Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-26
Radical FizzIe at Defiance.
Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman:l
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Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman.l
DEFIANCE, o., Sept. %, 1867.
ED. STATESMAN: AS soon as the Radicals
of this Representative District saw the an
nouncement of our mass meeting which
came off on Friday last, they set about to
counteract the influence which they knew
the meeting would have. John A. Logan
was posted to speak at Defiance on the day
following Vallandigham's meeting, and
every effort was made to excel the Demo-
cratic meeting in numbers, but it was TO
go. Logan's meeting was about the size
of Pendleton's meeting held here in Aug
ust, when the bridges across the streams
which separate Defiance from the densely
settled portions of the county were impas-
sable. His speech was that of a low,
drunken buffoon, as he il, and had not one
word of argument in it from beginning to
end. For instance, such assertions as 1.-The
poor man pays no taxes in this country -
"Vallandigbam is a convicted traitor"
&C., &C., and good imitation of how An
drew johnson acted when he was drunk,
was his style all through the speech. He
forgot to tell his audience that Andrew
johnson was an Abolition President
placed in power by the Abolition party,
and that if he has brought disgrace on the
country, that he, Logan, and his party are
responsible for ir. The only thing Logan
did well, was to initiate drunkard, per-
formance which he is better qualified to do
than any other demagogue in the country,
| from the fact that he has had actual daily
experience of drunken life ever since he
commenced recruiting soldiers for the
rebel army in Southern Illinois when the
war began. 1t would take about one
quart of forty-rod whisky to put to sleep
even as mean a conscience as what Logan
has got, to enable him to play the clown
in behalf of Sambo-as he is now doing
in Ohio.
The fact that Logan sent for a nigger
barber to shave him at his hotel, promis-
ing to pay him for it, and then went off
indebted in the enormous sum of twenty
five cents to the fellow, shows how much
love he has for poor deluded Sambo, and
also shows what he is shedding his croco-
dile tears about when he talks about ne
gro equality; and the truth is, Mr.. Editor,
Logan did actually cry when talking about
Cuffee. An Irishman who saw him play
| ing the hypocrite said: 'tBe jabbers, that's
the first fellow ever saw with his bladder
80 close to his heart"
The contrast between Logan's black
guardism and drunken buffoonery and the
finished and scholarly speech of Mr.. VAL
landigham, was remarked by every body
who heard them. A significant incident
of this meeting is that Logan refused
to permit a Democratic reporter to
report his speech for the STATESMAN
When the request was made of the
Radical committee to report the
speech, they said, " Oh yes, certainly" but
when this meeting was called to order they
refused to permit the absurd jabbering of
the inebriated demagogue to appear in
print. On the day before, when the Radi-
cal reporters requested positions on the
stand for the express purpose of misrepre-
senting MIR. Vallandigham. they were well
coined there under the mistaken, but rather
violent presumption, that they were gen.
tlemen, and would attempt to tell the
truth. The Toledo Commercial had fellow
here who reports one hundred and seventy
eight wagons in the procession at the DEM
ocratic meeting. Why, the silly fellow /;
county alone. Paulding and Highland had
nearly as many, while over four hundred
wagons and carriages were present from
Defiance and Belmont, to say nothing of
| thousands here from Fulton county, Mich
igan and Indiana. The truth is, Mr.. Edi-
tor; there was no procession at the Demo-
cratic meeting; wagons and buggies drove
through the wide streets of Defiance three
aud four abreast, hurrying along pell NELL
to the grove so as to get position near the
stand.
i AS to enthusiasm, there was no compar-
ison. When Vallandigham made his ap-
pearance, the heavens were rent with deaf
ening huzzas, which continued until the
Chairman, the Hon. B. Edgerton, the ven.
era BILE father of Hons. j. X. and A. P. Ed
gerton, of Fort Wayne, called them to or
der for the purpose of introducing Mr.. Val
landigham. The Northwest will give a
glorious account of herself on the Sth OF
October next for Thurman and the Union.