The Van Buren press., 1868-07-31
Seymour and Blair Ratification.
LITTLE Rock, July oath, '6s.

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EDITOR PREss The immense concourse
ofDemocrats who assembled here on the
2lst inst, to witness the great speeches
of the prominent men in the party, was a
light of the olden time, and memory re-
verted to the days antebellum when the
old grey haired men assembled around
the speakers stand to hear expounded the
great tenets of civil and political history,
that added such glory to the fabric of
American liberty. The thousands pres
ent on this occasion were composed ofthe
selfsame men, and such gathering has
not been seen in this State since the war
Your space will'not permit me to enter
into detailed account of tho mastery
speeches delivered by Hon A. II. GAR
LAND, Maj. GALLAGHER, Judge l. NJ.
ROSE, L. II. NASH, S. F. CLARK, Col. r.
H. NEWTON, and Judge WATKINS. Your
readers will find them all correctly re-
ported in the Gazette, Suffice it the day
passed off harmoniously, and seven thou
sand patriotic hearts were made glad and
seven thousand patriots enjoyed mag
nificent barbecue, gotten up by the citi-
zens of Little Rock and vicinity. saw
radical Legislators filling themselves, who
eat as though they had run away from
their boarding houses week before, and
after all the whites had finished, there was
sufficient left to give the radical niggers
a belly full, and which they were not long
in gulping down The rch-light pro
cession at night was brilliant pyrotcch-
mic display, and assembled a crowd Of
5000 persons who went joyfuliy home,
after the evenings exercises, with feel
ing that the great pulsations of our peo.
pie would in the triumph for God and
liberty!
The Legislature adjourned yesterday
at IL m. When the illustrious body ad-
journed to Jacobs grave near the city,
and harangued crowd of about 5000 ne
groes for several hours, under the refresh
ing influences of a heavy shower, and at
9 o'clock last night had you been here,
you would have witnessed the old saying
of" He'll broke loose" or pandemonium
come again, in procession of 1900 ne
groes with torches, marching down
Markham street, to the Anthony House,
and yelling like so many demons, infat-
uated at the sight of blood.
z. w. CAN'T, the child ravisher, spoke
to them for two hours in an inflammatory
manner and was followed by Gray, (ne-
gro a member of the Legislature from
Phillips county, who is fluent speaker,
and in recounting the history of his race
while in slavery had made several exage-
rated comparisons when a cry of fire
broke forth, and the bells drowned the
speakers voice, while shortly after the en-
gines came rushing from two directions,
and in their attempts to make way
through the crowd were stopped, and an
indiscrminate row ensued that ended in
the death of asoldier, the wounding of
two negroes, and fireman seriously
wounded. There was but few white men
present, and these were unarmed, else l
would have fearful tragedy to record.
The radicals are to-day worming their
way among the negroes like snakes, Gas
they are) and making them believe that
this interruption was premeditated,-in
fact Governor(2) Clayton told them as
much last night in partisan speech
and that vengeance lay in their hands
White men of Arkansas, are you prepared
for slaughter your raceS The radi,
Gals are fastbringing this crisis upon you.
The success of Grant in the next cam
paign turns you over to negro rule in
this State, for years. More anon.
.... t.t LITTLE Rock.