Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-10-10
G1AND ABOLITION = ass MEE ilN0
AT BLUE, GRASS!!! IAN
Hubbel, Heath, and Shorey!!!
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ,

Bile, though aot large, audience-soms hun
drsd psrsons or more. We didn't .csu i 2
large meeting. but it was Is large as could
have been expected On sceeunt Of The bid NO.
tice given.
The Republican csndidates. trembling in
their boots at the result Of spreading a little
Democratic truth before the people. ;Noearsd
the services of two Of their "supes.' and
cent them down there IN separate ssgrisges,
fdrnished them with pencil and Pc. er, buggy
and beer money, for, ths purpose Of taking
no.es of Thsyers and Parkers speeches.
These note. they obtained. and home they
came ID great glee-representsd to the Re.
publican Central Committee that if they could
be furnished with teamsto 60 dowu there
sgain, and speak at the Republican meeting
tfat ma been Advertised for Wednesday night.
that their presence would no. only draw the
nsnltttude, Int that il could play smash" With
all that the Democrats had done the SatuI day
previous. Upon this representa!ion It was
deeded to let them hay sAtsam and 60 again
They started out on Wednesday evening"
10 order to produce some additional effect, the
distinguished Capt. Heath wAs invited to taks
a seat with them, and off they went-lIubbeli
chief Of the staff Heath ext, then Shorey to
bring up the rear. Fit bodyto fis head-bom.
ba.t, buttons and buncombe
Arriving at Blue Grass, the doors Of the
church were thrown open, aud the crowd
rushed In and filled the seats-thirty mine Of
them by actual count : mea, women. Re; ubli-
cAns, and children--jast Thirteen hearers for
each speaker. A larger number would have
been too many for the material sent. ss.s4
Hubbsll fret look the stand-the pulpit .
George J.. in pulpit!-in apulpit We can't
do it; words are OF no earthly use-the strong.
est of them are weaker than dish-water-we
give it up.
Well. he opsnsd-not the bibls-that v ould
have been out of order-but his speech. and
upfolded his notes. He charged around a
while in bis phrsnzied style quoted notes
and producel q long row OF figures, sho wing
how many free negroes there were in the
slave Stasss in l85O-before personal liberty
bills had been passed, and while the negro
question was comparatively quiet--prodrced
them to show that the Presidents proclamation
setting slaves free, would not bring them into
the Northern Slates-wouldnt bring the n even
though the Covers ment pays their passage.
and Aboli.iooists 80 down to bring them up.
That was his best paint. 1t was about his on
~ argument, except the one to prove that all
who do not endorse the proclamation Of the
President are traitors-all who don't vote the
abolition ticket at the coming election are &c.
ceesionlsts
Ha,ias thus exhausted his stock In trade
he subsidsd, greatly out Of breath, and brass
buttons were in demand for the second heat.
"Who is that dirty dog who signs his name
G. T.. H. who writes such accursed lies in the
Gassite about General Jones and me-" was the
question asked by Captain Heath, In letter
to q prominent Democrat in this city. two
years sgo. The INTERCEPTED party responded
that tbs initial stood for George Z. HuboeIi.
Mr.. Hubbsll having taken HE seat Cap
tain Heath ascended the pulpit steps, faced
the "thi,teen' who had come to hear him
pulled out his notes and commenced his strsg.
Cling, brainless speech. He told them that he
was no party man that he had been down ip
Missouri year, had seen but -FOUR Iowa papers
in that time; that he admired the Presidents
proclamation; that he didn't know the names
Of any of the candidates running in athis
campaign; that he. hated party; had been
doMn Ia Missouri year considered the proc
lamation Of tue President a great thing-is
fact asbig thing that thosssw who didn't en-
dorse it were traitors that he had spent year
10 Missouri; that slave were running away; that
U nion men would not vote for denocra. who
ldn think as he thought aboat the proclama-
tioa that he was NO party MAJ; that things differ
from what they were when things were other
wise than they are now that he considered
the proclamation huge thing that niggers
would not come north that all loyal demo-
had been down in Missouri a ear and the vo-
ling should be doneaon the republican ticket
Having said this gracefully apd ia.ids Of
good clothes. he closed by the interesting. slo-
qaent and entertaining psroration Of setting
down. Nn-
Shorey advanced TO greet his "thirteen.'
He wen. off handsomely until the horses got
to kicking outside, when the crowd ~ broke,
snd Shorey forgot bis little speech in the me-
Ice lost his balance, and went straggling
about picking up precarions. out-of-dats sub
jects here and there; stumbled about in a per-
fectly organized bswilderment for score of
long. tedious minutes, AID finally, stumbled
through Che last IS ntence an cough relief up
On the friendly bottom Of neighboring chair
What q spectacle genius flashed in the pan !!
Fizzle, shall We callit2 1t don't convey the
ueaaing BY consio oerable !; but It is the best
We can do. The meeting anountsd to nothing
more. Thus ended the mighty effort to get
up . republican meeting in Blue Grass. Our
democratic meeting beat It three to one. and
it wasn't much of meeting either. The p o.
pie OF Blue Grass know wheat from chat. elo-
qusuce from bluster, brains from buttons. and
common sense frem bancombs
Fiz il iziz ziz-izzlsl 81
The STATE FAIR A Success. The
receipts Of the State Fair were about $4,000.
The amount Of premiume about $2,SOO.a The
expenses about 200. and the balance In the
treasury will be nesriy or quite 81, ,0O0.. aaes
Phoenix Insurance Company Of Hart
ford assets, Lat May, 1862. $527 200 % 5 lis.
oilities. s2l 500. HEsRy B. HosynAs. Ag't. 4
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