Semi Weekly Standard

The proceedings of the Democratic meeting held here on Monday last, will be found in our columns to-day. They are interesting. Great enthusiasm prevailed, and a determination was evinced to adhere strictly to the time-honored principles and organization of the party. The Resolutions are clear, emphatic, and full of the spirit of that glorious Democracy under whose banner we have so often marched, in this gallant County, to battle and to victory; and the delegates appointed will, we are sure, carry with them to the Convention and act out the sentiments and objects set forth on the occasion.

Mr. Horace P. Tucker, formerly a Whig, came forward in the meeting, took his stand against the new secret association, and announced that he should hereafter act with the Democratic party. Mr. Tucker was a Henry Clay Whig—he belonged to that party when, under its great leader, it met and discussed public questions in the open day and in the eye of light; but, with other manly and patriotic Whigs in this State and Virginia, he refuses to co-operate with this substitute for Whiggery, whose members shun the light and propose to govern the country in secret and by plans laid in the still hours of the night. He deserves credit for his course; and we trust that others, who think and feel as he does, will follow his example.