The North Carolinian

TEN MEETING.

The Democracy had another spirited meeting on last Thursday night. Major Jno. P. Leonard opened the ball with a speech in which he made many happy points, comparing the old federal with the present whig party, and showing their affinities and their inconsistencies. They abused old Tom Jefferson, said he, because he would not go to war with Great Britain, and they abused Mr Madison because he did. They abused Gen. Jackson, because they said he was a military chieftain, and they are now trying to make a military chieftain President. This was the same old party, he said, that the Democracy had defeated over and over again, under the name, first of federalists, then federal republicans then whigs, and now democratic whigs. They first called us democrats, and we defeated them with that, and now they call us locofocos, and before the first of December, they will be sick of that.

Warren Winslow, Esq., was next called upon. He said that he was too much indisposed to make a set speech, but that he felt that upon such an occasion, it was his duty to say something. We were upon the eve of an important election, and every democrat was called upon to do his duty, and he would do his. It was due to his fellow citizens to say how he should vote, and give them his reasons for it. He believed that the perpetuity of the Union depended upon the election of Gen. Cass. He believed that if ever the Missouri compromise was to be secured to the south, it must be done by a northern man. He was for the acquisition of territory; he believed that the safety of the Union depended upon spreading the area of freedom; he did not care how far the American Eagle should fly, the more closely would the Union be cemented. He had travelled north considerably this summer, and he had not read a whig paper that did not support General Taylor upon the ground that he would not veto the Wilmot proviso. He believed that Cass and Butler would be elected by the largest majority received by any candidate in a warmly contested election for many years.

Major Jno. T. Gilmore, who is always ready, and walks into facts and figures without fear, touched upon the U. S. Bank question, the sub-treasury, the tariff, the war, and the acquisition of territory. He heard a great deal said against getting so much territory-the country would become too large, and like the ancient Republics, fall by its own weight. But the ancient Republic of Rome, said he, fell not because of its great extension, but because of the degeneracy of its people. What do you call a large country? he asked. Great Britain owned eight millions of square miles; the United States owns two millions! Take the map of the American continent and you find that Great Britain owns more of North America than the U. States does. He drew a parallel between Genls. Cass and Taylor, and alluded to the denunciations of the war by the whig party, and to Gen. Taylor's expression that "the honor of the country has been vindicated." According to the whigs, our country's honor had never been assailed; then how could it be vindicated? Here is a discrepancy between the whigs and their own candidate

After the speaking was through, on motion of Mr Bow, Dr. Thos. N. Cameron was appointed President, and Major Gilmore and Capt. Gee Vice Presidents, and Wm. H. Bayne Secretary of the Democratic Association for 1848.

Messrs Warren Winslow, Jas. G. Cook, Warren Prior, J. G. Shepherd, and Wm. Starr, were appointed a corresponding committee.

The meeting adjourned at about half past ten o'clock.