Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-10-12

quotations, and the thoughtful editor of
the Constitution kindly came to his relief
by proposing three cheers for the flag
The interminsble speaker then said that
although he had not said all he had to
say, yet he would stop. In sympathy
with Mr.. Backus, we would protest against
the conduct of the copperheads here, who
choked him off in the middle ofhis speech.
What could a man be expected to say in
Il hours? They should arranged to have
given him the whole day, and had an early
breakfast at that. On such an occasion,
the Constitution might notify the faithful
to provide themselves with two days "a
tions.
The day meeting being in every respect
such a complete fzzle, and there being
three other speakers present, who had
not had a chance to speak their pieces"
in consequence of Mr.. Backus' tedious
ness, it was concluded to have a supple
mentary gathering in the evening, to give
the Hon. Mr.. DeFrance and Rev. Jesse
Smith, of Mercer, and Dave Wilson, of
Youngstown, a chance to effervesce.
RALLY NUMBER TWO.
The day meeting was no doubt a huge
failure, but the night rally was the great
est abortion that ever befel that fzzling
party in Warren. A tolerable audience
filed tbs Hall, and speakers came, some
of them cooked and primed.
De France led off in a TRADE against the
Administration, in dull, prosy, threadbare
assertions, SO stupidity delivered that part
of the audience left before he finished.
His speech was brought to an untimely
end by alternate cries for Wilson and
Smith. Both of these gentlemen made
for the rostrum, but Smith taking Il
straight line, and Wilson a zig-zag course,
the former got in ahead and was intro
duced as the next speaker. The Rev.
Jesse Smith is a pro slavery copperhead
Democrat, who believes in the Divinity
of Slavery. His speech was wholly de-
voted to a defence of Slavery, quoting
from the Bible to prove his positions, as
serting that those who didn't believe ii
would 60 to hell. This was too strong a
dose for the copperheads. They mad al
so been sold in the Rev. jesse. He, too,
was spelling their meeting" The chair
man took water frequently, and tried to
give the Rev. orator the wink, but Jesse
couldn't see it," Others of the breth.
rem ran to and fro, and consulted on the
condition of things. Finally a big butch
er, in the back part of the hall, was rous-
ed up and made to yell for Wilson. The
cry was taken up and the reverend e.
horter retired before the advancing le-
gal expounder. 1t was evident to the a u
dience that in Wilson's case, although
the heart might be willing the flesh was
weak. 1t required four table legs, in ad-
dition to his own, to enable that gentle
man Il assume an oratorial attitude.
After balancing himself, he started of
with the declaration that Mcclellan had
organized an army of 300,0 900 troops
Had started for Richmond, when the
President took As, 900 men from him un,
der Mcdowell. Still Mcclellan went on,
until the President sen him a despatch
requiring him to come TO the relief OF
Washington, to which order Mcclellan
replied that he had not sufficient troops
left to make a decent body guardi AT
this point the Union men present laughed
at the predicament the speakers asser.
tons had placed him in, he failing to tell
what had become of the 255, 900 men Nc
Clellan had left. The copperheads look
ed blue, and the Speaker growing elo-
quent, remarked that he could not quote
scripture to prove what he said, but swore
with a big round oath it was true. This
was making bad worse, and the more re.
spectacle Democrats present, with their
wives, left. And thus it was appropri.
ately reserved for a man in his cups to
give the copperhead pow-wow of Thurs
day a quietus with an oath and a kick.