The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-06-30
LETTER FROM CLEVELAND.
CLEVELAND, O., June, 1861

CLEVELAND, O., June, 1860
DEAR ANGLO Several weeks, and / be-
lieye even months, have elapsed since suit
able material out of which to manufacture
a Cleveland letter, has presented itself to
your correspondent. Many things have
transpired here, no doubt, in the last few
weeks, which would have interested your
readers, but they have not come under my
notice, as much of my time has been lately
spent in other parts of the State.
| have just returned from the central
part of the State, where have witnessed
several Lincoln demonstrations, the most
important and remarkable of which was a
grand capital ratification meeting held in
Capital square, in the city of Columbus.
OF this meeting propose to say single
word. The evening on which the meeting
was held was one of the most supurb beau
ty, magnifcance, and grandeur. The Or
namental trees and shrubberry with which
the city is abundantly supplied, as if in
harmony with the ever-moving crowd,
waved their spring plumage in the gentle
vesper breeze, while the maSsivs walls,
stately pillars, and majestic dome of our
State edifce, as if conscious that their po-
litical stains was fixed and eternal, stood
in sullen silence, feeling no interest in the
political storms which rage around them
The almost full moon, as she walked the
" azure pavement of heaven" clothed
in her gorgeous vesture of mellow light,
rendered family, but sublimoly and low
ingly visible, terrestrial objects. Her re-
fected light failed TO show the tints and
indentations in the gray chiselled lime
stone out of which our Capitol is erected;
and SO converted walls, columns, terraces
and steps of the massy building into the
most beautifully polished white marble
The new Buckeye Capitol contemplated
in the moonshine is grand beyond descrip-
ton, but it will not bear the scrutinizing
rays of the god Of day
The sun had but just set himself to rest
behind the western horizon, and the ling
ering rays Of departing day still tinged'
with scarlet the occidental cloud, when
bonfres, reaching far more than a mile
along the principal street, were lighted up
at every corner Musical bands paraded
the streets, playing those old national airs
which, in days of yore, called patriots to
the performance Of deeds of noble dar-
ing" At eight o'clock the square and the
neighboring streets were in the greatest
commotion. In one place prepared fire
works were cutting ali kinds of antics,
blazing, kissing, whirling, and ever and
anon sending flaming rockets far skyward
in upper air. In another burning balls
were being thrown by hundreds of men
and boys wild with enthusiasm. Shouts
and huzzas, unmeaning and nonsensical,
filled the air. The cannon poured forth
And it may truly be said that all was
"noise and confusion"
At half-past eight Gov. Denison was
called to the chair. He came forward,
thanked the crowd for the honor, and made
miserably poor effort at political har-
rangue, of half hours length. He SEEM
ed to be very much afraid of saying some
thing, and so succeeded admirably in say
ing nothing His speech was neither
anti-slavery or pro-slavery, and manifested
great learfulness of being either. l great
ly pity Republicanism in Central Ohio.
They occupy, geographically, the dividing
line between the anti-slavery portion of the
State on the north, and the pro-slavery
portion on the south, and SO they must
pray good Lord and good Devil, because
they are sure TO fall in the hands of both.
SO the Governors speech (as Republican
speeches in that region generally are) was
dish OF conservatism, highly seasoned
with pro-slavery spices, and served with
very palatable sauce, composed of milk and
qcater
A Mr.. Warner, a district delegate to the
Chicago Convention, was then called on
to make his official report, which he at
tempted. He had been elected at the die
tation of ex-Gov. S. P. Chase, for his es-
pecial benefit, Although instructed to 90
for Mr., Chase as Ohios first choice, the
delegate had deserted him on the second
ballot, and this conduct he was called up
on to explain. The poor fellow Iabored