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r 8T0)n of13 re-; with was:e ho inch,■ f*llllDgtired,Meeting of the Uttle McClelUollw at volt;MadUon. fto1uatinMadisom, Wis., Oct. 3d, 1864.Editors Gazette:—Perhaps ft few wordsconcerning the ** big, “ monstrous and . “ heavy McClellan demonstration in this P city on Satarday last^ would be of some little interest to the many reader of you: .excellent paper. This was an adjourned meeting of the one hela here tvro weeks g A Ic is I ago, when, as the Cops, say, free speech , Joun- was striken down and the rights of Ameo ‘ iging ican citizens trampled under foot by the was lawless acts of Lincoln hirelings/1 Imambalt;tbsalso mediately after the first meeting, a secretOth- conference was hold by the Madison Cop- jy the perheads, at the private residence of oneresh- of their number, when it was decided to 1 jIs of hold another meeting, and to carry concealed weapons with them. This pro- aPro- j gramme was carried out, and the leaders 8 *atct is of the faithful, some twenty in number,port appeared on the ground, armed with six- . .pro-I barrel revolvers. They were concealed jven- j of course, but some of the side pockets had rd of not been formed as the receptacle of these w been “ Deace arguments, but were too shallownish-1 and when the coat waH thrown back, as I ?ovikm■ - tmabeen I they were .n two or three instances by acuity- J culent, the weapons were plainly seen. IAc. Immediately after the first u fizzle, the jthe work of getting up the second was begun. J edge | Money was used freely. The Madison I f,er sion. leader's viatitod every town in the County j _ * until j urging out the faithful. The result was a J ksha crowd of about 2000 assembled. There a king ‘was not more than this and I think the ac onee tual count would have decreased this esti-1;an(i vas mate; and at least one-half of this number ,, .t by I were republican citizens and “ Lincoln 1518 .fter- j hirelings. Then the procession was form-1 ^?ci get J ed, con sis tin g of ox carte, baby vehicles J *edto j and manure wagons, numbering just 117 :1IS1 the | in all, After severe perambulations about I png, I [the streets, and after more than half thed jriagot I procession had fallen out at the various:! Y and [ saloons, to increase their stock of demo- I jfore | cratic courage and inspiration, the proees-is a sion baited and wore soon assembled about fn^. hild- j the stand l the Capitol park. Just before j c igost j the speaking began, a guard of 22 soldiers r? icrat Sled into the park and arranged themselves { elle- I about the stand. This was furnished by I P nty, j Col. Allen of tbo 5th Kegiment, upon the I sure * repeated and earnest demands of the lead-1 1that ing Copperheads hero. These soldiers who j £os nner had enlisted to defend the dag against the ? St. blows of traitors, wera now guarding ti d is : nest of reptile** whose only business was to tlon. create dissatisfaction, and whose only2 a eh j words were treason against the flag thilaps hung over them and venom against those=i oc- enlisted to defend it. Tbo meeting washer. presided over by Judge Vilas, who is a :qes- kind of a monomaniac in politics, anil is 1, in considered quite harmless andie allowed toBph. I run at largo,Oak Judge Orton was then introduced and i SUP n of ( proceeded to expatiate on the beauties ofMeOlellauiBffi. Tiio Judge is consideredtheir big gnn,71 and when he feels that lie has the right on his side, is truly an able and eloquent orator. Hut bis heart j buiJ is not in this matter. He has been u ro- ( a m ped in by such men as George. B. Smith, m and has too much prido to recant mw.There is not a muscle of his body, or a fiber of his heart that beats responsive to latter-day democracy. He was formerly a ■silver-gray whig, and the severest invectives ever uttered are recorded in Lis on a-t h a m :.i .s fig at n s f dfent® e r a cy y oi re ago. Honow acts with and tal ftt* lor oo \ ■ per J~i end lamhocaase those who own him toil hire heban.wotthengaThfandcie:Patallyandlor.uin-i tor-mevaandvoid;ruc-;v toOvrerhisclotL.IasedJossller,n er-ed a ties,jorethern a-rnust. ills speech was freer fro -n abuse and invective thaw might be ex pee tod froma dstarmisandgobNo.Lintryfor InJanew convert. Take it all in f*Jl nod it was a very fair speech. Would do littleharm and no good. It locked the virors— *“mAu-raa: on i arm the On eknotLQiand earnest no ate of the Judge Orton’'offormer days and was received with littleapplause. The burden of his *pooch was in extolling they i 11 c rabhip ami k tat B ii n ? 