The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-20
4 whether we have viOtoriss. or noe lAp-

plause.l t-,-,T...E ~,
I viii assume that TO- the ns1t thirty
days tn, army Of Lee is destroyed; that OF
Hood annihilated, and every TO % ofcrgsn
lied opposition is dnSSps cute the held,
and then our Republican. friends who have
looked forward hopefully to victories that
were to bring us peace and Union, will see
for the first time the full measure of the
impolicy of the acts of the Administration;
For the first time they will see the danger
Gus position into which our, country bss
drifted, amid the smoke, and carnage OF
battle. These. victories will only establish
military governments at the South to be
upheld at the expense of northern lives
and treasure. They will bring no real
peace if they only introduce q system OF
wild theories which will waste as war
wastes; theories which will bring us to-
Bankruptcy aud ruin. The Administration
can not give rs Union or peace after victo:
lies. Applause III Men of Pennsylvania l
remember that in former years our country,
under the polly of conservative men, in>
creased from people of three millions { o q
nation Of thirty millions; that within the
q
feeble colonial existence into the full meas
urs OF one of the mightiest powers upon
the face Of the earth, saw the husband.
man cheerfully laboring, sure ofi theifruits
of his toll. The light taxatIon that, fell
upon him was nothing; he could count his
gain almost clear as he pondered how he
would give some now comfort tohis family,
some new advantage Of education or of sos
cial condition to his children. ,,y Gs6rsa
| saw cheerful labor in your workshops
the machinery, instinct with life,f that
seemed to perform the duties almost OF AMI g
mated men. saw your streams leap forth
in the morning from your hills, and glide
away at evening into their rest, after turn
ing the mechanism that gave wealth to
your State. To day, the weary laborer
turns up the sod with the consciousness
that the larger part Of his product must 60
to pay the cost of the bloodshed and car
mage. And he labors on with still less
courage when he feels that, perhaps, the
son that he has locked to as the companion
of his labors hereafter, is to be torn from
him for the purposes Of war. When en-
ters Jour home Ind that the mothers, the
sisters and the wives 60 less cheerfully
around to their daily duties; and when
there is sadness by the freside there is sad
ness and gloom throughout the land. Great
applause How can We return again to
our former condition-free and prosperous,
the admiration and the envy of the worlds
Men tell you that victories will do it.
Victories alone will not bring back these
things. If we had had wise, just, magnan-
imous Administration, we have already
won victories enough to have given US
peace, prosperity, and national happiness.
[Cheers. - l..
1t is only because the public mind has
been occupied with the great drama Of war;
it is only because you have been watching
with fearful anxiety your sons and brothers
in the field that You have not seen the full
measure of the evils which the policy OF
this Administration has brought upon this
country. fisk months ago we had achieved
complete military success, and the smoke
of battle were now waited away, there
would not be found to day one man in the
land to stand up and say that it was wise
or we'll to replace this Administration in
power. Loud applause Let US then as
sumo that We have gained victory, and in
quire if with victories this Admins tration
can restore peace to the land Applause.
In the first place, you have seen how it has
been in those States that have beeubrought
back to the Union; Mt the Border States
that never went out Of the Union, and in
those States which gave to the Administra-
ton not only military and pecuniary sup
port, but even political support We have
found that, precisely as we have given the
Administration political power, in the same
ratio they have trod down our political
rights. ["Good-goodp Applause.
When the Administration went beyond
the effort to restore the Union aud maintain
tue supremacy of the Constitution, and
said "we will drive the Southern people to
desperation; We will unite them as one man
in opposition to our armies; We will shed
the l,od of our people, and pile up on them
onerUus taxes in order that We may carry
out vindictive and revengeful policy oi
confscation," they do not stop at this.
There is no unconstitutional act passed in
regard to the South, that was not accom-
pan ed by an unconstitutional invasion ol
the rights Of the people of the North.
Cheers. When you said to the South,
"you SHALL not have the Union as it was,
wLen they said, as the Attorney General
OF my own State said in this city few
days age, I've do not want the Union as
1t was, but the Union as it ought to be,
they also suspended the habeas corpus IN
the North. When they projected conGsca
tiou for the South. the courts, laws, and
judiciary of the North were tranpied un
der foot, your personal rights were not Sc
cure, and, for the first time our homes were
liable to be invaded by the subordinstes ol
the Government. In Great Britain the
humblest hut in the Kingdom, although il
may be open to the wind and rains of heay.
en-, is to the occupant castle impregnable
even to the monarch, while in our country
the meanest and most unworthy underliDR
Of power is licensed to break within the
sacred precincts OF our homes. 3
But look. further. As | Said, armed op
position is driven from the field in Ken
tucky, Missouri, Maryland, ,ahd parts o.
Louisiana. And vet this portion of coun-