Show lt alst us hear each side in a notice ofa of a public nicotine meeting held at it vii auni it neiani for the pill pose ur or liking etui into consideration me proposed pio plo posed ch vage of tile fla curi currency ency from gold to green bachs and at which present a most do aci lied of aci poisons ons opp opposed oed to such ell cango ingo wo we notice by our exchanges from ili it section that two tio gentlemen attempted to jpcik in favor of the cb chingo inc and that the moot ai interrupted hooted hissed and derided tile tho remarks of the one and absolutely refused to allow tho the other to speak at all on oil the subject N ov oi the results of the meeting acle correct coi so far as the preventing the change floell specie to a piper currency in in the present conjunction of alrais is concerned but might not these two gentlemen have been allowed to cypress their sentiments adduce their allu indents if they had any and might not the in liter lim 0 been discussed in all its beai ings without injury to the cause which the majority present evidently deemed the correct one ile ae not only think that this might have been done in injury and with manifest benefit it to the alic question of light but also that such a couise would have been infinitely more credit ci edit able to the individuals composing tile tho meet mcca il i ig to the citizens of vil Vi ginia iginia generally and t to the depute of our common which iris ins long lom suffered under the stigma of being of all other despotic mon michical or republican tho the most intolerant of any inter fei once in with iab stemming of or depar dap artnie tui c ft aiom om the course of public sentiment it is a small matter fiam fleich m hichi to read a lecture to the but it is an instance of tile the outcroppings outcrop pings of or intolerance among us and thus serves as ni ell as illy any other to introduce what wo ne have to say in this if the public sentiment of to aty diy were aiwas the public sentiment of tomorrow to morrow i c e if what goes goes by the nime name of public opinion mere ere liv to be i eflee on oil as an anything thin near i light ight there might be a I 1 faint show how of reason in tile the being unwilling q to hear tile the till against time as it would then be of those who might approve it but wo have all lived too loo ion long not to know that nothing is more unstable ill in the notion of tho the mob while if we did not learn it in emilier years the last few li litre hive tre amply informed us tint tho the many headed monster is capable of tilling dilong ani docs 1003 avei y d daiy diy q t tike the gi the most opposite and that the opinions for which a man blands to day a good chance of a coit coat of tar bar and fea feathers feath theis cis ni will ill be to morrow or in a few weeks at the furthest the shibboleth in without the distinct enunciation of which eveia citi izen is likely to bo be ostracized who that has haq looked philosophic illy at the course of public for the past eight or ten years can fail to have been struck by the incongruity and antagonism of the diffee ent isms iams th that at have horn hom time to time beon been surged up into favor aith w ith the masses and been used by demi go goguts lles successively is as stepping stones for their advancement aloin the daa dag 9 of qabid and unconditional enro iced and immediate abolition boli lioi tion of sl blai cry on the one handan hand and 1 the maintenance of the just div inurn of slavery on tho the other all the intervening ams whether political or sectarian down to the present by a strange inconsistency no man is accounted thoroughly loyal who may venture mod modestly etly tosu to suggest epst that a negro mogro moldier is not much better th in a whito white one the he same game constantly appe appears irs the credo of today to day seals the political death of to morion bonow s aspirant and notwithstanding nur fiur intolerance of any opinions at all alar the absolute of obrown our I 1 own or those of tho the wirty pirty with which we are affiliated remains just as ob abt mate as ag when we ili dried an code of sentiment all this is anti republican and anti Ameri tin cin every man has a right to his opinion as well as to the free expression ther thereof eor and it il looks ill lor for the intelligence of a public cal meeting when argument unless it be all al on tile side of tile tho majority will not be al owed we siy ay iy it loos ill but worse th thai m that if is actuary arony and i ia good citizen will to tile means of choking off oppa eve even 11 tw to his ms r A fc chelis cherished lied politic icil ll belief bich used ill the meeting lebei red tb wo we look fonward with liopo hope to in a 1 day i hen such occurrences occurrence sand and similar displays of the mob tyranny indich aich holds sway in oui nation can call no lo 10 longer nger bo be bron slit sai 0 is a matter of tho the p in jiin ag const the lionor honor of our cherished con y I 1 |