Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-06-18

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The Butternut- --Donahue. Vallan-
digham Conventional Regular
Quarrel Among the Brethren"
Prom the cadir itepublcanl
tofAbout severity five or eighty butternuts
mostly from Athens township, met in The
yard in front of the Public Buildings, OF
last Saturday, for the purpose of appoint
ing delegates to the State Convention, tc
be held in Columbus on the llth inst AT
ter the meeting was called 10 order a mo
tion was made to proceed and appoint del
legatcs. Phillip Donahue was not satisfied
with this notion, it was not "disbed up
TO suit him. He therefore made an amend.
ment to the motion that the delegates BE-
instructed to cast their votes for his brother
traitor Vallandigham for the nomination
for Governor. Don" made a very noisy
speech, urging upon his copperhead breth.
ren the necessity Of initiating him, their
worthy leader. in boliness He said that
VallandighaIn had proudly said that be had
never voted dollar or man for the war
!, to suppress tha rebellion, that sYaiisn6ig-
ham was a true exponent Of the principles
OF every Democrat, and he should be sup
ported by them, &c. Philip was frequent
ly greeted, during his speech, by q slight
grunt Of approval from different persons in
the crowd. a. Fl. -.
Mr.. Estep, not liking the idea of sup.
porting as bold man as Vallandigham, for
Governor Of Ohio, made speech opposing
the amendment. He said he did not think
the course pursued by Vallandigham was
approved OF by majority Of the Democra-
cy.. lie argued the necessity of standing by
the Government in the suppression of this
wicked rebellion. -.. ;, .. .....i I1I
Here was a terrible state of affairs-a
split-a regular Charleston Convention
Estep IN favor of1suppressing the rebellion
and DOnahue in favor of fsurrendering to the
rebels. During the excitement which pre-
vailed at this moment, Billy Patterson, mot
the Billy that was struck, but terribly shot
in the neck, arose and addressed the meet
ing as follows: II 60 in (hic) for the nomi-
thicl clnation Of Vallan( bic )digham, that he
was the man for the De De(hic)mockercy to
support. We must not be held down by
the lhlc) tyrant Linkun any longer" &C.
AS Billy was unable to keep his perpendic.
ularity any length OF. time, his speech was
not very long. By the time Billy was seat
ed, Don" again addressed the meeting,
he approved Of all that had been said by
brother Patterson, be thought that Billy
had knocked Mr.. Estep's speech into a
cooked hat" Donahuc said the delegates
must vote for 'Val." rr 20 r..
While Donahue was speaking the crowd
would raise partly up, (for they were most
all lying at full length upon the ground
copperhead style,) make slight nod at the
bold man" and fall back to their original
position. During Donahue's speech, he
made assertions about the army which were
not altogether correct. Lieut.. Saunders, a
lifelong Democrat, asked to be allowed to
correct him, but whenever the Lieut.. at
tempted to speak the crowd would raise
their snakish heads and offer him all kinds
Of insults. They did not liketo hear the
voice OF man who had been in the army,
dong an he cJnid agf6nst ricir 'Seose1ein
'brethren, consequently they hooted Lieut..
Saunders down; but, not however, until he
told them if that was Democracy he bade it
farewell After a great deal of talking
about the ''tyrant Lincoln, Gen. Burnside
and the Abolition war the motion was call
ed for and passed with but one or two dis
senting voices. H aH iH9
y Phillip looked very much pleased after
the passage of this motion. He was con.
WINGED that he was the leader of the rebels
in Harrison county. As soon as this mo.
tion was carried what few Union Democrats
there were in the crowd became disgusted
and withdrew to the outside of the yard,
not wanting to be classed with men who are
at heart traitors to their country. Dona-
hue was then called upon for some advice as
to the course they should pursue He
mounted Q store box and it was not long un.
til treason began to flow freely He told
them to talk treason whenever and wherev-
er they pleased and not to have any fears
for arbitrary arrests. He opposed the con-
script law and said if he was drafted he
would become rebellious; and great deal
more gas" which we do not deem neces
sary to bore the readers of the Republican
with by giving it to them.
Phillip talked until the reptiles on the
ground could not stand the pressure with
out something to drink; they began to raise
up and 20 in search of some of that bever-
age which made their Stumptown meeting
famous. 'Don." closed amid faint cheers
from the thirsty crowd. 7' 'F'I
! After having split among themselves,
insulting the flag of their country by ap.
proving Of the treason preached Yallandig-
ham and Donahue, disgracing decent Dem
ocrats and killing the grass in the Court
House yard the so-called Democratic Con-
vention adjourned. ,ms1 s.flle