Phenix Gazette

The National Intelligencer of yesterday comments upon the Democratic meeting of Philadelphia, and, after stating the fact that the respectable Chairman, William Jones, Esq. late Secretary of the Navy, was put out of the Chair by force, asks: "If these things be done in the green tree, what may we not expect in the dry?"

Yes! If these things be done now, what may we not expect before the election be over? What may we not expect if General Jackson be made the President of the United States. If his friends are thus early disposed to violence and outrage, what House of Representatives would dare to impeach the "Chieftain?" Or what Senate would dare to try the impeachment, were it made. Would not the members naturally feel for their Ears, and act to save them? Let the following account be read, and then let the reader decide whether the General Jackson men of Philadelphia are friends to their country:

From the Philadelphia Democratic Press

AN ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING, Of the Democratic Citizens of this city, was yesterday held in the District Court Room. The room was pretty well filled at the hour to which the meeting had adjourned, at which time Capt. WILLIAM JONES took the chair, and John Geyer, and T. P. Macmahon, Esq'rs. their seats as Secretaries. A clamor was raised, at once, on a motion to read the minutes of the last meeting, and cry of "Yard, Yard, Yard," was raised. A pause occurring, Col. P. Browne took occasion to remark that no arrangements had been made for a meeting in the State House Yard, and that he did not doubt but more persons could hear and be accommodated where the meeting then was, than in the State House Yard. "Yard, Yard," again was clamored through the room from the east end. After considerable and most disreputable uproar, Wm. J. Duane, Esq. succeeded in obtaining silence long enough for him to beseech the persons on his side of the noise and Jackson assured them that since no question was ever carried so much by clamor and uproar. The Yard would not nor ever, huzza for General Jackson, again was again and anon a voice was heard out of the windows on the east end of "send up more Jackson men--we want more Jackson men." The question to adjourn to the yard being insisted on before the reading of the minutes the chairman remarked that a motion to adjourn would be in order but that the present motion was not a simple motion to adjourn but involved the questions when and where the meeting would adjourn and to that if there- they strictly in question order and to was read now the minutes was ing. The moment the chairman began to take his chair a voice appealing as loud as could was heard from a little man who could be heard except by those immediately around he stood on the Jackson side nearly in front of the chair. This little man talked some time, but he might as well have been talking down in a dump, for all the meeting were benefited.
At length, after much patient perseverance and no little labour, the chairman succeeded in putting the question on the adjournment, and said it was not possible to determine on which side there was a majority. A cry of "divide," was now heard, the uproar increased on the Jackson side, and a few persons pushed towards the chair, evidently determined to displace the officers of the meeting. Their friends crowded round them; the press was very great; the furniture gave way, and the pressure became greater and greater. "Let us give them Jackson law," said one rude and boisterous body, who, not respecting himself, felt no respect for the character of the meeting, of which he formed a most unworthy portion. In this state of things, a gentleman of good reputation, and himself a Jackson man, put himself forward to maintain order and support the chair—he was forthwith assaulted and beat by at least half a dozen men of his own party, & to their eternal dishonor and disgrace be it here recorded, as they have recorded it in black and white on the arms of their friends, they bit him -BIT HIM WITH THEIR TEETH-FEROCIOUS- LY AND FIERCELY BIT HIM!!! This took place immediately in front, and within a yard of the chair. The Chairman, respecting himself and the peaceable and respectable persons in the room, and seeing no hope of preserving peace among persons who thus savagely assailed even the members of their own party who attempted to preserve order, adjourned the meeting to the Long Room in the Shakspeare Buildings. In a few minutes, he and the Secretaries of the meeting, and more than an hundred Democratic citizens were then assembled. An official account of their proceedings, signed by the Chairman and Secretaries, may be found in another part of this paper. In the mean time, those who remained, as is reported, put Gen. Robert Patterson in the vacant chair, and made Chandler Price and Joseph Worrell, Secretaries. The number which now remained, could easily have been accommodated in the Court Room, but having made the motion to adjourn, it was deemed most advisable to carry it, and go down into the State House Yard. Being got there, some temporary arrangements were made to elevate the chair, &c. and they proceeded to business, adopting the whole ticket, as reported by the General Ward Committee, including Henry Horn for the 20th Congress. It is said, that on displaying and counting off the Jackson men, entitled to vote, were found to amount to one hundred and fifty- six. Of that number, small as it is, we know several who will vote for Mr. Sergeant, in preference to Mr. Horn. We give the facts without intermingling remark or conjecture.