Phenix Gazette

GREAT ADMINISTRATION MEETING IN FREDERICK COUNTY, MD.

Extract to the Editor, from a respectable citizen—dated FREDERICK, June 2d, 1827.

The friends of the Administration of the General Government had a meeting at this place to-day in the Court House, agreeably to public notice given in the newspapers published in this city. Such a meeting I never saw here before as to numbers and respectability—it was never surpassed in this place. The meeting was organized by appointing Dr. John Tyler, Chairman, Col. Jno. M'Pherson assistant Chairman, Patrick Owings, Esq. of Emmit's burg District, Secretary, and Mr. Rich'd Coale, of Liberty District, assistant Secretary, when H. R. Warfield, Esq. addressed the meeting in one of the most powerful speeches that I ever heard in my life. He was cheered repeatedly by the audience, who appeared to be electrified by the facts and arguments disclosed by him. He laid bare to the core the unrighteous Opposition to the Administration of the general government, and the unheard of persecution of that distinguished patriot and statesman, HENRY CLAY, and concluded by comparing the opposition to the measures of the administration, to a man that wrote his epitaph on his tomb-stone, to guard his friends from error and delusion—'I was well, but I wanted to be better, I took physic and here I am.' John H. McElhenny, Esq. addressed the meeting also in a very neat and appropriate speech on the subject, which was received with marked attention by the meeting, and it appeared to the conviction of every one present that the Opposition to the Administration of the General government was the most unjustifiable, wicked and absurd, that ever was heard of on the face of the earth, and the persecution of Henry Clay, was without a parallel in any country. It was a disgrace to any set of men, and ought to be resented by every patriot in the nation.

The meeting then appointed a Committee, to report a Preamble and Resolutions for the consideration of the friends of the administration, with a Committee to meet in Hagerstown, in Washington county, in September next, for the purpose of nominating two electors, to be voted for as electors of President and Vice President of the United States, at the approaching Presidential election; also a Committee of one member for each election district in this county, to meet the General Convention which is to assemble in Baltimore on the 23d day of July next, for the good of the glorious cause throughout the state, which I hope will be as well represented from every section of the state as it will be from this county. When you come to see the names appointed by the meeting, you will be convinced that we are in real earnest, as they are composed of men of the first respectability in the county, none of your boys and young lawyers, who are playing a desperate game for the purpose of gaining a livelihood, but they are the substantial bone and sinew, as well as the yeomanry of the county, who are deeply interested in the present happy and exalted state in which the Administration of the general government has arrived to, and are perfectly satisfied, and determined to use all honorable means in re-electing JOHN QUINCY ADAMS to the Presidency, who has filled the office with so much honor to himself, as well as advantage to his country. The particulars of this meeting you will see published more in detail, which will be more satisfactory to the friends of the administration than this hasty letter.

P. S. The greatest order prevailed throughout; except from a red mouth Jacksonian, from Montgomery county, who attempted to interrupt Mr. Warfield, when he was speaking.

[We cannot but express our high gratification at the result of the above meeting. When we see such a county as Frederick, the wealthiest and most populous in the State, thus speaks out—when we see men of all parties, distinguished for probity, venerated for age, and possessing a justly high character among their fellow citizens, throwing aside all minor considerations, and uniting in support of the government—the most happy consequences cannot but be anticipated. It manifests a determination on the part of those who hold a stake in the Republic to take warning from the admonitions of Washington and Jefferson, and to save themselves, with the blessing of Heaven, from the grasp of a Military Despotism.]