Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-09-25
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THE CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE
MAINE ELECTION RECEIVED By
r. THE PEOPLE OF oHIo-oRdANIzA
, TIoNs-MAss MEETINGS, &c, DC.
h The good work is right onward, and
o the same song is being sung, and on the
same key that Vermont pitched it on the
n first of September. 1t confirms our hith-
e erto oft repeated proverb, "As Maine
: goes, so goes the Union" to take trip
5 through the State Ohio people are wide
|: awake to the interests of the cause of lib
Q erty. Grant clubs are in running order
in all the principal cities and towns, and
! the prospect brightens every day.
stated to my friends when about to
leave Vermont, that purposed to make
my headquarters at Dayton, the home
of Vallandigham. As entered the city
for the first time, / did so in company
with the distinguished radical" In
his personal appearance he does very
we'll. He is rather shorter than the Ed
itor of the TINES, mot half as honest
man, but otherwise very nearly the
same build. He is of rather dark COM
plexion, heavy eyebrows and lashes con-
ceal sharp black eye He speaks with
his teeth clenched, giving to his voice
very decided sound. In his general APP
pearance he has the bearing of the most
bitter enemy of the more genial part of
community. He manifests much of the
same spirit that characterized the lead.
ers of the Southern rebellion, especially
of that class who had the management
of those prisons at Andersonville, Rich
mond, &c. In his private conversation,
he would make one suppose that he had
exercised himself all his life, in the use
of the most vituperative language con-
ceivable. He has his personal admirers
and his political accomplices, but the
more sensible part of the people in his
immediate vicinity are as bitter in their
opposition of the man and his measures
as it is possible for the most radical re-
publican of Vermont to be.
He is lawyer of some celebrity
though nothing astonishing in this direc-
ton. He may be seen, especially on
Sunday morning, at the corner of some
of the streets, jabbering with his satel-
ties, apparently very intensely engaged.
During my short stay in the State, l
have visited five of the inland cities of
Ohio. have been somewhat disap-
pointed in the appearanceo of these towns.
In population, they range from 5000 to
$4,000; but in real business thrift they
are not up to some of the New England
towns of much smaller population
They have not the appearance of tidi-
ness and enterprise that had supposed
would characterize this part of the west.
The city Of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, has pop
ulation of about $4,000 in round num-
bers and is one of the oldest towns, and,
they say, without exception, the dirtiest
in Ohio. If it is not the dirtiest hope
to be spared the calamity of visiting the
city to which that title might be applied.
What strikes an Eastern man very
strangely is the vast display" of hogs
in the street. Hogs and pigs, and pigs
and hogs, of all sizes and colors, are as
numerous as darkies, and these are very
plenty since the close of the war. The
people have many peculiarities. They
partake of the habits of which our sol
der boys used to write when in the South.
There is peculiar twang to the voice,
and variety of expression that keeps
an Eastern man in "a right smart bit"
of laugh to talk with them.
A word or two about the Maine hold
Of The democracy in the Buckeye State:
They chung well, but they have lost their
Maine" hold" and woe be to them
henceforth
The republicans had not dared to hope
that the majorities of the Pine Tree
State would be swelled to above twenty
thousand, and now since the returns
have come in they are overjoyed with
the figures. They take all sorts of
means to show that they understand
what mean those sudden sounds that
burst upon the ear.
1t would have amused the most de
mure to have stood by and witnessed the
proceedings at Cincinnati at nine or ten
o'clock at night on the eve of the cleo
ton. The republicans would catch the
news of every telegram, and one contin-
uous round of cheers would ring through
the wards of the city, while our demo-
cratic friends would sit shady with their
faces between their hands. Their atti-
tude reminded one of the words of Sew
mour on the announcement of his nomi-
nation My Godl Tilden, what shall
dor Tilden's reply was-"The Presi-
dency has sought you, and not YOU the
Presidency. You must accept" Allow
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