The Portland daily press., 1867-11-11

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o With the promise of some speakers from
from abroad and good music from the Portland
Band, with hint that the Germania Band
might be present, the spacious City Hall was
Well filed on Saturday evening. The galleries
were lined with ladies', among whom the rosy
cheeks and fair countenances of the. Irish
danes predominated. Hundreds of Republic
cans were attracted to the hall by curiosity to
see what its acoustic qualities are, as this was
the first time it was tried for public speaking
The meeting was called to order by Captain
Edward s. Morris, aud Hon. Bion Bradbury
was called upon to preside. Mr. Bradbury
made one of his prettiest and most graceful
speeches, in which he asserted that radicalsm
had been erushed never to be resurreeted again,
a prediction that has been so often made that
people in general don't notice it now He then
introduced Hon. l.. d. NJ. Sweat to the audi
ence.
Mr.. Sweat made a-what shah NE call IT,
ss--SEvSpeeru' ire coinplained OF the press for
misrepresenting his former speeches BY this
W. presume he meant the Argus, which re-
ported aud published them. Tor the Press did
not. The Argus must look out and not mis-
represent the gentleman.
Sweat spoke SO long that people cot tired,
aud after he had got through and would-be
Cav Pillsbury hal been introduced u the an
dienee, they began % leave In swarms until
the hail was nearly half cleared. For the re-
marks OF Mr.. Pillsbury see Democratic Stand
ard, OF which ho is editor. his speech consist
ins OF rehash of the editorials &e, of that
paper for the past iaur months His remarks
excited hut very little enthusiasm, ana when
be closed the meeting adjourned s5 ,'.
There was no Geunania Band. and Mr.
Brewster Of Boston. aud Mr.. Gould Of Thorn
aston. who had been promised 70 speak, failed
b. appear. Besides the audience was growing
Sew by degrees-and beautifully less"
but the show was not over aud the best part
was to come. The old war horse Gen. y. j.
Anderson had been shut OF from speaking in
meeting. and sfter the adjolr nment, the Band,
accompanied 10y about 100 persons, went to the
u. ). Hotel and gave Mr.. Pillsbury slight
serenade. Upon being called for, Mr. p. ex-
cnsed himself from speaking and introduced
General Anderson, who was received with APP
plause.
The Generals a trump card for publcspeak
ing. He goes into it earnestly, not caring
whom he hits, friend or foe He spoke of the
glorious resurrection of the democracy from
the dust where they had lain for seven years,
trampled upon as no other party had ever
been trampled ON this country by the
insolent Republicans (he did not say what for
or how JUSTIFY and now they had got the Re-
publicans to the verge of that abyss into which
they We're to be hurled never more to rise. 1t
seems to us as if we had heard something very
much like this in 1864, not only from Gen AS
mouth, but from almost every one who then
spoke on the democratic side
But the General, after weighing out upon
the enorm'ties of the Republican party, evil
IDENTIFY forgot himself He sad the Republi-
cans had not given up their cherished princi-
pies, but were only breaking away from the
radical rule of Stevens, Summer and Wade.
Fl adj they" said Gen. A., paid heed to tho
wise counsels of such men as Trumbull. Sber-
man and Fessenden, there would have been no
necessity or opportunity for such a meeting as
has beenlheld tonight. The Republican party
came out Of the aoar NTH a better prestige than
any party eper had in The United States; and
if they had not proposed such radical meas
ures the Democrats could not, for years have
hoped to gain the ascendancy" Whyi Gene
raj! how could you acknowledge so much for
the Republican party? We hope your friend
Josh was not there to hear this, for he would
have gone home heart sick. But the General
did make the best speech of the evening He
was eloquent, enthusiastic and poetic, and
closed bis remarks with that beautiful sentence |
from Byron 5 sia--t- 4s.,a1 srs
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among" &c.,
which we think he will find very true next |
fall, only, its application will be the wrong way
tor him and his party.
J The audience dispersed quietly after General |
had concluded his Speech