Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-10-22
~ "a u Il W
OF THE
Friends of Mcclellan and the
Union at the
COURT HOUSE STE Ps
ON
MONDAY NIGHT, November 9Th.
Hon. c. h. VALLANDIGHAM
lion. George x. Pugh
JUDGEmOLT AND TmE o. A. a
VIII address the people.

JUDGE HOLT AND THE q. AK
campaign document in the interest OF
Black Republicanisn, has been issued, in his
Official capacity OF Judge Advocate General "
by Mr. j. Holt The intellect of man "
som etitnes the only means 10y which he can
maintain the seeHng Of gentleman; and
when an eminent position is held by QUE who
exhibits hImself'ss a mere tool Of poutr, we
should prefer that he would hide his dsgni.
/ dauon By some show of mental elevaton---
| But the raw v-head.and bloody bones report
with which Judge Holt seeks 10 trighten meg
into support Of Nc. Lincoln. shows him, 10
/ its utter want of ingenuity, 10 be man whose
/ gifts are not even fifth rate The fraud be
attempts to palm of upon the public does not
deserve the poor merit attaching to the dis
! play ol even a c0nhtry attorneys tact The
vulgarest possible rehearsal OF deserters sto.
rles, detectives lslsehoods, Loyal Leaguers
claptrap, and fao,tons niek-uaInes his 30
called report wilt lead the few who have the
patience to work their passage through
that dreary rigmarOle OF Judge Advocate
General Ot lhis hand OF Marshall, Story,
ke1t, Fancy, TO sigh in despair ever the past
glores OF the Republic.
The Campaign document of Judge Holt
assumes the form OF q report TO the Secretary
OF War on the subject of H. q C., o. : H.,
! q A. H. aud other letters OF the alphabet
The terrible fellows that are held to be rep
resented by those alarming symbols are, he
says, associated with a great many other
bad characters throughout the country The
colllers who recently reViled the draft ia
PennsylVanla are not the only allies of these
mysterious ORDERS the o. A. H., ct al as
they say 10 law, are actually associated, or
are Identical, with those dangerous Organlza-
/ itOua Ennmt ktEf a, NJ
ocrats. Legal evidence u.s. it appears, not ne.
eessary IN tue statements of u report OF
Judge Advocate General and, indeed why
should 1t IN IA procedure which, supersediug
evil power ia the sovereign States of llli-
nois, Indiana and Ohio, is predicatsd on con.
tempt lor all the requirements of lawH "It
IS said, "theIe is reason 10 believe" "it may
be fairly suppOsed, co institute the form of
preface 10 many Of the leading statements in
the mock seriousness Of Mr.. HOlts campaign
"rtpOTt True, no speaks mysteriously Of a
mass OF evidence in the case bat does 80 in
| general terms as that of "deserters from the
army "seouts employed TO travel through
| the anterior of the Border States "writers of
anonymous communication" "shrewd, intel
hgent men employed in the very creditable
1 duties of lie ectives. A labored rehash Of
the stories OF these real or imaginary people
ItohslathhSdH lhE sum anu buD3tuNce Oi DIT.
Hollis very stupid piece Of elecuoneering
The Guy tawkes who has planned the
great conspiracy against the Union,' and
originated all the horrors OF the double lead
ed headings announcing Mr.. Hollis report"
seems to be as clumsy an artist as Mr. Holt
himself. Five or eight hu udred thousand
men the thick headed fellow supposed would
have constituted very safe repository for =
dangerous secret Important dispatches oi
the rebel government that brainless conspir.
ator has been in the habit of forwarding, from
hsnd to hand, by the agency Of his half a
million or upward of those rare keepers OF
secrets Among sheas, as any one but the
. simple originator of the "order would have
known, was ionnd some faithlessness-that
OF detective bearing the suspicious name
OF Stdgers and former member Of the or.
, der, Mary Anne Pittman, u fair, but we trust
not, frail creature, whose confessions TO Judge
Holt have almost tempted him to embrace
hsr-in his port-es MY Own Mary Ammo.
Aud the shaliow-paied fellow that conceived
. the brilliant idea Of trusting not only dan
gerous REGRETS but important official dispatch
es to the Stidgerses and the Mary Annes, and
and all 0tlvers of the five hundred Thousand
sons or daughters Of Liberty, or American
= Knight8, or Bntternuts, or Copperheads OF
Democrats, who think you he wasH Judge
9 Holt solenlnlY, aud wO had almost said seri-
a ously, declares him to be no other than that
that very well known simplston-Mr. Jeffer-
son Davis Verify, Judge, you are either
f an arrant fool or an ineorrgible joker
! The coHspirators that Mr.. Jefferson Davis
has, according to Judge Holt, organized "for
g the destruction Of the Union, have, like
those dangerous fellows, the free and accept
ell Mssons, got signs, grips and passwords -
. uMu nmF Marv lima ~ the IuA1a
told him all about this; and initiated him
we presume very deeply, into its mysteries
showed him the signs, gave him the passes
n and gave him practical illustrations Of the
n grips. Mary Anne, or Stidgers--ye gOds
n what name--apprised the leading gentle
A man that the q. A. X. we're becoming very
E. uusavory with the smell OF "villainous saltpe
is ter, Arms--other than the snowy appenda
gss of Mary Anns--are, it appears, In grea
IS request among the Knights, and to such al
X extent had they-nOt the arms of Venus bu
a of Mars-been placed ut the disposal OF the
- order, that the one hundred thousand mem
ID beFs in the State Of Indiana stood prepared
SO to do service in bat - with muskets--some o
them, doubtless, very rusty-tU the number o
=, six thousand In the country parts OF hi
State, we should think that Mary AnBo woulC
oi have found five times as many rifles, shot
v guns or other "musketB among the sam,
: number of men, whether steepsd in the rot
tsnness of Democratic "tresson, or redolen
- with thee odor of"Black Republican "loyalty.
70 The uusqrnpulou4 length Of Judge Holti
TigmarCle prevents US from examining it il
II detail Wa shall conhne our further remark
II on she subject to his declaration of the o. A
=, KS written principles" The first doclrin,
D of abe order TO which Mr.. Holt calls attention
B. it that in which the Knights are said to de
@ olAr g ignorant negroes subject to a just ant
/. AUAdne ssrvitude aud tutelAge TO the supe
= riori race, unfI they shall be able 10 aPprsci
ate the benefits and advantages Of eir