Sketches of [His] Speeches and Writing Including His Poems and Correspondence

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1843 Excerpt: ... GREAT MASS MEETING OF THE YOUNG DEMOCRACY AT CASTLE GARDEN. The calls for Mikb Walsh became now so uproarious that, although he had repeatedly excused himself, on account of being Chairman of the Meeting, he was obliged to come forward. On rising he was greeted with the most enthusiastic cheering. My Friends, said Mike, I feel that I am unequal to the task of addressing you this evening, but I cannot refrain from it. It is a source of the highest and purest gratification to me to see assembled on an occasion like the present such an immense multitude of Freemen--not in the usual canting and unmeaning acceptation of the term--but Freemen in the fullest and noblest sense--TP-tlSS!SUl!tf: j', nH nairnw-inmrTp'd prejudices by wnTjbTTarTsurrounded--free from the shackl jELad_difiiaiioB of self-con3tituted suicidal cliques, who have not. thg_perceptipn to see the certain ultimate success of _any_great: movement founded in truth, right and justice and lacked by the hogsgl, jnaase3-, until it is accomplished bjr the very men whom they a%j3t_t0_despisfc.a.tld dictate to. And these same ' Old Hunkers, ' who now want to make it out treason for a man to do common justice to an honest and independent Chief Magistrate--these hypocritical old scoundrels, who have been so long steeped in vittany and corruption that they are incapable of appreciating, much less performing, an honest or virtuous action--will be applicants to a man (as soon as this movement is effected) for office under the very Administration that they now affect to abhor! Yes! in less than four months you will hear them declaring, in the presence of their God, (for the purpose of stealing into an office) that they have ever been its warm and undeviating friends. Mark this! This has all be...