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fully alive to the issues of their respective plat- 

 forms. 



By nightfall the place was the scene of great ac- 

 tivity, and to an onlooker produced a singular effect. 

 Men were collected in groups engaged in excited con- 

 versation, torches flared in every direction, while at 

 brief intervals all voices were drowned in some lively 

 tune from the silver cornets or the fife and drum. 



At an appointed hour the speakers of the evening 

 appeared, and I noticed among them Hon. E-ansom 

 H. Nutting and Hon. Thomas W. Keightly — the 

 latter a candidate for Congress from this district. The 

 meeting closed at a late hour, after a succession of 

 heated addresses, and yet the politicians of Yan Buren 

 County seemed not at all averse to continuing their 

 talking until sunrise. 



(S)ue 15"^^^^^^ tt^^"^ irifteentl) SDaw. 



Duncombe House, 



Decatur, Michigan, 



September Third. 



Accepting an invitation from Albert Rogers, I ac- 

 companied him to the Presbyterian Church in the 

 morning, where Rev. Mr. Hoyt, a young clergyman, 

 conducted the services and preached a very good ser- 

 mon. I was pleased by the courtesy extended me 

 when he said, in the course of his announcements . " I 

 take pleasure in calling attention to Captain Glazier's 

 lecture at Union Hall to-morrow night. I shall be 

 present myself, and recommend all who wish to listen 

 to an instructive and patriotic lecture to be at the hall 

 before eight o'clock." When the service was over Mr. 



