The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-23 00:00:00

understood to disparage the strength of the Repub-
lican party, or to question the earnestness of their
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zeal in the cause. The meeting of Satard y was
(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
CINCINNATI, Onio, Oct. 7. merely intended for a fete, or, as they c it, "gala
Oa Satardev last I had a
curiosity to see. one of day." I have no doubt some of their popular con-
tt-- greet monster meetings preliminary to the elec- ventions held in other places ever e:i ch more to
b
tion of the Governor of the State of Onio, which is the purpose. That the Republicans lave the vast
to take plece on the second Tuesday of this month, majority of their countrymen with them, and that
the 13:h. they will have a crushing success at the poll on
/ heel attended not a few political reunions, in Tuesday next, I have little reason to question.
olden times, on my first visit to the United States, There are 500 members at tho Cincinnati Stock-
in earliest youth, especially in the New England Exchange, and 10 to 1 of them are stanch friends
States, where I resided. I have a distinct rceollec- of the Government and Republicans to the back-
tion of caucases, conventions, and other party bone. The Enquirer is the only Democratic paper
gatherings, where I had to force my way through a doing battle against the Gazette, the Commercial,
throng of closely-packed men, under the roof of and the Miles all Cinsinnati journals, weddedt too
E 37110 music hall, or Dissenting meeting-house, and the Republican interest, and tho proportion of two
where a stern, vinegar-faced slump orator was to one is observable in all the press of the
holding forth before an audience fully as earnest, as State (80) Democratic against 180 or 200 Republican
firm of purpose, as business ;like as himself. Those papers.) Wherever wealth, or even to a great extent
uncouth and crabbed, but high-minded Yankees intelligence, is prevalent there you have the strong-
brought into politics not a little of the religions hold of the Government party. Rich people here
seriousness which characterised their old Puritan have been fattened by the war, and are for war a
faith. Narrow•minded and fanatic they might be, touteance. Moat of the gaudy cars that were driven
but they went to work with a sober determination, to the show of Saturday were got up at the expense
with a steadiness of will which impressed the of contractors, railway companies, &c., to whom this
100 ter-on forcibly, and commanded respect. civil dissension has been for the last three years a
Over more d_isin terested and honourable
It was a very different kind of spectacle that I godsend.
was invited to witness the other day. I was driven citizens the idea of th e Union exercises a tyrannical
scarcely allows them the use of their rea-
the open country, the mere embryo of a straggling
sib miles out of town to a place named Carthage, in sway, and
soning faculties. They are all ready to sacrifice the
village, a spot only famed for its racecourse, and a last drop of blood and the last dollar for the Union,
very stately county lunatic asylum. Few towns on and. they flatter themselves that they may best ob.
this side of the Atlantic boast a
more charming tam their end by upholding the Government, and
neighbourhood than Cincinnati. The wide circle of by crushing the South under the weight of an im-
rem
em- mediate, general, and violent abolition of slavery. It
hills which encompass the city, and which I
her seeing mantled with luxuriant green more than is of no use to represent to them the utter impracti-
a quarter of a century ago,
has, indeed, been cability, the dire ruthlessless, of so sweeping a
stripped of its original beauty,
quarries of good scheme. " Let the Union stand and let the world fall"
building stone and clay for bricks have been found is their motto. Perhaps this determination to follow
here and there, and the utilitarian people
it looks
have been the war to "the bitter end," to drive the South to
cutting and grubbing round the place till
despair, to reject all compromise, may be more fatal
bare and bleak, glaring and dusty, like the most to any chance of the restoration of the Union than a
more humane and conciliatory course might be. But
arid district in Provence or Palestine. Beyond the
first hilly range, however,an the ,
landscape retains not they will listen to no argument. They must have
an
soft, originalverdant, character,d
a little of its Union and emancipation, and the mere suggestion
at Carthage, no less than at Clifton, Spring Grove, of a different policy, the mere exposition of demo-
and other favoured localities, nature, unscathed b 9 cratie views, is stigmatised as arrant treason.
man's work, shows forth in her loveliest apparel. "We shall go through with it" is the clinching
was bright and fresh at Carthage, as days
The day sentence of the fairest and most sincere Republicans
usually are at the present season in this part of the when they are driven to their wits' end in the dis-
world, the gorgeous autumn tints peculiar to the
cussion. They do not dissemble to themselves the
North American continent flashed vividly in the
by enormous coat, but they have unlimited faith in the
sunshine, and the purity of the air, unsurpassed resources of their young community ; but, " when
anything that can be seen in the most gifted Me- we have brought back the fourteen Southern States
diterranean climates, filled the soul with irresistible we have brought back the fourteen Southern States
to their allegiance," they say, " when we have
gladness.
