New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-15
UNION MEETING AT WHEELING.

B. =. HALLETT

bed 10 the street ~ seven o'clock.
Gov. Peirpoint appeared upon the balcony, and
said.
FEILow.CIrIzxSs: have the pleasure Of intro.
ducing 10 you Gen. Schenck, who 10 now on the road
to the soeDe Of conflict among the Alleghanles, m
which your loyal and true feowcouDrymen ere fight
ing in defense Of the liberties and the legitimate and
benign Government Of our common country. ln this
battle we should all be united, and the General will
tell you why and how.
Gen. Schenck was very enthusiastically received,
and commenced bis speech thus:
NES Of CITIZENS Of the L. s.
-BRoTuERs: feel that il is my night az we'll as
privilege TO address You by either of these names
Because You are men Of Virgins, you ore In cornmos
with me citizens of the United States, and 40 such my
brothers. am not, resident, one OF you buf as
citizen OF Ohio, the daughter Of Virginia. on the
other side Of the river 10 every sense one OF you
As your Governor has said, am on my way IN JON
the army fighting the battles OF onr common country
in your own immediate section OF the country oa''uhe
for the maintenance Of the rights and institutions OF
which you have always been 30 proud, ana WHICH you
mean shall ever be maintained.
Because you have come bither TO pay me the mex
pected courtesy of calling me at this time, feel
that you agree with that there be but two sides
10 the great struggle now going in this country
Thoe who are in favor OF the Constitution and the
liberty OF this country oue side and hose opposed
the other. ssy to you now, as have always SAID
since this struggle commenced, there IL no middle
ground for any honest heart true patriot. Peace
neutrality, ali snch names are only appeatious for
Secession anS rebellion. Those who not openly,
syowsdly afvely for the Government, are against IT,
and ssainst To liberties Of the people. have more
respet for eae who enrolled In the army Of JEFF
Daviz than e the snesking poitroons who pretend 70
oppoeS both side with neither party IN the battle.
de- s. tb proceeded 10 point out the superiority
of th4ositi Jof the Tories Of the Revolution OF 1875
to ih AZ II ttsseessioniss OF lS6l There was some
paIsTIsl foikhose who opposed the then untried
peri1Sd of ,E fathers who laid the foundation OF our
6hoF ~ stiTSed TO and educated under monarcbical
ip,,Ss lons many Of them have been, and utterly
M ~ N l,ciate the blessings which the patriots
Of - Ia x; sought 10 provide for them by freedom
frgssS Ats lion ofthe British King. Yet the pane
OF 1s,, u E,sen . by-word Of reproach through
o., y. TX past history. II they deserved 10
b,n ,se ,G JInworthy Of sny respect or Of any ex-
tt, =. A,t should be said Of him who, after 80
W. -. ~, which have carried TO the position
Of ~ --latest nations Of the earth, and blessed
n ~ mo Lpled perity, would lift his parc idl
nal - i- T,R voice TO aid the enemies paralyze
tIc 4 y .lpr d. the defenders OF his country. Sew
sr,I,S "a N.ang hini u ' Yes," said the speaker,
Hhs,E nia \ A Tory of the Revolution was gen.
,leusy md 4 patriot compared with Secessionist
syn,,s ger XlS6l. Those Who were not for main
tsinirs he EJvernment ST ali hazards and ia every
,ya,r . lie stly ranked quite as bod 40 ,hvso The
He Ok co g ,rt in these trying times in ren,arking
what III CHI icte Iiscs and poly feelings OF patriot
ism na4 been veloped among our people by thu. ter
rihle contest. While one hand were striving
IN bre doyyl the blessed institutions and glorious
Gover1,ment 9hich they had always been taught 10
revere, those who stood by the Government were
drawn closer together. Gen. Rosecrans was an Ohio
man. Ohio and Virginia troops were fighting under
him In Western Virginia. la Eastern Virginia, New.
Workers New-Englanders, and Wettern neu, men
from all PARTS OF the country were banded together
serving under their common flag for their common
country. 49, =, 4,
universal sentiment Of patriotism. In Ohio recent
Union Convention Of men OF all the parties which had
heretofore divided them for many years, had met to-
gether 10 swear ieav 10 the great G0yernI et when
protected and blessed ALL because they felt that all
minor differences were nothing compared with The
great question how 70 sussin the Federal Government
With every energy Of heart hand and voice. they and
We should strive in one great duly 10 transmh 70
poeterity unimpaired the great blessings which had
been beaueathed in trust for them, forgetting
every past difference and division.
The root Of all the difficulty between the loyal and
seeded States Of the Union comprifed Ia the fact
that class Of politicians had been for long time urg
ING the doctrine that, instead Of being one great
national Government, we were but confederation OF
petty and miserable sovereigLes that our citizens,
int sd of oyinR allegiance 20 the Constitution the law
of the land all owed allegiance 70 the particular State
where thew where born, brought up oducsed, or mar
RED or have resided for time Az the breaking out
OF the war, Virginisn 10 New-fofk claimed that he
must GO 70 Virginia and side with her, beanse she VIVA
his proper State because be WA born, married lived
a long time there. In the name OF 600, the great
Father OF us all, II that was the allegiance we owed,
how cond the allowance be liked of the man who had
pas ed through all these transitions In many differ
sut States We we're citizens OF one common Union,
with the right to be born ~ We could have any
control over the natter, where we pleased educated
whore We desired, married wherever we gould De- and
that we owed no allegiance 10 any particular section.
We we're covered by one broad ngis, and blessed by
all the privileges Of citizens Of the American Unlon
lie repeated tbs, the root Of sl the evils we were
now suffering was the great political Lie 10 winch be
| had referred.
Let any citizen Of any Of States 20 TO any par
of the civilized world, hi, claim citizen Of that
/ State would be ABOUT as much UNDERWOOD and meet
with about much favor as II he were 10 say be was
citizen not Of ths United States, bat Of the Sixth
| Ward of Wheeling. But tho simple name Of citizen
of the United States gave him high character every
where if be was entitled TO any character any where
II bis bearers would 90 10 the forests OF the DeighoV
ipg hills they would there find among the trees Tie
| hickory, oak dogwcod, red brier, and Others and
would remark all he Distinct differences OF foliage
branches and trunks bot let them return to the city
and look out at d distance upon those forests and they
united Into one Just So should they look at all tleii
paltry party and sectional differences and dvNi0nt
aud cease 10 remember whether their feow-cl,izen'
from aide of the river or the Other whether
they had come as martyrs oi liberty from iOrelSl
land or were born in the United States. The motto
/ Pluribns Uuum" raised them 90 q stature md
dignity far above tie title from Ohio or from Var
| giuis.
The feeling that they were engaged In one common
cause fighting against the enemies Of their country IN
this causeess war, gotten up TO RggraDdze the NJ.
tsrests OF unscrcpuous oemsgOgues should prompt all
who stood by the Union 10 the constant remembrance
that they must Eight it out together.
In no seeded State, South Carolina had there
been any determined, deliberate action upon the part
of majority OF the people in favor Of Secession. In
Virginia thank God not Western Virginia the State
OF Kanswhs, unsurpassed by any in her former bis
tory or natural resOurcea, one OF ths seeding
States none could tel how or when she had deter.