Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-07-14
The Ross 90. Pioneer Picnic.

An old friend of ours, soldier of the
war of 1879, supposiug there was to be a
grand reunion ofthe few remaining sol
diers of the memorable war of 1879 and
of the pioneers of Ross county, was in
duced to attend the Sulphur Springs
Pioneer Picnic, in Union township, Ross
county, on the 4th of July last. He in
forms US that he was most egregiously dis
appointed in tho meeting and the design
of the getters up of the so-called Pioneer
Picnic, Instead of its being a reunion Of
the old soldiers and pioneers of the coun
ty, as the people we're induced to believe,
from the notice in the papers, it was just
what the criginators of the meeting in
tended it should be: A meeting not to
celebrate tho -Rationis birthday, but to de
nounce Republicans, and everything else
but the doctrines, the policy, and the prin-
ciples of the Democratic party, and to ex,
press the opinions Of the party in relation
to the war of the rebellion, and the present
administration, and to pass them off upon
the coun ~ ms the sentiments of the soldiers
Of the war of 1879, and of the sturdy old
pioneers of Ross county. The design of
the leaders Of this deseeration Of the day,
however, leaked out, or was shrewdly sus
pected. and the attendaueo of the soldiers
of 1912, was limited, perhaps to dozen
or so, as we are eredibly informed, and the
whole thing Of reunion of the old sol
diers and pioneers, was a farce. The
speaker for the occasion, as we learn from
a correspondent of the Chllcothe Gazette,
was DR.. Creel, who, probably, could best
present the sentiment Of the Democratic
party on the occasion of an old soldiers
and pioneers picnic. Togive our readers
an idea of the spirit and feeling that per
vaded the meeting, with occasional ex-
coption), we have only to quote from the
of the Gazette, above re-
ferred to-:
1.-THE local orators, even of the
Democratic party, had all been ignored,
md DR.. Orcel, n superanuated pillar of one
IF the first families Of Virginia. and
ate Of the Southern Confederacy, had been
selected as orator of the day. And such
IN oration we never listened to before | He
Jegan with an ostentaious recital of bis |
arlY history, the manner and matter Of
which showed that he was vain old man
u his dotage Then he branched off on
,hapter or two of Stafford Blennerhas-
ett3 After this he went back to the b. {
ginning. He denounced the friends of lib s
,rty in this country, Of all party Names +
rom 1920 to 1861. ae denounced tho war :,
IS unholy, unjustand cruel He denoune- !
j the men we inveigled even Democrats j
uto tho Union army. He denounced the a
Jnion soldiers as cut -throats and robbers /
Ie denounced the chosen rulers Of our !,
Government, us Goddess tyrants He an.
the death of the Republic and
INVOKED the curse of heaven on the radical s
saders, who. he said, had wrought this =
uin. He'deelared for the right Of Seces
ion, and for the Southern Confe9e eracy Il
md thus, with all the venom of rabel hate i
7hich ii is possible for one man Ge feel, he d
lsulted his hearers, cursed the flag, lauded n
le lost cause, and doomed all Radicals z
Meaning by them tho men who love lib al
ty) to The hell of the malefactors. And 81
/ this, and more, on the Fourth of Julyl" ie