triumphed over this secession of so vast a division
The meeting of Saturday was intended to be the of the republic, what State or combination of States,
grand effort of the Republican party, the great be- will have a chance of again attempting a dissolution
speak for Brough, Anderson, and the rest of that of partnership ? What fraction will eve! rise in re-
"ticket," the coup de grace for Vallandigham, Pugh, hellion against the whole, and run the chattel of
and all the Democratic platform. It was, properly so severe a punishment as we are now inflicting on
speaking, the Cincinnati meeting, and was held out the Southern traitors ?" And, warming with the
of town, simply because it was thought that the subject, they glory with the assurance that 20 years'
city could afford no space sufficient to contain so peace will be more than sufficient, not only to heal
mighty an assemblage as could not fail to answer the wounds but to efface the very scars of the pre-
the momentous appeal. From early morning to late senteentest, " when the Union," they say, "cemented
afternoon the wards of the city kept pouring out in by the blood we are now shedding, will acquire so
long gay processions through all its wide avenues. much consistence at home and so great an ascend-
I was on the ground between two and three, at the ancy abroad that not a cannon will be fired in the
very moment in which the interest of the transao- Old World without our goodwill and pleasure."
tion was expected to culminate, and excitement to It is to this strange ambition, to this vain lust of
rise to fever heat. power, that the Union owes its main charm in Ame-
The political meeting at Carthage reminded me of rican eyes. It is this longing to go forth as rulers
a Derby day at Epsom, only of a somewhat shabbier that makes these strange people so readily amenable
character, with a dash of an Italian masquerade and to the despotic rule that now weighs upon them. It
carnival frolic in it. The fair sex considerably out- is this same vague love of empire and dominion that
numbered the lords of creation, and Young America makes them so tender of the alliance of the Russian
mustered nearly as strong as the adult generation. autocrat, and so eager to press the hand which is
There were huge triumphal cars, heavy boats, and stained with the blood of a generous nation
pontoons on wheels, drawn by four, five, and even struggling for existence.
ten pairs of good well-fed horses, with an endless For their own part, the Democrats rely on the
flutter of flaunting flags, monstrous devices, a din support of the lower classes, the mechanics in the
of fife, trumpet, and drum, and the endless firing of cities, and farm labourers in the country, by whom
light and heavy artillery. Pedestrians, horsemen, the enlistment in the army has been most heavily
hack-carriages, long teams of draught horses, wan- felt, and among whom weariness of the unprofitable
dered about the trackless turf in every direct ion, struggle begins to creep in: At some of the Demo-
with no apparent purpose, save only the enjoyment cratic meetings held in the rural districts of this
of the open airtand the jolly company. It was a State, the assembled multitude often broke out into
fair, a picnic, with cold fowls and veal pies emerg- impatient cries of "Peace! Peace !" before they
inn, from capacious hampers, and corks kno eked off were even addressed by the Peace party lentos.
the bottles of sparkling Catawba wine. To eat, The partisans of Mr. Vallandigham are especially
drink, and be merry was the great business of the numerous in the southern counties of this State,
political meeting. Here and there, indeed, in a cor- which were originally settled by emigrants from
ner, under the canopy ofsome huge tree, Mr. Some- Virginia, while the northern districts were over-
boly from Indiana, or Mr. Nobody from Illinois, rite by New Englanders. Throughout the whole
stumped away for very life, with a cluster of listless range of these Western States—Ohio, Indiana, Illi-
loafers round his cztempore platform, pretending nois, &c.--the same distincti en between North and
to listen, cheering: occasionally, jeering more fre- South is equally observable. In the North the
quentiy ; all this in the midst of the din of discor- Yankee element prevails and with it Yankee notions.
dent music, the rackling fire of great and small guns customs, and principles; the southern zone along the
and the shrill cries of apple women and venders of Ohio river is held by a population sprung from the
fire-water. For the rest, there were children squat- adjoining slave States, and is remarkable for its
ling, young people flirting, angry men swearing, Southern associations, usages, and predilections.
drunken men reeling,—all the varieties of a swarm- What most forcibly strikes me, in the meanwhile,
ing, bustling crowd, looking for amusement, and in the midst of this turmoil of party agitation, is the
contributing more or lese willingly and wittingly almost unanimous disgust which seems to prevail
to each other's amusement. among the wealthy and cultivated classes (irreapec-
Most of the cars were decked out for show, and tive of their democratic or republican tendencies) of
relied for effect no less
on white, blue, and red trap- the popular institutions under which they are living,
Plugs than upon a skew of live'y and fresh female and especially of the principle of universal suffrage.
beauty. Cartloads of girls, as many as 90in a single W ith the exception of a few fanatics (to be met with
conveyance, were paraded round and round, to the in a proportion of less than .1 in 100), the most re-
sound of merry music; school girls from 10 to 12 spectable persons are convinced that the pacifies.-
years of age' young
teens, l' d girls farther advanced in their tion of the country, if ever and however it may be
dressed, theirs and roses in full blossom, all gaily achieved, must be followed by a revision of the con-
upon the delighted male multitude. Attired in of vote. The Americans, I may say most conscien-
streaming on theairreheaded, bare-necked, with hair tiously, are sick of mob rule. They begin to fret
of them diadesen,ilaeh, shoulders, begarlanded, some against an order of things which scared the most
to personify the 35
shalt etecl ; here they were made worthy citizens from public life, and gave the man-
white or in their respaet:ts, the Northern States in agement of State affairs into the hands of the popu-
S i-ave States in neourgin
slevhet national colours, the lace, and of the unprincipled demagogues who minis-
Were taught to bow tog the e es. In other groups we tered to their vilest passions. I found the same feels
the n Union," to it Goddesscoiemb.a, of Liberty," to ing equally widespread in the East as in the W est,
4: math," and a variety oe ', ' to "Peace," to equally rife in the North and South. The well- te-
ethe, deities in
only known in this Transatlantic _ les in petticoats do people, the men of cultivation and character, the
with the beloved colours of the Union
at the
mottoes an opportunity to regain the place they are entitled
huge cart the two-headed Itasi,n
atb.
