Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-22
From the Dubuque Daily Times


Iowa, came off in this city on Saturday
last-a Dissertation &c Freedom gala day
1t was a huge fzzle. 1t had been blowed
in the Herald, posted up in immense red
hand bills, filled with lies, all over three
or four counties in this section. 1t was
to be grand gathering o! thousands of
peace Democrats
Well, the day came, and at l | o'clock
\ NJ, after long waiting for country
delegations which did not appear, pro-
cesslon was formed, cons listing of three
hundred and fifty four men Oh foot, and
nlnety-three lumber wagons, containing
an average of eight persons Ga liberal al
lowance.) making in all ten hundred and
ninety ght persons in the procession
And what procession it was. First came
huge band of four brass pieces and a
drum, playing ritz, rltu rituti ri tn all
the way up town with a laborious putting
worthy of less discord. The Marshals
had hard work OF it They rode along
the lines, hurriedly saying, spread out,
spread out, d-n it, spread out, and make
big show" And the men and teams did
spread out" Every now and then, at
signal from n Marshal one of the latter
would turn out from the procession, fly
up Tenth street und down Locust 30 Fifth
street, where it would again join the line,
to the great satisfaction of the driver, and
the JOY of the CopperI.eads on the side
walks, who stood counting the Wagons
The footmen were sorry sight mainly
composed Of those who never read a news
paper-if indeed a majority of them know
how-with here and there a prominent
Office seeker thrown III to give the thing
effect in the eyes Of the poor fellows
IL, IL
the country, and were as large set Of
men to draft from as any Provost Marshal
would wish to see.
Well. the Band arrived at jackson
Square at last, and then the Marshals rode
up and down the line telling the people
that the ching is over till two o'clock,
when the speechifying will commence in
the Square, at which the line Immediate
ly broke into thousand pieces, and there
was great rush for the whiskey stands
i the Park.
AT two o clock large crowd z thered
around the principal stand and common
ced crying for the advertised speakers
Cox Cox = "Voorhies VOORHEES, =
cried the unthinking humbugged ones.
who never dreamed that Cox and Foor-
HES had never heard of the Copperhe ld
gathering in Dubuque much less thought
of coming here. The music struck up,
but what could four tooters and Il drum do
towards silencing the demands of two
thousand people. The President arose
and told the audience to be quiet-a few
preliminaries were 10 be gone through
with, and the speaking would commence
He then asked if there was a preacher
present He wanted the thing opened with
PRAYER" Everybody commenced looking
about for preacher but not one auda-
ci2us enough to ask the blessing of heav-
en- upon such set of Gfod-forsaken poIiii
clans could be found.
But we have not much space TO enumer
ate in detail all the proceedings of the
meeting The Declaration of Indepen-
dence was read By Hutchins, who eX
planned to the audience that the words
all men are created free and equal didn
mean nigeers" A bill of rights was also
read-what it was we couldn't hear Th,
Judge Wilson told the people he was sor
rv to announce that Messrs Cox and Voor-
HES had not arrived. But he would in
troduce gentleman as eloquent as either
of them-Moses Strong. of Wisconsin,
'Who the HI Is Moses Strong?' loudly
asked peace man, Its all humbug -
But Moses arose and commenced his
speech, notwithstanding the disappoin-
ment and dissatisfaction of the crowd
He possesses a singular voice-a sort of
n cross between the croak of frog and
the bleat of dying calf Not half he
| said could be understood by the people be-
/ fore him. But every once in n while,
when good place for cheer would ar
rive, Gen. Jones, or Judge Lowell would
wave to the audience, and then such a
| yelling and bowling would 90 up as never
was heard on earth before Yankees
! never won n battle, cried he. Up went
/ the hand of Jones and out came Il veil -
I lee is marching on to Washington. and
/ old Abe il trembling in his boots" around
I goes Judge Lovelfs hat, and another veil
of delight frightened numerous babies
/ who began TO squall And thus for two
hours Moses gestured, and stamped. and
oroaked and lied, to the delight of Jones
/ and Lowell, who waved their hands for
I the ignorant crowd to put in their cheers
when the speaker would rest Once in a
while some audacIous customer would
/ give cheer on his own account. and in
/ stantlv dozen hands would stretch out
( from the stage with "Sh-sh-sh" which
j silenced the reckless scamp at once
/ Strong was followed by Ye Grand Bying-
I ton, the only one of the advertised speak
z CTS pEeSeHO iAi2tull IPOSen III INT 10
! much-he dosen commence to be as able
I a man rs Strong
/ In the evening Mahoney, Jones, Hodg-
/ don and Hutchins spoke. Mahoney 10 a
/ weak, dry sort Of n speaker, and during
! his speech large numbers left the ground
/ Jones and Hodgdon, neither of them. new
er did nor never will make a speech worth
listening TO five minutes-it ism in them.
and what isn't in man never can come
out ofhIm,-consequently when Hntchin s
turn came, although he Is a good voiced
vehement sort of talker, he had a mighty
small number to address; nevertheless he
went at 1t and after abusing and ridicul-
ing IN the worst manner the wounded
'oticers who go about on the streets with
sc1ds what are they p on their should
ers. receiving Government money which
W are obliged To give them through our
toll and sweat, he sat down and the small
crowd departed for their homes.
Thus ended the big Copperhead fzzle
sss~ We learn that Gen. Grant has is
sued an order, in view of the fact that the
rebels foully assasSinated negro troops
after the battle at Millikins Bend that
retaliatory measures viii be adopted to-
wards rebel soldiers for nva-v instance ~