The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-09-30
The Democratic Ratification.

IJlOn meeting. lt was extensively al
|. .vertised, posters were well circulated
and the Courier bristled with an
nouncements. Judge Ranney, the
Ohio Fat boy, Ramsey, of Kenton,
and by way of contrast, the in6nites-
imal LeBlond, were announced rs
speakers, and more than usual efforts
were put forth to draw crowd.
The day came, and a fine day it
was. We expected crowd, and
looked anxiously for it. To the north
we turned our eager eyes to feast
them upon the pyramids Of beautiful
girls, whom, rs in days of yore, when
the Democracy was a power in the
land, we expected would appear, sing
ing that soul-inspiring son.
"F0r wen rally ronnd the nig, boys,
Wei rally wuust agin,
shoutin fer Little Muck and Free,jum.
But tlry didn't appear, so neither
our eyes or ears were gladdened from
that direction. To the East, the
West, the South, we looked, but alas!
disappointment awaited us. Neither
girls nor men came, to any extent
One forlorn wagon formed in process
sion with an American flag, 1--WE were
surprised that it was not the stars and
bars the staff of which was support
ed by being inserted in beer barrel.
How appropriate! How we'll that
barrel represented the foundation Of
the party, and its main. stay. Anoth-
er wagon formed another procession
decorated with bushes, whether hick-
ory or butternut we did not notice.
The crowd was nearly as large rs
Is common to Findlay on ordinary
Saturdays. The only person who no
ticed anything unusual, was a person
who asked IF it was mass mceting!'
He was evidently stranger, proba-
bly, from Tinln or Fremont, who was
not accustomed to the crowds of pco-
pie who throng the stores and shops
Of Findlay, regularly, in the business
season
4 Quite q number OF old democrats
came to see what had become of their
party. now that Dix, Butler. Cass,
Steadman, Payne, and every other in
telligent patriot had left it 60 act with
their country, and they saw that the
once respectable and powerful old
party was no longer represented by
the intellect and power of these men
but that few pitiiul davis and kites
were all that was left Of the old Ea-
gles Of Democracy, and notwithstand-
ing the parade of once great names
upon the bills, they had to he content
with the scraps of a long forgotten
feast, and listen to the stale vitupcr-
alton Of pair of unwashed political
boobies, whose ignorance alone saves
them from the brand of traitors.
The first man up was the immense
Ex- Lieut.. Cot. Ramsay. whose huge
bodily proportions owe their vastness
to the circumstance of having to car
iry very light load Of mind, aided
somewhat by good feeding He threw
himself into the work with Il grace
and dignity scarcely to be expected
of so ponderous n body. He was
somewhat embarrassed, was Ramsay
He had to carry on one shoulder
small George, with his little tin sword
and on the other, the other George
with his great white dag, rs big as an
acre, and a brush heap of olive branch
es, so he dropped them both, and ill
/ ing one side of his month with Old
Abe and the other with Raw Niger,
proceeded, like some huge spider, to
spin out the line of his discourse.
"Does not, never did, justify the
Rebellion---it was premature
Why premature ? No one appear
ed to know. Southern Rebels were
well prepared, but on second thought
we took-the Northern Copperheads
had not got their revolvers ready.
hence the rebellion was premature
too fast.
"rhe Constitution gives the Pres
ident the right to put down Rebel
lion or 1nsurrection, but this was not
a Rebellion or Instruction 1t was a
Revolution, and all the people Of a
state had a right to revoutionize.
At this a fat woman whispered to
a good looking girl, to know if South
/ Carolina or Uncle Sam was the State,
and if South Carolina was the State
and could revolutionize Uncle Sam,
if Union township or Hancock Coun-
ty could not revolutionize all the
Buckeyes? The pretty girl said she
thought they could, and for two cents
she'd begin, for they were going to
draw another draft, and she expect,
ed her feller would be drawd, and he
had a Revolver, and there was heaps
of Revolvers down ther, and that
that Revolution wouldn't he prema-
, ture. The Col. proceeded:
"He had been in the service-that
Democrats went into the service and
were justified mot sanctified) be-
cause they thought there were some
Union people in the South, and they
would help put down the rebellion for
their salSes, but Lincoln had deceiv-
ed them-there were no Union peo-
pie south"
Here the fat woman heaved q treble
, sigh, and said to her pretty neighbor
, it all come of not being able to read
/, the newspaper, and that old Abe who
, pulled the wool over the eyes Of the
democracy, ought to be made to mar
ry nigger for it. The pretty girl
said she did not believe it and if the
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