Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-22

at Buffalo BY O, ,fElend VINO proughI Ietgsrs
from other friends at Chicago, protesting
agaihstiny return and warning ms that ~
would be inevitably killed If L did Linz
sisted 1ppen cgeipgrand1 did SOIL aarrivea,
| there in, the morning, went to my hotel,
and attera few days, three or four Issued
a notice Of speech to be made .byme7 I'M
front of.NOrth Market Hall All the news
papers, the cityldenoupced me, anydpnb--
| lished daily articles encouraging personal
| Violence reminding the people that In
| 1850, on tF6 passage OF the lCompbomise
Measures, j had returned and succeeded il,
euelling an outbreak against those meas
ures, and that this thing could not be done
a second time. Know 2Nothibgism lad,
| pending the Nebraska bill. been organized
in the United States tor the, first time, and
! in Chicago the anti-Neb ebraska men had or
| ganized Into Know Nothing lodges, and
! probably Included within those lodges
nine-tenths Of all the men in the city. II
was, ascertained that they secretly deter
! mined and bound themselves bytheir oaths
not to allow me to speak; and it is known
| that one Of these thirty or forty lodges or
| dered by telegraph, aud received by express
| from New York, the night before was to
speak, two hundred and fifty of Colts re-
Yolvers. 'iI 1i'.tiI9i i4" ifjilh 'f
| When the day arrived the flags were
hung at haltlmas on the shipping IN the
barbor, and for several hours, before, the
! time appointed all the church bells III the
city were tolled, at which signal the mob
assembled inia force of about ten thous-
.and,1I had forty or fifty men who pre-
tended to be with me privately, but not
| half a dozen were so openly they were
all afraid. At the appointed hour re-
paired to the meeting and went upon the
stand, and was greeted by that unearthly
yell taught and practieed in the Know
Nothing. .lOdges-a howl no man can imi-
| tate, | stood and looked at the mob until
the bowling ceased. When they ceased, i
commenced by saying, that II appear be.
fore you Tonight for the purpose of yindi-
eating the Kansas-N ebraska act" Before
the sentence was ended the howl began
again. When it ceased would begin,
and AS soon as commencedTit it was re-
newed. At times l appealed to their
| pride as the champions of free speech, tor
a hearing; the howling was renewed; at
other times / would deneunce them as d
set of towards, who came armed with
| boWie-kniYes, and pistols to put down one
man unafmed-afraid. to hear the truth
lspoken, lest there might be some honest
msn among them who would be con
Yinced,HaI Hr.f ."f .1 v-s ral FtF or.
t. At one time gotta hearing for ten or ,fif-
/ teen minutes, and was evidently making
an impression upon the crowd, when there
marched in from the outside a body.Of1three
or four hundred men with red shirts, dress
ed as sailors, and thoroughly armed, who
j moved through the crowd Immediately in
/ front, and peremptorily ordered me to
leave. Istood and. looked at Gthem until
they ceased yelling, and then denounced
them, and put them at defiance, and dared
| taV N n-hn al aN IN np1r nh 10
| pistols began to fire all around the outside
of the crowd. evidentlyiintO the air; eggs
4 and stones were thrown,at the stand, sew
| eral OF them hitting men who were near
me, and for several hours this Wild eOnfu-
! sion and fury continued. The wonder lis
that amid that vast excited crowd anO ONT
was so far excited or .maddened as to fire .
q, ball at me. The stand was, crowded with
i my enemies, reporters and newspaper men
and this was undoubtedly my best pro-
lection. | stood upon the front of the
j stand, IN the midst of that confusion
from eight O'Clock in. the evening until
quarter past twelve at night when | sud
denly drew my watch from my pocket
looked at it in front Of the crowd, and in q
distinct tone of voice said, at an interval o1
SILENCE: sit is now Sunday morning--I1l n
3, 20 to church and you may 20 to hell " and
. IIretlred amid the uproar, got into my car
}, riage and rode to my hoFeE The o6r6wG
n followed 'the5rcarriage, and came .uneaI
throwipgIit off the bridge into the river as
we crossed; they bad seized il for thatpur-
pose and lifted It, bat the driver whipped
his horses Violently, and dashed through
and over them. andcwent to theTTremont
House, Where Iretired to Eeem! The
4 mob, at least 5000, followed, and commenc-
led tf1eir hoYls in Lake Street, fronting my
room 9T The tlahdEer4A begged me I'd leave
tiie house. fearing they would burn Jibup
d diwhereupon l raised -myswindew, walked
out OH the balcony, took a good look a
them, and told them that. the day woult
d come when they would hear me, and ther
bade them good night. u. 'Ss' 1iA' 'l''' ~