Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-30
Second Rally of the GRANTEES
and Grabites.
Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman.

and Grabites.
| Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman.l
| BROWNSVILLE, July "a, 1858.
The second grand rally of the GRANTEES
or Grabites, to get up Ratification Meet
ing, took place on Friday evening, 24th
inst, in our village. Your correspondence
of the 1lth inst, giving an account of the
big farce played off on us, on the evening
of the 10th, by Spencer and the would-be
Col. Montgomery, seems to have stirred up
their very souls, and awakened them to
sense of their duty. They resolved to go
to work in right good earnest, and show
the world and the rest of mankind that
they could get up as big ratification meet
ing as anybody else. So, at it they went,
and after drumming up for several days in
this and the adjoining counties--Perry and
Muskingum--a big crowd of thirty, all told,
assembled in front OF the Starret House
(the same old Housel with the same old
fiddle, substituting the stone step, instead
of the two old rickety chairs used on the
former occasion, for the Iostrum.I At 8
o'clock the fiddle struck up the old tune
that used to stir our souls and make us feel
good on the. old puncheon floor, when we
were boys" Leather .Breeches (which
told some twenty of us fellows, who are al
ways around looking up fun and seeing big
things, that the curtain was soon to be
drawn and the play commenced. So we
concluded TO- go over and help swell the
crowd and have the fun. A young man
who seemed to be kind of manager, who
some people say is troubled with the
big head, drew the curtain, ran out and in
troduced a'fellow by the name of Ashbrook,
from Fairfield county, who is a music
teacher in an adjoining neighborhood.
After bowling most gracefully, he said he
had never taken any part in politics /;
but seeing his country in danger,
resolved to buckle on his armor and take
the field of battle against the enemies of
God and man. He said he was not prepared
to makea speech; but would be content by
giving the locality of this Cod given coun-
try. He said in that Heavenly tone that
God had sifted the old world and had taken
the finest wheat to sow the American SOIL
and he thanked God it had taken root and
had spread from sea to sea, and it was now
spreading Northward ; and if the enemies
of our race could be kept at bay little
longer itwould soon embrace the ice-bound
regions of the Northern pole, and instead
of the barren race they would blossom as a
rose. 1t had extended itself far beyond the
burning sands of the equator, and all the
savage tribes would soon be brought under
its benign influence. We held our breath |:
the sermon closed, and the curtain dropped,
amidst the faint clapping OF hands. Thus
ended part first in the grand drama. Music
by the band. Tune: "Devil's Dream."-
The manager drew the curtain and run out
the wouldbe Colonel, who mounted the
rostrum. He said that he was here under
very peculiar circumstances; he did not feel
like making speech, as he told US all he
knew and more too on the previous even
ing but he held a paper in his hand, "not
a little paper" not paper exerting small
influence in the country; but big paper.
paper exerting tremendous influence all
over the country, which contained synop-
sis of speech he had made at a Grant rat
ification meeting, held on the 10th inst, at
this place, which did not contain one word
of truth, except the date. The writer
he believed had travelled muchly
had seen great deal of the country, etc.
l. was true he had said the weather was
warm, ETC., the evening short, and the
crowd was not as large as he would liked
to have seen it on such an occasion, and it
was true that he had told the boys not to
argue the case with the Democrats; but to
oe1 oh Val Co
mour, etc. He unbuttoned his shirt collar
and went in on his muscle He said the
OHIo STATESMAN was a lying paper and
could not tell the truth. The editors were
a set of liars. All the Democratic papers
were lying sheets. The Democratic stump
ers were liars. The Democratic masses
were liars. They were all set of d-d in
fernal liars throughout, and if the crowd
would give him their attention, he would
be Cd id if he didn't prove them all a
set OF id liars, not to be trusted at no
time, not even in a business transaction.
(We began to think, about this time, that
we had got into hornets nest to see fun);
that they were not only alying party, but
they were thieving party-a numbering
party-a party OF robbers; for they had
robbed the National treasury the State
treasury; every county and township treas
ury; they were at war with the whole race
of mankind and the niggers too. Every
loyal man that had been murdered had been
murdered by Democrats. They had MUIR
dered Gen. Harrison, Gen. Taylor, and
attempted to murder Buchanan, in
ri fn duar in,
chair; they had murdered Abe Lin
coin and had placed that traitor Andy
johnson at the head of the nation.
Every loyal man who had been incarcera-
ted in prison had been placed there by
Democrats; every State that went out in
'61 was Democratic State; every Senator
that had left the Senate was Democratic
Senator every cabinet officer that resign
ed and took part in the rebellion was
Democrat; in fact the Democratic party
was set of traitors to God and Govern
ment and that they would have gone to
hill long ago, but h-ll was full and the
Devil would not receive them. He said
the Democrats were a set of demagogues
and Pendleton was their chief, and that his
greenback policy was a swindle, &C.; he
could prove it; there was but 100000, 900
of $40 bonds now out and they proposed to
pay them in gold, and they were only bear
ing 6 per cent. interest. Mr.. Pendleton
proposed to pay them in greenbacks, which
was at 43 per cent. discount, SO you see the
Government loses 43 per cent. on the dollar
by paying them off in greenbaeks. Don't
any fool see that that would not do? Now
L will leave it to the crowd if his policy is
not a swindle and he demagogue? He
therefore withdrew from the New York
and had Seymour, the bond