The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1870-09-26
4 BIG CROWD AND A BIG TINE
White Speeches by White Men
Not a Radical Dared to Ac.
Cept the Offer to Divide
the Time.
"CRAvEN, LEFT Us PRAY "


BrRSEsvlLLE, September II.
To Tue EDITOR op TmB DEAocRAr.
Since your visit here we have had on,
Of tho finest Democratic meetings eve
held in This county. Our people have
been $" terribly abused aud villi6ed, and
their rights and immunitics SO ruthlcssl,
'rampled upon since the war, tina. no at.
. tempt to hold Democratic meetings ha.
been made. and no Democratic speech hal
b'en nade in the county, except in SUIT
ton in the las. ten years. This fall thu
Democrats Of the county have displayed
more energy than usual; and. aft the
great victory which Hereford achieved
over his black aud tan opponent at Sutton
the Executive Committee decided to have
series Of meetings in the county, AMI
the r:sul: was that the frs, meeting Wa,
held here to-day, and it was grand sue
cess.
The Committee hal invited Geo
Cozsd, Esq. to address the meeting, and
although but three or four days notice
had been given, early in the morning til.
town began to fill up. and by noon Their,
we're fully Three Hundred people pre-,
ent. Immediately after dinner it was as
ccrtained that there was no binding tina
would contain half the crowd, and acror
dinghy We all crossed to the Grove arouut
the School House, and soon after |:
o'clock,
MAJOR D. EoLLYsoS,
Democratic candidate for the House .
Delegates from this county, arose and ad
dressed the meeting. lie called their at
tention 10 tho fact ,hat the campaign
which was fraught with SO much of co,c
or i'll to all, was now fully opened. The
two parties were now on their trial, anc
their respective candidates now before the
people for their sufrages. While he did
not intend to make speech, he would
simply say that the great question TO be
decided this fall was enfranchisemept Oh
Acknowledgement. lie was in favor Of the
'n,metiiote enfranchisement Of all, while
the radicals, in State Convention, as well
as the county Convention which has just
been held in Sutton had slaughtered with,
out mercy, every man who was in the leas,
disposed to be liberal in his sentiments
and had nominated, for the House Of Del.
egates, and all other county officers. mer
who had been the most active, unscrupu.
lOus and vindict;rc in securing the dis.
REIMBURSEMENT of their ncighbors. Regis
trars, or those who had been, and who
had done the dirty work for their masters
were now put forward as the representa-
tives Of their party-and they now CONT
before the people of Braxton and ask tina,
they endorse their villainous conduct il
the past, and give them power to continue
the same outrages in the future.
The gentleman spoke for near half ar
hour, making one Of the most sensible ant
effective speeches We have heard for long
time. aud then introduced
Ggo. cozAD. ESQ.,,
who proceeded to address the meeting
and for more than two hours held the large
crowd enchanted by one Of the mos. clio
quen. and able arguments have evel
heard. H.. -r
1t would be useless in me to attempt
description Of the brilliant speech made
By Mr. Cozad. From beginning to enc
it was received with such enthusiasm as
have never witnessed in this section. The
mountains echoed with the cheers tia
greeted his exposition Of radical fraud and
oppression and many times he was com
PEELED to wait until bis audience gave vent
to their feelings in such cheers as it doel
mans soul good TO hear. Commencing
with the earliest organization Of the Re.
publican party, he followed up its course
until to-day, making clear and logica
Indictment which placed on griddle the
radicals present He devoted consider.
able part Of his time to local politics and
gave the history Of the Stevenson under.
lings in our county, at the bare recital OIL
which all honest men held up their hand.
in horror. lie called particular attention
10 the fact chat the radicals had been in.
viled to procure a speak r for this meet.
ing, aud that they we're putiGed that they