The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-08-25
The Peace Meeting at Clyde.

Epirok TRIBUNE: To-day was a proud
day for the terrible Democracy Clyde,
in Sandusky county, had favored VIII
tstion. The peace men were In solemn
council. according to previous notice."
by poster, TO those that could read, and
word of mouth to those that knew enough
without reading, there was formidable
gathering OF the unra,hed, and unterri'
fed. About eleven o'clock A. M, tho
procession moved" out Of the village TO
a grove south Of town. Said process.
sion cons istcd OF a fife, and two drums,
a flag, man with powerful beard, on
other with very red face, and some 40
or 90 boys; all followed by u mixed mul.
tiiudo Of perhaps i5o more. Reaching
the grove, the procession halted near a
beer, cake aud whisky stand, when ar
rangemcnts were made for some "speak.
in" The gentlemen who were going TO
enlishten the crowd, sat down, took Off
their hats adjusted their vests and collars,
then looked around "wondrous wise
over the assembly, which by this time,
including the large proportion of union
men that had dropped in, the boys, wo'
men and babies, might have amounted to
500, This, however, is large estimate.
cons sidering the flourish OF trumpets tina,
Ind announced this out.pounng" and
the fact ,ha, one hopeful old gent gave
out the idea chat there would be three or
four speakers stands, II WINS rather dam
per on tho faithful. to say nothing about
the high prices of whisky. which no doubt
somewhat dctrsctcd from the ,pirit Of the
meeting.
Well at last the speaking began. Mr..
Cushing, of Eric eoonty, arose, placed
two Of his fingers on his chin, and with n
look that reminded ono OF Solomon, very
condescendingly informed the audience
that "wo are In the midst ofwor, that hos
destroyed millions" lie afterwards
however. reduced the estimate to a lit
tie over million and a half. At this
statement, some Of the "rurul members"
shook their heads, and looked ominously,
az much as to say, "the war must stop"
The speaker then went on, in witty
way TO demonstrate, no one knew what,
and as he made no particular point. the
audience were left In the dark ss TO the
object OF his speech, unless Il were to
blaeken the union government, and glor-
ify Rob Lee and jeff. Davis. This is in.
fersble from some OF his sentences taken
down at the time. such as "Bob Lee
eaectually whips Grant, every time ho
assaiis him." Speaking Of Mr.. Lincoln,
he said. "I wish . had the old scoundrel
on this wagon, I'd make him tell when
this war will end"
sThe South Is forty per cent more ablo
for the war than In 1861, and we are in
the same ratio, less able" I'VE arc
no one pation--were - nations at the
CONNIE ncement Of the war" He as
somed thpt Grant crossed the kapidan
with $4,000 msn, and had los, from s5
per cent, TO ono. half of his army. Speak
ing Of Southern sen,iments he had learned
from the wife OF rebci Colonel that the
South would unite with al the North
but New England. They would allow
New England TO come into the Confsa
erscy, only on condition ,hot she should
have but two Senators. This the gentle
man seemed to think was just, but in the
event he didn't tell us what wosd be.
como Of the "Conssitu,ioa 90 IL TO-" O,
no, That reserved ins,rumen, may be
changed I'D litiium to suit the south, but
to modify !, for the overthrow ofslsvery,
would be sserilege, oh ! shame. where
10 thy blush