The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-08
DEMOCRATIC SEREKADE
PendletOn and Pugh Crate.
PlOUS TALK 10 TIE FAITHFUL.

Last evening was set spart BY the Demoe-
racy of this city to the dOings of prslimi-
nary meetings, but the unterrifed and un'
washed double. quicked it through their
business of appointing delegates, that they
might Join the monster procession which,
headed by the Father Matthew Band, was
10 proceed TO the Weddell House and tender,
in the way Of a s~erenade, their compliments
to Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton and Hon. Geo.
E. Pugh. A little after Q o'clock the crowd
gathered at the southeast corner of the
Weddell. It was g monstrous meeting
in point of numbers, we mean. We under
stand that General Fitch afterwards treated
the whole assembly, and his bill was $3.50
We do not vouch for the figures. Enthusi-
asm ran high. Democrats threw of somuch
latent heat, that the Thermometer stood at
s5o. The crowd was poorly ventilated, oc-
c~asioninga good deal of stencil and suffocs-
ton. We believe, however, that no one in
the crowd tainted except miscegenstion-
list.
The band struck up, and again strucku up,
as no speaker was ready to loom into view.
At length General J. W. Fitch stated hat
he had the honor to introduce to the i'm
merse assemblage Hon. George 81. Pendle-
ton. The announcement was received with
cheers, when that gentleman stepped for
ward upon the balcony, and spoke briefly,
in substance, as Allows:
He thanked them. He had often had &C.
cssion TO acknowledge the courtesy of the
Democracy of Cleveland. You have to-
night met and chosen delegates to q county
convention. He was glad to hear it. It
was another evidence Of that spirit of per-
sistency and undying energy which has
always characterized the party. Your
pluck and persistence here on the Reserve,
amid political foes, has ELECTED the admirs-
ton of the Democratic party in the rest Of
the State. There was never a time when
your exertiong are more needed, no time
when the questions and issues are more i'm
portant thar now. What are they? One
is the restoration of the Union. The plan
of restoration, as held by our adversaries,
involves the reconstruction of the Constitu-
ton and the remodeling of the government.
| He claimed that in the Federal Convention
of the fathers framing he Constitution
there was a recognition and triumph of the
principle of State Rights. But our oppo-
nents will not leave this question TO
the decision of that document. Nor are
they willing to abide the decision
of the Constitution on the question of Ne
gro Suffrage, the rule of representation in
Congress, &c. They are not in favor OF
maintaining the equality of the States and
extending the Constitution to all the States.
If they are, why not withdraw the military
from ali the States and recognize personal
liberty therein If they do not do this,
they show themselves the Disunion party.
| Their claim to the nam and character of q
Union party is robbery.
After certain other observations and COM
pliments, he retired amid the cheers of the
immense crowd. Tho band struck up
agsIn' anu presently zen. Fitch unS happy
to introduce Hon. Geo. E.. Pugh. He was
welcomed with cheers, when he declared
that he considered it the biggest thing in
the world TO be 9 member of the Demo-
cratic party. Immense applause. 1t is his
greatest privilege TO be q humble, faith full
member of the party,-not q renegade like
Stanton, Holt and Tod but a 'high private
going with you in storm and sun carrying the
glorious flag [but not carrying the election
He proceeded to compare the present con-
dition of the country with that when the
Democratic party was in power. Now we
nave an Internal Revenue Collector. Then
we had no Provost Marshal. Where stand
we? (Cheers.) We are eaten up with tax
alton. (Great applsuse.) As a lawyer he
was taxed, but the rich ~bondholder is sx-
empt. Such discrimination shall not much
longer exist. Unconstitutional or not, the
bondholder shall be taxed. We toll and
sweat and must be taxed previously, while
the wealthy, indolent bondholders stalk ex-
f6tsSy shall 4 81 iSSpJIsEs6:d PHEiSseD till th4snR a
made up it's m TO this.
ment that We IcheefsJ have whipped the
South. He never doubted that zoe would.
The South is anxious, crazy to get back
into the Union. He thought the war was
waged to force them back into the Union,
and yet the abolitionists will not let them
in lest, when they come to vote again, abo-
litionism will come to its end.
He complimented them for their glorious
work this evening in attending the primary
meetings. Nominate your county ticket.
Keep in the party. Don't try to be 8 better
Catholic than the Pope, and thus fly of
like Stanton, Holt and Tod. He had known
Gen. Morgan ten years. He has always
been the purest Democrat the speaker ever
knew. Go into the fight. Don't get dis
couraged. [Sensation He had voted the
Democratic ticket twenty years. Always
made him feel good to vote it. [Cheers.
The party had honored him. He hoped it
wouldn't make him q candidate again, but
he should die, as he had lived, a Democrat.
The band played another piece, when
the crowd retired.