Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-21
Speaking in the Fourth Ward.
A HEAVY s'GROUND SWELL
sKY-ROCKETS AND ToRCHLIGHTS.
Eight Bell and EUerett Clubs IN Procession.
STIRRING AND ELOQUENT SPEECHES.

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| If we were to say all that might truthfully
| be said about the magnificent rally of the
different BELL and EVERETT Clubs OF the city
| at the Uni on Pole in the Fourth Ward night
| before last, the reader would be apt to think
| that We were ''piling it on" after the style OF
the BRECKENRIDGE YANCEY Democratic news
papers, and were making ''boo" a great
gadeIlarer than the size of the colt would
instify. We have no desire to exaggerate
the affair, nor is there auy cause whatever
for exaggeration, for larger and more en-
thusiastic gathering of the citizens of Nash
Vile has not been witnessed since the stirring
times of 40 and IA.
The gathering of the clans" began soon
after supper, and very soon the principal
streets were alive with men and music, and
lit up by the blaze of rockets and torches.
The heavens seemed thronged with blazing
meteors and the whole city rung with the
cheers of men and the strains of inspiring
music.
The different Clubs, eight in all, met az
the Market House, with one exception,
and having formed in procession, marched
to the corner of High and Cedar Streets.
where they were met and received by
the Fourth Ward Club, which turned out a
long array of members on the occasion, and
who were instrumental in getting up the
meeting. With their banners and transpa-
rencies, and headed by band of music, they
presented an imposing appearance. The two
professions having been consolidated, they
passed around the Capitol, amid the blaze
of torches and sky-rockets, to the Union Pole
in the Fourth Ward, erected by r. l. CREN-
| SHAW, ESD. President of the Club in that
| Ward. Here, in the large lot in which his
shop stands, Mr.. CRENsHAw had erected
stand for the speakers, and arranged suf-
| fcient number of seats to accommodate eight
| hundred or a thousand people. From the top
of Mr.. CRESsHAws large carpenters shop.
| the many windows of which were brilliantly
| Illuminated, rose the Union Pole to the height
of eighty-five feet, with a transparency upon
the top and another upon the cross-trees.
The Democratic papers have rendered
the word :. enthusiasm" almost " ridicu-
Ious," and we dislike to use it; but
there was so much of the genuine article
manifested during the march of the process
sion (Which was neatly quarter of a mile
long,, so much manifested when it reached
the Pole, and throughout the meeting, that
we can think of no other word that will con-
vey an idea of the spirited demonstration.
- no
stars with wonder. Every Union man pres
ent was proud of the occasion and of his
cause. The meeting was almost an i'm
promptu affair, only day or two's notice
having been given; and the crowd in attend
ance would have been considered large for
any sort of an occasion. The Ladies, who,
as one of the speakers observed, are always
right, were out in large numbers, and invest
ed the meeting with a double charm.
We have not room to refor at length TO the
speeches made on the occasion. Col. 10. G.
PICKETT, gallant and gifted gentleman, in
trodueed to the assembly by ST. CLAIR NJ. NOR
GAN, Esq, was the first speaker. He gave
complete though brief history of the slavery
question, showing how it has been persistent
Iy agitated for years by the Democratic party
as a means of accomplishing its selfish pur-
poses, and to what it has led and to what it
is yet destined TO lead. His speech was
fiue specimen of sound logic and beauti-
full rhetoric, and was received with round af-
ter round of applause.
When Col. PICKETT had retired from the
stand, and after music by one OF the silver
bands engaged for the occasion, the Hon.
JOIN S. BRIES, one of the ablest slump
speakers in the South, was introduced to the
auditory by Mr.. CRENsHAw amid the widest
applause. OF Judge BRIEN's speech we can
only say, that it was one of the most elo-
quent and argumentstiye efforts we have
heard for years, and that if delivered from ev
cry stump in Tennessee, it would accomplish
a glorious result for BELL and EVERETT.
The meeting broke up at about quarter
to twelve O'Clock, everything having passed
of in the most satisfactory manner. And
now, when will the other Clubs emulate the
example of that of the Fourth Ward, and
give rs other glorious gatherings