Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-07
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BoUsE-ADDRBss OF RRY. J. N. THoBURN.
"A very large and respectable meeting
vas held at the Court House on Saturday
evening. We have never yet attended a
political gathering at which there were SO
many ladies. They came in such numbers
that all the rooms in the Court House were
drawn upon fora chairs The ladies, occu-
pied the ,sptifs inaids the ibal, the
sterner ser being spnpelled.to tbs BACK
seats or resort 10 ctf.,sltus ncheIss i
The Prssidsn Sk6. sIsLuFe, jr.s intro
duoed the Rev. ). NJ FhobaF, brother
the late Col. Joseph Thoburn, who pro-
ceeded to address the meeting at some
length. After some preliminary remarks
he spoke of the pride which he felt when
abroad at having such great, grand coun-
try to go home to. With your little pass
port in your pocket you can travel any
where in Europe and are always honorsd
and respected. If there was man in the
house who did believe in the restoration of
the Federal Union in it's integrity, all he
had to do to make him a Union man was
to 20 abroad as the speaker had done
he believed tina the only way to arrive at
peace was to fight the war out. Adivision
Of the country will result in endless war,
to be entailed upon our children and our
ehildren's children. BE spoke of his broth
er's opinions upon this subject. he (Col.
Thoburn) had peedicted years ago that
there were elements in this country which
would bring about war. The speaker had
received letter from him in India after
the war commenced in which he spoke of
the fulflment of his prophecy and express
ed the opinion that the war must be fought
out by the present generation, or it wonld
have to be done by those who will follow
us.
The speaker proceeded to notice some of
the objections and exaggerations used and
urged by the opponents of the Union
party. he spoke particularly of the public
debt and asked what nation that had ever
occupied prominent position before the
world ever talked about debt when her
honor was at stake? England with half
the taxable property of this country had
sbouldered a debt twice as large as ours.
There was gold enough in the Rocky Noun
tains alone to pay not only our debt but
the debt of the entire world. Il
At public meeting mp in Washington
the other day he had read upon trans
parency: "Old Abe jokes and the widow
mOurns." he could hardly repress his in
diguation when he thought of the kind of
sympathy the men of this party were show
ing to the widow. He had yet to hear the
first soldiers widow ask these men for their
crocodile tears. There is scarcely one of
them, notwithstanding all theyhavs suffered,
who would cast vote for anything but an
unconditional suppression of the rebellion.
There was great deal of talk about subju-
eating the south. Why, that is just what
we want to do. 1t is what we are fighting
for. We want to subjugate them until they
return to their allegiance and obey the
laws of this nation. We ask nothing more
and we will take nothing less. 1t may be
a very unpleasant thing for the rebels but
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the best thing for the world.
Mr.. Thoburn after an able discussion of
the Issues involved in this contest, said that
those who voted for George B. Mcclellan
on Tuesday, would do thing which would
rejoice the heart of JEFF. Davis more than
anything you could do. You will do
a thing which will be applauded by every
rebel soldier in the confederacy, every for
eiRn nation that hates America, every seces-
sionist in the world and every enemy of
this glorious nation everywhere upon the
face of the earth. he spoke hopefully and
confidently of the final issue of the great
struggle, pae7gs ,s.sss.z:.41s eenpEn4eshtS the
little star of West Virginia and concluded
amid much applause.
A. W. Campbell, being called for, made
his way through the crowd and responded
ina speech of half an hour, addressing him
selfparticularlyto the subject of thelOcal in
terests of this people in connection with the
great public decision to be rendered on
Tuesday.
theee songs during the evening thus adding
to the interest of the occasion.
The meeting was one of the best and
most effective of the campaign.