Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-11


Makes q speech ON Election Eve
\ EnthusIasm Or the People.
From the Auburn Advertiser and Union, NOV!S.
Corning Hall was crowded last evening
to its utmost capacity on the occasion o
the last Union rally of the campaign. Th'
evening was stormy, but that had no in
huence to keep back the crowd. Hun
dreds who couldnot gain admission to thu
hall were tutned away.
I. Hon, George RAthbun opened the meet
ing With an able, eloquent and comprehen'
sive address, occupying nearly an hour II
its delivery. .....,...-
| When Mr.. Rathbun concluded, the house
\ fairly ruug with calls for Governor Sew.
1 ard, who, being present, came forward, anC
1 was greeted with! such u reception aS WBi
never before given to any speaker ID Au-
Iburn. 1t seemed, as though the people
would 20 wild with enthusiasm. OrdeI
was. finally restored, when Governor Sew.
ard proceeded to address the meeting al
follows: sa5. ts.eIat
4 s.l GovRRNoR sEwARD's SPEECH.
My FRIENDS: am sad and anxious to NIGH
4 for a cause that you well understand toe
/ sad and anxious, indeed, to be able to ex'
/ press as could wish the gratitude feel
/ for the Welcome you have given me, GER
/ tainly too much oppressed with private So
Ilicitude to speak acceptably upon public
! questions. . -.
1 have persistently declined, AS you know,
to enter political canVasses as de6ater.
liz have had two reasons for this: First, L
wanted the internal as well as the foreign
| enemies Of the United States TO see that
this Administration could stand of its own
sttength, without Fesorting to popular arts
| of self defense. SeenpdIy, thought that
an Administration that could not stand
kwAhont apsakiR Tor zhsalf must fall even
! H ali It's members should engage in its
Yindfcation. Nevertheless being here M
expectedly, feel that it would seen churl
ish to refuse to show chat the friends Of the
country have the eympathies and the graf
itude of the Administration OF the country.
} What, then, shall say and do2 Twill
forget myself as we'll as 1 can, while ut.
ter some sentiments of Cheerfulness and
hope concerning the condition of our cOun.
try and its cause, do not forget that
cheeruless aud hopefuluess, ,habitual cheer
fitness and hopef9lpess, give Otfense in
certain quarters. We have class OF pat
riots who deride them, who insist upon
having the political skies obscured and the
political moon throughout all her changes
presented under eclipse. do believe in
cheerfulness and hOpefnlness. AS in re-
ligion 50 in poIitics-it 10 faith and not
despondency that overcomes mountains
and scales the heavens. The General who,
ihatanguing his army on the eve of battle,
Should express feara of defeat, would be
s1Ire to be defeated. The statesman who
that disunion Is inevitable,
would be sure to produce dissolution. The
Christian who believes that he has com.
mitted the objectionable sin, will never
work ont his salvation. He who impa-
tieutlYreieets-th the councils Of hope in po-
liticai action, because he does not see all
expectations immediately realized, is as
bad a citizen as he Is bad Christian who
wayersi in hisfaith because a hundred gem
erations have passed away, and ''all these
things" are not yet "fuldiled." y--5tr
o You will succeed, my friends, tomorrow.
1 know you will succeed by signs other
than these which excite your own hopes of
success. The country Is in dauger--it is
To be rescued by the Government. You
will succeed, Because you vote for the Gov
eminent in voting TO sustain. the Admins
tratfou, Your opponents commit the fatal
error of supposing that they can divide the
Adniuistratipnfro from the Government, and
SUPPORT the one and discard the other. No
tmati can serve two Smastefs. Consider
thispOint fora moment, It 10 only through
the administration that the country can
put forth the effort necessary for its rescue.
| lie Won discard this Administration Of the
Government by your votes, yOn bring no
new Or better one to its place. You then
have practically ansinteFregnum from this
time toths 4th of March, 1865. An inter-
lregnum of sixteen. months IN sheyery crisis
of rebellion. You would repeat, even In q
NOR 3 dangerous way, the great, though
then unRYoIdable, misfortune OF the inter-
reguum which was produced hy the cleo
tionlof Abrahatn Lincoln, IN 1860, leaving
James a BuchapAu in abe Presidency un-
I4iIthe 4th Of March. 1864. Duritg all that
period the ship Of State necessarily and
una7oidably drifted and dashed itself
against .tthg rocks ofJa lee shore. : The
iAmeriean people are, not going TO commit
80 great an error now ssile'l l3s.
Oar opponents do not see this. Th0y do
not see It because they haFs Bperepdered
ltbemsGl3es up 70 faStiOas BhtF VIII sh6G'
them how they can seeift. s There are 2OO,-
900 American CitiEens IN arms, 10 the
Southern States .sgainst their country.
They look TO the election of tomorrow
/ With more sOlicitnde than they do the7de.
tense of Charlestul or the. slege OF Chatta-
/ n1Oga. z IL you could pass Tie ballot boz
through their camps every man Of them
would vote for the Administration Of the
Government sby Horatio Seymour OF. VAL
lapdigham, and against the Administration
i Of AbEaham Lincoln. You have eaemies
lin certain classes 81 Soefsty all over Edtope
iThey are fitting out q navy and PriyatesFs
i t Js the American Insurgents. If the1bal-
llot boxes could be OPENED At Lairdls ship
yard in Liverpool, OF ia John Slidsil.G
4 house in Paris, there Vop1d be ulsnf.
fmgus vote for SeymeuFand Ysllandigham
aud new iron .elhds would escape from