Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-07-31
GENERAL.
The independent nemorrut-.

| '""'b'hu'm HNh0ffWt-s
dmEiti AND Known MEETING Ar nuyER, YEs-
1EhDAY, IN orr isirioN 10 .nE sAui.,HuHY HEti,
| UIAH5.
The public are already informed that the
| Gieelcy aud brown "rnti,caIion mccting," n;
Dover, yesterday, WAC u movement ied hy the
| Polly McNdtts, or unti-Saulshuiy Democrats.
The purpose was to hold it, in ad ance of any
movement by the Salisbury leaders. who now
have control Of the party machinery and by a
profession Of greater zeal for boiled crow az pre-
scented in the Greeley and Brown feast crowd
the Saulsburyites on the platform.
| Two calls had been made for lhe meeting
| Que WAS intended to catch Greeley Repub icans
| and they we've requested to meet in the Hall OF
| the House OF Representatives The other was
| addressed to the Democrats, who were summons
ed to gather III the County Court room.
NO LIBERALS" TO BE FOUND.
Owing to the fact however, that the Greeley
movement has not captured omnibus load OF
| Republicans lu Delaware, and that there are but
| two within five miles of Dover and that even
| these two did not appear yesterday, there WIS
| no meeting of Liberals" held and the Hall of
| Repres enta aiiyee maintained its customary condi
| ton of depressing emptiness. The ghosts of
| bad laws lifted about the room, no Doubt and
| tho Bourbon spirit Of tho Slave Code broodod
| above, but ~ for gathering OF Republicans,
ANXIOUS to defeat the Republican candidate for
| President, there was nUpo.
1Hg ANri-sAuLsBuRY GATHERING.
In the Court Room. below. there waH small
| mouung The room was quito suiciont to cun-
laiu ali the assembled multitude, who desired TO
paftake OF the crow Al two O'Clock the meeting
was Organized by the selection Of tho following
officers
President Albert 0. Newton, New Castle Co
Vice Presidents Townsend, OF New Cas-
tie N. II. Powell, OF Kent William Ellegood,
Of SusseX
Secretaries George Chance, J. W. Cooper
On motion of Nj. Quinn committee OF two
from each was appointed to report resolutions,
AZ follows:
New Castle-WilIiam Il. Quinn, Samuel Town.
send.
Kent = Edward Ridgely, Esq, VIM. A. Atkin
sOn.
Sussex G. W. S. Nicholson Dr. John Laws
TUE SPEAKING.
James r. Booth, Esq, Of Wilmington was
then introduced, who said he came there as a
Democrat, he always had been one, and always
would be, for uught he knew His speech was a
moderate argument, diyested Of personal re
marks, ap1losil,ng for the AOlnmatiOn of Gree
Icy aud Brown.
He had been opposed to Greeley and had
thought it hardly possibly that he should be- the
nominee OF the Democracy but as he has be-
come the regular candidate OF the Democratic
Party, by the choice of the Baltimore Couyeu.
lion, lie was in duty bound, a5 a loyal Democrat,
to support the nominee aud he thought 1t i'm
possible that any man who calls himself Dem
ocrat would DO so fOrsetful of his duty to vote
against the regular nominee Of the Baltimore
Convention.
Al the close of Mr. Booths speech Mr.. Quinn
from the Committee, reported a series of resO-
lutlunH, which were read aud adopted three
persons votlng in the affirmative, aud none IN
the negative The following is the import Of
MR.. QuINNs REsoLyEs
lst That we, the Democracy and Liberal
Republicans, approve and ratify the nomination
VI Greeley and Brown.
"a. That tho election Of Greeley and Brown
Will remove all disabilities from our southern
brethren, aud general amnesty will be estab-
iished it will preserve local State government
and States Rights establish the civil over the
military power; preseve the sacredness of the
lInboaH Corpus constitutional rights will be
guaranteed to all citizens and tho civil service
viii lie ucd with honest men.
BARR erEAks.
Capt Joseph NJ. liarr next mounted the ros-
trum, and delivered himself of substantially the
same speech aH that spoken at the Greeley meet
ing in Whining, II elected little or no applause,
but caused a rad ami dIaqulUtod feeling to brood
over the mec ting.
SAM TOWNSEND NExT
Truly enough sam. Townsend was the next
speaker. lle in1ulsed IN considerable retro
spect, reviewing tue action Of the Delaware De-
mucrAcy, for the last ten or twelve years, by
which 1t was made to appear that he was about
the only steady, consistent, and unchangeabe
Democrat IN the State. lie proved very -ats-
fActOIily to himself that his own course had been
a straight line, without the smallest deviation,
but the orratic wanderngs Of everybody else
filled him with pain and disgust In supporting
Horace Greeley he expected to secure Demo-
cratic Congress-, IIo exhorted the Democracy to
swallow the crow, raw, Boiled, or in any other
form, ITO beat Grant Anything under Heav-
ems should be done to effect that
Oar venerable friend shed many drops of noble
porspiratiOn, aud worked himself up into gem
orally heated condition, by the excessive on
ergy of his delivery. The violence of his
expletives maintained the customary high aver
age, and he devoted a number OF them to the
CUMMERCIAL lie especially resented the general
impression that IS. H. lS5O-A' had any refer
enGe to his political course.
On motion of Mr.. Reed, the proceedings Of the
meeting were ordered to DO published in the
Democratic papers, aud the meeting adjourned
with cheers for Greeley and Brown.