Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-11-14
WHOLE NO. 2615.

are made TO pay the penalty OF their
crimes the better. loud cheers from the
citizens and yells Of indignation from the
gang on the City Hall steps echoed and
re-echoed by their retainers in different
parts of the erowd.) Organized thieves
| Tcheers, systematic plunderers with
their arms up to TIE elbow in the public
treasury while they fleh the means of
their subsistence, they simply hire rufians
TO attack these they dare not meet in any
other way Ithree cheers from the citizens;i
and while one can pardon the poor delu-
/ ded men who do their masters bidding,
yet an indignant people will not pardon
him who sets them on. A voice. ''we
will put honest men in Office. For here
and now charge-I charge this mob upon
HOffman. ICheers. Yes, as here and
now charge the murder of babies and
children to Horatio Seymour. TGreat
sensation, groans and cheers Both are
equally responsible, and both will sooner
or later meet the reprobation of an indig-
nant community. One has gone out and
the other is following him. ICheers and
grOans. Why, what would you expect?
In 1858 the men who are now halloing
and hOOting were the men who were kill
ing negro children! They are the men
who were numbering babes, when they
dare not look man in the face-Teheers
and groans, those of the mob nearest the
stand who could hear the speaker shouting
and dancing with rage, and the police
busy keeping them back;1 and when the
power of the armies of the United States
came here they were the first to bow their
heads. Cheers and groans.1 Why the
poor fools daughter, cheers and groans.)
have faced your superiors ia Baltimore
and New Orleans. (Great disorder and
excitement, three cheers for Gen. Butler
have hung your betters (eheers) and if
you don't behave shall get the chance to
do the same to you. Three cheers for
Butler.) / have seen many more than
you with arms in their hands, with minnie
rifles and mnskets and bayonets, and I did
not finch from them. Do YOU suppose 1
shall finch from onion sinking breathss
{ Laughter, groaEs and cheers A man
who has smelt gunpowder can stand garlic.
Laughter, groans and cheers.l You the
hooters here think you are the EQUALS of
the negro, oh mol Tremendous cheers
and groans.) The negro is as much, as
your superior as Heaven Is
above the hell where you are going
Cheers and groans. 1 40 not respect
you and l certainly do not want your re-
spect. You may be quite sure do not
fear you. You are not to overpower free
speech and free thought, and insane howl
ings will not take the place u arguments.
Now, then, men of the Five Points
Laughter and ehoers,) bullies of the
oavdy house thieves Of the lobbyl and
burglars of the TOmbs daughter, groans,
cheers and hcwls, resembling a chorus Of
simply declare here, as
.he voice of the nation, that you are not
it for the exercise of the elective franchise
great excitement) and in no better way
than this could you demonstrate the tact.
do not wish to handy words with an
gnorant foolish, excited crowd, and I
have only used these few describing
spithets in order that they may UNDER
stand that I neither love nor fear them,
md that there is an end to patience. Dis
,ussion here, such as would convince rea-
'o1ing men, saw at first was not to be
hoped, and only waited until the men
Who, otherwise it mIghs Be said, were
)ut the incidents of the crowd, had with
lrawn. When I saw that order could not
,e restored, from that moment ] determin-
d l would speak to those men as they de-
served and in language which they would
because familiar to their ears.
The crowd here swayed to and fro, vio-
ent men endeavoring to force their way
trough the line OF police which surround
i the stand. A number of large plaeards
we're held up in various parts of the crowd,
'earing the inscription, working mems
Governor, John T.
Hoffman, for Supervisor, Joseph R. Tay-
or."l
Gen. Butler-The police now have one
dvantage, they know that every man
folding one of those cards is a rioter. If
We should Judge by the number of cards,
bere would be about one to thousand
cheers not more, and probably less.
Three cheers were given for John T.
Iofmsn, and an excited man in the
rOwd near the stand, pointing to one of
he cards which a boy was holding near
i'm, shouted to Gen. Butler, 1--WE will
lOut for JEFF. Davis, too" Three cheers
Immediately followed from those who sur
1unded him and heard his exclamation,
nd fight ensued, which was quickly
1elled by the police.