New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-29
SPEAKING By DIR READ, ADoLpHUs ohIFIER, col
C4GE, AND OTHERS.

SPEAKING By DIR READ, ADoLPHUs obIFIER, COL,
c4GE, AND OTHERS.
In company with crowd ofgood Bell and Everett
Tnen of this city, with Jordan's band to enliTen
them on the way, we took special train on the
Opelousas Railroad on Saturday morning, to attend
the Bell aud Everett mass meeting and barbecue,
at Brashear City, on Berwieks Bay not only the
nearest seaport of ST. Mary's and the adjacent
parishes. but point of interest as the present
terminus of the 0pelousaa Railroad, and, per CON
sequence the extreme southwestern limit of the
great American railroad chain which begins at
Quebec in Canada and on its southwestern way
ranifies and binds together all the States of the
American Union.
The train reached Brashear at about noon. The
mass meeting had been long inaugurated, and,
considering the snalIness OF the nearest neighbor
ing towns and the great distances that the country
people had to come, the attendance very large.
| The crowd must have numbered about two thou
| sand. In the city this would be q small crowd;
| but at a place like Brashear, it was certainlya
very great crowd.
| The meeting had been organized during the fore
noon by the selection Of the following gentlemen
| as officers:
President-Jared Y. Sanders
Vice. Presidents Joseph L. Cowan. James Todd,
| Lloyd Wicoxon, Benz. Hudson, p. G. Bethel, DR..
| Howard, DR.. W. B. Wood and ]. B. Murphy.
Secretary-D. bennett.
The first regular speaker was one OF the vice.
Presidents, Mr.. Bethel, who spoke with all the fer
yor appropriate to the occasion, and talked the
good and hearty plain talk which is the only talk to
be talked for the Union and for Bell and Everett at
the present time.
The next speaker was the young lion orator of
that region, Mr.. Adolphus Olivier. He had been
speaking some time, and was beginning to warm
up glowingly with his theme, when the special train
arrived with the party from the city. He stopped
and the meeting adjourned temporarily, to give
the party welcome and to escort them to the bar
becue ground.
The Union Club of ST. Mary Parish were at the
depot with their splendid banner, lately presented
to them by the ladies of that parish; also large
assemblage Of the surrounding country people, who
Joined in escorting the party to the meeting and
meating ground.
The wealth and fashion and beauty of the sur
rounding country were there, in the shade of the
grove which had been selected. The comely wives
and pretty daughters of the sugar planters most
Of whom had come long distances, by steamboat
car and carriage, were on the ground in great
numbers; the young ladies, in their rich dresses
and pretty hats, lending gay and charming fea-
ture Of beauty to the assemblage.
The meeting being reassembled and Mr.. Olivier
politely waiving the continuance of his speech
(Which had been broken off by the arrival of ths
city partly DR.. R. H. Read, of this city, was intro
dueed by DIR. Wood to the assemblage; and fo
about an hour and half he commanded the atten
tive hearing and aroused the loudest enthusiasm o
the multitude. We al know in the city what
speaker DR.. Read is in the country he was mos
heartily complimented as the talented orator an,
able political expounder, who had won SO mucl
honor in the city.
When DIR. Read concluded the dinner came of
1t was one of the most sumptuous and best ar
ranged barbecue-feasts we ever attended; and W,
speak knowingly, having been at barbecues in tn
great barbecue State, Kentucky. All day long
before and after the dinner, there were inexhaust
hle barrels of tip-top caret sangaree, sweet, ic
and nutmeggy, into which with tin cups the multi
tude dipped dd ibituh1 also plain claret in abun
dance and hogsheads of ice.water. A host of oil
darkies were doing the cooking at the barbecue
pits whilst greater host of young darkies in thei
Sunday clothes were flying all over the grounds
1 almost breaking their necks to wait upon every
body.
The long table set apart for the ladies and thei
escorts was clothed in white damask, and garnishe
with all the table elegances to be found at hotel
and not only the dainty cuts of the roasts of bee
mutton and pig, but all the table delicaces whic
i ladies most adore were spread before them abunt
n ance. At the other tables the men were provide
i with plates and knives and forks and requested
!. epitch in, according to their fancy, which the
J did spooning it into huge pots of appetzing stew
|, forkng it into huge patters of savory beefsteal
a and knitting it into the juicy joints they cam
d erispy and kissing from the fire; corking it a
: down their throats with bread and roast smee
l. potatoes and settling the whole soothingly wit
e their cups at the sangaree barrels. If that wa
d not one of the barbecue dinners, why then W
n never saw barbecue-thats all We must stat
a that the dinner and refreshments not onl
a provided, in great measure but superintended
s the fixing up and dissemination by Messrs. Law
n renee and Charpentier, old citizens of that i'll
g who are not only patriotic and true to the Unol
e but hearted and generous to all their fellow
e men.
d After the dinner, the meeting was reopened an
i in response to the unanimous call, Mr.. Adolphl
Olivier mounted the stand, and resumed and col
o cluded his speech, which he mad begun in IL
n morning. We had often heard high report of tn
ir young orator. Hearing him now for the first tim
1t Though he was hoarse and not in his usual trimf
L. speaking) we felt that common report had dol
f. him small justice. Of handsome presence al
lie graceful in all the visible adornments of orator
10 his elegant language proclaimed his fine edueatio
y whilst his sentiments, expressed in the most war
e, and passionate manner, he stood before us, as
re did before all who heard him for the first time,
IS just one of those who needed at the prese
10 time-speakers with clear and sensible heads, al
n warm and patriotic hearts. His portraiture of Il
n consequences of disunion, and his concluding apo
ID trophe to the American flag among the thin
which we shall particularly remember, long aft
the present contest shall have been entered on Il
" record of the past.
The next and last speaker was Mr.. Cage, also
. well-known citizen and orator of that region.
IS short and vigorous speech he met, argued al
= refuted the assaults of the Opposition upon Jol
= Bell and Edward Everett. His address was to Il
y. point, and was much appauded, as it deserved.
~ After this, the meeting adjourned The ci
10 crowd betook themselves to their special train