, 1864-10-18

n1atioD, rs an able and convincing speaker.
Judge kt]loEg's remarks were excel1ently
well received, and e1iclted satisfactory dem.
orstrations Of applause.
Judge McLain followed In quaint, quiz
zfca], queer, dry, witty and entertaining
had the elect 10 put his audience In excellent
hnmcr, after which the meeting adjourned.
This meetiTg 6 mutt be written down sue
cesB; snccess in point Of numbers; sue
cess IN the extent ofits procession; a success
tn the character OF speeches; success IN the
nent)y success in turning aud bringing Cop
pefhead sinners to repentance.
Great Union Meeting Mt Cambridge
speeches By Gev. kntes--Hon. w. r.
lbpecdA Dlfpalch to the Chicago Tstbune1
cA4BRDoE. Henr, County. Ill.,,
Friday, Oct. II 1861.
If were accustomed to estimate the
crowds In attendance upon the MACS meet
ings addressed BY Governor Yates and Hon.
Vim. T. Kellogg as reporters for Democratic
gatherings are accustomed to estimate theirs,
should say that this meeting at Cambridge
was q most enthusiastic outpouring Of the
loyal masses, and that fully TIVE hundred
thousand people were present. The first
considered as bordering upon the eItraya-
giant. 1t was truly loyal gathering, and
honestly numbered fifteen thogsand. The
citizens OF Henry seemed to have turned ont
T.: ,aatsc. The 1ne chan1c LEFT his tools lying
upon his work bench, the farmer abandoned
bis ploW In the furroW, the women closed
their dwellings, ard men With their wives,
sons and daughters, assembled TO welcome
tbs man OF Illinois whom all delight to
honor.
have so often described the music, the
banners and professions that have dlstin-
curing the present c.nvass, that fud 1t
difficult to invent new terms Of description.
Imagine procession containing over fifteen
hundred wagons, all resplendent With flags
and banners, and filed with an enthusiastic
multitude, which continually sings patriotic
menEe heartfelt cheers for loyal men and
loyal principles, which carried all along Its
line Of travel from the front, four miles back
to the rear. National flags and banners with
patriotie legends, which seen from an eleva.
tton, looked like river, as it wended along
the dusty roads, and over and around the
IraIrie ri1ls AID hollows, which, By bands OF
music, and huge wagons containing
beautiful misses dressed in the RAIN
bow colors that represent our natlon's
Jackets, ma1shals, &C., and troop Of horses
as an escort of honor, and you will have
fair idea Of the sight that greeted our eyes
ss after twelve mi1es' rfdt We entered the
village of Cambridge. The following towns
were represented in the procession: Weston,
20 wagons; Lynn, 1so wagons; Anderson,
S@ 20 wagons; Bishop Hill, $50 wagons; Galva,
lC0 wagons; Geneseo, $50 wagons; CISCO,
$50 wagons-making total OF 1850 wagons.
Many Of these were tour aud six-horse, and
all bnt about twenty-five or them were two
horse, which contained on an average siI
persons each. There were probably Il. 900
there were fully 5000 who came In on horse
back, In bugeiee and a!oot, so that think I
have not oTcrstated the attendance when [
say that 1t Was fully 1900. This will seem
the more remarkable when you reco]iect that
We are twelve miles from the Eailtoad aud
twelve miles from village OF half dozen
dwellings. The country must have been de-
You are prepared to hear from the fore
going, but Henry county is all right upon
the great issues that now divide the coun-
try. In 1850 the Republican majority was
fourteen hundred md seventy; this year It
Democrats are hourly deseriine II the nIsv leaky
ocuble.ended Copperhead towooat built at
Chicago. and taking passage IN the trim Bal
timore clipper Union Some Of the hereto.
lore strongest Democrats hare abandoned
their party within the last three days, and
ere now brayely battling for the party ofthe
Union. One hundred more are fndubitably
upon the anxious seat
The spealers were those who addressed
the meeting at Rock leland Yesterday-4ov-.
srnor Yatss, Judge VIM. Gitt Kellogg and
Judge McLain.
Tie first vas in better voice than when at
Rock Island, and, although at the sacrifice
II much personal comfort, succeeded in f1n-
n yUoo 1-c all
that haye preceded II, q masterly effort aud
fully up to the demands of the hour and the
occasion. There was not a man in that vast
audience who was not strengthened as to
hia resolutions and Intensified with his pur-
poses By the arguments and appeals Of the
Eoldiers' friend.
Governor Tates was followed by Judge
William Pitt Kellogg, who held the audience
3. en-bound By his earnest;and match1ess elo-
queDce, his Keen and cutting earcasm, and
BITS ine1taustble fund OF argument and IL
lustration. The Judge discussed the ques:
loyal and constitutional stand point, aud
proved that it was the duty Of candid men Of
all parties to give to the great Union party
OF the country their generous and hearty
tupport-
that no consistent follower Of the latnented
Douglas could, without doing yiolence to
the example and teachings Of his chief, fol-
Low the lead Of such a 6sh-liKe disunfon
pesee politician as Wiclife, Seymour or
talland'gham- BE advised all to range
as be had done, and hcnceforth dght with
him its battles~
The Judge is plain farmer from McHenry
county, ana bF his quaint minlstrations and
Arguments. although homely and devoid of
crnamentatlon managed to secure the good