Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-04-12
THE CITY
THE cELEsRATIo
"A meeting OF Malignants-Dcmo
Denounced, Prescribed and
Excluded. @

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TON, BANCROFT & Co.'S Store, In the Gwynn
Block, ON Town street. responsive to Gov
BRoUGH's Thanksgiving Proclamation, t,
make arrangements to celebrate the recen
victories over the Rebels in arms, on mex
Friday-at which Old JANNEY presided
and s. N. FIELD acted as Secretary. 1t wa
made up Of leading Republicans of Column
bus; and we were invited to send Re
porter there, to report the proceedings
which appeared In The STATESMAN ant
also In The Journal, on Monday morning
A Grand Marshal, Assistant Marshals
and the necessary Committees were ap.
pointed, q number of whom are Demo-
crats-not as many, however, as fair lib
erality would have called for; yet, more
than are generally conceded by the opposi-
tion. Do NOS 9Iis H-a0f
After the morning papers had been read,
on Monday, Jos. SULLIvANT, JULIUS WooD,
and a few other malignants of that stripe,
commenced assailing the Democratic AS
sistant Marshals and the Democratic Com
mittee-men, and demanding that meeting
be called for Monday evening, to exclude
the Democrats from the positions that had
been assigned them by leading Republicans,
and without their knowledge or solicita-
tion. The meeting was called; hand-b bills
were printed, and posted throughout the
city. The malignants went to work to get
together men of their own stripe; and by
dint of persuasion, and the free use of ANDY
JOHNSON Whisky, they succeeded in getting
such material into the City Hall as they de-
sired. 20 i .r. r1H..sr q-a Fl.
SAM. GALLOWAY was called to the chair,
and Rocky THOMPSON was made Secreta-
rys GALLOWAY made speech which was
cautious, yet denunciatory against Demo-
Gratis. Referring to the approaching Cele-
bration, he claimed, in effect, that the Fu-
neral belonged to his party, and that they
Insisted upon having none but members of
1t for Pail Bearers. The Funeral Sermon,
he said, must be preached only by a man
who breaches "the true Gospel of Freedom"
which, when translated, means the Cos
pei of the Niger! w.
10. GEIGER ventilated his filthy vocabula-
ryin his usual way. He made direct as
sault upon JOHN G. THOMPSON and other
Democrats who had been assigned posi-
tions in the programme of Sunday-de-
nouncing them as 'life-long enemies
of the Government and aiders and
abettors of treason;" insisting upon
their exclusion from the Celebration,
&c. He even went out of his way
to assail Judge THURMAN, everywhere rec
ognized as one of the ablest and purest men
In this country. He stated that the Judge
had refused to take the oath OF allegiance,
prescribed by Act Of Congress for Attor-
neys practicing in the United States Courts
when the truth is the other way. Judge
THURMAN took substantially the same oath,
more than year ago, before the Court of
Claims in Washington; and only last week,
he took the oath before Judge LEAv-
TITS Court in Cincinnati. Dirty and de-
nunciatory as was GEIGER's speech, The
Journal commends and indorses 1t! ......'t /.
Major BABER also spoke his piece! 1t
was of the same vindictive and malignant
character. The idea of BABER rejoicing
over the prospect of Peace--just think of it!
His occupation as Paymaster gone-how
would he live? Without gumption to make
a living by his profession, he would starve,
If his friends did not keep him! BABER was
followed by STACY TAYLOR! Appropriate
enough i bir5,- .5lnsl III sroi'I !.
A committee, consisting of Jos. SULLI7
WANT, N, B. MARBLE, w. G. DEsHLER, DR..
s. M. SMITH, and JOHN OrsTorr, reported |
of Grand Marshall Assis-
tant Marshals, Aids, and Committees, in
cluding all the Republicans Of the Sunday |
and, excluding all the Demo-
crats, except the Chief of the Fire Depart
was retained in order to bring
the Fire Department into the Celebration.
This report, was adopted by the meeting
with yell of satisfaction. .s ..9.9apa
The Journal calls this ''the long to be re-
membered expurgating meeting" Its ac-
tion, and the spirit it itmanifested, were in
tended to exclude the Democrats from the
Celebration, which is appointed for "Good
Friday while the Anniversary of the fall
Of Sumter will be on Thursday. n. 1fl
This meeting removed such men as p.
DUNN, JOHN G. THOMPSON, FRED. JAEGER,
JAMES E. LEWIS, VIM. KELSEY, ISAAC EB-
ERLY, JACOB REINHARD, WALsTEIN FAIL
IND, THOMAS SPARROW, from the positions
hat the Sunday meeting of Republicans
nad assigned them. CHARLEY WAGNER had
before the meeting was held.