Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-02
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stay away.
Judge Chambers, Of Beimont county, and
our pOrtly friend Abdomen, were therefore
the only speakers of the occasion. Your
correspondent was refused the usual privil-
eges Of reporter, and his only notes were
jOtted down from standing place in front
of the platform, under the pressure of cir
curnstanees and also of fat Dutehmen on all
side of him. The speeches were even more
revolutionary and rebelliOus than the res
Olutions, .~-fr
SPEECH OF JUICE CHAMBERS.
Judge Chambers, who, we believe, repre-
sented Belmont county in the last LegIsIa-
ture, came out very decidedly against the
war and in favor of forcible resistance to it.
He said he spoke with his eyes open. He
was aware that his predecessors had been
arrested without indictment, had been
thrown into Lincoln bastiles, had been ex-
lied. lie did not know but that some accur-
sed minion of a military despotism might be
present even there to take down his words
and to report him to the government
You may bet your life there was, Judgc.l
But he was only exercising his right as j
NltA-NnH AAG aohIu "a A4l " A5 ALAc5tGu 4oL
the exercise OF his rights here, would they
(the audienee) stand by him. [Shouts;
We Will Ne wriIlD would they allow
him to BE- carried away? [Shouts Of New
er (! Never J The Judge said he had been
in the army, and knew what it was. lie
had drawn prize in the last draft, and
had paid three hundred dollars commuta-
ton And he avowed, amid shouts Of
" Coco" F." That's the talk" and similar
cries, that the government had got his last
man and his last dollar. The Judge at .
tackled the doings Of Lincoln very
| hercely. He said that Nero tiddled while
Rome burned abraham Lincoln joked
viii e the people mourned. Hessserted that
the revolutionary fathers had not half as
much cause Tor revolution as had the peo-
pie now. The writ of hayeas corpus,
which the people of England had fought
| three hundred years fcI, was now annulIed
and the people had stood tamely by and
| permitted it. He did not know that the
time for using force had arrived, but he
\ called on the people to hold meetings, TO
| exhaust every peaceable means to stop the
war, and, ifall these failed, 10 determine on
their course and stand firmly BY it. He
said, " Let argument, appeal, entreaty J-
/ employed but wirea these fail you have
the iiiustriOus examples Of our iOreiathers
! to defend your rights with arms He claim
| ed hat ia the recent correspondence with
| Civ and Hcleomb the President had vir-
tn Illy admitted that this was niger war,
cIrried on for the niger. He asked: will
You go out to battle and fight to make the
negro your equal Loud shouts of, No, No:
q voice 60 We will fight here at home, if we
fight at ALL" and great applause,l Cham
| bers spoke in this strain for an hour, his
most defiant and rsbellious sentiments be-
ing loudest applauded.
ABDOMEN :. sPEAEETH.
Abdomen jackson followed. His big
poin. was the finances, and he pitched
into green backs with gusto. He demon
strated to the crowd that they were paying
three times as much as ever before for the
necessaries OF life, that they were being
taxed for the benefit Of the moneyed sris-
tos,acy, and that very soon they would III
lie reduced 10 hunger and starvation b. the
administration. he also adyeried to the re-
cent peace propositions, stating that tn,
only obstacle in the way of peace was th,
love Of the President for the niger. II.
said that the restoration Of the Union by
war was out of the question, and claimet
that we should Immediately negotiate fol
peace. JacksOn's speech was a cunning
and cautious one, decidedly too
non -committal foE the crowd.
The Democracy of Crawford are evidently
not in love with newspaper literature oi
newspaper men. They don't read, anC
they have o Just suspicion that any body
who caa read is an abolitionist Your re
porter, therefore got none but black look
from the amiable crowd who surrounded tn,
stand. Ominous whispers buzzed abou
him, and he once or twice heard mutter.
ed threat to "lnove that d-d abolition
reporter" Exactly how the Crawford coun
ty Copperheads proceed in moving &
man, and whether the operation is pleas
ant orafthe reverse, your corresponds
ent is, however, to this minute il
ignorance, owing doubtless to the kind
patronage Of little Dutch Democrat, {,
whom henow makes his acknowledgement
who entertained a settled idea that he wa
an editor OF the Crisis, and assured querist'
that it was all ~, I..-- TLs notion --as no
. complimentary one, but your correspond
Ont did not just then deny the softimpeaeh.
ment.
Abdomen Jackson having concluded his
grafton, the demonstration was over, and
the people scattered homeward. The'eud Is
however, not yet, and something more than
bluster inspired and animated the men
who uttered and applauded the sentiments
above recorded