The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-10-07
DEMOCRATIC MASS Meeting
Ar MINNEAPOLIS.
The PEOPLE AROUSED,
TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE in
COUNCIL,
A Great Demonstration of
Strength.

A Great Demonstration Of
Strength.
The Democracy of st. Paul, at the call of
the Mcclellan Club Of this city, responded to
an invitation of tho Mcclellan Club of Mime
apo]is. and paid them visit on Monday eve
ming. No effort was made to make the de-
monstration on imposing one, nor was any
needed. The Democracy of st. Paul were on
hand. The procession was formed at the Court
House at 81 o'clock, and, preceded by the
Great Western Bend, marched down Waba-
shaw to Bridge Square, and from thence down
Third street to the railroad depot The pro-
cession stretched from Bridge Square to the
Merchants Hotel, and the most imposing
political spectacle ever witnessed in St.
Paul. Over 800 torches lighted up the
scene, and revealed to the wondering and star
tied gaze of the Linoolnites who lined the side
walks, the countenances of hundreds of not
only the working men of the city, but the mer-
chant, the lawyer and many of our most re-
spectacle and influential business men in that
long procession. Not the least marked feature
of the occasion was the fact that over 200 Ger
mans, many of whom in the last presidential
campaign voted and worked for the election of
Honest Old Abe, CBah) turned out and made
the welkin ring with cheers for Mcclellan
Cheer after cheer rang out upon the air for our
noble standard bearer as they all kept firm
Democratic step to the music of the Union
Six cars were chartered to carry St. Paul to
Minneapolis. To say they were completely
filled does not express the packing process by
which the multitude was crowded into and on
those cars. Inside and outside, platform and
top, and everywhere that person could hang
on was filled, and as many more were left at
the depot unable to 60, and over hundred
more were left at stations along the line
Arriving at st. Anthony the Mcclellan Club
of that place were ready to receive the st.
Paul Democracy, and escort them with torch
lights over the Bridge, where the great process
sion, with numbers then swelled into thous-
ands, was met by the Minneapolis Club with
banners, torches and transparencies. The sight,
as the head of the vast procession reached the
Nicollet House and stretching from thence to
the railroad depot in st. Anthony, bcggarS any
thing of tho kind heretofore witnessed in
Minnesota. All along this lengthy pro-
cession was blaze of light,-boufres lit
up the heavens, cannon belched forth their
thunder, while ever and anon discharges of
fireworks. added to the enthusiastic scene.
The shoddy Abolitionists and Office holders of
Minneapolis were struck dumb before tnis
great uprising of the people. "We're coming,
Father Abraham, nine hundred thousand
strong" At last they learned "what enthusi-
asm means as they heard the laundering
cheers echoed and re-echoed from Minneapo-
lis to st. Anthony springing spontaneously
from the threats of the thousands assembled
in front of the Nicollet House. The dullest
among the peaked-headed stipendiaries of
Honest Old Abe" (BahD there assembled
could mark the difference between the proud
shout that springs from the heart of a McClel-
Ian man and that of Lincolnite who is paid
by the month to use his lungs for his master.
Amid the blaze of bonfires, the flight of
rockets and the firing of cannon, the largest
political meeting ever held in the State of
Minnesota was called to order. Hon. John B.
Brisbin of this city first addressed the vast as
semblage, and for nearly two hours he held the
attention of his large audience, in speech
which was masterpiece even for Brisbin. 1t
was not the hypocritical cant of Wilkinson.
Not quotation from newspaper scraps, Ia
Window; or the senseless platitudes of Igna-
thus Loyola; nor yet the foolish and pointless
would-be witticisms of His Excellency." but
q manly, candid statement of facts, replete
with that eloq1ence which again and again
drowned the voice of the orator in thunders of
applause.
who unfortunately was laboring under severe
cold. and his voice could not be heard by half
his audience His remarks were well timed
and the many telling truths he uttered made
an impression which will be felt at the polls in
November.
The meeting was closed by speech from
Dillon O'Brien, who spoke in tones of Demo-
cratic thunder for the coming man.
The people were there. The demonstration
was not only success-it was splendid sue
cess. The taxpayers. the farmers, and the
working men were on hand, and the reign of
shoddy draws near its end.
Do ACCIDENTS OCCUR IN FIRING GUNS IN
SERvIcE?-The frequency of accidents in firing
salutes may be generally accounted for by the
hurry and lack of experience of the men man.
aging the guns, but when, as on yesterday, old
artlilerists are working the gun, and an acct
dent occurs which can only be accounted for
by supposl'ion which Is contradicted by those