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Title: History of Cuyahoga County soldiers' and sailors' monument. Scenes and incidents from its inception to its completion.--Description of the memorial structure, and roll of honor
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Gleason, William J. (William John), b. 1846
Subjects: Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland, Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- History Civil war
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The Monument commissioners
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the speak-ers could have swayed the crowd, an attempt wouldhave been made to demolish the fence. Whether suchattempt could have been successful or not is very doubt-ful, for forty guardians of the peace in the form of themost stalwart members of the police force kept watchand ward outside the enclosure, and it would not havegone down without an accompaniment of broken headsand bruised bodies. Fortunately, three-fourths of theassembly were law-abiding citizens, and the otherfourth had nearly all the fight talked out of them bythe time General Meyer and other speakers had saidwhat they wanted to say. The meeting did one thing;they resolved to hold a celebration of Perrys victorynext Saturday, the proposed program involving thedecoration of the Commodores statue. The first ratifi-cation of last nights meeting was given by means of apiece of black chalk in the hand of one of the movingspirits in the Franklin Club. Invitations to gather inthe Square were scrawled in black and white on the
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BRIGADIER-GENERAL JAMES BARNETT. soldiers and sailors monument. 251 obnoxious fence in sundry places. Many of those whoread the invitation were straightway moved to writesomething presumably appropriate themselves, and theconsequence was that by yesterday afternoon there wasa choice aggregation of notices on the outer wall. The outside of the big pine fence was literally cov-ered with a large assortment of inscriptions and notices.They were written and printed with lead pencils, chalkof varied colors, and carbon pencils, although the vari-ety in penmanship and lettering was more marked thanthe assortment of ideas. The most conspicuous of theinscriptions were notices written in a large hand inmany places, reading as follows: Mass meeting in theSquare to-night to protest against the removal of PerrysMonument. Come, everybody/ Near the big gatewhich was torn down the other day was written:Wanted—10,000 men to assemble in the Square, at 10oclock to-night, to tear down this fence. In big

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