Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-24
Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette
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Fight.
Correspondents of the Cincinnati Gazette
CAMBRIDGE CRY, IHD., Nov. II.
AS the Engursr will. .:doubtless, furnish a
flaming report of the Vallaudigham demon.
stration at this place on Saturday last,
propose to trindicate tue truth of history
by giving your readers something like a
faint idea Of the reality. A full descrip-
tion is impossible, for the affair itself beg
CARED descriptions and ret the mere outline
is sufficiently hideOus TO seem incredible
to any one who WAS not here to see.
Treason, blasphemy and obsceuity still
| seem to linger in the tainted air, while the
perfumes of bad whisky are only washed
out by the refreshing rain of Inst night.
The entire affair, from first to last, was
one wild, drunken, beastly revel, the like
of which this town never Witnessed before,
aud prays God it never may again, Before
sunrise in the morning, some dozen of the
Yahoos had collected in front of the saloons
in the most public part of the town, aud
were amusing themselves by dancing on top
of the pump, insulting the passers.by with
free and easy remarks, attempting to drown
the noise of MERGERS steam whistle by a
clever imitation, yelling, swearing, and
making themselves Duisances generally
By twelve o'clock, the crowd numbered,
possibly, two thousand; that being the es-
innate made by gentlemen who have been
with the army, and who have, therefore,
some experience in estimating crowds. In
this number were included few respecta- :
BILE citizens, and a large proportion of the
lowest conceivable specimens of humanity.
Nearly one half of the crowd seemed to be
composed of young gentlemen, from four
nj ypif eli ha l1
pinned about their shoulders, who were
surpassed By none in drunkenness and vul-
garity; and of the ladies, not a few were
young girls who did not consider il immod
est 10 boast, uoisily, and in large crowds of
men, that "they were Vallandighamers." -
Your readers will infer from this that one
of the speakers was not so far out of the
way in giving the caution, "if the niggers
are freed, mothers, for Gods sake, take
care of your daughters ~
The order of exercises was, first, pro-
cessiOn about half mile in length. com.
posed of precisely siXty-six wagons and car
riages, and numbering between seven and
eight hundred mot souls butt bodies. At
the head of these, rode the apostle of "the
great hereafter" George II. PendIeton, OF
your city, I. A. Hendricks of this State, and
| a few of tho small potato ButtRrnuts of this
vicinity. By the way ,Butternuts were free
ly and boastfully displayed throughout the
| day, and the common aud most Affection
atc style of salulation was slap on the
shoulder, and the noisy exclamation, allow
are you, you Cd d-d old Butternut"-
In the procession were borne a large num-
ber of flags, but one of which was tue gen
uine American colors; the others varying
in the number of their stripes. from FIVE to
eight, and in color, through all the varie-
ties of the rainbow. And the stars mud
stripes-horror of horrors Ion most oi
them numbering above sixteen, none oi
them amounting to thirtY-four.
After the procession came the speaking
-of which more hereafter. While it was
going on, a large proportion Of the crowd
remained in and about the saloons, oil
which we have six. In one of these Ave
men were constantly employed in dealing
out stimulants; in others from two to four
/ am confident that do not exaggerate
when say that fully one-half of the male
bipeds in attendance on that day were
drunk; not less than twenty were dead
drunk, lying along the streets. One of our
lciiizens informs me that he helped 10 carry
three of them to n shelter after night
One could 20 along the sidewalks Aud
meet with crowds of fifty, in which there
was not one sober man. Throughout the
day they strolled along the streets, swear
ing and Notwithstanding for jeff
Davis with bottles in their hands-tLrust-
ing themselves into private houses, (mista-
king them, for saloOns,) and Insulting the
inmates by vulgar and reasonable talk
! Seeing ladies standing at doors and win
dows, they would yell out, "hurrah for the
Bstternuts;" and no reply being made, they
would shout, "hurrah for the id Abo-
litionists !" coupled with other obscenity.
About 4 P. Al. the speaking for the day
was concluded, and the whole unclean
herd assembled on the canal bridge and
the squares adjoining, when the perform
Rnces Of the day eliminated in general
! free fight. There had been skirmishing-
firing between pickets, as it Were-through-
out the day, but here was general en-
gagement. Not one man in four was So
ber, or refrained from, at some time OF
other, boasting Of his ability to whip some.
body. One enthusiastic Democrat, cursinp
the HAbolttionists," sWore he "could vhiI
Christ or any other Cd d-d man.
"Abolitionist," by the way, was the only
name by which Union men were designated
that day, either by.speakers or individuals
have spoken of the fights. Twenty il
certainly low estimate of their number
and the number Of broken and bloody
heads was not less than one dozen
With, perhaps, one exception, the fights
were among Butternuts. That exceptior
was in the case of a soldier who fought on
being an called Abolitfonist. A specia
spite seemed to be entertained agains
men wearing soldiers clothes. The broker
heads were generally made by bludgeon
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