Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-22
BLACK and Tan Ratiffca tfou
Meeting At Brownsville, O.
[Oorrespondence Of Che Ohio Statesman,

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BROWNSVILLE, o., July IL, 1868.
A grand rally of the Tanites or dark
colored GRANTEES. was held on the evening
OF the 10th inst, fellow by the name OF
Spencer, with the assumed title of M. d.
attached to his name, and Colonel, Mont
gomery by name, from Louisiana, making
the call, and after drumming up for about
a week, they succeeded in collecting a
crowd of less than twenty of the regular
unmixed, unadulterated Tanites in front
of what is sometimes called the Starrett
House, kept after the style of the one kept
In the West, that we sometimes read of.
After everybody had gone to bed, except
some of us fellows who keep late hours,
seeing sights and picking up items of news
for general consumption, music by the
button band, which consisted of one old
fiddle, was called for by the crowd, which
struck up the tune of Hail Columbia, &C.,
which foated gracefully along the breeze,
and made us feel as though we were in
fairy land, after which call was made for
the would.be Colonel Montgomery. Well
the Colonel came forward and mounted the
rude rostrum which had been erected for
the occasion out of two old rickety chairs.
He said that owing to the great heat and
shortness of the evening he should be brief
He said there were but two questions to be
discussed this campaign, to wit: the finan-
cial question and reconstruction acts. The
first he knew but little about and cared a
id sight less; that the reconstruction acts
were paramount to all other questions; that
he had been born and raised in the South
ern States; had been rocked in the lap of
Democracy; had voted with the Demo-
cratic party from Frank Pierce down
to John c. Breckinridge, and was
sorry he had not been elected.
as upon his election, war would have been
averted but after the war had commenced,
he studied the matter over and concluded
that he had been born in the wrong place,
reared in the wrong State, and rocked in
the wrong lap. and had been acting and
voting with the wrong party, and he
would now try and undo what he had done
by repenting in sack cloth and ashes, by
speaking and voting with the Radical
party. He had put off the old man De-
mocracy, and put on the new man Radical-
ism; he was in favor of Negro Suffrage.
He told over the old story of the heart
rending scenes of the massacre of the negro
troops at Fort Pillow by Forrest, who now
was one of the leading spirits of the New
York Convention, his hands all dripping
with blood of United States soldiers,
which brought flood of tears from the
old Tanites. The burden of the song was
the old story told last fall about the starv-
ing of the prisoners in Andersonville, and
Northern Copperheads sympathizing with
Southern rebels. He wound up (or rather
ran DOWN by telling his brethren not to
argue the case with the Democrats, for
they would surely be beaten in the argu-
ments; but answering their arguments by
asking them how about Vallandigham and
Brick Pomeroy, how about Governor Sey-
mour and the New York riots, how about
the murder of the negro children in the
Orphan Asylum, N. Y, SC. After which
the music by the button band again stirred
the soul. Then there was monstrous at
tempt for three rousing cheers for Grant
and Colfax, and light one for the Colonel.
We have given but an outline of the farce
of the Grant ratification meeting.
Yours, A LOCKER On.