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For the Democrat.Ira!l4'il Hen RenAThlii-At the little aholitinn meetinir ltehl here on Wednesday of List week. when a ftll lt;w ! by the name of W ilson spoke, the l.eagt.o Glee Club were j resent to sing their abolition songa.One of the houiber sung'by them deserves particular notice. It was iutended as a jeer and n mockery of Democrats who j should he drafted to fight in this wicked and unhid? war, and the burthen and chorus of it was,We’il drive the drafted men T!iat'= what'd the matter.Ir ‘m bad etluUL’k to be eottf' r»j t. bill to be mocked and jeered at by the«e vi'e scavengers of abolitionism is iut*hrtd-e. I I will giro the names of the e wurth.e*, that those interested may hold them up tothe scorn uud detonation of the comiuuui-\ , trM ise Mattingly Jvh -i Dial, W. Pitcher, \C- Loanard and f. WhitmoreThis Whittnorc is ti petty governmentofficial, who goe- about poking Ins nn*e into other people s bnsiiie#-, Le »nard is a • hardwan merchant, who seeks democratic patronage, and lb's Dial Dan F.gg I’edler, who is known hi reah iuts a* Ilottcu Kgg jI Dial. He had better he a little more ' careful how he insults dreeui people, or he innv have mother reason for Ids presentcognomen. I*.
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Plymouth Weekly Democrat

Plymouth, Indiana, US

Thu, Sep 29, 1864

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