The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-09-26
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lFrom the Cleseland Herald. !

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Mr. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GEN
rLEM2N::-In response to a call, |
made a speech in Youngstown,
which has been extensively
copied by the Orion Press in and
out ofthis State, and published in
pamphlet form without my sofltifa
ton or Knowledge, ell Of which
construe as complimentary. 4 Pen
sylvania paoer says: Gray's Yonngs-
town speech has created a sensation
all over Ohio most profound. This
too, my vanity CONSTITUTES as compli
mentary; but all this is nothing com
pared, with the far more
flattering compliment paid
me by the whole Confed-
crate Press of the State, in their
coarse, bitter, obscene. frothy ray
ings, ratings and writings Their
forked toilgued venom is all aimed
at me personally No"one does or
no one dare deny one word of the
speech, or attempt to rebut an argu-
ment. 1t+aE'i" "it -
They cry seidiot and and then lash
themselves into a fury over my ar
ray of f,unanswefabIe facts. Strange
that they should be SO disturbed by
an idiot. They call me deacon
to degrade me in the estimation of
the cir readers. / don't deny it any
more than Thurman does my pic
ture of him. They charge me with
going into the army, another crime
|1confess. l They say / was an officer
in 'nigger" regiment; that's true
too, and the ronduct of that reoi-
ment was such in the faceaof the en-
emy as to give me no occasion to
be ashamed of my position. 80. :
Being over fifty when the war
broke oat, no shaving of face, or
Rings Ambrosfa could set me back
to an enlisting age, and so anxious
was to help Steady our fag,- that,
when surprised by a commission
sent me by President Lincoln, to Of
feera eolored regiment. / cheerful
ly accepted it, and defy the taunts OF
these patriotic. stay atehomesE lean
I give them bigger things than these
to fling at me, Rather than stay al
home to discourage enlistments and
oppose the draft as they did, 1 would
have even pulled the brides from q
thousand jackasses, and sent them
heels first, galloping high behind in
to Richmond, to kick jeff Davis
brains out. i Fling that mp, ,sympa
thizers! Once When. the Johnnies
came rushing through the brush to-
ward lines with the terrific yell, l dis
mounted, hitched my horse, .seizee
a musket and fell into nigger lines
as an equal private, and under- tou
bic quickrushed to meet these noisy
modern democrats Fling that up,
Home Guards | can ohlige yo,
with some traits I'm social life, tt
taunt me with for instance, / have
not swallowed livuor enough in for
ty years to make me drunk if takel
all at once. Can anything degrad,
uie WofSO III GHttf Eyes AllUOSI Ill
bad as to be a hafdsheA Baptist Dea
icon. They say the Deacon amt wortl
minding, and thenext day they sa,
they wont mind the Deacon, anC
the next and the next, and with
clenched fists and gritting teeth the.
keep "won't minding the Deacon.
| The enquirer grunts, the Crisi
groans, the Statesman growls, tn
Plain Dealer gnashes its toothles
gums, all at the Deacon,-nothin;
Z at the speech. $50 CfGg{s 9r&f i,.
i Now, gentlemen, it is of no earth
ly consequence whether ] am fit fo
governor ornot, / am not a candi
date. It is of no manner of accoun
! now whether I had more or les
: brains than my lamented brother }
w. Gray, whom the s.Seneea Chiefs
tof the ItaiadedIer, in such goo
), taste, drag from his grave to testif
: to the feeble brains of Tire brother
that grave into which he went whil
his paper was, withhis approval, ,sus
u tanning the Union party and givin
: gallant battle to the Confederate PSI