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Pleasant Reading for the Dog
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Pleasant Reading for the Dog.
Days.
From the Frederick Union, 10th inst.
THE MEETING.
The Radicals belonging to the "Loy-
al LEGION" numbering some forty or
fifty persons, held Il meeting in the
Courthouse yard in this city on last
Friday evening at s O'Clock.
1t was called to order by Col. Yer
non, who, after making Il few remarks
introduced Mr.. Upton Buhrman, of
Myersvillc, known in this county as
'the soldiers friend O. This gen
tleman having committed a piece to
memory, was itching to recite it at this
meeting, and an opportunity having
been afforded him, he did 50 in the
most bumgling manner, without the
slightest regard for the Kings English.
The funny, but indelicate dog tale,
which constituted Il portion Of his
piece, had no particular application,
and was only calculated to impress the
fact upon the minds Of his hearers,
that the speaker himself had "comc at
them with his other end" He charged
that all the rebels, traitors, bushwhack-
ers and horse thieves were to be found
in the Johnson party. After speaking
about twenty minutes he came to u sud
den halt, as if he had forgotten the bal
ance of his piece, and sat down, to the
great relief of himself and his wearied
and worm out audience. OF course no
one present regarded this as q speech,
and we do not SO record it.
STOKES MISTAKEN FOR MAYNARD-THE
DELUSIoN OF FAME.
Col. Stokes, ofTennessee, who, it is
said, was originally q Yankee school
master, and one among the first to
raise a rebel company at the beginning
of the late war, and who does not feel
himself altogether safe in the State OF
his adoption at the present time, was
the speaker Of the evening. He was
profuse in his compliments to the ladies
of Frederick city--thanked God that
every mar in the United States is now
a free man-reiteratcd the sentiments
ofhis recent Boston speech-justilied
the course Of the majority in Congress
Expressed himself in favor Of the All
%sorption Of State rights and the cen
traI.ization Of power in the hands OF
Congress-opposed the National Union
Convention to be held in the city OF
Philadelphia on the 14th Of August
denied in the most emphatic manner
that Congress had been wasting il
time in legislating for, and talking
about, the negro, and added, that mot
adozen speeches had been made for
the negro during the whole seven
months in which Congress had been IN
session. This unwarranted dcclara-
ton was endorsed by one ofthe "Loyal
Legion" of equal veracity with Mr..
Stokes. who cried out at the top Of his
yOicc-"nOt one"
CONGRESS AND NEGRO.
Col. Stokes defended the action OF
Congress in its passage Of the Civil
Rights Bill, and fairly, squarely, and in
the most flaU-fOotcd manner, advocated
negro suffrage. He said that the ne
grocs had fought for the Union-that
they were entitled to respect, and that
we should have no peace until they
we're clothed with the right to vote.
He said that here i'll Maryland it may
take one, two, or five years, and posi-
bly, ten, before negroes are permitted
to vote, but that it was sure to come
sooner or later, all over the country,
He then went into All argumentto prove
that the prejudices OF the white ma'
against the negro on account OF his
color, were altogether foolish, idle ant
unjust, and Illustrated it by saying that
he had often voted by the side of white
Inc who were not, in his opinion, Lis
equals.
A Brutal ATTACK MADE IN a CHARAC.
TERIsTIC STYLE.
Col. Stokes next INDUCED himself il
a trade of coarse and bitter abuse OF
President Johnson, whom he charged
with betraying and deserving the party
which had elected him to his present
position, or in other words, to use the
classic language ofCol. Stokes, "Pres.
idcnt Johnson, like Il SOW, has returned
to wallow in his own filth He then
charged President Johnson with being
drunk at the Inauguration-with being
too drunk to escort Mr.. Lincolns wife
around the room at the Inauguration!
Ball, as is customary, and that that dn-
ty devolvcd upon Charles Sumner
that Mr.. Johnson sat back in the com
pany Of the servants who had been dc
tailed to take care of him that he
seemed envious and jealous Of Snmncl
for monopolizing the honors whicl
properly belonged to himself, anc
spoke in i~ncoherent terms of Charles
Sumner as only the theoretical friendo
the negro, while he claimed to be hi:
practical friend; that he had beer
heard to calculate repeatedly, whilst il
the condition just described, "Im VICE
President, by God!' He next attempt
ed to prove, by reading ''garbled ex
tracts, as Bill Arp would call them
that President Johnson had gone fur
Their in behalf of the negro than Wen
dell Phillips or Tliad. Stevens, fol
which the negroes, to show their graft
tude, had raised four hundred dollars
by contributions among themselves
with which they purchased a gold watcl
and presented to him, and that he 4
now wearing that very watch!
AN INCIDENT.
Col. Stokes was about to conclude
milan I'll Nornnn rnnInsfnl him IL