Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-08-23

THE DEMOCRATIC MEETIEG-We have
scarcely ever known a more wretehed polit-
icaI dascO than the Democratic meeting on
Tuesday. During the forenoon little squads
of the unterrided came struggling into town
until by noon the man selling magic oil and
razor strops on the corner had a crowd
around him Of perhaps Is or 100. BY noon
it was manifest the men Of Delaware county
who were down on the Rump'' and .'agin
the niger were fewer in number than the
most sangline Union man had guessed, and
even those few were the same old squad who
araIlied for peace in ''63 and' 81 About one
P. n. a band OF music started mp street pre-
ceded by a huge dirty linen coat and a great
mustache said to belong to one Van Trump,
and followed by about $50 men and boys.
said mustache, coat band and boys proceed
cd to the College Campus where the man
TT-Umpeted as the orator Of the day proceed
ed to condoIe about 100 Republicans and 200
Democrats with a pitifuI jerem1ade about
the ''nigger," the "bondhoIder'' and the
"Rump." It reminded Us of the minister
who announced that he would preach about
1.-The world, the flesh, and the devil, % saying
na would 9glance at the world, pass lightly
over the flesh and hasten to the devil" Van
Trump commenced vigorously on athe mig
gers evidently intent on reaching the afore-
said conclusion of his speech in double
quick time, but finding the subject stale he
changed his base and harangued his audi
ence about the constitution Of the United
states, divers and sundry portions of which
he read from BIcPherson's Political Manual
Ia Johnson once said ''if You find man
prating, etc) Mr.. Van Trump finally prov
ed to mis- own satisfaction that the constitu-
tionaI amendment abOlishing slavery was
constitutional and then tried his hand at
taxes, a subject with which he was .evl-
IDENTIFY not familiar, for. in order to express
himself with due clearness upon this sub
leet he found it necessary to refer his manu-
script which, with explanation to this effect,
he thereupon drew forth. But the manu-
script, or something else was at fault, for af
ter giving his audience to understand that
the United states have incurred debt Of
about nine thousand millions Of dollars Mr.
Van Trump branehed on ON Kentucky and
the icraeI and unnatural srelpsion of the reb-
el delegation thereof from Congress. The
speaker evidently needed a stimulant about
this time and hence, probably, his thoughts
reverted to Kentucky and her BOurbOn(s).
He next reverted again to finance and final
ly reached the assertion that the Radicals of
today are the direct uneaI descendants of
the revolutionary tories, to which several
american citizens off0reign birth vigorous
had remembered that this same Van Trump
went about Ohio few years ago making
speeches demanding that america should
be ruled by Americans" and no foreigner
should vote until he had resided here at
least twenty one years. They ought to have
remembered, too, that this same Van Trump
who was once q candidate on the Know
Nothing State ticket, afterwards made
speech at a Democratic convention in favor
Of secession, that is, in favor Of letting rebels
'iruIe America, This same individual now
claunors for having 'fwhite men rule Ameri-
ca and putting this beside his former prop
osition one must conclude that he does not
consider foreigners ''whitef' men. In fact
Mr. Van Trump is down on Irishmen, Ger
mans FNiggers and sich." He was followed
I by Mr.. Frank 6urd who took lesson from
his predecessor. When Mr.. Van Trump
wandered from the negro into reeonstrue-
ton he found himself out Of his element
| in fact like a fish out OF water. But Mr..
Hurd was prudent and adhered to the negro
all through. His periods were well rounded
but the whole course Of his speech reminded
| one of an individual who, with nothing to
/ say is compelled to f'fill in the time" In the
l evening AIr. Hurd made a second speech ct
! the American House in which he again dis
eoursedabout the negro, with occasional va
rieties about Greece and Rome. He was fol-
lowed by Col, Reid who seemed to be in a de-
| Yotional frame of mind and quoting scrip
| ture freely drew therefrom several pious
suggestions for the benehto Of his Democrat
ic auditors. He then branched OF upon wool,
a subject in which he was more at nome and
his audience was SOC all there.