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This strange Savannah meeting was totally different. The Council Chamber was dusty, neglected, and the wall-paper hung in rags. The citizens were not sleek or plethoric. Mayor Arnold, a stooping, limp man, with well-worn coat and a faded cloth cap, presided over it. The citizens had a lean, anu, I fancied, an embittered look. There was not a well-dressed man among them. /Mr. Chittenden proceeded to tell them that the North was unexhausted and Inexhaustible; that it was determined to press the conflict forward without pause until the old flag was supreme over every inch of the nation, both of which assertions received some applause. He added that the Northern people were inflexibly fixed, after the terrible loss and bloodshed of this war, in their purpose to have its cause perish with it. [A silence.]But this, he added, is all. He advised them to seek to return to the old Union by the most unequivocal measures: to appoint a deputation to wait upoa the President, who, he averred, had a heart as large as ever beatin 1 nr«um
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Feb 08, 1865
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