Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-09
A Good TIme In Ola Wnrne.

uuNu AAAAo IN OAu NAyues
WEsrFisLD, Medina Co., Oct. 2, 60.
EDrToRs or THE LEAnER DID you ever
have a good time Living as you do in
city, where people are said to keep them
selves on their good behavior, and act prop
erly, We country folks often think Of you,
and fear that poor creatures as you are you
sometimes lose real enjoyment in the effort
to ''pressrve decorum, 'act with propriety,n
&c, for fear Of being thought rude. Well,
we, way out here twenty or thirty miles
from Rail Road, have had a real good time,
and as It IS too good to keep We want to tell
you about it, for we do like city folks, at the
same time we feel sorry for them on account
of some of their stuck up notions.
You see Old Abe's friends hada meeting at
Bridgeport, over in old Wayne the other day,
and we ali went; you must know that Old
Abe's friends out here, means everybody
that Is anybody. | don't believe after cleo
ton there will be Douglasites enough left to
tell the sad tale, as story writers say. Well,
when we got there we found the town so full
Of people that they kept kind of bulging out
all round the edges and the roads were all
full as far as we could see in every direction.
After while the Marshal told the people to
90 up to the big woods where he hoped there
would be room enough to stir without step
ping on somebody's toes so off we all start
ed, aud guess most Of them got there, for
the big woods we're most as full as the town.
Now if you had room enough in your paper,
Mr. Editor would try and tell you about
the wagons trimmed with evergreens so big
that they looked like tamarack swamp, and
all jammed full of Old Abe's girls dressed in
white, and all decked off with wreaths Ct
flowers till they looked sweet enough % make
an honest Douglas chap turn his coat in a
minute There was one, they said twas
from Westfeld, that they called Old Abes
Buggy, and don't know but it was, for it
was labelled on the dash board, which was an
oak plank twelve feet long and three feet
wide, in great big letters ''Old Abes Buggy
and whip was in the socket, the one they
said he used to drive breaking up team
with on the Illinois prairies, which they are
keeping for him to drive old Buck, and
Secretary Floyd, and all other thieves away
from the peoples money in Washington
That buggy of Abrams didn't have any
bushes on it for it was so big l s'pose they
cOuld't find enough 10 cover il, and that was
full of girls, pretty girls too-the object in
having the girls 60 to these meetings is, you
know most girls naturally like to have beaux,
and can tell you there aih't girl in these
parts that would let Donglas chap go home
with her from meeting on moonlight night.
suppose you had great many folks in
Cleveland o. the 10th Of September; so you
have seen big crowd, and Iwon't enlarge
on our numbers, but there was as one old
lady said, "a dreadful many folks and an
other said if they all voted for Lincoln shs
k7selO be would be elected.
The Bridgeport 70 ks had fixed up stand
for the speakers, and the President of the
day called multitude to order and introduced
Professor James Monroe of 0berlin. Mr.
Monroe made one Of his best speeches. He
talked about the Homestead bill, the one
you know that was in the Senate last winter
when Nj. Douglas had such a sudden attack
of-som.thing. l 1on't remember what the
telegraph called it, but it was something bad,
for he couldn be in his place to vote on it.
As you have heard Mr.. Monroe, l won't
try to tell you all he said but when be told
about how our poor young fellows who have
gone out westand squatted on quarter section
and built cabin, cleared of little corn field,
and fought the bears and Indians had the
ague and almost everything else, just as our
fathers and grandfathers did here fifty years
ago; and how, after having made little
home in spite of all their bad luck, Uncle
Sam turns them of, because, perhaps, they
can't pay the last dollar by a certain day,
and the speculatOr finally gets the poor fell
lows home that he has worked so hard 10
pay for, and be is compelled to 20 farther
west and try again the toll, suffering and pri-
vations of our Western wilderness; and how
Old Abe and the Republicans believed in
giving q. .farm to every man who would settle,
and live, and make a home on our western
territories, and somehow he showed that
Uncle Sam wouldn't be any poorer for it
either.
The people were as still as a church while
be spoke, except when some Of them couldn t
keep still any longer-they would say "thats
right and some Democrats said, ''If that's
Republican doctrine, I'm a Republican. -
Now that's Just the way-if they'll only go
and hear such men as Mr.. Monroe tell the
truth about how things are going on, they
can't help being Republicans.
Then Mr.. Orr, of Wooster, told in a few
words all there was of Popular Sovereignty,
that it was a trick, and poor trick too
that the people now-a-days somehow begin
to think its Unpopular Sovereignty, and, be-
sides, don't you believe it was all pictured
out, right there before US. There he was,
little Dug, squatted on a great big mud tur-
tie, his coat tails clear down to the ground,
and that mud turtle on 2:4O gait up Salt
River, and one very nice young lady said lit
looked so prophetic, indeed it did,
After the speaking, we all went to big
meadow, where the Wayne county ladies had
table set, which reached on two sides of the
field, and all who wished were served with
refreshments. In the evening" after an ex-
cellent speech from Hon H. G. Blake,
beautiful banner was presented by the ladies
of Bridgeport to the largest organized COM
pany of Wide Awskes, which was awarded
by the committee having it in charge to Ne
dina, they numbering 35s. There were sew
eral other companies OF Wide Awakes, the
number on parade bearing lamps being estl-
mated at one thousand.
Now, Mr. Editor, we did have good time;
the men were happy, the women were hap
py, Uncle Abes boys and girls were happy,
everybody was happy, and laughed, and
shouted and sung songs, and next November
we expect that one tremendous shout wlllgo
up from this nation from centre to cirCum-
ference, which will be made happy on ac-
count Of Honest Old Abe being elected Pres
ident
Yours for Honest Old Abe forever