The Whig Gathering at Albany-5o,ooo


WEigs Assembled!
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Letter from the Ed.ior.


have attended nearly Ill great Wing gath
erings in tie Nrrtr.ru States since 1889. the
Buuker HIl Convention excepted and novs
n. rer seen nc ecu u OF tns but at Baltimore and
IN he Young Mems Siete Convention 1t Syrt-
cure in lS4D No; one les. than FIFTY
THOUSAND were ussemoled on the Cnnvtn.
tion grouu1 tlG4y Tie main procession began
to arrive al o'cl ,cb and ~as st an hour III pas-
II q the entrance, h,Tfied b. the know eole t''a,
WEBSTER had already degun to SPEAK; but long
professions continued to airlve until after
O'Clock. composed Of Deeg atoms from varlCu,
River Counties. There wss such Con.
ven,on except where the People of . whole State
were called together.


SAMUEL STEVENS was President OF the Day,
and happily introduced Mr.. WEBSTER at an early
hour, seeing that there were already four times.
as many people assembled as he could possibly
make hear him. Sir. Webster spoke nearly two
hours, calmly, earnestly and very ably. His
theme was the history oi the Country as connect
cd with the policy of Protection, and cvinced
profound research an! S;atesmanlike resource
4 faithful report accompanies this letter


Hon. JOHN ~ BsRRIsS OF Georgia followed, in
occibie and animated defence of the Tariff and
denunciation of the Texas conspiracy. He was
speaking when was obliged 10 leave the ground
10 write this. GRANGER, Ho1lE, and Other cham
pions OF the Good Cause, were on the main stand,
AMI are expected to follow.


But as Only fraction ofthe assemb!age could
hear any ore speaker, smaller stands and wagons
we're tesor.ed to in different parts Of the field and
grove, from which thousands were addressed by
E. D. CULVER, W. C. HAsDRoucK, WM. II. VAs
WAGNER, Mr. keLLcGG Of Ohio, GEORGE DAw-
son, Thomas CRYSTAL, II. GREELsY and others.
The time was well improved, and ii no converts
were made to the Wing Cause, it is because all
wc:e eight before. hear from different quarters
OF numerous changes to the Wing patty. c.