Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-12
The Mcclellan Demonstration.
The National Hall GafherinE---Speeeh-
es from Ranney, Payne, Pugh, and
Heis1ey.
MCCLELLAN AND PEACE.

ers by spreading before them somewhat
extended erpose of the principles of the
latter-day Democracy, as set forth by the
speakers of the evening, but we find our
space this morning fully occupied by more
interesting matter, and are unwilling to
crowd out important news for the sake even
of exposing the empty vaporings and idle
logic of the special pleaders for Mcclellan.
A brief resume of the doings and sayings of
Saturday night, is therefore all that we can
offer our readers.
On reaching the hall, at half after seven
O'Clock in the evening, our reporter found
it moderately well-flled with q crowd
similar to that which has made up Copper
head gatherings since such things as Cop
perheads existed-of which crowd the less
said the better for mutual good-feeling. Of
its "soundness' on all Copperhead princi-
pies there could be no possible doubt, for
it cheered Justify every argum entfor peace
every sneer at niger soldiers, and
every refined allusion to "the base minion
from Illinois" A band-the Fifth Wrad
Temperance band--was present, and, being
evidently more loyal than the crowd, had
the impudence to insult its ears
with such tunes as I" Red, White
and Blue, and The Star
spangled Banner" The platform was oe-
cupied by the central luminaries and lesser
lights of the new-dispensation Democracy,
who expect to shine in one grand galaxy of
Federal ofices-when General George B, is
electedl J. S. Allen, Esq, presided and
announced the names of speakers.
The exercises" were opened by a series
of resolutions, resd by B. F. Peixotto, Esq.
They opened with a preamble denunciatory
of the Administration, and filed with the
usual phrases about ''arbitrary arrests, y
'fanatical attempt to force an equality, So
cial and political, between races naturally
different &C., &c. The first resolution
deelares-very truly-that their only
hope (of Office p lies in change of
Administration. The second compli-
ments the hero of Harrison's Landing
in the stock terms of praise. The
third lavishes few concentrations on
Pendleton. The fourth declares that the
sole object of the war should be the "Union
as it was and the Constitution as it is" &c,
&C., and the fitth-which sounds strangely
in company with the others-expresses the
sympathy of the Democratic party with
the soldiers. These resolutions were adopt
ed with laundering "aye."
Judge Ranney was introduced as the first
speaker, and spoke for about half an hour,
devoting his address to demonstration OF
the magnifcence of the Union before the
war, and the losses and desolation conse-
quent on war. The Judges speech would
make an excellent campaign document for
the Union party, and we are sorry that we
have not space for UerbattBs report of it.
The speaker denominated the Chief Ex-
ecutive of the nation as the "nlinois io-
kerr" and cold Lincoln" and referred to
his chief Cabinet adviser as the "inebriste
head of the State Department" He ar
raigned Lincoln on the usual charges of
arbitrary arrest, lavish expenditure, and in
reference with elections, and predicted a
golden future in the election of Mcclellan.
He declared that, if there were no way of
remedying these evils at the ballot-box,
it must be done by the strong arm of force
"a hint at revolution, which undoubtedly
lies in the minds of many Copperhead
leaders, but which the Judge ought to have
been shrewd enough to withhold. He con
cluded with urging the hope that reason
and words of kindness might bring the
South back, when arms had failed-thus
reversing the fable, related in old Noah
Webster's spelling-book, of the old man
and the rude boy.
The Hon. H. B. Payne followed. The
main thought of this desponding speaker
was that the restoration of the Union was
impossible under Lincoln, and not very
probable under Mcclellan. Ergo, elect
Mcclellan. He arraigned Lincoln as utter
ly incompetent, and denounced the war as
an " Abolition war" His chief argument
was devoted to an endeavor to demon
strate that the Emancipation proelama-
tion had done more harm than good
Passing from Lincoln to Mcclellan, he
quoted from his letter of acceptance,
declaring that that was as he, (Payne,)
thought and felt. He closed by an intima-
ton that he intended to take an active part
in the present canvass. We shall, there
fore, probably hear from Mr.. Payne again.
The Hon. George E. Pugh was next intro
duced, and spoke for nearly an hour with
great energy and bitterness, calling Lin
coin 'that base minion from Illinois" and
expressing amazement that Z" you and I
now submit to his domination" He took
up the various objections to the Chicago
platform seriatim, and argued in reply to
them. He proposed to let "Jef. Davis and
Abraham Lincoln go down the stream to-
getether." But we will attempt no further
analysis of the speech this morning, and
we abandon the Honorable George with the
less regret, because we hope to pay our res
poets to him more fully tomorrow.
Col. ]. W. HeisIey was the concluding
speaker. The Colonel hardly thought it
worth his while to ascend into the lofty
regions ofargHment, but contented himself
with an anccdote or two about pigs and
puppies, which we hardly think it worth
while to report in full.
The meeting, which was in a state of
chronic adjournment during the whole of
the last speech, broke up Immediately af-
terward, resolved itself into it's individual
elements, and " swarmed " in the lager bier
saloon below.
A SOLDIER ROBBED BY TWO PRosr1rUTEs-