Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-07-26
POLITICAL.
Crea, Republican Mass Meetings.

THE GATHERINGS AT NEW YORK AND RICHMOND.
very large Republican meeting was held in
Richmond, Va, on "Wednesday evening. Fred
erick Douglass and Senator Wilson were the
principal speakers The Dispatch, Dem OF
yesterday, says sit was one OF the largest polit-
cal assemblages ever seen in Richmond. The
band played patriotic airs, the crowd was good
humored and enthusiastic, and altogether the
scene presented was most enlivening." After
the meeting, there was an immense torchlight
procession. in which several Thousand persons
joined. The Dispatch says of this that il "pre-
sented brilliant spectacle !" the procession
was one OF great length and breadth y the dis
play Of fireworks twas unusually fine; and it
concludes its report by stating that 'the demon
stration was in all respects orderly, and reflect
cd credit upon those who managed it. With
such words of praise from those politically OPP
posed to IL. we conclude that II must have been,
in reality, great meeting.
New York correspondent, writing on the
oath, says that the city papers Of that date do
not give the faintest notion OF the great Repub-
lican meeting at the Cooper Institute, ON the
pre- EiouB evening. None of the ordinary clap
trap efforts had been made to gather a crowd.
No posters, no display Advertisements, no outside
stands, flags and noise, no cannon, no fireworks,
very little music only one speaker; and yet by
o'clock, the immense ball was crammed The
personnel OF the meeting, too was very remark
able. Jackson $. Schultz presided, aud the long
roll of Vice Presidents aud Secretaries was that
OF the most distinguished aud hOnOred mer-
chants, bankers Judges and professional men
of New York And they wore thore, IN person.
The excitement at the first mention OF Grant
was astounding II broke out like sevon thun-
ders, simultaneous with the flash, or like pow
der mag azine at the touch of Ere. Evidently, II
never meant to stop. am certain that never
Witnessed another instance of such more than
spontaneous, rather such gratuitous Unsuitable
and uncallod tor iteration as that of the impet-
uous cheers for General Grant
"Mr. Conkling himself received an oration
that might satisfy any mans vanity. His speech
throughout was one Of the best received
speeches. ever delivered. The scene at times
might be compared to a camp-meeting in full
feryor the audience taking about as prominent
a part as the orator, not only with general ap-
plause but with individual responses, often
witty and telling, sometimes running into lively
dialogue (for the Senator's manners are very
populaT) and again and again a sally of unms-
taxable Irish wit and brogue drought down the
house" The ladies present were brim-full of
enthusiasm Aud here l wish to mention az
one of the first symptoms of the ardent Grant
feeling promise you will be astonished at be-
fore next fall that the ladies / meet surprise
me with the vehemence and even bitterness of
their political sentiments, for Grant and against
his vile traducers. They are in advance Of the
men in this respect, as they are apt to be at the
beginning of profound and Intense popular
movement"