le tail of a to in the community, a place from which their own
blew cf the new alliance between the two << thev eill. remissness and pusillanimity, no less than the sense-
Gients" of the globe. The largest Car,
withic' Young less and brutal principle of absolute equality, had
heaviest freight of young damsels, professed tob the. hurled them. They want the best men to stand fore-
toraus:er "soldiers sweethearts:,
Some of
frttnhg most, and they hope to put an end to a system in
devices Were of a more sombre and truculent chtte which the highest recommendation for a candidate
racier. A huge Piece of ordnance was plraded is the fact that he is a perfectly obscure individual,
through the ;round with the inscription, "The a man against whom no antecedents, good, bad, or
Peacemaker;'' another flag bete indifferent, can be quoted, a man furnishing no hold
Cannon our only
i "Hell, hemp, or Canada for tral to the unsparing malevolence of partisan warfare.
the inscription,r They •
those who were discontented „ wish for an electoral law, based upon the
tors;" a third bide "
country for their come. 8ellee" of the nation, and long to do away with
with Old Abe to leave their
that 46 •
Vallandiaham was to be seen ehttP plebiscite, which can centre the vote of millions
try's good." Poor n
Fan a 4,
s eed on hubs gallows in effigy; the _ half-witted fellow" (the expression is of
here and there susptne 0 ee lento York 1.1.
too good treatment for th,„ era/de-not mine), who comes into
hanging and quarter lug was 80t,r,,,,,._
unlucky Demo- 999 - `Lue•Power perfectly unknown to at least
him. One car exhibited the same out of 1,000 Guy, a colos- IN heth votes,
mettle candidate in the shape of a huge Whether tee e _
said to be a very are likely to 1,5 ''"t aof these well- meaning patriots
sal man of straw with a mask,
He at which tent it maybe carried into eff tand t cc., o what ex-
excellent likeness of the illuetrious ex , found .
than half-seas- populace a right ptacticable to wrench from the
some zealous Republicans, more ef which sabres and session for several h they have been in pos-
over, kept hacking away with their , generations
Poking • but that Itms, may boa different
Poking with their bayonets with fell animosity, question. , such
wish
to morons are widely spread and des es exist, and that they
the intense delight of the most clamorous
ply rent d I
part of the assembled rabble. The zeal of those tress. Among the Repubn " e , can bear wit-
e there f"v fanatics the per- indeed, who would go e are not a few
strangely contrasted with much further, feet serenityof multitude. nothing but a "strong Governree , and whom
the goodhumoured
The vast nr—ei e an i
majority of the assemble e evidently sponsible despotism in the Russian fee : , rre-
took A hion—would
auvantage ofthe political g for satisfy; but, at all events, the necessity
a little bit of
felt, and this will give o
fora change
making. They harmless and peaceful holiday- is everywhere glve °PPG t • •
dissensions, should ther untties
Brough and
Anderson, for whom they were bidden struggle be sat isfectorily terminated.
by the marshalsof
the field to•
cheer , and they had It is not .
easy to get at any reliable information as
likewise very little ill-will' +;„ of the armies of the Curaberlanct, as
against:
whom
they were ordered to ' t not only withholds all information,
pi,opie who looked upon the L. groan. The the Government
nerve to hoodwink and mislead
affair might be numbered b meetingh as an earnest bat strains every
of thousands, magnified . y undreds. The tens public opinion by all manner of oracular hints and
bY the news As far as I can make out,
4,),000, and 50,000, were
it struck
into barefaced false reports.
te there, as It struck • 1 Rosencranz is cut off
the u3era purpose of making and enjoying tee, for it would seem that General
ase of operation at
h the "fun."
The Republic ,:m journals here mifrom communication with his b
g t well on the fallen back from
following day, decant on the " Trem Nashville, and that Burnside has
endons de-
monstration," " The people coming ant in East Tennessee, and withdrawn
all its in asserts having seen
- 'est ," To a neutral Kentucky, where a traveller
strengthened mai Y spectator, like ammunition
whole matter seemed neither the bulk of that General's store and
myself, the . more nor waggons,
exercise than an egrentous, in accent farce, not likely to "-gg°nB.
by in-
exercise much influence on the issue of the ep. Three more steamers have been consumed
proaching struggle ; a
s little calculated to forward cendiaries at Sr.Louisand at Milliken's-bent.
befriended Brough , one
the real interests of the
n of the latter was attended
damage the position of the anathematized Val- grievous loss of life
landigham. The dissensions :
With all this, however, I would not wish to be have attained in the Cabinet at Washington
4 a very serious character. The Hon.

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