The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-07-30
"EREE PRESS" IN LANCASTER.

There was great gathering of But
ternuts at Lancaster on last Friday
They came principally in wagons, the
genuine Ephriam Graybacks. We
are unable to state how many miles
long the procession was, and how many
hundred thousand Ephriams were
present--wc leave that to the EagIe.
AS showing the dninuS Of the meeting,
we shall only state that many were
drunk, very many and very drunk
that scores Of fights occurred, that
some shouted "hurrah for jeff and
others that Morgan was better than
Abe Linkum " that they pattcd their
left coat pockets 10 indicate where they
carried revolvers; that one rushed at
a lady who stood in her own yard and
who said "Brough, " and that in pass
ing the house of Mr.. Mclean, north of
town, a wagon load dismounted and
stoned the house because Mr. McLain
said "Hurrah for Brough."
But the most characteristic act Of the
meeting was the forcible election Of
" Mack" the correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Commercial, from the
grounds. They are blatant for free
speech and free press-on one side,
They want freedom to oppose the Gov
ornment, to sympathize with rebellion.
to incitc mobs, and to suppress free
dom in everything outside Of their
party. A Governor of one Of the first
colonies settled in New England, said
that "they had come over to en-
10y liberty Of conscience, and they
would not be interfcred with, and SC
they hung or banished those whose
religious opinions differed from THEN
own SO the Coppcrheads want free
press and they will not be intcrlered
=, with, but will mob Union journals and
Union reporters.
The correspondent Of the CONNER
cial, after arriving upon the grounds
saw crowd together dclberating up
on his expulsion. He saw one ofthen
shake club and heard him swea
that he would "report him over th
head with that Hcassurcd us that lh
editor of the Eagle and certain sol
q Of his father n young candidate 10
| the office Of Clerk Of the Court, wcr
in the group, Whether they advise
! in favor Of his expulsion is unknown
but it would seem not; for in the even
ing the editor of the Eagle called upo
I him to assure him that the proceed
c ings against him were unauthorized,
A V&'y likely they advised it, under
severe attack of Mr., Cathcart's "mcr
tai depression and regretted it af)c
recovering to some extent A gan
y soon gathered around the corrcspor
= dent, seized his book, inkstand an
o gold pen, and then laid hands upo
him and forcibly expelled him from tn
=, grounds On the way out, some on
asked, ais he a Vallandigham man
mo" said one Of the gang he's a
8 Abolition rcporter---let's hang the d
= Aboltionist, The rullian who fir
@ spoke and who first laid hands upo
Mack " was big rcd-hcod hishmaI
" Mack ~ did not ascertain his nam
bat it is no difficult matter to gue'
i who il was. A pretty state Of thing
it when a gang of rutIlans, led by a b
, Irish Butternut bully, and promptC
d by cowardIy politicians, is allowed
", seize and hustle o cultivated and +
spectacle journalist from a pubtjc NEE
ing of freemen.
" Our readers need no comment {
this. Facts are stubborn and suggC
- tive things These Butternuts
Hate tho light because their deeda are dark"
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