Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-05-28
The Recent Lincoln Nee
ting in New York.
A Gathering Of GhouIs.:


from the New York Herald, May 20.
The Lincoln meeting at the Cooper Insti.
tute last Friday evening was one Of the most
dlsgraceful exhibitions of human depravity
ever witnessed in this wicked world. 1t was
a gathering Of ghOuls, vultures hyenss and
other feeders upon cArrion, for the purpose OF
surieiting themselves upon the slaughter OF
the recent battles We remember nothing
like il 10 the history of politics. The great
ghoul at Washington, Who authorised the
meeting, and the little shouls and vultures
who conducted it, have succeeded in COM
pletely disgusting the people Of this country,
and have damaged themselves irretrievably.
In the midst Of these terrible conflicts OF
the past three weeks, while thousands Of lives
we're being sacrificed for the national cause,
and while every patriotic maD was watahing
with intense and anxious interest the painful
progress Of events, these ghouls thought only
Of Lincoln's denomination, the control Of the
Baltimore Convention and their own chances
for petty offices. At the sound Of the cannon
which was to decide .he fate Of the country,
these ghouls hurried down from the noun
tains, these vultures aocked from the plains,
these hyenas sneaked out Of their holes to
feast upon the bodies OF the slain and gorge
themselves with the best blood Of the land
They met in harrible conclAve in the Cooper
Institute, and proceeded to dig up the graves
of our soldiers, TO tear up the wounds OF the
wounded, to riot amid the carnage and make
themselves fat with gore.
There was Clay Smith, the Kentucky gouhl,
and oglesby, the military ghoul, and Arnold
the Congressional ghoul, and Spencer the le-
gal ghoul These were the orators Of the
meeting and they all devoted themselves to
praising Lincoln, the great Presidential ghoul,
and advocating his denomination and re-
election Their arguments were corpses.-
Their rhetoric was blood The SMILES we're
drawn from death snd wounds. Their logic
was that because Lincoln had killed so many
men he ought to be allowed another term to
kill as many more. They cared nothing for
the country, for the nation, for the Union;
but they reioiced in carnage, because they
hoped il would advance their fortunes, and
they gloated over the red river or blood, be-
cause they hoped that it would host them in
70 power again. We repeat that so disgrace
ful and disgusting an exhibisionisa nowhere
chronicied IN the history Of politics before
| 1t is without parallel or comparison, aad
we lack words to stigmstize il as it deserves,
| II Lincoln's reelection we're lot impossible;
II the bluudera be has committed and the
criminalites for which he is responsible had
not placed him out Of the Presidential ring,
this ghouklike meeting would alone destroy
| his chances and render bis defeat q foregone
| conclusion. The trick Of claiming credit for
carnage and trying to make capital out Of
wholesale slaughter was too trans parent and
too boldly played. In ancient times the
shouls stole slyly to their abomnable festivals
\ AT midnight, by the pale glimmer of the sick
ly moon; but these modern ghouls parade
themselves in open day, advertise their pur
poses in the daily papers and gather publicly
in hall lit with the blaze of Raslight as Il
anxious to be universally Abhorrsd and do
spised. he-head ghoul at Washington haG
not sense enough to forbid the meeting. The
ghouls and vultures here had not sens
enough to postpone it, With brazep face
they confronted an audience whose friend
and relatives they were Abont to devOur, ant
begged for a longer lease Of power Coul'
the force Of unblushing deprayiIy mnch fur
ther gol -.--t a3