Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-09-12

dress his fellow-citizens upon the issues OF the
day, and Cop ,erbeadism as exhibited at The
late meeting in this place. The time to be
named hereafter.
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DEMOCRATIC MEETING The call to Demo
Gratis, Conservatives, and Union men of this
county, brought out on Saturday last some 900
or 400 of the faithful, and resulted in quite O
herce and enthusiastic meeting. The stand was
erected on the green 10 the rear of the town
hall, and proiusely decorated with flags borrow.
ed of the Union men about town, the Demo.
Gratis being rather poorly provided with, the
article, no one Of them, as we are told ENJOYING
The possessing of one Towards noon the gath
erlng began, and our next door neighbor little
Saybrook, distinguished for its Coppcrbeadism,
drew up in quite formidable procession, the
band consisting of base and tenor drum,
but without the unnecessary appendage OF fife.
The magnificent sonorousness produced would
have struck Chinese ear with touch of the
sublime and terrible. A diminutve piece OF
ordinance completed the conception. The
gathered faithful repaired in all their display
to the depot where Messrs. Kenny and Bartly
were received and escorted to their quarters,
At about 2 P. M. the Mass Meeting assem-
bled about the stand, aud our venerable but
somewhat intermDable old friend, r. w. Girls.
wold' was called to the chair, and prepared the
way for the heavier metal in sort of prelimiu.
mary skirmishing speech, winding up with the
introduction of the junior speaker, Mr. Kenney,
who, unfortunately for the gallant captain, is
said to be brother, aud unfortunately for tho
reputation of Ashtabula he asserted that he
once lived here and enjoyed the advantages OF
Sunday School Scholarship. Judging from
his manners, the evidence Of attainment, and his
perversion OF truth, Sunday School instruction.
as usually impaired without the berchen accom-.
paninlent, was poorly calculated to reach his
case. He came up here from Ashland and
though we know nothing OF his surroundings
we judged that he might be an unfedged bar
rster, deeply sensible Of his own fippancy and
smartness and impressed with the Importance OF
oratorical cultivation. His purcocity iu this
direction seemed to look with contempt upon
the mere drudgery Of mastering some of the
commonest facts ofevery day history. lie ex
haused himself and drew rather seriously ever
upon the endurance Of bis admiring audience il
two hours speech, remarkable for its rambling
iucoherence, and abuse of everything but Val.
landgham Copperheadism, and the soldiers
whose syot otes ,,Lerdid not wish TO discard. The
most heinous of all offenders, and those upon
whom the vial OF his wrath were poured with
the greatest ferceness, we're our poor old friend
| Giddngs, and Senator Wade. The ferceness
OF the dehcuc:ations Of the former, was only
equal I'd by his scorching facetiousress. This
| was appreciated, we are free to admit, by the
audiehre, to good extent, but slightly however,
compared to the estimate put upon it by the
speaker himself. I" Abolition Sneaks' were also
badly handled, and the REV Rascals," who
signed the document to the President The
Niger War" too. was bad institution, and
the President who had exiled his candidate for
goyernor--pot because he had done any wrong,
but because there was danger Of twas a
poor cuss" His aptness in the use of -epi-
thets, gave considerable poipt to the harrangue,
and made it quite -refshable. Tax COLLECTORS,
at S4! aday, and Greenbacks, signed by Secre-
tary Chaseb were also mathematical with ter.
ribe severity. lie at length wore himself out
and vas fairly compelled to foreg the pleasure
of listening to his own sweet voice. and admir-.
ing the elocutiop and purity of uiction which
Tell from his expressive lips Before he closed,
however, hisire got the better of bin, and he
called upon his friends to stop the mouth of
poor old disabled soldier, whom he had IRE.
viously requested might be left for hin to take
care of. The poor fellow was perhaps, little
by the head, and said more than decorum would
allow, but to knock him down and kick him
when dowp, as was testified to, by several De-
mocrats, was hardly allowable on any other
ground than his having been engaged in this
Niger w arr IIOH9I1 7 $50
When the young man subsided, Judge Bart,
ly, with the dignity Of Judges reputation to
sustain, and with ripper years, but with painful
paucty of ideas, and misnancyism sort of arti
culation, congratulated his hearers upon the
opporehunity Of visiting Aslabua, aud me citing
"'1n NO 'SuSAoUiV luo pTe6IucDJ OF llc
day, whom be knew when he was an old Whig,
but they were now happily upon the same plat.
form of Vallandigham Democracy. lie in
weighed against The President and the war, but
complimented the soldiers, and showed that
Vallaudigham had been martyr, but failed to
show single merit in him for which he should
be sustained at the polls. His, first point was
that in which the philosopher, IN making an OBJ
servation through goose quill, had discovered
a little niger dangling at the other end, which
brought down. the House and the tobacco Juice
at the same time. If the telescope instrument,
We thought could have7besn reversed with the
ordinary effect of the reversal of such instru-
ments. and an observation taken OF the mental
calibre of Tthe speaker, the picture Of
the lilpution group might have been
valuable as a remedy for the blue
devils. Just at this juncture, q leading
democrat from Saybrook, proposed three
l. a