Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-12

umneSnstitutional n affirming, therefore, that
IL "a dutv to resist It by sending not anoth !
ar man Or giving another dollar; riding |
the spawned state-right hobby horse a |
few violent bouts, and advising the peo |
pie to rise seize the lousy iceumben'' fthe !
" mite House, aud cut his throat, &c, &c, !
whereat the universal Democratic larynx |
split. This frebrand wanted peace, (and |
wants to go to Congress,) peace on any
terms. If the Southern States will not
come back, why, let 'em go, in Gods
name. Stop the 5gar NOW.
GENERAL LAIN SPEAKS.
shaefer was thus absolute tweedledum,
but General Lahm was specious tweedledee.
He proposed Convention OF Commission
ers from all the States, to treat on a resto-
ration. He would not, like Shaefer, let the
south know beforehand that she might 60
II case she refused to re-enter the Union,
for then she would surely go; but he, acute
samuel, would play wonderfully sharp, not
let the South know she might go, draw cot
ton and Ethiopian wool over her eyes. =
.sRut if she will not come back, what them"
interrupt Messrs shaefer and MetIregOr;
| awhat then? will you fight her back, or
LET her go?" He docged right lawyerly
the peace issue thus pertinently presse,
| .EWhy, in case she will not come back, I'd
say: Sufficient unto the day is the evil
hereof" The crowd evidently leaned
Shaferward; they coughed, vel and
ried 10 put down undaunted Lahmy who
| now grows irate and foams at the mouth.
/ lie turns to the chairman, and gnasbes out
| "a Bv c. you sha'n't bully me down !"
| The crowd Y IL 5rqros, newly turned from
| Brutus and the other "hOnorabls men, " and
heneeforth here is Mare Antony moIdlng
ghe peace Democracy, the solid iilmmoYeoIe
sovereigns, at his own will. lie makes
he Democracy give three rousing cheers
.or the Union and then three grOans TO
secession / Whereupon the old Roman
scene, as reported 2 Oasea 20 Brutns, came
/ Up pat "Ihe raIblement hOoted1 aHd
:lapped their chopped hands, threw uP
| their sweaty caps, aud uttered such deal
/ If sinking breath. & that
It had almost choked-Lahm !
And for mine own part, burst Mt laugh,
FOR fear of onening my iiI.s--n'--l ''''-A'lzinG q
/ tha haI -i.'
MAC GREGOR ExPOUNDETH.
Previous to this, however, somewhere IN
the volt ring chaos, wherein every one
was W iygling, like The serpeuts IL the
Egyptian pitchers of snakes, "a lil5h d
'bove all others and get q hearing,
,ghGre and some1oheH, God knoweth Mac
dreg0r managed TO get his lank leI g.his
ness upon the boxes, and harangued the
| -ovcTeigns. Now Mac has peculiar todi-
ly eye, and keen mentnl eye for discern
ing ana running analogies aud when he
/ holds crowd with his glitterug eve, apt
swings his long, muscleless hume u, uina,
and radius III the enforcement OF truth,
| why, It's like the solemn, sep
| ulchrAl preaching OF skeleton
lie showed that this war is like that OF the
RevolutioR,-JeG Davis being Washington,
md Lincoln the damBahie despot over the
'ea. He was in for stopping the Rar,-foT
| having peace and to this end ne adF Fissd
the friends oflobbered milk before him to do
a. the colonists did,-organize themselves
nto squads Of thirteen, with officers and
arms; thus etleered and equipped, tp be
eady, Goods with all your thunderboltS,
lash 'em in pieces !" Anomalous peGe--
speech, that, o Mac WhorterI calcusHted
o fire the popular heart.
RICH JOKE.
The Democracy, thinking to magnify
themselves and the cause by producing II
supposed new convert Of standing called up
Hon. B. F. Letter for n speaker, whereupoh
ne administered little wholesome talk
IPbraidIng the Administration, to be sure,
but so does Wendell Phillips upbraid it,
taxing ii with being too slow, too inefficient.
and demanding either a vigorous prosecu-
Ion of the war RI is abandonment, and
'Sif'''i VIZ l'tA iSi Nllcli
"hal! dozen lazy, lubberly boys, each,
Ioating at home, when they should be Off at
the front, &c. The sovereigns could not be
iievc in Ihe report of their senses.
By this time the cFoWd was waxing noisy
and quarrelsome beyond endArRnce. The
grand farce threatened to end in En iIa-
mense row, and probably would have so
ended, but
FHE SUPERNATURAL
ntervened,-a tremendous rain began
driving, which scattered the sovereigns to
the saloons just t'other side their horses.
(The Democracy, by the way, | have OBJ
served, have a vulgar prejudice against
water,-neFer take it pure, Indeed, sci
iom take it either in internal or external
duplication, prefering other preparations J
And here, in the saloons, the scene beggared
description. Every several grocery was a
Bedlam and hole of worse than contra
5and smells. But, the rain over, and eve
ming come, the sovereigns of Stark county
headed hGmeward, in straight or devious
lines. Gradually the uproar melted into
silence, leaving US 10 consider what man
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