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Mr. Birney's Meetings

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
November
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Birney spoke to a Inrge nssembiy in Tremont Temple at Boston. The Whigs were rntherr.oisy and boisierous,and interrjpted Iiim eevetul times, and gave three cheere for fien?}' Clay. Their conduct was illiberal and ungentlemanliko. At Albany, Mr. Birnpy acldressed a large meeting in the City Hall, forabouttwo iiours. We have not room for the report of his remarks wbirh appear in the Patriot. Mr. B. rererred to the different "Rnorback"' elories which had been put in circnlation, and siated list me posilion in reference to his nominníon at Sagina w. With the particular? of his our readers ore already acquainled. He said he had never eooght any nomination, nor jad lie expected to be nominated by eilher ijrfy; but his name had been mentioned by many persons of both parties, afier he had aken a prominent part in tbeic local nffairs. e tlien characieiized the Democratie and Whig1 parties. The former he comparad to he Harpies mentioned by Virgil, whp gulped down everything they could, and then tratnpled on and de6troyed what they could not levour. He den'ied their claim to the tille of )omocrats. He then took up the doingg of he Whig party, and of Henry Clay. Some of the Whigs were quito disorderly and upoari-Mis. VVhen the audience had nearly dispersed about fifteeñ Whigs tarried and organized another meeting, which they baptized as an 'Abolition Meeting," and passed sundry resoutions, disapprovingof the whig portions of Mr. Birney's remarks. The actors in this arce were all Whigs. It was a most conemptible manoeuvre. Üf Mr. Birney's Eubsequent meetings in "Vew York we have no other accounts than fiosegivenby Whig papers. From them il ppears that at Chiltenango he was questiond in public by certain Whigs, and asked if he ïad been nominated by tlie Democratie Conention of Sagmaw: he eaid he had no doubt f if, and he had not declined that nomination, nd should not do it. All of wiiich is duly ertified under before John Watson, .P.!

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