Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-16

Dunkirk as many more, while from TOns-
wanda, Lockport, Niagara Falls, and other
towns came crowds with music, banners,
devices, and enthusiasm until the great
meeting numbered fully THIRTY THOU
SAND attendants If such things shall
be done in the green tree, what shall be
done in the dry?
THE PROCESSION.
The pouring rain had overset the calcu-
lations for the meeting, and, during the
forenoon, it seemed for a time as though
"chaos worse confounded" was to rule.
Stands had been erected on the Terrace for
the accommodation of the long list of
speakers and the vast throng of listeners,
but the rain rendered them untenable, and
the energetic committee "fell back in good
order on the public halls and theatres of
the city, all of which were engaged.
It was for a time uncertain whether the
grand procession, which had been announc-
ed to come off at eleven o'clock, would
transpire at all, and, for an hour or two,
ward and township delegates awaited at
their various headquarters the decisive
order There was much discussion and
doubt in the Committee-rcoms, in the hall
of the Arcade Block, and in the American
House, opposite, and great galloping to and
fro of spurred and cloaked Marshals, but
the energy and decision of George S. Haz-
ard, Esq., Chief Marshal, and Colonel John
B. Weber, Captain Levi Waller, Captain
Byron Schemerhorn, Lieutenant James
Gowan, Colonel R. F. Atkins, and Captain
Hugh Sloan, his assistants, soon evoked
order out of confusion, and at ten O'clock
the procession was in line on Main street,
and ready tn move.
And such processionl Forming and
moving off through splashing mud and
incessant rain, its magnitude, its banners,
its music, its devices, its cannon, and its
huzzas, betokened a literally irrepressible
enthusiasm. First march the various
Ward delegations, each a magnificent pro
cessi in itsell, and together counting in Its
files over two thousand voters. Next
sweep the glorious phalanx from Lockport,
five hundred strong, full Of unquenchable
ardor, which burst forth from time to time
in loud cheers. Rochester, with her five
hundred, and Tonawanda with her three
hundred followed, and the procession, over
a mile in length, and numbering nearly
four thousand participants, IS closed
by smaller delegations from ,ther towns
and from the country. And the irrepres-
sible enthusiasm of the throng was simply
indescribable. It burst forth in shouts
and huzzas, it rose and fell from the brass
throats of dozen brass bands in the soul
stirring strains of our national airs, it re-
sounded thundrous from the mouths of
whole batteries of cannon, it was caught
and transferred TO notices, banners, de-
vices, innumerable, which made the whole
procession moving legend Of loyalty and
patriotism Let US note few only of the
hundreds of mottOes which we took down
at random as they caught our eye:
'slavery Insults Labor. Down with it,
''Yictory and Glory-Atlanta-"
" Lincoln, Justice and Union"
vermont, 2I,OOO.
To be continued.
'.Bullets for the Rebels, and contempt for
their Northern Allies"
&" Old Democrats whose lead it is safe to
follow; Grant, Butler, sherman,
Hancock, Dickinson, Dix,
Burnside, Meade,
&C. &c
"Our Peace Commissioners, Grant,
Sherman, Farragut."
q There are only two sides to this question,
Patriots and TraitOrs.'-D0Hglas."
{" We do not mourn the dead body of
Slavery"
sIs the old spirit so dead and we broken and weak
That traitors shamelessly lift the white cheek.
"spades not trumps this time"
ave make no Peace with Traitors in
Arms"
TRAITORS, your Time is Short"
ave must Conquer a Peace"
'fNo Peace without Union
'Wet Nurse Wanted-Apply at the Demo
cratic Headquarters"
''vermont and Maine have Wheeled intc
Line"
Besides these were devices without num-
Der. A picture of Lincoln, Inscribed GThC
People Choice" met much applause. Va.
rious devices represented the conflict o.
principles in the Chicago nominees anc
platform. One, labelled q Little Macs
change Of base" represented the hero o.
Harrison's Landing as endeavoring Il
get from the Peace to the War end
Of the broken platform, and fall g in
Il e void between. But it i useless tc
attempt to transfer to paper the effect oi
the csTieaturist's pencil, and We shall moi
i H-9 by sa