New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-19
a nree,slnraase pIst,,nr IN Eol.,.sllls. IL


From the Losuyits Jouyrntt
We must confess that never before IN Hi es.r
lives did we see anything Ike the Breckfardge ana
Lane meeting, so.called IL liz t.o,,yt bore @
Saturday night We deepIy regret what occr,rye5
| there; not merely because II II carYiatasI Y.
deepen and hghten and intensity the eyaspesascu
between the friends Of Douglas and the friends n
Breckinrd9e, but also because its tendency n Il,
| nifty. s,,s''i'''
| fhe gathering in front Of sFre Cosrt-houas was
very large. The friends of Breckin7idue asseIss-
| bled there becsase IT was their meeting ana lie
| Bell and Eyerets men and the Douglas and john
| son men assembled in far greaesr numbers to see
and near ~, what was to be seen and heard. Mr.
| SinTal, Col. Preston, Col. Geo. B. Hodges Gov
Powell and others attempted 10 speak and perhaps
| did speak. They wege seen sHccesssvely ny0n tic
stand brandishing their fsts, shaking their heads,
working their mouths and looking awfttlIy red III
the face. but no human being there could tell
whether shey were aetRally talking or NOT We
managed 10 get within five feet OF Coz. Powell,
ana stFainfpg our cars for fifteen minutes the only
words we heard from his mouth we're :. soventeess
States" What he said absHt seventeen States
was tous only matter of vague conjecture.
Thcuproar FAR surpassed everything Of the kind
ever before known in Louisville, One Of the Dem
ocratfc papers Of yesterday compares the crowd to-
sea, andeertaihiy it was the most t1multuous
that ever roared and foamed aga dashed and wei
tered. AL possible combinations Of sounds all
| manner OF shouts yella, and hoHiings loaded the
atmosphere. hHndred sherifs each Hish pose
eomitatus. cenld;nt have kept the peace The,
noises OF all the Wild beasts Of twenty extensive
menageries, let loose in q single arTphitheater,
would have been drowned and lost il the hurricane
of artieuate and inarticulate Sounds Why the
speakers, so-callea, persisted in their apparent
efor 8 to get hearing, we could not understand,
| 1t on their part tremendous waste Of wind
though possibly of little else. We were amused TO
see our friend Gov. Powell, while upon The stand
repeatedly extending his hat to the full Eengh Of
his right toward the stormy crowd In the midst
| of the widest uproar. We don't know what the
worthy Senator meant, sat the gesture seemed dis
tinetly to say You may take my hat
The question will Of course be asked. ana is
| everywhere asked, Who were chiefly responsible
| for this disturbance2 Who did most to promote
| it2 Unquestionabfy some boys and some thought
| less men, whose preferences ara for BeiI and
Everett went to the meeting to attest their scorn
| Of Col. Humphrey Marshall, who was announced as
one of the speakers, and, being there for such an
uiPGas hsy o Toss e. e
/ etc. etc. ETC., and doubtless did something III the
| way of disturbing the meeting. The Breckinridge
men themselves. however, did most 70 create the
uproar, by displaying conspenously al the right of
| the speakers stand large transparency enbIaz-
/ oned with the words " Down with Douglas tie
| Traitor!'s We know thatth leading BreckHri5ge
| men were earnestly appealed TO beforehand not 10
| permit that offensive, obnozious, and Insulting
| transparency TO be brought upon the ground and
set up before the eyes OF mixed multitude as an
\ incitement and proyocation to. fierce ciamor and
strife, but all appeals were In vain. Surely IL il
not to be wondered at, though of course to be re-
gretted, that the vast number Of Douglas menupon
| the ground remembering how their own meeting
| had been annoyed and disturbed by the Breekn
ridge men a few nights before, and behoIding the
Yanton and gross insult to their leader and theT-
selves written in letters of fame before their eyes,
gave free utterance to the aroused passions Of their
souls.
We are not mistaken when we say that not d
tenth part of the interruption at this most depora
bic meeting was made by the friends OF Bell and
Everett. Neither in this city nor any where else
do our political friends at the present time enter
tain feelings that would prompt them TO acts OF
olence or dscourtesy toward either section Of the
!, Democracy. They are certainly amused By the
srifes of those sections, and un4uestionably they
have their preferences but their disposition Is to
observe and maintain peace, order, and the frees
dom of speech and of action. We passed freely
through the crowd on Saturday night and listened
to all the words and cries around us, and it is a
truth, that where we heard Bell and Everett
shouted for once, we heard a dozen or score OF
shouts for Douglas and this fact, which certainly
aecords with the experience of handreds Of Others
clearly indicates who the shouteFs were.
: We have spoken of the Breckihridge and Lame
meeting called, but in reality it wasn't BFeck
/. inridge and Lane meeting at all. IL q vote had
been taken there either between Bell and Breckin
!, ridge or between Douglas and Brecknridge, BTeck
= inridge would most assuredy have been in .
e minority SO small to be ridiculous. We Judge
n | from all the thousand manifestations around US
that at the very highest calculation not more thar
one inten or even twenty of the persons assemble5
8 was Breckenridge man. We don't believe that
there were more than two hundred Breckinridge
men on the ground. AT the very opening OF tie
meeting, a loud call of Three cheers for Breckin
ridge y was responded to by not more than two OF
three faint and hesitating voices, and these were
hushed and shamed in silenced by the taunting cr5
s of an individual in the crowd, ]" Oh, you are al
alone!n A stronger proof than the meeting al
forded of the weakness of the Breckenridge party
here could not be desired even by the bitterest o
| the friends of Douglas.
We cannot close without saying that Messrs
Smrall, Hodge, Powell and Preston have the higI
regards of our community, notwithstanding the
unseemly manifestations of Saturday night. We
: !. don't look for the experiment Of another Yancey
Breckenridge meeting in Louisville; but, il. on,
y should be made, we trust, for the sake OF thi
reputation of our city, and for tho sake of justic
. and decency, that the experilnenters will be pro
tected from insult and interruption in the futile
y dertaking. We hope neveragain to witness in thi
city scene like that presented At the Court Hoas
last Saturday night. 1t was damaging and dis
graceful in every conceivable point Of view.
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