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The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Esq., first addressed the meeting. He spoke very briefly, and retired after introducing Hon. George E. Pugh to the crowd. Mr. Pugh was evidently in a very bad humor — or, we might suggest, somethiMr. Pugh was evidently in a very bad humor — or, we might suggest, something else — judging from the company who escorted him to the meeting. He started out by declaring that our victories were mere telegraphic lies, used to keep spirit and courage up among the Abolitionis, who had received a terrible wound in the face from a rebel bullet, shouted out, when he heard Mr. Pugh characterize the rebels as Southern brethren, "I have been there; they put a bullet through my jaw, and I don't consider them 'brethren,' but I consider you a traitor." Mr. Pugh retorted in a very vulgar style, and soon the soldiers became very much exasperated, and, but for the counsels and a few Union men, who were present, for Lincoln and Johnson, were so loud and continued that Mr. Pugh found it impossible to make himself heard, and retired from the stand. The crowd began to disp<