11 ■ jand | fcihip of McClellan. He had no word to«aj j 1about the principles of democracy or iii'e mi't1Chicago Platform, but confined himself to a;*V* tbo good looks and youth of McCfeHun. tUia At times ho would was a little, warm Rnd ! *sni^ would bestow his prsviso in rather heavy inutalmonte. TVhen ho had finished and descended from the stand, during Smith'sspeech, an acquaintance of hie came noandandnte,.nd-us-cos, n amgionhevP IVfibu:and said ’‘Judge didn't you lay that onah * ■»^ «* iwonUivlt;not.rather thick ?” Kofc a d-^—d bit, roolied ^on.1the iforone. 1■onetcoinwitC.mdforaairt-ostboth ehatarethe Judge. This reply of the Judge reminded me of an occasion when the s'amowords were used by him, but on a different time and under other circumstance?,■I refer to the time that the Judge was initiated into a KnowNothing Lodge, in thisplace, many years ago. He and three or:' lrfour friends were being initiated at the: same time. They were receiving the^obli- Igntionofth® Order and had got to that Jpatt where the initiate swears that he is in jfavor of obliging the foreigner /to reside ! r moihere twenty-one years before receiving the t-hm privileges of tho elective franceise. One ne|^t of the friends lmd some conscientious Boenscruples upon this point and began to ar-guo the question with the presiding ofiicer f ?who was adm:niHtenug the obligation, jintrc and thought twenty-one years was too | Teu^loug. T ie Judge began to gather ingpi-1 dus 1 ration from the discussion, and to convince j Taius^frieud, electrified the Lodge and knocked it from its dignity, by bringing hiscv.llyi)aeort3GSneowid*ion c *„ - _.v ______ ^ ..... caudband down upon the altar very violent!v' I bur ^r.oit exclaimed “ not a d d/bir/' Tho“ sriend failed to lc convinced :nnd waslea om the Lodge, but the Judge wentthrough and became a matriculated andprom incn f memb er.highf t'm L i.Zi8S,to1C-irespeelt;did nthe rGeo. B. Smith was then introduced and I ( began one big usual harangues. His t (style was he?-73*—a conglomeration of j brag, verbosity, and egotism. Ho com- notf menced by saying that it was fashionable now now-a-days to be patriotic. He and broth- tebeler Joan were both accordingly patriotic. Uovei,t,t instead of going into the army, this of ns-patriotism pointed them to the lowerbranch of Congress. That old tyrant I aovr I at iVashmgton could now lay his | ^'rfl|hands upon him and all of ns and force H is 1 us into the army, and we bad no redress hcter bnt^nust submit. When he should be men 'elected to Congress, then he should no with longer be the servant ofLincoIn, but would aft be his master. When not given to black- can 0 guardism and h$avy tragedy his speech ^ ol- was composed of just such t addle m the [ us® a! 'er specimen I have given. He then com- Bu ar menced his abuse of the soldiers and kept I coluirup during the remainder of his *p. £ leugtld i G Sa there were 8Om0 ?°°d soldiers and men 1a great many bad ones. Those that hap- sional pened to be 111 Mao son now were princi Svei uy pally bad ones. They liked to break up and e A democratic meetings. They had no opin- atisf:if 10ns of their own but were governed bv trict.' the will of a tyrant; and he had always w por noticed that it to ok six soldiers to tell= a fellow single man that he was a liar. I have to rep heard Smith often and know that he |'of Wii- ?aPa’ i2.of sayinS many mi .n things, and is proficient in the use of billingsgate andblackguard epithets. But I never hoara viler or moTe outrageous attack upon theM soldiers than this was. He surpassed.himself even und exhausted bis well filledieegiass.countstakeW i ll gand tlthis C
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Janesville Weekly Gazette
Janesville, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Oct 14, 1864
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