Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-06-01
From the Baltimore American, 15th.1
RATIFICATION MEETING
Large Gathering cffhe Massss- Great Enthusiasm
--Ths Nomination Enthusiastically Approved
Speech Of Hon. James N. QucrIes.


The meeting of citizens called to ratify the nom
ination of John Bell for the Presidency, and Ed
ward Everett for the Vice Presidency, as the can
ddates of the Constitutional Union party, canse Of
last evening, in Monument Square. Before Che
hour of meeting the Square was well filed, and a:
the delegations arrived from different sections Of tn,
city, and the crowd kept pressing in, tethrong as
sumed an immensity THAT has rarely been surpass.
ed by any popular asseublage in Baltipore. The
Square was densgiy thronged in all parts.
The greatest enthusiasm prevailed, and the en-
livenfng strains Of music from the Blues Band, sta
toned the PLATFORM only tended to increase the
ardor Of The large gathering. At brief intervals
81 y-rockets and other fireworks were discharged,
adding much TO the brilIiancy of the OCCASION as
also to the pleasure of the mass of people congre
gated below
After the organization the Hon. Jas. NJ. Quarles,
of Carksville, Tenn, was introduced by the Presi-
dent Hon. John P. Kennedy, and received with
loud applause. He. e.proceeded to speak as follows
My Fello'o Gtizns--It gives me great pleasure
to meet with you this evening to ratify the nomin-
alton Of one Of Tennessees most lustrious sons as
also an equally illustrious son of Massachusetts,.
Applause. What means this sea of upturned faces
what this enthusiasm Is it not the love of Union,
is it not because you feel that the government is in
bad hands and that your interests are being trihed
with2 Most vssuredly it is and while am gratif-
ed to see the name of Bell so honored, know that
you hold him IN veneration as the champion ofthe
Union, and that you respect principles more than
men. myself have drank in wisdom from the
teachings of John Bell, and been inspired by his
patriotism-he has been tried and not found want
ing. He il was who strove with jackson, and hurl-
ed him from his place of power. View his Con-
gressional career, and you see one of dignity and
and power Look at him, after the death Of Har-
rison, when Tyler assuring the Presidential chair,
tdrned traitor to his principles. Look at him. |
say, throwing Up his commission as cabinet officer
and retiring into the shade Of private life rather
than sacrifice his honor for gain. Applause,1
As Senator of the United States view his course
on Che Kansas and Nabfaska bifI Did he Yield to
the clamor of section7 No, he barred his breast
ready to fight for the good of the country perish
in the attempt. His course upon the Lecompton
bill was the same, and to-day he stands upon the
principles Of equality and justic sanfng far above
those who hurl the darts of calumny and detracion
at him. That, gentleman, is John Bell, whose
heart is as large as the Allegharies and MS warm
as Vesuvius-always warm upon the Union of The
States and preservation Of our liberties Repeated
cheering.1
And how fsft with the other end of our ticket?
What do you dehofd there? Why, the patriot, the
orator and the statesman; and the exalter and de-
veoper of the virtues OF the Father of his Country
that is Edward Everett fApplause.l This is the
ticket we present Can you take it7 Look to the
Little Giant Of the West; why he stands a wart
to Mount Etna, and struggle between such men
would be as one between an hippopotamus and q
grasshopper. daughter No party could secure
a ticket; it would be useless to try. Here we have
Constitutional Union men, who love their country
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
For sometime past the different parties have been
regalng us with nothing but nigger, nigger ngger
Laughter Now l will tell you an anecdote
Theirs was a young preacher down in my part of
the couHtry who once preached a sermon from the
text "And Peters wfe's mother laid sick ofafever"
He preached it and went away. Some years after
wards he returned and was announced TO preach
The eyentful Sunday came, and a crowd gathered
to listen, among whom were two old men who had
heard his first sermon, one of whom, am sorry to
say was addicted to drink. Well, the minister
commenced andhe preached from the text of "Peters
wife's mother laid i'll Of fever" Suddenly our
drinking friend exclaimed, "what amt that con-
founded old woman dead yet 2" [Laughtcr1
Now, my friends, it is just this way with the
Democratic party; they won't let the nigger die,
but we are going to insist on it. We propose TO
guarantee to all men their Constitutional rights to
offer the Constitution as expounded by our highest
tribunals. In fact 20 offer platform like the YAM
KEGS suspenders--long enough for man, short
enough for boy and strong enought to hold horse
daughter and cheerng1 But you may recollect
that the Democracy never consider the opposition
sound on the slavery question. Clay was not sound
they said; no the orator and statesman would not
suit them. Harrison, the hero of Tippecanoe was
not sound. Laughter. General Taylor the gal
liant soldier and gentleman, who owned large
number of slaves was not sound either, and then
the chieftain Scott who had shed his blood an many
battle field, he was not sound either; and now,
last of ALL my fellow-ctizens, | suppose they will
discover that own, glorious, national Bell is not
sound on the ngger either. Laughter and cries of
"no" "non1
It's the same old text, "And Peters wife 8 mother
laid i'll of fever" [LaughtFr.1 Now, my fellow
citizens, are you going to keep such party in
power? They have spent your money; they threat
en- to overthrow your government; they say that
the Democratic party must be perpetuated that
their grasp on the Union is anaconda like; they tell
us they wish to economze the national expenditures
That is very much like the man who drove two
oxen six miles and used all the switches on the road
TO accomplish that end. lie exclaimed "Well
those beasts have the toughest hides and shortest
recollections of anything ever met withP Just
so with the Democracy-you catch them in cOrrup-
ton, and they haul up litte-you turn your back,
anu Juey are AZ luClI Oiu lTlChSs
Let us, my fellow-citizens, 60 to work, for ! see
round me, in Washington now men whose faces are
pale, and whose frames shake at the movement 60
ing on in the country. They know that n day of
reckoning is at hand, and they tremble. We offer
you Bell and Everett the Constitution and the
Union. The ticket the Democracy effer YOU does
not come up to the grade. Were to refuse TO sup
port Bell and Everett would be recreant TO the
memory Of jackson of Tennessee who said in tones
of thunder, "The federal Union, 1t must and shall
be preserved" and do believe, if he alive now,
he would be side by side with the lovers Of the
Union, and eIclam again, hang the disunouists as
high as IIaman. Applause,
But enough on point. Chicago is about to send
forth a candidate, and if an extreme one, even New
England will he with us. The Democratic party
being split, the choice is between Bell and Chicago
Democratic platforms won't suit; they are double
faced, and remind one OF the ignorant countryman
who got minister to write him out apra, er, which
he stuck on the head Of his bed, and every time he
looked at it he said, "Thems my sentiments"
Laughter Just so with the Democracy. The
platform is all in all-One meaning South, another