Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-28
THE GREAT BLACK AND TAN
/ rF MEETINGlI
ARRITAL OF Gov. MORTON,
OF INDIANA.
He is Welcomed at the Depot with
the roar of ARTILLERY and the
shouts of more than H.
100000 People gathered
there 10 welcome him.
THE EPROCESsION TO THE NEIL
HOUSE.
A PERFECT OVATION !!
IN A PIGS EYE!!!
Columbus All Right.
SHE WHEELS INTO LINE
THE SPOKE MORTON PUT IN
THAT WHEEL.
THE BIGGEST MEETING YET.
NOT A DEMOCRAT IN THE
CROWD.
Columbus All Right.
SHE WHEELS INTO LINE
TRE SPOKE MORTON PUT IN
THAT WHEEL.
THE BIGGEST MEETING YET
NOT A DEMOCRAT IN THE
CROWD.

At the witching hour of 1 o'clock yeste =
day afternoon the boom of the cannon an.
nounced the arrival of the train from In
dianapolis bearing Gov. Morton.
1t was not a special train. 1t came on
purpose.
AS near as we can estimate it 1000, 900
of our citizens turned out to welcome the
illustrious man. The Journal invited them
to come. And they came. On foot. In
carriages. On horseback. In buggies
In wheelbarrows. On shutters. Some
walked. And some came on foot.
There was the Chairman of the State
Central Union Republican Radical Black
and Tan Committee. And the Secretary.
And the Chairman OF the county ditto. And
the Secretary. And two enthusiastic chaps
who will turn out for ride any time, fel-
lows who like fun. We were there. In a
body. It's the way we always go.
The Governor being in the depot, was es-
corted to his carriage In the following or
der:
1. Governor Morton and his speech in
carriages.
2. Chairman State Central Committee in
carriages.
8. Secretary ditto, ditto in carriages.
4. Chairman County Central Committee
in carriages.
5. Secretary ditto, ditto in carriages.
6. Two invited guests in carriages.
z. Ourself on foot.
8, gknash ON foot.
{! The procession being formed, marched
to the Neil House, where itwas counted by
q very celebrated arithmetician and found
to consist of just six persons, not counting
reporters. As a procession, it was sue
cess.
At night several rockets were sent up
A brass band discoursed most eloquent
music. We could not but remark the ap-
propriateness of the pieces played, consid-
ering the 'base Copperhead lies told for
electioneering purposes" about o. P. The
first piece played was "Come where my
love lies dreaming" Any one who knows
Morton knows he wouldn't do any such
thing. Another was "Eyangeline, they
have laid thee where the weeping willow
grows" just as if it was the Senator's bu-
slness where Evangeline was lying.
! The late P. M. General introduced the
Senator from Hoop-pole township. The
late P. M. General made healthy speech
BE soft-soaped O. P. as if he designed
swallowing him atterward. He told his
" "neighbors and friends" that because OF
an "affiiction" Morton would be obliged
to "sit down and read from his manu-
script" We could understand that Nor
toms "aff1iction" would prevent his stand
ing up, but why did it compel him to read
his speech?
There was a large crowd present. Not
10000, as will be stated in the Journal this
morning. The number would perhaps
reach 1,o00. There we're no women OF
Democrats in the crowd. At least blind
man told us if there was he couldn't see
them. -.
When Morton commenced his "spoke,' -
perhaps half the crowd retired in disgust,
liable to hear. Before he finished,
h, didn't have three hundred
au litars, and they mostly. manhoods.
The speech was rehash OF the. Radical
argument, "An Democrats are traitors, ant
all traitors are Democrats" He sticks tc
the truth like burr to sleeps back. HI
said that, but Tor the treason of Northern
Democrats, the Rebellion would not have
lasted beyond the year 1862. 1t strikes us
that the darkest days for our cause were
about August, 1862, and that from tha
time forward the suppression of the Re
bellion was but a question of time. But we
amt ''loyal,' you know, and may be mis-
taken. os.
Taken altogether, Gov. Morton's adven
here shows how badly the RAIDS. are fright.
ened. His speech last night will but make
Democratic voters in Franklin county.