Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-08-15
DOUGLAS IN RHODE ISLAND.

Yesterd.} v., holid.1in Nod Island,
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thusiasm! Never was there witnessed with
-our-horders such m outponring of th9i
masses.
The day had been for week or more SGT
apart for mamoth clam. bake in honor of
Judge Douglas, visit to the State. But no
body had anticipated SO large gathering
such an unprecedented aocking together
Of the people. It seemed Is though the
windows Of heaven had been opened and
whole showers Of men and women has rained
down upon us. The remark OIL Judge Doug
large sts.nlI, Floadsd e III guards, I diem
j jast arriving It the Xharf=Xas very natu:
raj. "'rhese',, said the, Judge, ''must have
come from New Hampshire The whole Of
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecti-
cut is already here" IL
And indeed, where 80 many people came;
from must BE- to many,% great wonder, We,
our ety easy Il s Ste
SUNRISE and down Is one O'clock +. i. :, slch
crowds'ofpeople;ta canyi staeeS add pri.s
vats carriages, .ad snfoot, as the city never
saw before;; and that the large majority Of
all these found their way. BY one convey
ance and a1Stke4r.' ID Rocky Point
1lo'Wefm made whar2we 4asemed pretty certain
arrangemahts for aaccrtaining ahe number
which might arrive by railroad; but the ar
rangements, after AL, failed eys, and We can
only SAY that both the th!ee regular and the ex-
cursion trains were large, Tar beyond pa,al.
lei in the history Of excursions to this city
f%S6me u these trains seemed rinterminablc;
and when they poured their thnmans freight
upon u.s. lhelcity seemed flooded With stran-
gers.
On athe road leadingoto Rocky Point there
was' aconstant and 5unhroheu stream of life
from, the first dawn Of light until two or
three O'Clock in the afternoon. At eleven
O'Clock, upward of five hundred carriages
had passed through the village OF Pawtuck.
ct: and We have reliabls' information which
renders il pro6iEle that the whole number
1--WE mean carriages which reached Rocky
Point or7it vicinity by the different roads in
the course Of that day. was upward of two
thousand. II is safe 10 say that these car,
riages contained 1t least twelve thousand
people, Six'ecnistesmer, loads---lsrgc mum
bors byssailing yessels--and foot passengers
by hundreds-must be added to this crowd,
before the reader can have a scorrtc: idea Of
the immense throngg at r. Rocky Point n !
hal Our arrival upon tho grounds was At noon.
And never ii our lite before did 81 such spect
acle present itsrlft6 niir vision At dis:
lance of fivefor ten rods fratn sanyo observed
point it seemed that every inch OF space was
occupied, and almost everywhere we found
such crowds as made It impossible to move
in any ditec.ipn With any degree of swiftnesx
just welcame in Sight of Capt Winslow's
house. a rumor that Judge Douglas was
somewhere in our Sneighborhood, gathered
such . crowd that for. full, fifteen minutes We
could not make an inch ofheadway.
+ The scene which presented itself wheu
Judge Douglas made his great speech was
one ofthc ,grandest, most; sublime and mos,
glorious that we ever witnessed The mum
Der present was variously estimated At from
! THIRTY to FIFTY THOUSAND ! Gen
James, who occupied seat on the platform
and cndeavorcd 10 make reliable estimate
lbasins it upon the amount Of space occupied
h concluded that the number present could mo-
!, b.: less than FORTY THOUSAND. 4 gentle,na,
connected with the New York Reraic
thought the number could not be less thar
Fifty THOUSAND. No body that we hsart
of estimated thu number below thirty thous
4 and f.f3 fsi#t a33W st IS N .6gIviGw
II The speech Of Judge Douglas was a mss
iterly elfort-Such All effort was never, OK
Icellcd under similar circumstances in New
'. England. Twas received BY the vast assem-
blage with cheers and shonts Of approval
such as were never bestowed npon any ora
tor III the State. - f.3issJ5 2 lst'G3