The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-08-31
rHEmEErING IN THE REBEL CAMP

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We were out of town on the day of
he ratification meeting in which it
appeared publicly that Roland, in the
estimation of his own party, was an
mbecile, AMI we have therefore de-
pended upon communications for re-
port Of the proceedings. We give be-
low another on the same subject
Poor Roland had hardly feather left
on him, when Olds came to his rescue.
He had been Old's Dog Tray, and po-
litical hod carrier ever since the war;
and the Blessed Martyr had to come
to his rescue and save him by trick.
Whatever Olds said about parliament
airy usage was gospel, tor nobody else
know anything about it. Old Sam
Ewing, the President, sat Ikea wooden
man, looking on and not knowing what
to do to stop the Bquabble, and Billy
Rigby sat down as soon as Olds told
him the question was not debatable,-
So Olds got the resolution on the table
and made fools Of all the Convention,
and Roland won't know any better
than TO hold on to the Eagle, even if
Olds didsay that he would give as
much as any other man to get him
out.
LANCASTER, O., Aug. 10th, '65.
MeSsrs. Editors:-I noticed in your
last issue an account Of the farcical at
tempt of the old clique of Locotoco
leaders of Lancaster to mutiny against
Roland, in their County Convention,
which, even that old line whig, now a
leading member OF the clique be SO Of
ten denounced as the "Red Lodge"
Van Trump, is said to have pronounc-
ed "a damned farce" i.- 55 .a,a
One thing seems evident, that since
the "old line wings" have attempted
to run the party, by means OF tho
town clique, all thoir efforts have end
ed in farces and fizzles. lin
To the old Democracy Of, Fairfield
it must seem rather humiliating, tha
ridicule and disgrace are attached tt
them constantly, because they have
petted fostercd and advanced every
proselyte and deserter to tho neglec
of tho "old truo blues" ,ts..
OF those now holding Office, and be
longing to tho town clique, and en-
deavoring to control the Fairfield
county Democracy and its organ, thu
Eagle, wo find prominent, Whig-and
Know Nothing Van Trump Judge
Wing and Know Nothing Urine {
Rutter, candidate for Representative
Whig Schopp, Auditor, who in 186
Ibecame a Loco Foco because Va
Trump and Rutter, with other whig'
were organizing Know-Nothing Lodg
es; Wing Leohner, Probate Judge
!, Know Nothing-and -Abolitionist Sha'
now Locotoco Justice of the Peac'
Cork-leg Sharp, promised the candid'
cy for Senator If he would pitch int
Roland; Baltimore Plug, Ugly Stool
. dale, vigorous Lincoln and war.to-eI
a termination member of Maryland Les
isature in 1861, also promised cand
! dacy for Senator; Anti-Secession, Ant
: Coercion natural. .Know- Nothing Sloue
c whom Roland is said to have mat
f Prosecuting Attorney to his cost,
n por cost bills in the riot cases, also
be candidate for Senator; Brigadi
II General. Colonel Schleich, who, befo
x the smell of gunpowder induced hi
o to retire from the service, denouncC
IT the Eagle as, an emanation from Ric
= mond, also ,oiShing to bc Senator; 5
" :, John Tuthill, general and political
gent, and little "dog Tray ever fait
S. ful" for fossilized and most etfectu;
% ~ played out Ex-Governor, and Ia
o and perhaps least, old Fcdoralist, o
=, Wing, old garralous, DR.. Berstler.
J These are the leaders, who desir
1t to control Roland, failing in whic
8, they made asses Of themselves
l. bringing the matter before sparse b
we'll selected couaty Convention.
nice party this, for guardians in lun
l. cy or cuStodes moruua for poor Rolan
IS Not his politics but his morals, not /
d zeal and worth but his measure OF
IT bility, were to be decided upon by tn
i intellectual body of men. They shou
- have hoard Alf. Burnetts sermon
70 fore undertaking their job and esI
6, cially remembered his text-PFor tn
st shall gnaw file, and fec unto I
of mountains Of Hepsidam, whar the Ii
:, roareth and the whangdoodlo mour
~ eth for its first born" ..
or They did, poor devils, guaw q &
os Roland had been too consistent q n
10 81, the Martyr Olds couldn't forget
y labors in tho "dark days." tho ra
=, and flo who read the Eagle as the
~ vangcl of Democracy, and infalliblo
holy writ, couldn't go back on tho ]
O. itor who had carried them into tr
"A, son, the now cardinal principle OF
bo party. So Roland triumphod, and n
~ the clique follow right obediently
o. his hcols, and in the future no
mt amusc himself by dealing out kicks
n the most obsequious, . ..
d. Tuthill and Slough can honcofo
=, only get in two column edltoria
w platitudes, by his grace, and Berst
u. Van Trump's whang- doodle, will mo'
ed in vain ovor Roland's doreiict act
he permitting that promising, nowly-6
child of locofocoism to be strangled
49, the columns cfthc Eagle.
ur Colt Roland! Colt old line W h