Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-06-18
RaiIgg guteIlige,rrjterf :
Great Union Meeting in New York.
EnthusIaStIo Endorsement OF Line
coin and JOhnson.

Maynard, Of Tennessee, who was asiutroduced
as the patriot who had Periled his life and
lost his property In the rebellion, and who
stood by his flag from the beginning till
now. After the applause had subsided he
spoke Is follows: -are. -
FRLLow. CITIZENS OF NEw YoRx: The
world certainly moves, and as certainly
takes us along with it. l should have
been exceedingly incredulous bad any one
four years ago ventuEed to predict that to.
night should be here in company VoEh
these two distinguished gentlemen tHai
have just presided me, discussing the prop
Ositions which they have SO ably snd
intelligeutly addressed to your considers.
| tion to.night-one of them a member of
the Republican party ofthat day Of no mean
name, and the other distinguished mem
ber Of the Democratic party-two parties,
permit me to say, With which had no afil-
iahon, being exceedingly select and eclec-
tic in my political views, and being of that
highly respectable and, eminently select
body of gentlemen that four years ago cast
their suffrages for Mr.. Bell and Mr.. Everett.
Laughter. The condition of the coun.
try,-how changed and how unlike to what
it was thenl Then We could afford To-
scatter our forces and cast our votes accord.
ing to our individual preferences, without
very much consideration whether we were
likely to win by the election of our candi-
dates, or to do anything more than to give
expression to the sentiments by which We
were animated. We ell feel that such is
not the condition Of the country ct the pres
ent time. For We remember the three tre-
mendous and significant words of the de.
parted Douglas, when he told US land they
were his testamentary declaratious) that
there could be now but two parties in the
country-those that were for the Govern.
meat and those that were against it-pat-
riots on the One hand and traitors on the
other. Immense applause.)
Those who are engaged in upholding the
right arm of the Government In prosecu-
ting the war for the maintenance of our
dag have recently assembled in the city of
Baltimore to nominate candidates for the
Presidency and Vice-Presidency during
the next four years. Their action has
passed into history, and We are met here
TO declare our sentiment upon it. OF our
platform there is but one simple principle
thAtperVades it-thepreserVation now and
for all time of our national existence.-
Everything else is subordinate and matter
of tact detail. The American people have
settled the question; they have determined
that the nation shall live at all hazards,
and at any price. There was q time in tha
beginning of the contest when some might
have done what was said of the rebel
lion, shack down" and give up-consent
to Annihilation. That day has passed.
Too much money has been expended, and
too much blood has been shed, This great
Government has cost our fathers too much
and has cost US too much, that We can
afford now TO give It up. AZ means Of
carrying on the contest, and as an idcideu.
tai growing out of it, the convention has
decided that the institution of slavery must
perish. This is the first time in American
history that statesmen and politicians have
veutured in convention to touch that ex-
ceeaingly delicate subject without an out
burst Of passion. The day when the ''pet
Institution" might agitste the whole conn-
try. but no one might agitate 1t has passed.
Slavery becomes the AssailAnt, and made
war upon the country, then the question
was a very different one, and its defender
turned around and declared that slavery
hsnceforth must be no longer. The con.
| Veution have proposed the wisest and most
prudent method of disposing of the whole
question-Rmend the Constitution, extend
the ordinance of 1897 all over the country,
and let the divine institution disappear.
Applsuse.
1t can even now be said that 1t has no
legal existence outside of Kentucky and
Delaware, and Kentucky, it seems, will
have the honor to be the last Slave State
in the Union. The question has been ask.
ed, what are you going TO do with the ne
groesI l answer, nothing, l propose to
amend the Constitution and give them the
benefit of the habeas corpus, and let the sub
Iject stop there. Mr.. Lincoln trusted at irst
1 that tho -Pahal1iap- 4
without interfering with II. lat that time
iuterposed my voice and vote in opposition
70 any measure ipjuriously affecting my
constituents. In company with Senator
Wiley, of West Virginia, aud Mr.. Casey,
of Kentucky, and others, We waited on the
President, and urged him To hold back his
proclamation of Jan. l. Senator Wiley
addressed him with credit and ability, and
was answered in words of equal power and
credit: 81 have taken my stand and I can.
not recede.h Immense applause.1 have
lived to see that the President was right
and that We were wrong. Great applause ]
When it was proposed TO arm the negro,
it was urged that he was coward aud
would not 6ght. Port Hudson, Fort Wag-
ner, Helena TO Fort Pillow, and recently
the banks of the James give the lie to the
charge. On the other hand, 1t was urged
that he would be vindictive and hard
hearted. That is equally without founda.
ton. For three years we have prosecuted
this war, steadily advancing. Our poor
boys in the vanguard Of the army have of.
ten been discouraged by portion Of the
; press traducing the cause aud the govern
ment. On the other hand, the hopes oi
the rebels have dWindled away one by
one. The eloquent speaker then cited the
declaration of Alex. H. Stephens, that the
division of the North and the cartridge.
boxes of the South would effect the endl
Of the rebellion. The peace men who CO
operate with the enemy work in what di
rection7 Against the election of Mr.. Lin
coin. That is the reason why all thr
Union loving men, the Stars. and Stripe
men that live ia the rebeIlious States. tha