Daily Evening Star

LATE HARD MEETING AT PHILADELPHIA.—A gentleman well known in Philadelphia for his "hard proclivities," sends the following to a friend in this city:

The meeting was a melancholy spectacle called for the purpose of denouncing the Democratic organization at Washington, because a few traitors of '48 had obtained office. You can judge of the surprise of every one when they saw the platform made a perfect checker, by the regular mixture of disappointed Democrats and the scum of the Philadelphia party of '48 and '50, with colored tendencies. If the leaders in this affair had endeavored to select the worst and most insignificant names from the list of officers and others, of the anti-compromise meeting of 4th of March, 1850, they could not have been more successful. W. B. Rankin & Co., who, with C. C. Burr, of the New York National Democrat, were the most violent Abolitionist of 1848. Remark, an Abolitionist then and now—the author of some of the worst articles in the German Free Press—who stood at the polls so late as 1851, with a placard in his hand, burlesquing the Democratic party. Dr. Deitrich, the President of the meeting, a man who, within ten days, has said he won't vote for Bigler if nominated. William F. Small, the mover of the resolutions and the principal speaker at the meeting, ("from such, Oh! Lord deliver us.") The man who, after he returned from Mexico, went into the Senate of Pennsylvania and moved and voted for instructions to the committee which had the Abolition petitions under consideration, to report a bill in accordance with the prayer of the petition, which was to give the colored gentlemen the right to vote. (See Journal of Senate, 1849.)

Now, I never have, and never will, approve the appointment to office of these men of known Abolition proclivities; and I think it the duty of every good and consistent Democrat to set his face against it. But I do not think the people of this State will submit to the denunciation of the President of their selection by men who have heretofore been foremost in the advocacy of free negro doctrines.

At the time of the organization of the meeting, there were not two hundred souls in the house; and at no time during the evening over six hundred, two-thirds of whom did not approve the movement. And this is the end of the most unremitted exertions for three weeks, and the publication of a long string of names calculated to attract the curious.