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stewards Mas. Meeting.

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bills, which were generally circulated
through the county, that he would speak
on ssPresent Political Issues" at Armory
Hall, Virginia city, on last evening.
There were perhaps 225 persons present,
occupying, without crowding, all the
seats, with twenty persons standing near
the door. There was evidently ample
accommodation for all who desired to
attend. Nearly if not quite n half OF
the audience were democrats" In
deed, il we had gone into the hall with
out knowing that it was a professedly
Union meeting, we should have expect
ed to listen to democratic" orators,
judging from the character political Of
the gathering. As Senator Stewards
speech was principally a repetition of
his California talks during the late cam
paign-which have been pretty fully
reported-we had full leisure to note
who were in the audience, so far US we
could see faces, without losing anything
of the historical recital by William.
Our personal acquaintance with the
members of the Democratic party in
this county is comparatively limited,
but its leading members are well known
citizens; and we are confident that of
those who claim to be "leaders" very
few were absent from Stewards meet
ing. Pitzer, Campbell, Anderson, DR..
Weber, II. X. Mitchell, Judge Aud,
| Wm. WOODBURY., Judge Barber, Col.
Taylor, John Mallou, Pat. Lannan, John
Mccarthy, William 0'Neal, aud dozens
of other Democrats whom We could
| name, were in the audience, and con-
tributed to make up the 225 present.
| We counted the number of persons pres
eut several times, and We never could
make 200. OF tweu,y-seven who sat on
the south side of the long narrow hall,
| nineteen were Democrats. The audi
ence paid excellent attention, and there
was no disturbance except on two
occasions, when there was u slight
furry'at the rear of the room, caused
by one person calling "Louder,'
and another remarking that. "Bill
Stewart could talk loud enough once.
and a reply: ale can now" when u
kind of "break" was made and an ar
rest; and another gabble, rush and call
to peace, the merits of which we did
not understand. What disposed the
lights OF the Democracy to rally in such
force last night-thus giving William II
full house, and saving him from making
the usual preface he had to his slim
Ward meetings San FrauciSco-we can
no, tell positively. There were various
coujectures expressed. We believe
they were desirouS of knowing what
William would say, for ''points" in
their future political briefs; and not
not knowing, perhaps, that he was
to be reported, or fearing he would "re-
wise" on EN- in some future declama-
ton or publication they were on hand Tor
the purpose of making their W notes.
IL had been generally given out during
the day, that William would come GU
| fiat heeled in re-Statemeut aud favor
| OF his Universal Suffrage and Universal
Amnesty Doctrine; aud this
meut attracted many-same as they
| might be induced To go aud hear u Nor
mon elder. Some expressed d~isappoint-
ment At Williams talk, declaring that
he event back lodged ''equivo-
Gated over his eccentric father-in-law's
dogma; while the majority seemed sat
isfed that the Swallower had gone quite
far enough to sickeu them; even though
he NAV have qualified from his serenade
| remarks and his California stumpings.
| As William himself said, his speech was
a historical discourse, more than any
thing else; and there was very little, II
ANYTHING, in his remarks that was orig
| iusl. Indeed, though he recited patri-
| otto eveuts-most Of which occurred be-
| fore William became prominent AS II
| Union mau-the entire audience were
evidently weary of it, as = fatnil-
lar story, now not told in a
| form or style to render u repetition
pleasing; but being anxious to hear the
expected Universal Suffrage paragraph
theory, gave heed in monetary expec-
| ,a,ion that it would "come out" Will
liam commenced with an explanation of
the Town Lot law muddle; In which he
assumed to reprimand Mr.. Lockhart.
| he then commenced the patriotic re-
hearsal, already spoken Of. He went
| back to the time when the South was
| first opposed in its efforts to extend
| slavery, by the Republican party-a
| time when he was u bitter chivalry DEM
ocrat, a little no-account matter,
which for saving consistency among
simple folks he did not mention.
He said that the Republican party OPP
posed the extension OF slavery, which IS
a fact quite generally known; and did
not propose the abolition Of slavery,
which statement might have been OF
consequence in his remarks, If he had
desired to say that, because the Repub-
licsn party did not favor or attempt the
entire abolition he did not leave the
Chivalry Democracy and join the Free
mont party. He said that no man IN
the audience need tell him that at some
time they had not denounced abolition
ism, a remark which he repeated, under
the evident impression that it was II
hacker in history, for him. He then
continued his sketch Of the history OF
Chiyalry Democracy while he was a
member of it, and came down quickly
TO the time when he left the Democ-
racy," or the " Democracy left me" as
he expressed it. Then he made a War
talk, aud approved ge"et"'i! VI ""
Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan had done.
He gave his Sereuadc speech review of
Congressional Legislation for recon-
s.ruction,-the same he has delivered,
with some few variations, through CAL
ifornia. He came to the conclusion that
the ballot must be given to the negro
of the South that the Union party had
committed itself to the negro-suttrage
issue, by ~enfranchising the Freedmen
and providing for suffrage irrespective
of race or color in the Territories and
in the District Of Columbia. And he
said he was and would be in favor OF
enfranchisiug on the same rule in this
State, so far as he was concerned
Here, some think he kind O. slid over or
under the great dogma of his father-in-
law bu, let his speech, when revised to
suit himself tell the story. He said, in
substance, that Chinese equality was a
burbear; that there WAS no danger OF
the Chinese securing advantage under
the Universal or Impartial or Manhood
suffrage rule that the Democrats OF
California in early times made u mis-
-. 40, nreventinp the Chinese