Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-10-08
The Abolition Meeting.

drumming and an outlay of probably
81 900, came off Tuesday. So far a,
display was concerned their meeting wa,
q grand success; but in point of number,
in attendance il was miserable failure
Their procession, including bands
contained one hundred and eight wagon,
and carriages. The number of person,
in the procession, including men, won
en- and children, was one thousand anC
eleven. This count included the mill
tary OF Millersburg and Of Summit coun
ty. The citizens who came on the cars
were not included. The whole number
of aboltionists, men, women and chill.
dren at the meeting might reach three
thousand. OF men present, consid.
erable majority were Democrats.
The abolitionists of this place. and OF
Holmes county, with many exceptions,
behaved themselves about as well as
could reasonably have been expected
Those imported from Ooshocton, Wayne
and Summit counties, most OF them
showed disposition to make disturb.
ance.
The Summit county stay at. home sol
ders came with fixed bayone:s. The
abolitionists threatened these feather-bed
patriots would "clcan out the Mllers-
burg Copperheads." The TACT of bring.
| ing guns with fixed bayoncts to a politi.
cal meeting was evidently designed tc
provoke difficulty. 1t was an outrag,
80 glaring that no apology can be Offered
for it. In addition to this it was public
ly proclaimed on the streets that they
had twenty rounds of cartridges, and
that they intended to charge on the
Democrats.
These threats, and the most brutal and
insulting language used to unoffendine
Democratic men and ladies were quietly
borne until about noon, when he Dem.
ocrats concluded they had been trampled
upon about long enough. An insult
from an abolitionist produced n blow
from Democrat. The result was tha
dozen or more abolish went home will
sore heads and Llack eyes. No Demo
crat bat one was hurt any, and he wa
but slightly injured.
} A pumber Of abolish women trie
pulling badges from Democratic women
| and IN every instance the abolish wome
got the worst of it. These fights, i
which no one was seriously hurt, woul
number twelve or fifteen.
Miss Ella Taneyhill, whose two broth
ers are in the army, and have been sine
the war commenced, was assaied, insul
ted and abused by some twenty of tn,
cowardly Akron stay atbomo soldiers
They threatened her with their bayonets
and tore her clothes, and while they helc
their bayonets within few inches of he
breast, she slapped one of them in the
mouth and denounced him as a coward
She stood before them. just as her brave
brothers have done through the twenty
bloody battles in which they have been
engaged with Southern traitors, and told
tho cowardly and ill.mannerly whelp,
just what she thought of them. Thi
occurred at the speaking, where ther,
wero but lew Democrats
Two Of the Akron scoundrels ran on,
of the most respectable ladies of thi
town with bayonets, yelling kill tn,
d-n b-h. The only provocation wa
wearing Democratic badge.
A gang OF them made an attack OF
Miss Martha French with their bayonets
They made an attack on Miss Virginis
Justice. They also attacked Mrs. Johr
Rice asd several other ladies', There
was not the slightest provocation given
in any instance. Another gang of them
attacked Mrs. Forbs, who has sent two
! n Of ,pho la.
been brought home dead, and punched
her with their bayonets and tore he
clothes. This was also without provo
cation. Tho cowardly abolition stay at
home volunteers can boast of these in
suits upon these unohendng and unpro
tected females They were careful t
commit these outrages when Democrat
were not present. 1t will be remem Der
ed that all this took place at the speak
ing. where there were but very few Dem
ocrats the mass Of them being up il
town.
Several of these patriotic stay. at
home feather bed volunteers. by some
mistake, attacked Samuel Burden, on,
of their own party, and cut him up con
siderably with their bayonets. Ate
they had abused Burden, Bill Bray cam,
along and told them to let him alone, h,
was republican.
The long and the short of the Who'll,
matter is that the abolitionists commen
ced every quarrel that took place, ant
got worsted in every contest, except will
some ladies'. They attempted to bull,
over the Democracy and iide them down
and when the Democrats concluded the,
had some rights, and some muscle t,
defend those rights, and after fey
striking illustrations in that behalf, tn
abolitionists sneaked ont of town lik
. whipped dogs. amid voci(erous cheering
! for Vallandigham and Liberty.
Speeches were made by Drough an,
Rufus p. Spalding, 1t is tho SAM
Spalding who, at tho Peeled stick Con
vention held in Cleveland in 1859, said
"1n tho alternative of continuation o.
slavery, or dissolution of the Union
! am for dissolution, and | care not how
quick it comes"
Brough swore one half of the tim,
and lied the other half.
The meeting came far short of payin,
tho aboitionists, but it was glorious 70
tho Dem ocracy, and will add many /,
tho Democratic ma aority on Tuesda
, next.
The Mob Party.