Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-09-19
VALLANDIGHAM in WARREN
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Tells the Cops. to 500 mp
They 500 In'' and are Glad to
Get Out, &

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VALLANDuGHAM, the Head Ten-C Center Of
Rebel Democracy, was on exhibition in War
ren, on Monday. The little junto of Yallan-
dighammers in this place, who lead their fol-
lowers in the County by the nose, as asses
are, conceived the idea of getting up a free
show, as q means of remRnerating those who
had contributed their ten cents to the Val
landigham fund when he was ''waiting and
watching over the border"
The greatest pains were taken to inform
the faithful that the great mogul was to be
here. Monday came and brought clouds and
rain, mud and copperheads. The heavens
frowned and wept that men should be so base
as to greet a traitor to liberty with an ovation
of praise. The crowd came in large numbers,
considering the weather. Of course there
were many attracted to town through cnrios-
ity to see a man who had made himself 50 in
famous in the dark days of the nations his
tory. Some came as to witness a menagerie
of wild beasts or to see o notorious criminal
hanged. We are sorry to believe alargs pro
portion Of those present were in full sympa-
thy with the traitor, and not a whit better
than he. There, were, however, hundreds
present, who despised the traitor and his
treason. To the brave men who had p%erilled
their lives to suppress the rebellion that Val
l~andigham had consistently supported. he Is
now, and ever will he, especially ~repugnant'
1t was hardly to be expected that men who
had met the hosts of treason in mortai COM
bat, could silently hear traitors Landed and
the cause for which they had risked AMI suf-
fered so much, denounced as unjust and I'M
holy, by a notorious rebel sympathizer, and
not give utterance to their hearty contempt
for such g man The Democrats kncY, as
well as they had need to know, that Vallan-
digham was regarded Rs s political nuisance
by nine tenths of this COMMUNICATED thou-
sands despise him as a traitor, and that ma
ny of the loyal eitizens of the town and eoun-
ty felt that it was a designed insult and fla
grant outrage on this community to presume
TO bring so hated q man into their midst. So
bitter was the feeling with a certain class,
that 1t required no little effO;t to ~restrain it.
We were aware of this feeling prior Ia the
meeting, and avoided saying anything in our
columns 10 inflame or intensity the minds and
prejudices of any one toward Y~allandigham
or his worshipers,
Therefore when the speaker used Language
offensive to soldiers and Union men, it was
hardly to be expected they would silently per-
nit q traitor to fling an insult in their teeth.
Thsre were, however, but few Interruptions,
until Vallandigham began to show ill-tem-
per. Voices Of tell us about Canada" Ten
Gents" &c, were occasionally heard An
~allusIon by the speaker to Gen. Garfield was
responded 10 by some present with cheers
This seemed to touch Vallandigham OF IL ten
der spot, and he commenced to draw up his
coat sleeves as for fight, at the same time in
an excited tone said: 81 will not be insult
ted. Andrew johnson may be, but / will
not; l want to know if there are not enough
Democrats here to clean those fellows out
If they are not cleared out I will stop peak
ing" This invitation to an outbreak was
complied with by his friends, and a little knot
of Union boys were bounced upon ana with
kicks and blows driven from the Park. Val
landigham's head man in the ARRAY was 8
sneaking Lordstown deserter. This assault
opened the ball. After the boys had a few min
utes time TO rally their soldier comrades, The
YaIlandighammers had a busy time of it,
They were given TO understand that Their
were men present who had whipped rebel
before, and would not run from them nov
The affair began to grow interesting, AM
VaIlandigham perceiving that several fight
around the Park were more attractive 10 tn
crowd than his remarks, again dried mp. L
few minutes comparative order reigned an
the speaker proceeded. Soon to the rear c
the stand a disturbance occurred, in whie'
several hundred persons were concerned, yel
ling, grooming, huriahing, pulling, swearing
and seemingly enjoying miscellaneous fight
This, Of course, again interrupted the speak