Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-08-27

AN EXCURSION TRAIN FILLED WITH WOMEN
AND CHILDREN RIDDLED WITH STONES
BECAUSE SOME OF THEM cHEERED FOR
vALLANDIGHAM-sEvE LADIES sE-
vERELY INJURED.
PERRYsBURe, o., Aug. Is.
Editor ,Stotesman:- Republican
meeting at this place distinguished itsell
by another of those gross outrages which
have rendered this Abolition region SO
detestable to the people of the State
This day (Aug. Is, being one of the
Catholic holidays, large number of the
people of that denomination, consisting
principally of women and children, and
accompanied by a few men from Toledo,
visited Perrysburg for the purpose of
having a picnic at Fort Megs. 1t hap
pened that a Republican Mass Meeting
was being held there for the purpose of
hearing Mr.. Anderson and other Aboli-
tion speakers. Several persons in at
tendance upon the meeting, after listening
to the speeches denouncing Democrats as
traitors. and loaded them with the foul
est epithets, went brawling through the
town daring and defying nybody to say
word in favor of Vallandigham, and
in fact carrying into effect the tyranncal
policy advocated by their leaders. En-.
countering the Toledo people (none OF
whom attended or went near the meeting !,
the natural result followed, and several
were knocked down upon both sides, but
the victory as we'll as the right remained
with the Democrats, who repulsed theil
assaiants very decidedly, although not
one quarter their equal in numbers. -
Long after the quarrel had ended, the
hour for the return of the excursion train
having arrived, the excursionists took
their places in the cars. AS before stated
the larger portion of the company were
school children and woman. Several
hundred of the Abolitionists gathered
around the train and again dared anybody
to cheer fer Vallandigham. Some one
having done SO, the train was instantly
riddled with showers of stones, bricks,
blocks of wood, and whatever the fanat-
les could lay their hands upon. The
windows of the cars were shivered, and
it is said that many of the women ant
children were cut, knocked down, anC
severely injured. The dastardly act wa
cheered by men calling themselves res
pectable members of churches and pro
fesseG Christians. Considerable damag
was also done by the mob to building
belonging to Democratic citizens of thi
place, who had taken no part in the diff
Guilty. In striking contrast to this tn
vast and most enthusiastic meeting o
Democrats, who assembled to hea
Messrs. Pugh, Cox and Green las
Thursday, permitted the utmost freedom
of discussion to the large number of thei
political opponents present. No objec
tion was made to their cheering f, T. Brongl
whenever they pleased in any part of tn
town. There was no fighting, no disor
der, no abusive treatment OF anybody
The wliter of this is witness to tn
fact that the Republicans that day woul,
cheer for Brough and then tell the Demo
Gratis who were shouting for Vallandig
ham that anybody who hurrahed for Val
landigham here next Saturday Ito day
would get his head broken. And yet no
one of the thousands of Democrats pres
ent attempted to resent or do moro tha
laugh at their threats. They were treate
respectfully, kindly, cordially.
How long the Democracy will submi
to villification, threats, abuse and out
rage, is problem which, il forced to
solution by our opponents, may perhap
astonish and appall them in its result