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an Abolitionist who went to his rescue soon after retreated paler and wiser than the glad-to-escape African.--The negro was admonished by the soldiers that he had caused enough trouble in the country, and was out of place at a political gathering, and his Abolition sympathizer was told that himself and such as he were equally with the negro, the cause of the war! When all the speakers had exhausted themselves, Mr. H. A. Foster put a motion to adjourn, but it was lost. Then Mr. John D Hackett, long known as a prominent Republican, took the stand and said a few words for McClellan, which the soldiers loudly applauded. Mr. Foster attacked the speaker, who, in turn, backed by the soldiers, gave Mr. Foster a dressing, from which Mr. F. was only too glad to escape by declaring an adjournment, which the assemblage did not sanction, and fleeing from the stand. And wish this cowardly retreat did the Loyal League "demonstration" end. It was fitting and characteristic. So will the Loya