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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. I TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 2545 - 2553
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - United States (Cont'd)
2545 - L Oct. 4: 3/2 - The Republic meeting in north Brooklyn on Oct.
2 was well attended. Not less than 500 were there. The Hon. E.
Wade spoke for tWJ hours and J. Shroeder delivered a speech in German
that was well received by the many Germans present. (3)
2546 - L Oct. 6: 2/2 - '" Tis time to think, time to act, time to vote!
'Tis time to labor with our neighbors, time to organize in every
township and every village. The day is near at hand, the times are
propitious. Let no man be idle. Rally to the polls like our fathers
did to the battle fields of the Revolution, and ours will be a victory
as glorious as theirs." (13)
2547 - L Oct. 6; ed: 2/2 - Cass, the time-worn sachem of the slavery
Democrats, said at the state mass convention at Pontiac that the only
question involved in the present campaign was the support or defeat
of popular sovereignty. On July 2, 1856, when the Toombs pacification
bill was before the Senate, Cass voted against it. Here is a
beautiful sample of Democratic dupl ici ty. Voters, how do you I ike
such politicians? (7)
2548 - L Oct. 7:2/1 - "Always excepting 'the three,' no State has a
truer delegation in the house than Ohio. These 'good men and true'
are all in nomination for re-election. Let no effort be spared to
give them proper endorsement." (1)
2549 - L Oct. 7; ed: 2/2 - On Sept. 4 the Wayne county DEMOCRAT repub-
1 ished the Cincinnati platform with one plank entirely omitted and
another substituted in its place.
"Defeated in argument, State after State declaring against them,
our opponents are now seeking escape by wholesale fraud and swindling.
But it is all in vain, their refuges of lies will be swept away." (6)
2550 - L Oct. 7; ed:2/2 - The Republicans of the nineteenth district
will take pleasure in giving Edward Wade a deserving majority. (3)
2551 - L Oct. 7; ed:2/2 - There is no hope for Kansas and her people
but in a change of the national administration. November decides her
fate. (9)
2552 - L Oct. 8: 1/5,6 - Buchanan men of northern Ohio are to have a
"Jubilee" in this city today. Big posters announce the attendance of
General Cass, Martin Van Buren, Douglas, and others, but now it has
narrowed down to the assurance that George E. Pugh will absolutely be
present. (28)
2553 - L Oct. 8:2/3 - In a letter to the editor, "Yowis," of Strongsville,
0., says, "The Republicans of this place held their meeting
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