Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-17
VOL. XVIII.
GRAND 4 MASS MEETING AZ
RAVENNA.
Did Portage Don't Give up the Ship.
THEMAssEs FIRM FOR Union.
SPEECHES :BY GENERAL ScHENCS R. 3. PAINE,
70 JUDGE oar, RET. g. H.IVlBsERLI 4 e
AND OTHERS.
blo1 RkvzEsA, Sept ls 1854.

TIE DAY AND TEE TOWN..
Was there ever a brighter or sunniel
day, one. which had more exactly The
golden mean between heat and cold, and
more equally even tempered, more charm
ingly and delightfully."- serene, than that
which rose and smiled and set upon this
pleasant town, with its green lawns and
lesfy trsez to-day 2 We hold, a. did the
divine concerning the strawberries,-that
doubtless God could have msde a more
beautiful day, but, doubtless, he never
didp I am much Of the same creed, too,
about this very town Of Ravenna, which,
if it looks as clean and bright and busy as
to-day, must, with its fine business blocks
its pleasant residences, and the glorious
pOIlihg rm-land around it, be one Of the
most charming places in al Northsrn
Ohio.
HOW TIE Canvass GOES
And that RaYennians are worthy of
Ravenna, may easily be proven by their
position and action in reference to the all.
absorbing questions of the day. It is uni
versally acknowledgedthat nowhere in the
State are the Union men more thoroughly
united, earnest active and determined
than the leaders and voters Of the grand
party of Liberty in old Portage County.
They are heart and soul for Lincoln and
Johnson. They are thoroughly organized.
Meetings are held repeatedly in every
township in the County, and every man
who has 8 tongue and knows how to use
it on the right side is pressed iuto the SER
vice to address them. Such men as Lp-
ther Day, now candidate for Judge Of the
Supreme Court our Union State Ticket,
Alphenso Hart, R. A Gillette and other
old Democratic citizens ofPortage are nov
working for the Unionwith hundred
fold the energy with which they worked
for party; while old Republicans like Gar
field, Joe Hail, Gavin and Conant are
throwing into this canvass thrice the en-
ergy which they ever exercised in other
and older conflicts 90 -F zl- lsA e.
THE MEETING.
The meeting of to-day is proof of the
quiet but intense lOyslty and zeal Of the
Union masses Of this country. No prepa-
tion whatever had been made for big
display. Announcement had simply been
made that speeches would be delivered By
General Schenclx, Hon. R z. Paine and
other speakers, and the people were left
9toeohe or stay as they, chose. No devices
Of banners OF awards Of music, fre-work Ks,
or display of any kind allured the vulgar
crowd. Those who came, came distinctly
un nderstanding that their object and pur-
pose was to reason together-to hear words
of truth and soberness-in this crisis Of
history. And they came by thousands,
from the country round, in wagons and
buggies till IRavenna. overAowed. 1t was
emphatically a gathering of the country
people and as evidently Of people that love
their country. RoOtstown, Edingburgh,
Deeraeld and Palmyra, sent organized
delegations, but the whole country was,
represented, formally or otherwise, iu the
msetfng. SvsE Eu#
The energetic County Union Committee,
consisting of Messrs. Z. A. Gillette, D. L.
Rockwell, j. Q. Beatty, P. B COnAnt and
Il O. Jennings, had made arrangements
% hold ths meeting in the pleasant county
f.;,, grounds, q half mile esst Of town, and
tbitbsr. about now, the long procession Of
osTris1ss md wagons, July apile in length
wound its S'sy, enlivened on the S0aa BY
music from th,s Deerfeld Band and ne
stirring notes of fife and drum from the
Rootstown independent Band. It Is an
instructive fact that the Narshals OF the
day were nearly all veteran sdNdier'' non
orably discharged from service, for wounds.
They, like their comrades in the field, are
for Lincoln and Union. Ope ofthem his
been claimed by the MoQsslan men; but
he to-day repudiated them md their hero
by Joining IN the Union msesting. Do you
want to know who they were2 Of course
you do, and here they are: SD
meas CHIEF MARSHAL, a
MAJOR F. sEYMoUR, 7TH OHIO.
ASSISTANT MABSRALs,
Captain H. H. WILLARD, AID Ohio.
Lieutenant II. C. JENEINs,. AID Ohio.
Lieut.. s s. REED, 7th Ohio.
2 Captain J. D. KING. l7lse, Q. n. 6.
And one or two others, whose names yonr
reporter did not learn
But enough of preliminaries.' The pro
eeaslon formed a big crowd. nul pbering is