The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-10-12
GRAND MASS CONVENTION
AT ASHLAND.
OF FREEMEN'
- Ir COUJrCIL!
THE -WHANGDooDIES MOURN
AND SEEK EREIR HOLES!
Terrible Exposure Of the Iniquities
of the Administration.

Ed. -Lr NHHE rHrnNIL SO.
Pursuant to . call previously made, the
Democracy and Union-loving people OF
| Ashland county met in Nass Convention
at Ashland, on Saturday, the 9Th inst;
and although it showed and rained all a
ye. the people were not deferred from
turning out from all directions. The
meeting was the largest held in the county
since the campaign opened. The morn
ing opened with a snow storm which con-
tinued at intervals during most of the
day. Ten o'clock came and but few
could be seen on our streets, except little
knots of Abolition croakers whose faces
appeared to brighter, with the prospects
of a failure of the "unterriied' to turn
out on accouBt of the weather. Eleven
o'clock came and with it a gloom of terri
BILE dependency could be seen coming
over the withered looking c~ountenances
of the croakers. The unterrifed began
to pour in from all directions. They
came on foot, on horseback, and in wag
MS. BY twelve o'clock the town was
crowded and the croakers had vanished
into their holes-taking the holes after
them. The professions were grand to De-
hold. The people were highly treated to
good music by the Hayesville and Je-
- -
bonneville Brass Bands, during the day
The Martial music was as good as we have
ever heard.
The day being SO stormy, it was i'm
possible TO hold the meeting out of doors,
and as many as could get in, went to the
Court House and Town Hall, where they
were, addressed respectively by JOHN Mo
SWEENEY, Esq, of Wooster, and Judge
GEDDEs, of Mansfield. The Court room
and both galleries were crowded to sufo-
cation, as well as the Town Hall ; and
still there were people enough on the
streets, who could not get in, to make a
large Republican mass meeting ; that is,
if they had been Republicans.
We listened to a part Of the speeches
ofboth Messrs. McSwEENEY and GEDDEs.
and we feel no hesitation in saying,-and
we think all who heard them will support
US in it, that for clearness and logical
argument they were such as are but sell
dom listened to in political campaigns.-|
The speeches were about three hours in
length, each. MI. McSwEENEY, with
his extraordinary oratorieal ability, dealt
some telling and fearful blows upon TIE
shoddy thieves and the Northern traitors
now in power. Those of that persuasion,
who ventured to come within hearing dis
lance, appeared to almost wilt under his
whitening exposition of the lniquity in
they had all been engaged.
Judge GEDDEs, with his usual argu-
mentative style, held his large and appre-
eiative audience for the period of about
three hours, that a pin might have been
heard to fall, upon the hoor. All appear
ed, to be eager.to hear the truth, and they
were not disappointed for the Judge has
the peculiar faculty of arguing the>issues
of the day with a degree of honesty new
er possessed by our political opponents
His whole desire appeared to be to con-
his hearers of the facts, which We
think he succeeded in, from the doleful
of those of the whangdoodle
party who h~appened to be present, and
who love darkness rather than light.
Take it all in all, the meeting was en-
tirely satisfactory, and was a complete
SUCCESS. After the adjournment the pso-
Pile dispersed quietly, and thus ended a
day of trouble to the croakers and one
long to be remembered by those who have
only their country at heart.