Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-15

except the right to hang by the neck, nor
should they have until they had given ev-
idenceo of sincere repentance and furnished
security that they would not plunge tho
land in wal and bloodshed in a secret at
tempt to disrupt the Union under which
they are now so vociferous in claiming
rights
Somebody's OK was goredl "The sit .ua-
ton" had become desperatei The pup
pets had been iostled, and were not. now
available To the rescue! The g1essians
must be brought up! The valis mt Louis
Schaefer mounts the rostrum> He realizes
the absurdity of an avOwed rebel coming
TO the. defence Of a "Isepublica meeting.
A bright idea strikes hin. He had been
feebly called for early in the evening.
Thusly he began: 'Yr. President, l vos
called for dis evening to make Won speech,
and l now desire to perform dat duty"
Sohaefer is a better rebel, if that were pos
sible, than Vallandigham. He never loses
an opportunity to avow his Odious senti-
ments. He denounced, on this occasion,
everything loyal, including the prosecu-
ton of the war, the emancipation proc
lamation, the Freedman's Bureau, and the
sending of yankee schOol-marms toteach
de niggers D then, going hack thirty years,
had much to say about dat contemplate
schpeck upon de POLITICAL horizon, de con-
tempteble abolition party" Becoming
very much excited, he i~naugurated a con-
troversy with Judge Underhill, in which
he was roughly handled. The Judge was
armed at all points. Igive you two or
three passages. Shaefer demanded to
know what the Judge-who is
rather advanced in years for a " fighting
man., but who always contributed by
word, deed and money to the success of
the Government VOt you do to put
down de rebellion ~ Said the Judge
cody, " I staid at home and helped to
keep down such traitors as you" ZAP
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Schaefer referred to the fact that he had
always denounced the war, for the reason,
he said, that he had no faith in the party
prosecuting it, and then, turning to Judge
Underhill, said: "Ven l told you desc
tings-dat dis yos a contemplate abolition
war, you called me Won traitor and rebel"
Wei, wasn't it so p was the slowly
uttered reply Of the Judge.
The "noise and confusion" covered the
Hesslan's retreat.
Schaefer accused Underhill of having
sat in a Know Nothing lodge.
"Thank God" said the Judge, II never
sat in a lodge cf the Sons of Liberty"
The would-be rebel Congressman from
the Seventh District-a fit companion for
the Southern Representatives whom a.
johnson threatens to force into Congress
at the point Of the bayonet-was repulsed
at every advance. Disguised, discomft-
ted, and discouraged, he quit the geld.
MeGregor, now the only remaining re-
serve, rus?ed madly into the deadly
breach. He thrust widely about for a mo-
ment, when Col. Ed. F. Schneider, the
gallant and true Representative of Stark
in the State Legislature, Who fEcn force
of habit in the field, always makes it a
point to hit q rebel head wherever he
sees it, spiked the last gun of the enemy
by proving that McGregor's arguments
we're nothing but f~alsehOOds. The battle
was won ana the " graybscks in full re-
treat.
The cuisines of the meeting was then
h~urriedly disposed of. The report of the
| COMMITTEES on Resolutions, consisting of a
single resolution endorsing the Bread and
Butter letter of Hon. Thomas Ewing, Was
adopted, although few of the voting por-
ton of the audience he'd any definite idea
| Of "what that meant
UTiah Z. Feather was appointed to re-
present the Bread and Butterflies Of Stark
at Philadelphia. A motion to publish the
proceedings in the two republican papers
of the city vas voted down by the irate
"DemoeracF,' who seemed to think this
their only means of retaliation upon the
contemplate" Republicans. The rebel
squad then "broke ranks."
During the evening, in answer TO a
direct question, DR.. Slusser, a I'D emocrat,'
admitted that he was instrumental in call
ing the meeting. SPECTATOR.