Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-03

The Democracy in MOtiOn:...
Grab Fashion; see Hamlet,
Act III, Sc. .2(--Immense Excite
ment!--H. b. Payne and a half
a score more Assembled in
"Mass Meeting.,'
For upwards of two weeks our citizens
have been kept in feverish state of ex-
citement by the knowledge that an i'm
mense mass meeting was 10 be held in this
city on Saturday, the twenty-ninth day of
August, to ratify the nomination of the
Hon. H. B. Payne to the post of defeated
candidate for the Governorship and to hear
the words of wisdom poured fourth by the
said Honorable gentleman. The Plain
dealer has kept standing announcement
of the fact in its columns. Every blank
wall has blazoned forth the intelligence in
huge posters. The whole country was to
be in motion, and the united De-
mocracy was invited to "turn out" and
spread ITSELF The night preceding the
eventful day was sleepless one for U.S.
The artillery of heaven woke the sleepers
to the fact of the coming great event; the
roaring of the rain torrent was typical of
the rushing of many feet to the gathering.
Nervous and excited, we rose from our un-
easy bed, sharpened bundle of "Faber's
No. 2" packed up a stack of "slips," and
awaited with beating heart and ferreish
pulse the eventful hour, "big with the fate
of empires and of Rome" At last the
time arrived. The county nominating con-
vention had been held, and the "masses"
were, according to the programme. to as
semble and great the mighty champion
the chosen one, who was to bear the Demo
cratic banner, with the Douglas-Dred Scott
device, to the field Of battle-and defeat.
With lively remembrance of the great
procession that welcomed the hero home
from the scene oe his nomination. pro-
cession so vast that the unaided human
eye could form no conception of its size or
nunbers-we provided ourselves with n
double opera glass of immense magnify
ing powers, and hurried to the scene of
action.
The clock was striking three as we reach
ed the Square from Superior street. Pass
ing between the anti-cow-and- -crinoline
posts, we forced our way through an i'm
mense crowd that held undisputed posses
sion of the entire Square, and which was
eomposed-according to the testimony of
our eyes and our mangnifying glass-of
one apple vendor, a "fying stationer,"
hawking "Thompson's Reporter" with the
failures omitted, the magnetic oil man, and
three listeners to his eIoquence. Having
successfully fought our way through these
formidable Instructions, we paused to take
breath on the steps of the Court House.
THE COURT ROOM.
The convention was over. The dele
gates had toiled and sweated through the
arduous task of setting up the pins to be
knocked down by the rolling ball of Re
publicanism in October, and now the priv
LEGGED few mixed democratically with the
unprivileged many to hear the eloquence
of the standard bearer. Anxious to get
the most reliable statistics, we mounted
bench and scanned the assemblage with
the assistance of our powerful magnifer.-
On duly noting down our observations and
working them algebraically, mathematical
ly, and by vulgar fractions, we arrived at
the conclusion that there were present
about