The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-12-28
and I have it from his own lips that hsssid

auo udVe Is lrom QlS own lips tnAt AS
to the sheriff, 'I will put, and I have the
right to put, every soldier in ithe State in
front of that door before United States
Marshal shall touch Margaret Gardner "
And when he had said that heptrayeled l2O
miles and left the sheriff to take the respon'
sibility. A responsibility the Governor
dared not take, the sheriff would not take,
and tho woman went back. into slavery
No South Carolina Governor, with an abo.
litionist 10 prison in Charleston, would have
ever gone up to Columbia. - GA = :.
And the time when fourteen Statesthrew
themselves It the feet of the President and
demanded the removal of that man, your
statesman, whose life is a greater danger to
this nation in its struggle than that of JEFF
ferson Davis to-day-when fourteen States
asked his removal, between the indignant
States and the II will not call him trai.
tor, for that is libelous, but the recreant
Secretary, Mr.. Chase, flung himself as q
barrier and saved him. Now, if he looms
up for our President, sit up nights, give
Yourself no sleep, watch till you are sure nc
bondman lives beneath your banner. !
never will rest until I see men whose char
acter this fiery war has brought to the sur
face and who show sense and courage as
their qualities-I never will rest until they
either lead the nation or watch for it. In
other words, until such men as Butler OF
Fremont Applause man the guns or hold
the helm, no man with justice to himself
to his children, to the negro to the Union
can give rest to his eyelids or silence to hi:
lips. (Applause. <. ~.
The audience called for "Greelsy, ""Gres
ley" ''Wake him up" Greeley" -
Mr. Greeley came forward and said II
was hardly time to be making Presidents.-
He had not quite decided that we were te
have another, though he hoped we should
He was not of those to censure condemn
or discard any one of our statesmen who
had been spoken Of tonight either com
mendipgIy or consciously. He thought
about the largest man in this Government
was the man wh) had been so sharply cen
sured to-night-Governor Chase. he die
4 not say that he was the best man, but hi
thought that, in spite Of all that had been
said tonight Governor Chase was about
the firmest anti-slavery man in the country
the man of the largest thought was thai
1 statesman who had been f1ghtlng during al
thi. war on the very hardest ground, wht
had the hardest command to manage, ane
whose battles 50 far had all been victorious
We are not strosg enough yet to quarre
among ourselves; let Us rather strengthen
the Government all we can, by giving ou1
support to its members. He had alway.
admired the confidence of this nation, though
he had not always shared it. He had Otter
gone to bed at night wondering whether he
would wake up in the United States O.
| America or in the Confederate States oi
JEFF. Davis This city has seen the time
within two years, when she would have
given more than two votes to one for Jstf
Davis on fair issue. He knew not what
he was saving. He was thankful to that
God who has carried US in safety so far
and trusted that the same care aud pro
lection would continue to be EXTENDED
| to Us.