakes are
very common occurrences Suddenly there
was terrible explosion !; the house ''reeled to
aud fro and staggered like drunken man."
and our reporter, started from his dream, and
fancying for the moment that he was in the
midst of Central American earthquake,
bounded from the bed like an acrobat from
spring board, and shooting through the mus
quitoe-bar, lit on his all-fours in the middle
of the floor. Then there came another re-
port,
and all at once our reporter rect Elected that
for the BRECKENRIDGE Democracy
''The day of jubilee had come"
and that they were going to ratify and be
knew that the boys had brought out the old
brass twelve-pounder from the Armory un-
der the Capitol, and were trying to wake up
the people with it. They banged away there
for an hour or so, when they got tired and
quit.
The BRECKENRIDGE Democracy were anX-
ions to have big crowd to help them ratify
things, and we learn that they sent out bills
on some or all of the railroads, inviting the
people down, and announcing that the fare
had been reduced to half price for the oeea-
sion.-Three bands of music were drummed
1p. and one sent to the depot of the Chatta-
nooga Railroad to escort the Rutherford
delegation into the city; another to the
depot of the Tennessee and Alabama Rail-
road to bring in the delegation from Maury
and Williamson, and the third went down to
the depot of the Louisville and Nashville to
bestow the same act of courtesy upon the
seeding Democracy from Sumner and
other counties in that direction. But when
the trains on these roads came in, the delega-
.ions were not on board, and throwing their
instruments over their shoulders (all but The
ffers-they put theirs in their pockets,) the
musicians struggled back up town in
sea OF Precipitation, thinking 60 it" SO
loud that you could almost hear it ten steps
off.
The Grand Ratification Meeting was an
nounced to begin at 10 o'clock, A NJ. About
that hour crowd bagan to gather around
the Courthouse. Our reporter went over.
But the BRECKENRIDGE Democracy was scarce.
Mr.. PENTEcosT was going to sell several car
loads of secondhand furniture at auction,
and the country people had gathered around
to lay in supply. He had good crowd, OF
| course The Democracy knew be would have,
| which was their reason for bringing on their
| Grand Ratification Meeting at the same time
and place. In the midst of the second hand
| furniture sale, some of the friends of BRECK-
INRIDGE and LANE got up dogfght at the
| other end of the Court House, which, of course
| got up another crowd. At this juncture, the
| Democracy came up, consolidated the furni.
ture sale and dog fight, and carried the two
| crowds thus united up to the third story Of
| the building, and the ratification at once
begun.
Gov. IsHAM G. HARRIS was appointed
chairman of the meeting Gov. HARPIs car
make first rate speech when he tries, apd
be made very appropriate one when he
| took the chair. He was followed by the
Hon. ANDREW EwING, of this city, who also
made good speech; but when he got
| through, the crowd, which numbered about
| three hundred. less than half of whom were
Democrats, began to leak out, and in sborl
| tine the hall was half empty. Speeche;
were also made by Messrs. W. A. QUARLEs o.
Montgomery, DANIEL S. DoNELsoN Of Sum
| ner, EUGENE UNDERWOOD of Davidson, W. B
BATE of Sumner and T. TURNEY of Franklin
| A series of resolutions was offered by T
B. CHILpREss. Esq, of Davidson, which were
4 dQOpteu. InT. QUAhLESS tucu Iufltco INK
whole of Davidson county, especially thu
| Democratic citizens, to public meeting a
| GAINESVILLE within the next two weeks, o
which due notice is to be given. One or TIVE
| Democrats of the Breckenridge persuasion
resolved on the spot to go, when, on motion
of the Hon. ANDREW EWING, the meeting
! adjourned.
| We hope our contemporary OF the Unio
and American did not say yesterday that tn
meeting was large; for if he did. we shal
| be compelled to acknowledge that his spy
| glass is better magnifier than ours, whcl
we don't like TO do. With the fare cut hal
in two. on some or all of the railroads wit
| three bands of music to escort as many dele
cations from as many depots, with the rumo
that Mr.. BEEoKNRIDGE was here and wa
going to make speech with three negroe
ia thei- shirt-sleeves bearing two small bar
! ners made of ten-cent cotton cloth; with a
auction sale of secondhand furniture and
dog-fght-with all these appliances and az
vantages, we can't see why the meetin
was Mt both large and enthusiastic. But
| was MT.
~The Excursions to Clarksyille on Thur
day was greatly facilitated by the diligen